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paid a high price for this beauty. A legend has it that the remains of the Serpukhov Kremlin were used to construct the first Metro line connecting Sokolniki and Park Kultury back in 1934.The Moscow Subway is a monument to the era of Social Realism, living history and a perfect example of Moscow Baroque, Stalins Empire style, post-perestroika minimalism and cutting-edge urban design.The Metro also has its own

The Moscow Metro is among the worlds most beautiful subways and 44 of its 186 stations are cultural heritage sites. The Metro-builders and Moscow government

mythology, which gave birth to numerous legends, superstitions and rumors. The stations of the Moscow Metro are peoples favorite meeting and departure

ThE MOScOw METRO

The first station of the Moscow Metro was opened on May 15, 1935. The underground city of the Moscow subway is a real architectural masterpiece. It can be called the Moscow transit artery as every day nearly 7 mln people zip through its tunnels. The Moscow Metro is the worlds third most heavily used rapid transit system after the Tokyo Subway and Seoul Metropolitan Subway. It consists of 12 lines running radially from the Ring Line that closely follows the surface layout of Old Moscow. More stations appear on the Metro map every year.

places, and an inalienable part of the city. The Moscow subway, like a huge heart of the city beats and sets the rhythm of peoples hustle and bustle with its train cars, turnstiles and escalators.

weekends and business days after 9 p.m. is the best time to ride the Moscow Metro.

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Stations: Mayakovskaya 1 , Teatralnaya 2 , Arbatskaya 3 , Biblioteka Imeni Lenina 4 , Kropotkinskaya 5

Stations of this route, as well as the sites located near them, are major attractions of Moscows historic center. They were all opened in the period of 1935-38 and are considered the most

impressive stations of the entire subway. Mayakovskaya Station, for example, is listed among Moscows cultural and architectural heritage sites.

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stainless steel. now, embossed steel bands, as if caryatids, support the graceful columns lined with Sadakhlo marble and rhodonite. The column-formed dome is framed with beautiful chandeliers. The vault of the station hall is adorned with 34 cobalt glass ceiling mosaics by artist Alexander Deyneka called 24-hour Soviet Sky. The design of the station won the Grand Prix at the new york worlds Fair in 1938. In 2005, the new northern entrance to the station was opened. Artist Ivan Lubennikov decorated it with huge mosaic panels on the ceiling that picture the sky featuring quotations from Mayakovskys poems. The new entrance also has a bust of Mayakovsky made by Alexander Kibalnikov.

During world war II the station was used as an air raid shelter and its central hall was a venue for mass assemblies of the communist party leaders.

The station was opened in September 1938. Its marble domical vaults are faced with broad stainless steel bands but this avant-garde architectural solution resulted from a mistake in construction.

In 1935, the stations architect Samuil Kravets projected the worlds first new column type station, with two sets of colonnades on each side overlapping and supporting the vault space. however, it appeared geologically impossible and the ceiling cracked pretty soon. Then, the famous architect Alexey Dushkin led the project and reinforced the pylons with

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USSR. The sculptures (porcelain with gilding) depict people of the Soviet republics dressed in national costumes, dancing folk dances and playing musical instruments.

Teatralnaya Station has no vestibule of its own and shares one with the Okhotny Ryad and Ploshchad Revolyutsii stations.

Teatralnaya Station was opened in 1938 and received its present name in 1990. It was originally named Ploshchad Sverdlova after Lenins supporter yakov Sverdlov. Architect Leonid Polyakov wanted the station to form an ensemble with the nearby Bolshoi and Maly Theatres so its design is all about theater.

Teatralnaya Station has elegant fluted pylons faced with white marble, which symbolize the backstage while the space between the pylons looks like a heavy curtain. Bronze capitals top the columns resembling a typical Greek amphitheater.The vault of the central hall is decorated with caissons and majolica bas-reliefs on the theme of performing arts in the

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bottom) while the floor is paved with multicolor granite that looks like a floral carpet. white pylons are faced with red marble at the bottom and decorated with ceramic ornamental brackets and floral reliefs similar to those in the central vaults. The dark bottom of the pylons is complemented with bronze baroque chandeliers and tassel-like decorations of the arches leading to the platform.

