UNDERGROUND BUNKER IN LENINGRAD

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 30, 2013
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: May 25, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
PLACE
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DATE OF
INFO.
USSR (Leningrad IC
Underground Bunker in Leningrad
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1. Location:
Starting from the Meskovski railroad station in Leningrad (see
Annex), one had first to ride west on 25th-October street for
about 600 meters, then another street, branching off rectangularly
to the south for about 600 to 800 meters. From this street an-
other branched off in a southwestern direction. Driving straight
down this street for about 400 meters9 one reached the entrance
of the buffcer. About 200 meters before the bunker9 one street
more branched off to the v.est,
2. Entrance:
About 200 meters from the entrance, the street began to slope.
It descended about 15 to 20 meters in a 200-meter distance.
The entrance war; about 1,7 meters thick. They were coated with an
earth layer about 4 meters in thickness. A small mardhouse was
in front of the entrance.
3. Turning-point:
A turning-point was about 180 to 200 meters inside the bunker.
It was about 80 meters in diametar anC about 5 meters in height.
The square was surrounded by wooden platforms about 60 cm high.
On these platforms was stored buiXdinr material which was conveyed
to the alleys and galleries on tarpaulins. Gravel supplied by tip-
ping trucks was shipped to the interior by a field railway.
40 .in alley to the interior:
The main alley was so vide that tvx) truck8 could pass without
difficulty. It was about 4 meters high. t 20 to 30-met3r inter-
vals galleries branched off the main alley to the riEht and left.
The entrances to the galleries mere concreted and furnished with
locked doors. These were inscribed with ?`Voyenny Sklac*
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5. jecondary alleys:
Looking from the turninE point in the direction of the nein al-
ley, two secondary alleys brunched off, one to the right, one
to tha left, each approximately at a richt angle. These.,alleyS
were also concreted,- about 3 Meters wide and 3 meters high.
Galleries closed with doors branched off both sides of the second-
ary alleys at intervals of about 20 to SO meters just as in the
main alley. The inscriptions on the doors vere also the same.
A red cross was fixed to several doors of the left secondary
alley. There vas a smell of medicine.
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6. Lighting:
Electricity.
7. Ventilation:
Bans, each 60 cm in diameter, were built-in at irregular inter-
vals: In certain places smoking waa permittod, e.g at the ent-
rance and the turning-point. Semi-underground water containers
had been installed there.
8. -oad signs or further inscriptions were not observed. Only at
the turninr-point had advertising boards, inscribed with the
designations of the most efficient details, been fixed to the
walls.
9. Guards:
Two sentries with rifles stood at the entrance, any nerson enter-
inc the bunker had to produce a special identity card at a small
guardhouse. A vagrant officer was commander of the guard. The
ruards wore ooviet Army uniforms, a green crossbar was on their
epaulets. Their caps vere rreen bordered. In the installation
itself, only workers were observed, no officers or Eth.
10. ;tecordinr to :soviet workers the installation was scheduled to be
completed by ,evember 1949.
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Despite the rather precisely indicated distance it is difficult
to exactly locate the. bunker as tha next thoroughfare would be
concerned even if the indicated distances Were but 'slightly wrong,
The bunker may be under Oemnaya Ovare.ragluell as near damoshen
oquare. ?
Construction of tho bun2:er and the indicated detailS are deemed
erodible and may ba confined by further retorts.
The "Jolene oklad" inscription means military post. It As in-
ferred that military equipment is stored there,
2hiom the fact that the, bunker is guarded 1-.y ..1.1f1) troops it cannot
be concluded that an MVD depot is under construction there. :i.uch
a bunker' may, in wartime, serve military purnoses as well as
civil ones, such at; civil air defense or medical aid.
1 Annex: LlUeprint, Air staid lunker in Leningrad.
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