Metro-2 Moscow
ALAN NAFZGER’s Metro-2 Moscow
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PREMISE: When the Nazis attempt to win the war by using a mysterious “Portal” device they inadvertently send an elite army of paratroopers and planes, flying through time to present day Moscow.
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METRO-2 Moscow
Written by Alan Nafzger
Metro-2
Copyright, 2017
When the Nazis attempt to win the war by using a mysterious “Portal” device they inadvertently send an elite army of paratroopers and planes, flying through time to present day Moscow.
Metro-2
White opening credits appear on a blank black screen… but with alternating sounds back and forth from the 1940’s Germany newsreels (Hitler speeches) to 2014 Russia television (speeches of the Russian President).
Metro-2
FADE IN:
EXT. 1943 RUSSIA – newsreel
Russian language newsreels from 1943 show the end of the Battle of Stalingrad. The German surrender is the first big defeat for Hitler’s armies. Hitler begins his slow march backwards. Russians are slowly taking back their land.
The first three minutes of the film are a series of SMASH CUTS back and forth between 1940s Germany and 2014 Russia. This is not done to startle the audience, but to show that (at least in this film) there is really very little standing between 1944 and 2014. Although separated by 70 years, the two eras on the screen are relevant to one another.
Wait!!! This is a film involving time travel. Are these events talking place at the same time? The movie savvy audience will understand immediately. The less sophisticated viewer will learn eventually. It is the job of every good director to reward the attuned with early information.
The shots from Russia are introductory and establishing shots. They introduce positive characters or locations to the audience. They first three minutes are background knowledge for future scenes.
The 1940’s footage is emotive and serves to vilify the Nazis. Only a few seconds is required for each shot.
EXT. 2014 RUSSIA Vnukovo Airport
Russian language television news broadcast. The TV shows the President of Russia, Alexander Grishin, boarding his Ilyushin airplane about to depart Russia for a foreign conference. The announcer for the most part is voice over; the picture is Grishin waving and boarding the plane. Grishin is the guy we’re most interested in. Picture a taller, broader, sawyer and rougher looking Vladimir Putin.
NEWS ANCHOR
The President of Russia, Alexander Grishin, has left Moscow on his planned visit to the United States for a key global summit and a much-anticipated meeting with the American President, the Kremlin confirmed today. The Kremlin announced last month that Grishin is to join the other leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations meeting outside Washington beginning tomorrow.
EXT. 1943 Russian Newsreel
The Romanian government proposes to the Allies the transfer of 70,000 Jews to Palestine, but receives no response from Britain or the U.S.
INT. 2014 MOSCOW – Vnukovo AIRPORT
Traditional Russian grandmother sits in waiting area, sewing.
EXT. 1943 RUSSIAN Newsreel
Red Army recaptures the city of Kursk in the Soviet Union.
EXT. 2014 MOSCOW Sidewalk
Street children run from government social services worker and steal cell phones.
EXT. 1943 Russian Newsreel
German and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allies.
INT. 2014 MOSCOW – Vnukovo AIRPORT
Airport security screens passengers before they board airplanes.
EXT. 1943 Russian Newsreel
Benito Mussolini is deposed and killed.
INT. 2014 MOSCOW Shop
Lady and child buy German chocolates from store.
EXT. 1943 Russian Newsreel
Hitler survives an assassination attempt by Colonel Stauffenberg, who places a bomb in a briefcase under a table close to Hitler.
EXT 2014 outside of MOSCOW
Elite Russian soldiers train for endurance.
EXT. 1943 Russian Newsreel
Massive escape from Sobibor as Jews and Soviet POWs break out, with 300 making it safely into nearby woods. Of those 300, fifty will survive. Exterminations then cease at Sobibor, after over 250,000 deaths. All traces of the death camp are then removed and trees are planted.
EXT 2014 MOSCOW STREET
Firemen battle blaze. Use axes to gain entrance to building. They rush into the burning building without delay.
EXT. 1943 Russian Newsreel
Teheran conference between the Big Three: Churchill, FDR and Joseph Stalin, of the Soviet Union.
EXT. 2014 RUSSIAN Television – JUST OUTSIDE the KEMLIN
The news shows protesters in the streets. There is always some unemployment, and the media is speculating perhaps there is a lack of direction and vision. There are many questions for the new President, but the media will over dramatize things to get people’s attention and more viewers.
NEWS ANCHOR
Meanwhile our new young President faces pressure from protests and opposition criticism at home. Grishin’s departure was marred by violence at an opposition rally today when protesters tried to move to another, unsanctioned, location. Police dispersed the rally and detained hundreds. What does all this mean?
(pause)
And now we turn to our political analyst. Is there too much doubt and has Alexander Grishin received a honeymoon period in office like other world leaders traditionally have received?
EXT. 1944 Russian Newsreel
Russian troops reach former Polish border.
EXT. 2014 RUSSIA Television studio
NEWS ANCHOR
So how is our new President doing?
TV Analyst
He is new and young. Energetic and perfectly able to engage the world, but President Grishin is not entirely popular at home; Russia has many problems and most of them rest on his shoulders. This is his first foreign trip as President and there is a lot at stake with most of the major powers to be in Washington at the G-8 conference. The Russian people want a bear; he looks like a bear, but is he? How will it go? Russia will have to wait and see.
EXT. 1944 Russian newsreel
Newsreels from 1944 showing a Hitler speech where he promises new secret “wonder weapons” and ultimately victory.
EXT. 2014 RUSSIA Television studio
NEWS ANCHOR
Also in the news today the Government of Moscow approved the concept for development of underground territories of the city where roads, parking areas and shopping malls are to be built. Besides, construction of another ring metro line located two or three spans away from the existing one is to be considered this summer.
EXT. 1944 Russian newsreel
Adolf Hitler calls up all remaining males between 16 and 60 in Germany for army service.
INT. 2014 MOSCOW CITY MEETING TELEVISED
We see a speaker and he is presenting a plan to expand the subway system. The news anchor is voice over.
NEWS ANCHOR
The tremendous plans will inevitably lead to contacts with special services that are in charge of the secret system of metro tunnels of many kilometers, shafts and bunkers that were built under the surface for Russian leaders of the Soviet epoch, Russia’s Izvestia newspaper reports.
EXT. 1944 Russian newsreel
Russian language newsreel from 1944 show German forces slowly retreating through Byelorussia. They are harassed by resistance fighters and followed by the Soviet Army. Hitler continues his slow retreat back to Berlin.
INT. 2014 RUSSIA Alleged INTERIOR OF METRO-2
The audience is given a brief preview of Metro-2 and shown what looks to be an illicit or amateur video clip of a portion of the tunnel system. It is perhaps a hidden camera in a brief case or in a hat.
NEWS ANCHOR
(adding a bit of humor)
Writer Vladimir Gonik has been exploring Moscow’s underground territories for 25 years already; he coined a new term “Metyro-2” in the 1990s and wrote a novel titled “Preispodnyaya”. He described everything that was located under the territory of Moscow in such a detailed way that he was even summoned for and unpleasant conversations with special services.
NOTE FOR FILM’S ART DIRECTOR: You, of course, can make any film you like, with the director this is your job. I believe it would be best to preview one Metro-2 and reveal later in the film a different look. For example, show photos of an old run down spooky dark tunnel and later have it to be a freshly waxed shiny tool of modern Russia. Or, preview a modern tunnel system but reveal an old antiquated system. This is a movie, only the art director can tell us what it really looks like anyway!
In the Russian media, myth and reality don’t always match.
EXT. 1944 Russian Newsreel
Film footage of German V-1 and V-2 and Me 262.
EXT 2014 MOSCOW CONstruction site
Moscow is booming and construction projects are everywhere.
EXT. 1944 Russian Newsreel
Allied landings in Normandy on the coast of northern France.
EXT 2014 MOSCOW SIDEWALK
A Muslim man leaves the new Moscow Congregational Mosque and takes a taxi.
EXT. 1944 Russian Newsreel
Russian troops liberate the first concentration camp, at Majdanek where over 360,000 had been murdered. The newsreel shows the horrors of the Nazi Death Camps
EXT. 2014 MOSCOW – Vnukovo AIRPORT
A Russian call girl sits in the bar stirring her drink. Waiting.
EXT. 1944 Russian Newsreel
Soviet troops reach the Slovakian border.
EXT. 2014 MOSCOW – Vnukovo AIRPORT
A female ticket agent greets people with a smile.
EXT. 1944 Russian Newsreel
Allied armies liberate Paris.
EXT. 2014 MOSCOW ROAD
Moscow cars are standing still in traffic congestion. What they call “progress”.
EXT. 1944 Russian Newsreel
Erwin Rommel is forced to commit suicide by the Nazi government.
INT. 2014 MOSCOW Military BARRACKS
Russian special forces officer is shown polishing his surfboard.
EXT. 1944 Russian Newsreel
Red Army liberates Auschwitz, finds more convincing evidence of SS atrocities and of the Holocaust.
INT. 2014 MOSCOW – Vnukovo AIRPORT
Russian customs agents welcome an American family into the country.
EXT. 1944 Russian Newsreel
The U.S., British, and Soviet governments agree that postwar Germany will be divided into zones of occupation governed by the victorious Allies.
INT. 2014 MOSCOW Russian Orthodox church
People are praying.
INT. 1944 GermanY, Thule Society MEETING
The Study Group for Germanic Antiquity is a German occultist and völkisch group meeting in a dark room in Berlin. VERY WIDE SHOT – it is a very large room but a relatively small table, the 12 to 15 most ardent Nazis.
CLOSE ON – Rudolf Hess, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Hans Fritzsche, Walther Funk, Sophie Scholl, Walther Hewel, Karl Gebhardt are in attendance. Some mysterious female occultists are talking to the group. CLOSE ON – unit patch of Black Sun Legion. Several high ranking officers of the Black Sun Legion, the Reich’s secretive occult section of the SS, are listening taking notes.
Again, a VERY WIDE SHOT to add mystery. It is a secretive society.
Mysterious WITCH
(mostly inaudible)
..Hitler…, …black forces…, …invisible hierarchies…, …unknown superiors…, Devil’s Key…, …weapon…, …unlimited power.
The above words make it to the subtitles.
Place the microphone far from the actor. She is actually saying…
Mysterious WITCH
Her Hitler, Leader of the Reich, master of Black Forces and Invisible Hierarchies and his Unknown Superiors call on you to deliver the Devil’s Key, a weapon of unlimited power.
We can gather from the symbols in the room and the participants Hitler is looking to the occult for something to change his sinking fortune. Perhaps the occult will provide him with this “wonder weapon”.
Most of this scene is a WIDE SHOT because most reasonable people would not sit at this table.
INT. 2014 Moscow RED SQUARE Sunny day
Tourists enjoy their visit.
EXT. 1944 BYELORUSSIA, SMALL VILLAGE
There is fighting in the distance and German soldiers look nervous and are rushing around. The village is being ransacked. Colonel Jungen Müller, a high-ranking officer within the Black Sun Legion is searching a tiny Byelorussia village for the “Devil’s Key”, a mythical weapon which is rumoured to grant the ability to walk through walls and cross continents in the blink of an eye.
German Soldier
(from grave he is amazed)
Colonel!!!
The soldier has found the portal weapon in the grave of a medieval crusader. In the casket, there is a disk like portal device, several modern pistols and an ancient book.
Jungen Müller
Remove everything from the grave.
The witch takes the book and opens it and begins to read quickly. The Germans need something to carry the body of the Knight and the items in. The Colonel looks around. He sees some town people moving a coffin.
Jungen Müller
Bring me that coffin.
They hesitate and do nothing. Müller points a pistol at them. The soldiers stop searching.
Jungen Müller
Dump the body!
The town people dump the coffin but it contains a live resistance fighter and some weapons. The resistance fighters pick up the weapons and spray the German’s with machine gun fire. The witch is killed instantly and book falls to the ground. During the battle, the items are removed from the grave of the knight and are placed in the back of a military truck.
Belarusian resistance fighters attack and keep Müller from possessing the book, but the portal device falls into the hands of the Germans. A priest comes and picks up the book for safekeeping.
