Take a ride down memory lane through Moscow's amazing subway system
On May 15, 1935 the first line of the Moscow Metro, connecting Sokolniki to Park Kultury, was opened to the public
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On May 15, 1935 the first line of the Moscow Metro, connecting Sokolniki to Park Kultury, was opened to the public. Photo: People entering the first train before trial ride from Komsomolskaya to Sokolniki metro stations
© Fotokhronika TASS It was 11 kilometres long and included 13 stations. Photo: Passengers take a train going on the first line of the Moscow Metro, 1935
© Ivan Shagin/TASS Soviet workers did the labor and the art work, but the main engineering designs, routes, and construction plans were developed with the help of London Underground construction engineers
© Viktor Budan, Viktor Uglik/TASS The Moscow Metro was one of the USSR’s most extravagant architectural projects
© Fotokhronika TASS The system is mostly underground, with the deepest section 84 metres underground at the Park Pobedy station, one of the world's deepest. Photo: A view of the 4th construction stage of the Moscow Metro, 1948
© Leonid Velikzhanin/TASS Old metro stations are very imperial style with their reflective marble walls, high ceilings and grandiose chandeliers. Photo: Komsomolskaya station (Koltsevaya line) built in 1952
© Oleg Ivanov/TASS Kiyevskaya Metro station, 1971
© Viktor Budan, Vasily Yegorov/TASS Novoslobodskaya station built in 1952, pylons decorated with glass panels
© Viktor Budan, Vasily Yegorov/TASS Each line is identified by a name, a number and a colour. The upcoming station is announced by a male voice on inbound trains to the city center, and by a female voice on outbound trains. Photo: Testing of a new rolling stock of Moscow Metro, 1992
© Stanislav Panov/TASS As of 2017, the Moscow Metro excluding the Moscow Central Circle has 206 stations and its route length is 339.1 km. Photo: A driver in the cab of a train at Varshavskoye Depot on Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro
© Artyom Geodakyan/TASS The Moscow Metro is undergoing a major expansion, that will see its metro stations increase by almost 40 percent between now and 2020. Passengers in a car of the Aquarelle Train, displaying reproductions of paintings from the State Tretyakov Gallery collections, 2012
© Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS