Declassified Bunker of the USSR

Just wonder if the Russian engineers are building structures like these in the Middle East. There were rumours the Saudies had build a whole city underground. It's also known many Russian engineers work on the Iranian nuclear projects...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Saudi_Arabia

Re: Declassified Bunker of the USSR

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Post by click170 » Sat, Nov 19, 2011, 1:53 PM UTC

Oh oh! Put a datacenter in there!

Re: Declassified Bunker of the USSR

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Post by ffffruit » Sat, Nov 19, 2011, 1:54 PM UTC

kia wrote: post #2

There is a lot of this stuff under Moscow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro-2

This is also mentioned in Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_2033_(book) Amazing science fiction book.

Re: Declassified Bunker of the USSR

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Post by nikcub » Sat, Nov 19, 2011, 1:56 PM UTC

click170 wrote: post #5

Oh oh! Put a datacenter in there!

10 years ago during the dot com bubble there were tons of companies that bought up old missile silo's and turned them into datacenters. I don't think any of them survived.

Re: Declassified Bunker of the USSR

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Post by Swizec » Sat, Nov 19, 2011, 1:56 PM UTC

How did they even build this thing? The house looks like it's from the 19th century so it doesn't look like it was torn down and built again around the bunker.

Did they hollow out an old building and put a bunker in there? How did nobody notice?

How do you even build something 18 storeys deep without breaking the confines of a two storey house with your equipment?

This thing opens up so many questions!

Re: Declassified Bunker of the USSR

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Post by kabdib » Sat, Nov 19, 2011, 2:08 PM UTC

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Re: Declassified Bunker of the USSR

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Post by geuis » Sat, Nov 19, 2011, 2:08 PM UTC

Swizec wrote: post #8

How did they even build this thing? The house looks like it's from the 19th century so it doesn't look like it was torn down and built again around the bunker. Did they hollow out an old building and put a bunker in there? How did nobody notice? How do you even build something 18 storeys deep without breaking the confines of a two storey house with your equipment? This thing opens up so many questions!

Remember that it opens, at one point, into the subway. Its just a supposition, but I could imagine this thing being built during the construction of the subway tunnel. It would be relatively easy to disguise all the equipment going in and dirt coming out in the process.

Looking at the history of the Metro construction, the bunker construction dates to roughly the time of the 4th stage of the Metro construction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Metro

Again, its a supposition and the address of the bunker would be needed to compare to the location of the Metro built during the 4th stage.