Bunker-42 is the only museum in the world devoted to the war between the USSR and the USA at the depth of 65 metres (213 ft) below ground in the very heart of Moscow, also known as "facility-02" (1947), CHZ-293 (1951), CHZ-572 (1953), and GO-42 (from 1980), and now Exhibition Complex Bunker-42.
You’ll have a unique opportunity to visit a once-secret military complex, bunker, communication centre. It has an area of 7,000 square metres (75,000 sq ft) and is situated at a depth of 65 metres. Approximately 600 people could live and work in the complex for 30 days without assistance from the outside world, thanks to stores of food and medicine, an air recycling system, and diesel generators. Workers would commute to the facility by way of the Taganskaya metro station, on special trains that ran at night. Even the entrance is masked as an old building.
Excursion is provided in 6 languages: English, German, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish.
Meeting point: at the main entrance of Bunker-42 Museum (click to go to Google maps)
The guide with "excursions.city" sign
Duration: 2 hours
The tour starts at