Declassified "Object No. 1" in Kuibyshev

USSR. Kuibyshev. The building of the Kuibyshev State Institute of Culture on Mikhail Frunze Street, the former building of the Kuibyshev Regional Committee of the CPSU, in the courtyard of which is the entrance to the declassified command post-bomb shelter "Object No. 1", built 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), Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin during the Great Patriotic War. Nikolai Nikitin/TASS