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Stories about the underground city of Moscow been around for a very long time. According to unofficial information, the so-called Metro-2 is a whole network of underground facilities that were previously supervised the special department of the KGB. What is more than 50 years of hiding from the public eye under the city streets? Let's try to understand a few facts.

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Who coined the term

In 1992 the magazine "Youth" published a long novel written by Vladimir Gonick. The action of the book "Hell" was unfolding in Moscow's underground bunkers. At the presentation of the acclaimed novel by the author himself admitted that he wrote it for ten years, and details of the bunkers and secret underground lines collected bit by bit. The term, Metro-2, was invented and put into operation Gonick, after which it has picked up and expounded a blatantly all national media.

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I would be surprised if it did not exist - Dmitry Guys, ex-head of the Moscow Metro

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Medical secrecy

Reason not to believe Vladimir Gonick reader virtually none. As a source of basic information the writer have many senior patients - Gonick long time worked as a doctor in the clinic of the Ministry of Defense. According to Vladimir, originally Metro-2 is a very comfortable system of bunkers for the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee and leadership - there were going to save their skins those who hypocritically declared their readiness to die for the good of the people.

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Estimated characteristics

There is only an approximate description of the system 2-Metro. This is understandable, the object is a secret! It is believed that it takes place at a very great depth - some stations are located at 250 meters. There's no third rail, and do rails recessed into the floor, so that she could drive a car. Judging by some reports, there are just four main lines. The biggest of them Chekhov, it is longer than 60 kilometers. Instead of the usual trains here ply special contact-rechargeable elektorovozy.

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Declassified objects

In 2006, the Cold War Museum has opened in the heart of Moscow, GSB "Tagansky". At a depth of 60 meters and was once secret bunker defense located, connects the tunnel with a hidden underground system. Even earlier, in 1996, showed another object: an underground road from the Kremlin to the near Stalin's dacha. It was built back in the 1930s of the last century, so that the existence of more advanced and higher objects can be considered proven.

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The Soviet government built a commanding posts deep underground in Moscow and beyond. These objects are connected by a network of special deep underground lines, which provide quick and safe way for the evacuation of the country's leaders. ... There are deep command posts in Moscow. One of them is under the Kremlin. These facilities are designed for the National Command during the war. They are located at a depth of 200-300 meters and presumably calculated, estimated at 10,000 people. - Official report of the US Ministry of Defense

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The Underground City Ramenki

Time magazine in 1992 published an article loud where many evidences have shown the real existence of the underground city in Ramenky area. Moreover, the evidence provided by one of the officers of the KGB - defector drawings taken with a secret object. Ten years after the publication, December 26, 2002, a fire broke out in these dungeons, and then hide the bunker was impossible.