The station was depicted in Dmitry Glukhovskys Metro 2033 novel about post-apocalyptic Moscow, and the Resident Evil: Retribution blockbuster.

The stations western vestibule is now part of the Ministry of Defense General Staff building (can be accessed from vozdvizhenka Street) and is a great example of the so-called Moscow Baroque - an architectural style combining Muscovite (Russo-Byzantine) traditions with Western decorative baroque.

The station features four parabolic arches decorated with a splendid ring-shaped chandelier with 28 hemisphere lamps.The main tunnel is elliptical in cross-section and seems infinite. It boasts parabolic arches reminding more of the white chamber of the Rostov Kremlin than a station tunnel.The track walls are faced with glazed tiles (white top and black

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suspended on spindle-stems make for extra lightning.The station was finished with alabaster, yellow ceramic tile, and marble. The supports for the arches are concealed with broad marble pilasters. The floor is made of grey granite.One of the stations few decorations is a mosaic portrait of Vladimir Lenin (sculptor Grigory Opryshko) in the well leading to the eastern entrance hall.

The passageway to Borovitskaya Station has a wonderful rarity a gastropod fossil imprinted in marble. It lived underground some 300 mln years ago.

Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Station was intended to be a grand monument to vladimir Lenin, but due to heavy traffic, close standing houses and the risk of groundwater seepage, the architects Alexander Gontskevich and Sergey Sulin had to make do with a single-vault design.

The entire excavation was only 12 meters high. however, this small station was the first transfer station and is now a major transfer hub together with Borovitskaya and Alexandrovsky Sad Stations. This was not initially planned so passageways were built later.The main station vault is quite ascetic. The ceiling is faced with square caissons and regularly placed chandeliers. Lamps

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1941, the designers and engineers were also awarded the State Stalin Prize of the USSR in science and engineering.Two rows of decagonal columns and the walls of the station are now faced with white Koyelga marble. The floor was faced with asphalt concrete later replaced with grey and pink granite. chandeliers are hidden in upper parts of the columns making capitals look delicate and transparent as lotus flowers.Kropotkinskaya opened with only one entrance vestibule, located at the end of Gogolevsky Boulevard. This U-shaped structure was designed by Sergey Kravets and features two separate pavilions joined by a central arch. The second entrance opened in 1997 with the reconstructed christ the Savior cathedral and leads to Volkhonka Street.

On May 16, 2010 the station hosted a night concert of the chamber Orchestra Kremlin as part of the Museum night event. That was the third official event hosted by the Moscow Metro in peaceful time, its second concert and first event opened to public.

The station has an ample and spacious vestibule as it was originally planned to be part of the enormous Palace of the Soviets, and the largest station on the first line to carry crowds of sportsmen and spectators.

By May 1935, the station was almost finished but the construction of the Palace had just begun and was later terminated forever. Its metal frame was used for the wartime czech hedgehogs.Architect Alexey Dushkin was inspired by the Temple of Amun in Karnak when designing the station. The model of the station won two Grand Prix awards at expositions in Paris (1937) and Brussels (1958). In

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Stations: Park Kultury 1 , Oktyabrskaya 2 , Dobryninskaya 3 , Paveletskaya 4 , Taganskaya 5 , Kurskaya 6 , Komsomolskaya 7 , Prospekt Mira 8 , Novoslobodskaya 9 , Belorusskaya 10 , Krasnopresnenskaya 11 , Kievskaya 12 .

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The Ring Line was constructed fifth to carry passengers from radial lines. It is linked with seven of Moscows nine railway terminals. The lines color is brown.The Ring circumference linked up in 1954 and played a key role in the Metro headway. new radial

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lines were often built to begin at the Ring and later linked up in the centre to become diameters.All Ring stations were built at the height of Stalinist Architecture. Their common theme is the life of the Soviet people in the 1940-1950s and the victory in the Great Patriotic war.

