![]() ![]() Often, they serve as locations for warehouses, while some of them are abandoned entirely. In the last decades, the majority of these shelters were converted into private property - they were turned into saunas, beauty salons, bars, auto repair shops, and even mushroom farms. ![]() The shelters are owned by Russia’s Federal Agency for State Property Management, Rosimushchestvo, however, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and Prosecutor General's Office are tasked with their maintenance. ![]() Local and regional authorities are responsible for some of them, military and law enforcement agencies - for some others. How many of them there are and where they are located, no one knows for certain - civil defence shelters are under the jurisdiction of different government bodies. The Soviet Union, which had been preparing for a nuclear war, has left Russia with thousands of bomb shelters. Europe reports on who and how earns money through Russia’s civil defence. Meanwhile, a company belonging to Russia’s Agency for State Property Management, the task of which is the maintenance of bomb shelters, signs multimillion contracts with firms of Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Vasily Shpak. Rich Russians build private bomb shelters with gyms inside. Some of these shelters became saunas, beauty salons, bars, auto repair shops, and even mushroom farms. However, government officials, their relatives, and business partners had time to come up with ways of making money on classified protective shelters, some of which had not been used for years. ![]() Furthermore, common people have no way of knowing where to hide in case of an attack - bomb shelters’ locations turned out to be classified information. After the start of the war in Ukraine, when explosions started happening in Russian border regions, too, Russia’s government officials realised they had to address the issue of the state of protective structures for civilians. ![]()
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