Certainly one of the most impressive sights in Moscow, the metropolitan system consists of 321.5 km is,12 lines and 188 stations. It began operations in May, 15th 1935. Here are some facts about the Moscow metropolitan:
One of the busiest metro in the world, we are over 7 million to use it on weekends, and around 10 million on weekdays.
A male voice announces the next station when traveling towards the centre of the city, and a female voice when going away from it.
It's open from 5:30 am to 1:30 am (passengers are allowed to enter until 1:00 and are given about 30 minutes to travel).
The longest line covers 43.5 km and the shortest 3.3 km.
The minimum interval between trains is 90 seconds during rush hours (sometimes not more than 30 seconds!). On the circle line, rush hour interval has been reduced down to 65 seconds.
It was one of the USSR's most extravagant architectural projects. Stalin ordered the metro's artists and architects to design a structure that embodied svet (radiance) and svetloe budushchee (radiant future). With their reflective marble walls, high ceilings and grandiose chandeliers, many Moscow metro stations are considered as an "artificial underground sun". This underground communist paradise reminded its riders that Stalin and his party had delivered something substantial to the people in return for their sacrifices.
Here are some of my favourite stations:
Soviet achievements depicting svetloe budushchee:
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