Photos Related to Wasteland in Red Square -- Moscow's Underground Complex

These photos are of the underground bunker complex that the Hell Gaters use to sneak into Red Square.

Stalin ordered a secret bunker complex built under Moscow to serve as the government's nuclear war command post, and which connected all parts of Moscow and select locations in the suburbs.

 

 

 

The hall beneath the Kremlin where those to be saved would be greeted and registered

The blast doors leading into the reception hall.

  

One of the underground tunnels.

A tunnel leading to the VIP quarters in the underground complex.

A photograph of Lenin's corpse being maintained before being placed back in its sarcophagus.

Photos Related to Wasteland in Red Square -- Red Square and Lenin's Tomb

After I published Hell Gate, I posted a series of blog entries providing photos and images that inspired the novel's locations and demons (Mont St. Michel, St. Mere Eglise and Falaise, Paris, and Hell Spawn Concept Art}. As with Hell Gate, I have been fortunate to have visited most of the major locations in Wasteland in Red Square: Book Two of the Hell Gate Saga. To bring Wasteland in Red Square alive for my readers, every Wednesday for the next four weeks I'll be posting blog spots with photos related to the locations described in the novel and/or concept art about the demons. I hope you enjoy these.

These photos are of Red Square and Lenin's Tomb.

St. Basil's Cathedral (left) and Savior Tower (right), the major entrance to the Kremlin, on the southern border of Red Square.

The State Historical Museum on the northern border of Red Square. This is the building in front of which the Hell Gate opened.

GUM Department store.

Inside GUM Department store.

Lenin's Tomb.

Inside the main vault of Lenin's Tomb.

Close-up of the sarcophagus with Lenin inside.

 

The portable nuclear device used by General Budenny's forces in Red Square.