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arches that visually divide the massive pylons in four corner pillars. Along the apex are suspended classic Empire-Style chandeliers.The station decoration features a braided alabaster ribbon dividing the ceiling and running down the pylons cornice. Its ornamental centerpieces are alabaster roses. The vaulted ceiling of the ground-level vestibule has four bas-reliefs depicting sportsmen at rest (sculptor Georgy Molotovilov). In February 2011, the station was closed for renovation to replace escalators, turnstiles and ticket boxes. The platforms design was to match the original, 1950 design. The station was reopened on April 28, 2012.

Every day some 100,000 passengers pass through the station.

The station was to bring Muscovites and city-visitors to the nearby Maxim Gorky Park of culture and Leisure.

Thus, the recreational theme inspired its overall design. The stations pylons have 26 circular marble bas-reliefs by Saul Rabinovich, which depict leisure activities of the Soviet youth, like football, figure skating, amateur theater, tennis, dancing and aeromodelling.The stations palette is dark grey but it doesnt look low or oppressive due to its special

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The sacral symbolism of the interior is accentuated by two torches that lead to the end of the central hall which contains a miniature triumphal arch with a metal gate and an altar niche - a blue lit room, symbolizing the time of peaceful life. This makes the interior ethereal. The niche is framed with flanked Empire-style cast grates, which triggered many jokes about a bright future behind the bars. The ticket and escalator halls are decorated with casts and bas-reliefs of armed warriors, Soviet banners and beautiful maidens personifying Military Glory.In 1990, the stand-alone vestibule of the station was built into the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys and decorated with large bas-reliefs of two trumpeters that are lit by lamps underneath.

In 1956, the Leningrad Metro saw the opening of Pushkinskaya Station designed by Leonid Polyakov identically to Oktyabrskaya. The only difference is a bust of Pushkin in the niche instead of the grates and the sky.

Oktyabrskayas original name was Kaluzhskaya Station and it was renamed in 1961 after the nearby Kaluzhskaya Square.

Designed by Leonid Polyakov, the station incorporated the themes of the 1812 Victory over napoleon echoing the 1945 Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic war. The station was also planned as a requiem for the fallen. The central vaults are divided by arches comprising large bas-reliefs with the medallions of Soviet Army soldiers. The stations design is an allusion to early-christian churches.

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sides. The stations theme comes from the Paveletsky Rail Terminal from where trains depart towards the Volga Region.A pylon-trivault central station includes square columns lined with white Koyelga marble contrasted to the grey and white granite floor. At the end of the station was a large medallion with the image of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin. The design incorporates numerous elements of classical architecture, like corinthian half-columns flanking massive pylons, and the geometric pattern of the floor tiled with grey and black granite, which reminds of Renaissance portals and marble Rayonnant roses.The passageway to Zamoskvoretskata Line has large staircases surrounded by marble balustrades in the centre of the platform and is the longest one in the Moscow Metro.

Paveletskaya is the only railway-linked ring station which has no direct exit to the railway terminal.

Paveletskaya Station is the only railway-linked ring station which has no direct exit to the railway terminal.

Architects nikolay Kolli and Igor Kastel chose mosaic design for the station. They faced the escalator hall with white marble and above the escalator put the Red Square circular mosaic panel by Isaak Rabinovich which depicts Lenins Mausoleum and St Basils cathedral, framed by a bas-relief with Soviet banners and floral arrangements with the names of Volga cities on the

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is lit by blue majolica-tiled lamps and 10 chandeliers designed by Abram Damskoy.The station has two flights of escalators with an intermediate rotunda vestibule, the dome of which is adorned with the Victory Firework mosaic panel (artist Alexander Shiryaev).The ground vestibule was constructed to preserve the nearby historical church of Saint nicolas in Bolvanovka (1712), thus the intermediate hall was added by placing a large cylinder and gradually lowering it to the required depth.

In 1972, the station saw the Metros first illuminated indicator.

Taganskaya Stations design is based on traditional Russian decorative elements as the nearby Taganskaya Square was populated by craftsmen back in the 16th century. The station was designed by architects Konstantin Ryzhkov and Alexander Medvedev.

