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>>The only time the metro was used other than designed was in the days of World War 2
Stations laying deep underground were used as bomb shelters and saved lives of thousands of people
Roughly 200 children were born there during night raids
The moscow metro remains the largest object of civil defense. On its station one can hide entire city regions
This is especially important in the case of nuclear war
>>After the bomb alarm, moscovites will have only 13 minutes to decend down to the station.
This is the time it takes for enemy missiles to reach the capitol by the estimates of experts
>>After 13 minutes, the hermitically sealed doors will close
and no begging of those who are late will force them to open again
since behind these doors will be decided the fate of tens of thousands of people
>>To this day late at night civil defense drills take place.
For this time the station personnel splits up into divisions with commanders and subdivisions.
They learn to prepare the station to accept people and give first aid to the victims.
People will have to spend several days in these closed quarters, without much comfort.
From the comforts people only have water fountains and special underground bathrooms.
They will be opened immediately after a bomb strike.
A recon team will regularly ascend to the surface to gauge the situation and measure residual radiation levels.
The scoutes leave the bunker through 2 hermetically sealed doors.
The operator cannot open the second door before the first is closed
The subway should not come in contact with the outside world directly.