Urban construction and architectureUrban construction and architecture2542-01512782-2109Eco-vector33407910.17673/Vestnik.2023.01.17Research ArticleArchitecture of underground objects of the “reserve” capital of the USSR − the city of KuibyshevSamogorovVitaly A.<p>Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture<br />PhD in Architecture, Professor, Head of the Architecture Chair</p>samogorov@mail.ruSamara State Technical University150420231311351411504202315042023Copyright © 2023, Samogorov V.A.2023<p>Strategic objects built in Kuibyshev during the Great Patriotic War are considered, their urban planning situation, features of the architectural and planning organization are examined, historical documents and archival materials are provided that reveal the features of the construction and functioning of these objects. The material about this closed page of the history of the city, which currently exists in the form of disparate facts, is systematized, which recreates the picture of the construction of closed strategic facilities of wartime and their architecture, which is absent to date.</p>reserve capital of the USSRstrategic facilitiesKuibyshev cityStalin BunkerNavy communications bunkerbroadcasting stationGreat Patriotic Warзапасная столица СССРстратегические объектыгород КуйбышевБункер СталинаБункер связи ВМФрадиовещательная станцияВеликая Отечественная война[Udintsev A.G. Gody, opalennye vojnoj: Kujbyshevskaja oblast’. 1941–1945 gg.: Hronika sobytij [Years disgraced by the war: Kuibyshev region. 1941-1945: Chronicle of Events]. Samara, 2010. 345 p.][GASO, F. R-2558, Op. 6, 43, l. 113.][GASO, F. R-56, Op. 47, 11, pp. 23–26.][GASO, F. R-2558, Op. 7, 437, l. 56.][SOGASPI, F. 656, Op. 20, 29, l. 147.][GASO, F. R-2558, Op. 6, 60, l. 4.][GASO, F. R-56, Op. 47, 2, l. 18.][SOGASPI, F. 656, Op. 22, 28, l. 256.][SOGASPI, F. 656, Op. 22, 11, l. 66.][SOGASPI, F. 656, Op. 20, 15, l. 29.][Stalin’s bunker. Available at: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Бункер_Сталина_ (accessed 20 February 2021).][GASO, F. R-2558, Op. 14, d. 2, l. 3-a.][Night in Bunker. Available at: https://russos.livejournal.com/1468722.html?fbclid=IwAR1F5wGAM_vanerJRjsN50yIFAtBdbvUx_yDL-oASk1dXiiry8bIbGa2rtk (accessed 20 February 2021).][Underground Samara. Reserve flagship command post of the main headquarters of the USSR Navy. Available at: https://gon1969.livejournal.com/1039710.html (accessed 20 February 2021).][It happened that a museum was opened in Samara on the basis of object “A”. Available at: https://gon1969.livejournal.com/1125523.html (accessed 20 February 2021).][SOGASPI, F. 656, Op. 20, 38, l. 326.][Object No. 15: Super-powerful broadcasting center in Kuibyshev. 1942. Available at: http://rfanat.ru/s16/istoria1.html (accessed 20 February 2021).][SOGASPI, F. 714, Op. 1, 1114, l. 29.]