Declassified "Object No. 1" in Kuibyshev

USSR. Kuibyshev. Assistant Chief of Staff of the Civil Defense of the Kuibyshev Region, Colonel Timofey Zakharchenko (right) during an inspection of archival documents in the declassified command post-bomb shelter "Object No. 1". The bunker was built in Kuibyshev in 1942 as a reserve location for the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Armed Forces, Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin during the Great Patriotic War. Nikolay Nikitin/TASS