The cross-shaped vault of the central hall rests on the pylons faced with light-colored Prokhor-Balandinsky marble and decorated with majolica panels depicting the Red Army warriors: sailors, guerillas, pilots, infantrymen, cavalrymen etc. and their heroic deeds. The station features cream-colored tiled walls with grey marble at the bottom visually elevating the massive pylons. The station

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Komsomolskaya Station was designed as the gates to Moscow welcoming crowds of passengers from the busiest city transport hub, Komsomolskaya Square, which serves Leningradsky, yaroslavsky and Kazansky railway terminals.

Therefore, the station is the apogee of Stalins Empire style: superb, splendid and sumptuous. Roots of the stations design can be traced to the Moscow Baroque. The station was to have the same style as the pre-revolution Kazansky Rail Terminal. The central hall of the station is a barrel vault of 34 arcades supported by 68 octagonal columns faced with pink and grey-bluish marble, and topped with baroque pilasters.

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The theme of the stations dcor is Russias fight against invaders. The vault of the central hall is adorned with eight mosaic panels of cobalt glass and gems. Six of them portray Russian military leaders Alexander nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov and Mikhail Kutuzov. The other two panels are dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic war. The panels the Presentation of the Banner to the Guards and the Victory Parade were changed several times as they contained images of some commanders (including Joseph Stalin), whose careers would later be re-evaluated, and were later replaced by new panels (Lenin speaking in Red Square and the Triumph of Victory) in 1963. The hall is also decorated with a huge mosaic of a red star with radiant golden rays.

In 1958, the station was awarded the Grand Prix of Expo58 in Brussels.

In the 1990s, some proposed to rename the station into Kalanchevskaya or Tri Vokzala (Three Railway Terminals).

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Prospekt Mira was originally called Botanichesky Sad after the Botanical Garden of Moscow State University, which is located nearby and was renamed only in 1966.

however, the design theme of the station reflects its original name and praises harmony of man and nature and Soviet agriculture. The pylons of the station hall are faced with light-colored marble and adorned by bas-reliefs depicting farming activities in various Soviet republics. The frieze represents a ceramic bas-relief in the shape of leaves and a vine. Lightening comes from sheaf-shaped bronze chandeliers that highlight the geometry of the station.

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The track walls are faced with dark red marble and the floor is paved with black and grey and black granite.The stations ground vestibule is built into the building of Mestrostroy construction company on the corner of Prospekt Mira. Its faade features sculptures and an original clock over the two archways supported by two mushroom columns of green majolica. Inside, opposite the escalator hall, is a large cobalt glass panel Mothers of the world by Alexander Kuznetsov.

Some astrologists say that the Ring Line comprises 12 stations to divide the city into 12 zodiac signs and consider Prospekt Mira to be the sign of Aquarius.

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Novoslobodskaya Station boasts splendid stained glass decoration. It is best known for its 32 stained glass panels, which are the work of Latvian artists who took the glass used in Rigas main cathedral construction.

The panels frame arch spans between the passages to the platform. The floor is chess-tiled with grey and black marble to stand in contrast with the sparkling panels.Each panel, surrounded by an elaborate brass border, is set into one of the stations pylons and illuminated from within making the station look airy and transparent. Both the pylons and the pointed arches

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between them are edged with brass molding. Each panel has a medallion depicting an architect, an artist, an electricity worker, an agronomist, a geographer and a musician as well as geometric ornament and five-pointed stars.At the end of the platform is a mosaic by Pave Korin entitled world Peace and showing a woman holding a baby. Above her head, used to be a medallion depicting Joseph Stalin but it was replaced with white floating doves.The stained glass panels, the mosaic, the brass trim, and the elegant conical chandeliers were all carefully cleaned and restored in 2003. This departed from the initial design idea, as architects wanted the station to resemble a cozy grotto or some wonderful underwater kingdom.

St.Petersburgs Metro station Ploshchad Vosstaniya has the same chandeliers as novoslobodskaya.

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Belorusskaya was named after the nearby Belorussky Railway Station and is devoted to Soviet Belarus.

