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The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union .
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Geographical map of Moscow Metro with Central Circle colored...
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Kakhovskaya (Russian: Каховская) is a station of the Moscow...
- Moscow Central Circle
Moscow Metro, subway system serving the city of Moscow and several neighboring towns within Moscow oblast. It consists of a series of radial lines from the central hub to the outskirts of the city, plus two circle lines.
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The first stations were opened 1935, May 15th. There were routes from Sokolniki to Park kultury and to Smolenskaya.First the Moscow metro had name after Lazar Kaganovich who was the had of Moscow Committee of All-Union communist party. In 1957 he was exiled from the party, and the Moscow metro became be named after V. I. Lenin.During the Great Patr...
The Moscow Metro has 16 lines, consisting of 14 normal lines and one light line and one U-railway. Here is a short overviewof the lines:
There are tickets for a certain number of rides and tickets for a certain time. The moscow metro uses magnetic cards for tickets with a certain number of rides: 1,2,5,10,20 and 60. These tickets were first sold in 1993 as a test. All other tickets are Transport Cards (Smartcards). There are two kinds of smartcards, 'unlimited' and 'social'. Both ki...
The metro has a gauge of 1520 mm, like most Russian railways. It gets the electricity from a third rail. The metro is run on a voltage of 825V AC. The averagedistance between stations is 1800 m. The shortest is 300m between the stations Alexandrovskiy Sad and Arbatskaya. The longest distance between stations is 6627 m between Krylatskoe and Strogin...
Although this has not been officially said, many independent studies say that there is a second, deeper metro system designed for emergency evacuation of important city personnel in case of attack. It is believed that it consists of a single track and connects the Kremlin, chief HQ (Genshtab), Lubyanka (FSB Headquarters) and the Ministry of Defence...
Official Website Archived 2020-10-03 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)- 1958.6 million passengers
- 2603.2 million passengers
- 320.9 km
- 15997.4 million rubles
Below is the history of the expansion of the Moscow Metro in Moscow, Russia. The line number only reflects the section it serves today. The original line the station served at the time of opening may be different due to lines being divided, shifted to or merged with other lines afterwards.
No.SegmentDateNew Stations109Seligerskaya - Fiztekh2023-09-073108Rasskazovka - Aeroport Vnukovo2023-09-062107Kashirskaya — Savyolovskaya2023-03-018106Mnyovniki — Kakhovskaya2021-12-079Until nowadays Moscow metro is one of the most important heritage of architecture of the USSR period. The most inspiring metro stations of the Stalin's era are Revolution Square, Kievskaya, Beloruskaya, Mayakovskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Dostoevskaya, Prospekt mira, Komsomolskaya and Taganskaya.
Oct 25, 2023 · Carrying millions of passengers every day, the Moscow Metro is the 8th-largest metro system in the world and the largest outside of China. It is exceedingly well operated, and at peak hours, trains arrive every 90 seconds. However, these facts are not why the Moscow Metro is so famous; it is known for its beauty.
Apr 27, 2020 · The first plans of the Moscow metro date as far back as the Russian Empire, but the construction started only in 1931, and the first stations were opened to the public in 1935. The first line of the Moscow metro, the part of the red line from Sokolniki to the city centre, was 11km long.
