Stalin's underground bomb shelter in Kuybyshev, 1990

Kuybyshev, USSR. A conference room down in Stalin's underground bomb shelter where the State Defense Committee (GKO) used to hold meetings during World War II. The 37-meter deep bunker was built in the fall 1941 when key government institutions, including Stalin's General Headquarters, had to leave Moscow and move to Kuybyshev. Nikolai Nikitin/TASS

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