The elaborately patterned ceiling is adorned by 12 mosaic panels made in the Florentine technique, which depict a wonderful and happy life in the republic. The ceiling is also adorned with geometric bas-reliefs: squares and polygons ornated with sheaves and wraths. Part of the stations pylons are faced with light-colored marble while the track walls are faced

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with white ceramic tiles which at some point replaced earthenware tiles. The floor is paved with grey, white and red ceramic tiles and repeats the pattern of the national Belorussian ornament. Initially it was paved with granite.The western ground vestibule was opened in 1952, while the second underground vestibule followed only in 1997. Then, the sculptural group Soviet Belarus depicting Belarusian guerilla fighters which adorned the east end wall of the central hall was removed to make way for a second exit. It was moved to the passage to the Belorusskaya radial station.

The architects of the station Ivan Taranov, natalya Bykova and Grigory Opryshko were awarded the State Prize of the USSR for the design of Belorusskaya in 1951.

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Krasnopresnenskaya Station was opened in 1954 and is designed in the Stalinist-era style.

The station has red granite pylons with white marble cornices decorated with octagonal medallions depicting the hammer and the sickle. The theme of the station dcor is the Russian Revolution of 1905. The ceiling of the stations central hall is adorned by 14 bas-reliefs (sculptors: nikolay Shcherbakov, yury Pommer, yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Fedorov, Grigory Kolesnikov). Eight

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bas-reliefs depict the events of the 1905 Revolution, while the other 6 show scenes of the 1917 Revolution. On the platform side, the pylons are decorated with bas-reliefs with the dates of the events. The station floor is paved with red, grey and black granite.The station is faced with red stone that contains petrified fossils dating to some 300 mln years back in the Paleozoic Era.

The station is located in Krasnaya Presnya Street, which got its name to honor the revolution of 1905 in Presnya district.

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Kiyevskaya was the final station, which linked the Ring up in 1954 and was the favorite one of the-then First Secretary of the communist Party Nikita Khrushchev, who had Ukrainian roots.

The theme of the station is the friendship of Russian and Ukrainian people, namely the 300th anniversary of the countries reunification. Kiyevskaya features low, square pylons faced with white marble and surmounted by large mosaics by Alexander Myzin framed by floral ornaments and celebrating Russo-Ukrainian unity. The station looks splendid and lofty. The mosaics show Russian-

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Ukrainian friendship beginning from the times of the Pereyaslavl Rada when Bogdan Khmelnitsky convoked the assembly of representatives of the Ukrainian people who decided on the reunification of Ukraine and Russia up to the 1917 Revolution and peaceful life in the USSR. At the end of the platform is a portrait of Vladimir Lenin with the lines from the Soviet national anthem around the mosaic. One of the exits was decorated by French architects as a copy of a typical Paris metro-station projected by art-nouveau architect hector Guimard in 1900-10. Russias Metro also presented the Paris Subway with a Russian stained-glass panel, which was placed on Madeleine Station. It depicts a fairy-tale character Kurochka Ryaba (Speckled hen).

Some passengers claim that the panel depicting pro-Soviet fighters in Ukraine has a guerilla with a cell phone and a laptop but in reality its just a field telephone and a box containing the device.

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: Sretensky Bulvar 1 , Trubnaya 2 , Rimskaya 3 , Novokosino 4 .

Recently built stations have a brand-new design. They lie on monolith concrete plates, have laconic interiors, linear perspec-tive and minimum decoration.

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The station, designed by architects Nikolay Shumakov, Natalya Shurygina and Galina Mun is dedicated not only to Sretensky Boulevard after which it is named. It is a set of metal artworks on the theme of the Boulevard Ring central ring road.

The station is a harmony of marble and concrete contrasted by a rather conservative palette.The track walls and the pylons of the station are faced with light-colored marble and the floor is paved with light-grey and black granite. A special method used in production of these panels makes them look brownish. The pylon design was altered to create an illusion of suspension.

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The same method was used in the hall of Turgenevskaya Station, which has an exit to the city and a transfer to Sretensky Bulvar.The niches in the pylons of the central hall feature 24 panels made by artist Ivan Lubennikov. These panels show images of people, trees and sites of the Boulevard Ring monuments to Pushkin, Gogol and Griboyedov etc. This technology of steel etched panels has never been used before.

Up to May 2011, the station had no exit to the city of its own and could be exited only via chistye Prudy or Turgenevskaya Stations.