Just as the Nazis truck pull out of the village the liberating Soviet army arrives.
EXT. 2014 Moscow RAPID RESPONSE FORCE COURTYARD
Soldiers are sitting squatting alongside a wall in a courtyard, like chickens on a perch. No one is in a hurry. This is a very disciplined group; no one is exercising their tongues. They can be observed by passerbys on the sidewalk.
Some have a firm grip of their weapons; others not letting the “Kalashnikovs” more than a few inches away. But this picture isn’t so strange, almost all nations have soldiers waiting, but especially Russia. But only it is normal at first glance, in fact, nothing strange, used to seeing this. But on the contrary, it is strange to go to the latrine unarmed. Strange, is the picture of a man relieving himself with a gun.
INT. 1944 secret warehouse in Germany
WIDE SHOT – The device is on a table and occultists are examining it.
S.S. General
(mostly inaudible)
…work…, …function…, …return…
Mysterious WITCH #2
(mostly inaudible)
…entire armies…, …land, naval and air forces…, …move entire armies…, …surprise…, …no fuel…, …spies can walk through walls and armies cross continents in the blink of an eye.
Again the audio is distant and only these words make it to the subtitles. But she is actually saying in German.
Mysterious WITCH #2
(mostly inaudible)
This can more entire armies, land, naval and air forces. We can move entire armies for surprise attacks. No fuel. Spies can walk through walls and armies can cross continents in the blink of an eye.
INT. 2014 Moscow RAPID RESPONSE FORCE COURTYARD
A older woman shouts down from the sidewalk at the soldiers.
Woman
Thank you, soldiers.
Some of the soldiers wave.
INT. 1944 HALL of New Reich Chancellery
S.S. General comes from a room that contains Hitler and Eva Braun. Through the door at it opens and closes, we see a grown woman (Eva) jumping rope. The General walks next door.
INT. 1944 MAP ROOM IN New Reich Chancellery
There is a table and maps and papers are laid out. Plans for use of the weapon are materializing.
S.S. General
There is intelligence information that Stalin will be returning to Moscow on a flight from Samara into Vnukovo, tomorrow. There isn’t a book with instructions. However, the Nazi occultists seem to think when activated it will bring the force where it is needed and on time.
There is no discussion. They are only robots at this stage.
EXT. 2014 UNITED STATES ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE
On television, the President of Russia doesn’t look happy. He boards the Russian jet without any fan fare. Something has gone wrong with the summit.
RUSSIAN TV NEWS ANCHOR
In a sign he may not be ready to handle the international pressures, Russia’s President Alexander Grishin abruptly left the global political summit in Washington today, a day early, the Kremlin confirmed.
EXT. 1944 GERMAN Luftwaffe BASE
Junkers transport planes are outfitted with elite paratroopers.
S.S. General
(briefing group of officers)
Your orders are to kidnap or kill Stalin, secure the airport and use the government tunnels to reach and Kremlin. Here is a list of other targets.
Jungen Müller
This is quite a list. Moscow State University?
S.S. General
Nuclear physicists.
Jungen Müller
The facilities and archives at Mosfilm?
S.S. General
Propaganda.
Jungen Müller
Understood.
S.S. General
(realistically)
If you can capture Stalin, wonderful. But you must take over the airport to facilitate the landing of a larger force tomorrow. Here are extensive maps of the airport and the city.
Jungen Müller
What about the tunnels?
S.S. General
Find Stalin’s tunnel system, as best as we can tell they are separate from the public Metro. We speculate they have four lines, and they lie 50 to 200m deep. It is said to connect the Kremlin with the security service headquarters, the government airport at Vnukovo and several other key points in the city.
EXT. 2014 MOSCOW TELEVISION STUDIO
Announcer
President Grishin set the tone for the discussion on Syria at the G8 summit which opened Washington D.C., when he rounded harshly on American President Barack Obama for supporting rebels who…
CUT TO tape of Grishin.
President Grishin
kill their enemies and eat their organs.
