"The Stalin subway" Obolon want to turn to the gallery

Council returned to municipal ownership of the Park "Natalka" at the Metropolitan Obolon. This is the section from the Golf club to the so-called Stalin subway — concrete caisson. The so-called ground part of the underwater tunnel, which was planned to pass under the Dnieper. Design – in the form of a pipe with a height of 17 m, length — 52 meters, writes Gazeta.ua.

"Now we expect the allocation of budget funds for the partial reconstruction. The pipe should be open to people. Therefore, a need for thorough research to decide what to do with it. The object is of historical value. Earlier there were rumors that it wants to paint in yellow and open a restaurant. The authors of such business ideas saw in the submarine pipe. As in the song of the Beatles "ellou submarines". Moreover, without the consent of the residents. Already the paint was looking for. Clearly, this is not the format," says the head of public organization "Park Natalka" Natalia manyuk.

"Pipe or caisson is one of the objects of uncompleted set of rail tunnels under the Dnieper river in the North and the South of the capital. They were erected in the 1930-1940-ies to duplicate railroad bridges within the creation of the fortified area of the city. In the construction documents known as the "Facility No. 1". In the people — "the Stalin subway". In the South made some sections of the tunnels and portal. The properties are located on the Zhukov island, the island of Water, on Osokorki. In the North tunnel in the Obolon — built only caisson. He had to descend into the deep, under the Dnieper. Inside such pipes can drive a train," says Kyiv lead 31-year-old Gregory Melnychuk.

Facility No. 1 in the Soviet time was classified. The bulk of the documents kept in Moscow, in Kiev, their small part. Today, the pipe has no status. To save it in the first place, you need to make the object of attraction of science and technology. What's next — debatable. Perhaps to create a Museum of the Kiev fortified area. But the main thing is to protect and tidy. Now go into it afraid. There is a mountain of garbage.