Despite the demand of the Russian authorities to take care of the condition of the bomb shelters, in 2022 they spent less on their repair than in 2021, the Agency found out after analyzing public procurement.
The publication, citing open data, writes that in January-October 2021, the authorities spent at least 700 million rubles on repairing and equipping shelters. For the same period in 2022, these expenses amounted to 530 million rubles. The "Agency" found only a few contracts for the construction of new facilities.
Moscow spent the most on repairing shelters this year — about 130 million rubles. For 10 months of 2021, the city authorities spent almost twice as much on this – about 250 million rubles, mainly to clean up shelters in residential buildings in almost all districts of the city.
In addition to Moscow, the authorities of Kaliningrad (36 million rubles), St. Petersburg (33 million rubles), Novosibirsk (15 million rubles), Yekaterinburg (12 million rubles), Perm (11 million rubles), Tula (8 million rubles) are more or less actively engaged in bomb shelters. ), Krasnodar (5 million rubles), Bashkiria (4.5 million rubles).
The publication notes that spending on the restoration of bomb shelters has not increased even after a series of defeats in Ukraine, the retreat of the Russian army, the Ukrainian army’s entry to the border with Russia and the intensification of shelling of border cities. In October, government spending on the repair of bomb shelters was comparable to August.
At the end of April, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev instructed to clean up the bomb shelters and check the warning systems in the Southern Federal District of Russia. This happened after a series of explosions and fires in the Bryansk, Kursk and Voronezh regions. Since then, officials from various regions have been reporting on the restoration of shelters.
On October 22, Rise wrote that in Moscow they began to check the condition of school shelters. Employees of specialized companies told the publication that while work is being carried out in the center, within the Garden Ring.
On October 15, "Important stories" found out that on the doors of the houses of the Moscow HOA "Atom" (Demyan Poor Street) there was an announcement about the preparation of bomb shelters for "reception of sheltered". Residents were asked to free underground parking from personal belongings and cars, as they will be "brought into line with the direct purpose of the civil defense facility."
In July, Deputy Moscow Mayor Pyotr Biryukov said that the addresses of bomb shelters where Moscow residents could take refuge in the event of a nuclear attack, as well as information about their number and readiness for use, are state secrets. So he responded to the appeal of the Moscow City Duma deputy from the Communist Party Yevgeny Stupin, who requested the addresses of bomb shelters because of the threats of state propaganda and some deputies with nuclear strikes against foreign states. According to him, against this background, the risk of retaliatory strikes against Moscow increases.
At the same time, in January, even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, an article appeared in the propaganda publication Gazeta.Ru with the headline “The Ministry of Emergency Situations told how Russians can find a bomb shelter near their home.” The text, in addition to denying the impending Russian invasion, claimed that citizens could find out the addresses of bomb shelters. Thus, retired Major General of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Igor Yakupov stated that "you can find out the addresses of the nearest shelters and shelters at the district training and consultation centers for civil defense."