Metro-2 Underground
Metro-2 (Russian: Метро-2) is the informal name for a purported secret underground metro system which parallels the public Moscow Metro (known as Metro-1 when in comparison with Metro-2). The system was supposedly built, or at least started, during the time of Joseph Stalin and was codenamed D-6 (Д-6) by the KGB. It is supposedly still operated by the Main Directorate of Special Programmes and Ministry of Defence.
The length of Metro-2 is rumored to exceed that of the public Metro. It is said to have four lines, and to lie 50–200 meters (165–660 ft) deep. It is said to connect the Kremlin with the Federal Security Service (FSB) headquarters, the government airport at Vnukovo-2, and an underground town at Ramenki, in addition to other locations of national importance.
In 1994, the leader of an urban exploration group, the Diggers of the Underground Planet, claimed to have found an entrance to this underground system.
Historic evidence however paints a much more conservative picture, with one “line” existing by the late 1960, from Kremlin, specifically site 103, to the site 54 south from the Moscow State University, with a spur going north-west from there, to the area of the Matveevskaya railway platform and the DV-1 there. Additional lines, i.e. to Vnukovo, are likely a later invention by the enthusiast community, though with the change in generations of the hardened protective structure design in 1970s/1980s a redundant back up of this system may have been at least considered.
Etymology
Supposedly a tunnel switch that leads to Metro-1 from Metro-2, actually a switch at Troparovo to a buffer stop, on Metro-1.
In the summer of 1992, the literary and journalistic magazine Yunost (‘Юность’) published a novel by the author and screenwriter Vladimir Gonik entitled Preispodniaia (‘Преисподняя’) (English: Abyss), set in an underground bunker in Moscow. Earlier, in the spring of that year, excerpts from the novel had been published in the weekly newspaper Sovershenno sekretno (ru). In an interview with both the newspaper’s editor and Gonik in 1993, the author stated that the term “Metro-2” had been introduced to them, and that the novel had been written based on information collected over the previous 20 years by the two of them on things such as secret bunkers and the underground railways connecting them. Gonik admitted that he had worked on the book between 1973 and 1986, and that some of the more sensitive information had been purposefully misrepresented.
In later years, Gonik has argued that the bunkers, and therefore the so-called “Metro-2”, had been for use by the leadership of the Politburo and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), along with their families, in case of war. According to him, in the early 1970s the General Secretary of the CPSU, Leonid Brezhnev, personally visited the main bunker, and, in 1974, awarded the Chairman of the KGB at the time, Yuri Andropov, the Gold Star Medal of the Hero of Socialist Labour. Apparently, each member of the Central Committee had a 180 m2 (1,900 sq ft) apartment, with a study, lounge, kitchen and bathroom. Gonik claims to have gathered this information working as a doctor in the polyclinic of the Ministry of Defence.
After the publication of the novel in 1992, the subject of a second, secret, underground railway has been raised many times, especially in the Russian media. In particular, the magazine Ogoniok has referred to a “Metro-2” several times.
Confirmed information
Russian journalists have reported that the existence of Metro-2 is neither confirmed nor denied by the FSB or the Moscow Metro administration. However, listed below is evidence for the Metro-2’s existence.
Studies of declassified Soviet archival materials
“metro-2” as of the late 1960s
In 2021 a book covering the new research on history of special fortification authored by Dmitry Yurkov has been published. Below is a summary of findings.
From those de-classified archival documents an overall layout of the track system can be established for the late 1960s (this is limited by the source material officially released so far), with the main components identified. While the system was eventually assembled in the late 1960s by the KGB originally it was a collection of structures built for a variety of purposes and operators.
Deep single track tunnel.
The red line extension late 1950s-early 1960s
This is the oldest component, with construction being initiated in the mid 1950s (design finalised in 1956) and intended to provide a solution to the challenge of extended the red line south west, beyond the Sportivnaya metro station and the river. Because of the conflicting requirements – both to provide a reasonable cost and a secure river crossing, civil defence shelter capacity, the final design included a shallow metro line with the vulnerable bridge backed up by the deep single track tunnel, which spurs from the main line after the Sportivnaya station (initial part of this spur is seen on normal track maps) and, at least in the de-classified documents, a planned high speed elevator shaft.
