Museum of Civil Defense of the Samara Region

USSR. Samara. Visitors in the meeting room of the USSR State Defense Committee, located at a depth of 37 meters, in the Samara Region Civil Defense Museum. The museum was created in the declassified command post-bomb shelter "Object No. 1", built 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), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin in 1942 during the Great Patriotic War. Nikolai Nikitin/TASS