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Trubnaya (Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line) opened on August 30, 2007, though the construction of the station was first discussed back in 1931.

The cornices, portals and the track walls of the station are faced with polished light-colored marble, while the columns as well as the inserts in the track walls and the space between the portals, are made of dark green marble. The decoration of the station is centered on the wooden benches adorned with ironwork and located between the column sections. The theme

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of the station is Moscow and small Russian towns, whose churches and cathedrals can be seen in 12 stained glass windows by Zurab Tsereteli. A legend has it, that one of the domes lacked a cross, so a passenger put his own baptismal cross on the panel. The Metro management decided to keep it that way.The lighting in the central and platform halls is provided by white and orange fluorescent lamps that are hidden behind the portal cornices and by 17 art-nouveau style lampposts. The stations cutting-edge design includes LED-warning lights on the platform.Another peculiarity of the station is the unusually sharp turn with a minimum curvage radius between Sretensky Bulvar and Trubnaya (500 m instead of the standard 600 m) to preserve the convent of the holy nativity, one of Moscows oldest convents founded in the 1380s.

The station was the last on the line until June 19, 2000 when Dostoevskaya Station was opened.

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Rimskaya Station is a unique project named after the Italian capital Rome. Its decorations come from Italian sculptors (Jean Paolo Imbrigi and A.Quatrocchi).

Its theme is Romes signature sights, thus one of the medallions depict Madonna with the child while another one in the passageway to the Kalininskaya Line has the founders of Rome, Romulus and Remus over the Triumphal Arch. They are also decorating a fountain in the northern hall of the station, which is the only operating fountain in the Moscow subway.The architects Leonid Popov and

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n.Rostegnyaeva elaborated on the theme but their design is more classic and conventional. The station where a column-trivault design is applied has no underplatform spacing and the entire infrastructure sits on a massive monolithic plate. This is the first station of this kind in the Moscow Metro. Black, red, grey and white granite slants are used for the geometrically lined floor. Light comes from curved lamps in the niches of the central hall, which seems infinite. The station has no suspended indicators not to spoil the ideal perspective - they are hidden among the columns.

Rimskaya is one of the few stations whose name and theme are not linked to a district nearby.

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Novokosino Station of Kalininskaya Line was opened on August 30, 2012. Russias President vladimir Putin attended the opening ceremony of the 186th station of the Moscow Metro, which extended Kalininskaya line by 3,42 km.

The station boasts cutting-edge design with brand-new lightning solutions similar to those used on Slavyansky Bulvar Station.It is a shallow single vault station in black and white colors. The station walls are faced with white, black and grey granite combined with bright colored ceramic tiles in vestibules and passages. The vault is made of concrete and is caisson-shaped. It

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is divided by diagonal ribs, which are lit by suspended chandeliers. Stainless steel decorations and glass chandeliers highlight the composition.The platform is faced with grey and black stone, while its track wall has perforated dark-grey sound-adsorbing panels topped with dark granite. The entrance walk and the station interior may well remind of airport lounges.novokosino has two exits/entrances decorated with panels of different colors: the western entrance has light-green panels, the eastern - bright orange. Elevators make the station easily accessible for disabled people. There is a special sound system that helps visually impaired people understand when trains arrive and depart.

Some novokosino exits lead to the city of Reutov in the Moscow region though geographically it is still Moscow.

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THE PUBLIc MUSEUM OF MOScOW METRO HISTORy

The idea to open the Metro history Museum emerged with the completion of the first stage of the Moscow Metro though the Museum opened its doors only in 1967. It was an initiative of the founding fathers of the Metro who collected all the Museums exhibits photos, documents and even operating models of various technical sys-tems.The Museum is located in the southern vestibule of Sportivnaya Station, behind a humble-looking door. now, its a vast collection, a mini-library and a movie theater.It comprises a railroad switch, a Soviet turnstile and a drivers cabin in an underground train.The collection has a huge display of metro tick-ets and tokens of different times and countries.The Museum staff is also screening movies about the Metro history, architecture, technical sys-tems and operation as well as the St.Petersburg, Minsk and Kiev Metro systems.The Museum is located in the southern vestibule of Sportivnaya Station.

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