There were also other intended peace time uses originally, such as for night time train parking.
Order 10-A.
Order 10-A and surrounding structures, late 1960s
Order 10-A is composed out of sites 54 and 54a and was intended to provide protected work spaces for the personnel of the planned Palace of the Soviets behind the Moscow State University campus. The plans for those administrative buildings were tied to the shafts and other features of this underground infrastructure project but sadly Palace of the Soviets was not meant to be, much like its pre World War II variant located next to Kropotkinstaya metro station. Order 10-A was made by the 9th directorate of the Ministry for Defence and for it a new construction organisation (US 10-A, presently Transinzhstroi) has been set up in 1955. Construction has been initiated in 1956 and was complete by 1963.
The site is composed of at least 5 shafts (1, 2, 3, 5, 6 explicitly mentioned) and includes extensive supporting systems such as air filtering stations and power generation, with the later designed to support the planned above ground administrative complex in case of emergencies. Site 54 is connected to the deep single track tunnel at the depth of 189m. Shaft R6, which was used during order 10-A construction, still exists in Moscow and is a marker for its overall location.
Sites 100, 101, 103 and “Vetka”.
Underground structures in central Moscow, late 1960s
Site 103 is a large U-shaped structure built in central Moscow, designed to enhance the legacy World War II infrastructure by providing site 1A in Kremlin at the depth of 55m for the leadership protected work spaces, site 15N communications node, site 100 shelter (passing under site 101), protected work spaces for the KGB. There were links to the existing legacy structures such as sites 25, 25/2 in Kremlin, site 201 at Lubyanka. It is also connected to the post-war site 101 at Zaryadie, which was intended to provide protected work spaces for officials working in the 8th Stalin’s skyscraper, however the later was never built, with the site 101 mission shifting to supporting local Moscow region officials.
However this project has been plagued with a number of problems, from slower construction (which went well into mid 1960s) to how it could be evacuated post nuclear attack. The later has been solved by construction of site “Vetka”, which links up site 103 in the city center to the deep single track tunnel and allows moving people to the then city outskirts.
The remote air intake (DV) network.
An early plan for the remote air intake network in Moscow
After some inititial work on a network of air filtering and then air regeneration stations, such as site 703 (aka ChZ-703) the decision has been made to shift towards using several large air filtering stations on the outskirts of the city and pumping this clean air into the rest of the deep metro from there. Those were quite large structures (600000-800000 m3/h productivity) and required extensive supporting infrastructure of their own.
While 5 were planned in Moscow this was later cut to 3, with only 2 actually being built – “Matveevsky” (DV-1) and “Rizhsky” (DV-2) remote air intakes.
While the later has been neatly connected to the post war deep metro line the former used a proprietary air supply tunnel connecting its location at the Matveevskaya railroad platform to the deep single track tunnel. This air supply tunnel has later been retrofitted with track, joining the network. For construction of this air supply tunnel and other related structures a shaft R6 has been transferred from US 10-A. A related additional structure was the special connector line between the red and circle lines, as it would allow transport of air from the deep and nuclear hardened post war section of the red line to the similarly protected circle line, bypassing vulnerable area of the red line, which was built in 1930s. DV-1 could also have been be used as an evacuation exit for the Moscow Metro, due to its position on then city outskirts.
Leningrad also received a remote air intake, located at Lenin’s square.
Move to KGB custody.
In late 1960s the DV-1 and its related support infrastructure, the deep single track tunnel, were transferred to the KGB from the Moscow Metro, with a number of modifications being made, such as re-working the deep single track tunnel connection to the red line and adding a hardened hangar for 10 APCs at the DV-1, etc.
Possible causes of the naming confusion and myth generation.
DV (ДВ in Russian) is quite close to the D6 (Д6) and may be one of the ways this designation came to be used in modern online discussions. The so-called “underground city in Ramenki” is likely the result of the urban explorers observing extensive support infrastructure for the DV-1, however this term has also been linked to the order 10-A, i.e. with the CIA map drawing a large rectangular box with the known shaft – R6 in the center.