Subway Stations in Moscow

The Subway in Moscow deserves a special visit.   You will have the opportunity to go thru these images and appreciate Moscow’s Subway Stations’ Architecture…

Work on the Subway started in 1930 - Its length is approx. 256 km (159Miles), actually the subway has 138 stations, and the most beautiful stations are located near the center of the capital.

                                                                      Baumanskaya

A Special Visit is very impressive to the foreign tourists,  who will think they’re in a museum or even a palace with very spacious hallways.

                                                                     Baumanskaya

One is pleasantly surprised by the marvelous decorations, by the monumental richness of the marble decorations: medalions, columns, mosaics & sculptures that display the Great Events in Russian History

                                                                     Belorusskaya

For example, in Revolution Square Station , The Bronze statues represent  revolutionaries in 1917 «Red Octomber», in Komsomolskïa Station - Kutuzov maybe seen, who beat  Napoleon, in Kievskaïa Station , Peter The Great at the Battle of Poltava, in Teatranlaïa Station there are ballerinas in national costumes and columns of flowers.

                                                                    Belorusskaya

During World War II, The Moscow Subways, due to its depth, offered shelter for thousands of moskowites during the Aerial bombings.

                                                                Dobrininskaya

Each year the Subway Lines get longer and get deeper into the far away

Suburbs where new subway stations are built Subway is extended to

 Remote districts and metro stations are built new, where the

 architecture is sober.

                                                                     Dynamo

Subway in Moscow houses 9 lines which are color coded on large signs helping passengers to go where they need to.

                                                            Electrozavodskaya

Subway hours are between 5:30 a.m. ―1:30a.m. trains come at 1 minute intervals, sometimes even less especially during the evening hours.

                                                                   Kievskaya

……….continue to view the following photos.

                                                                           Kievskaya

                                                                           Kievskaya

  Komsomolskaya

                                                                   Komsomolskaya

                                                                      Komsomolskaya

                                                                      Komsomolskaya

                                                                     Krasnopresnenskaya

                                                                     Mayakovskaya

                                                                       Novoslobodskaya

                                                                         Oktiabrskaya

                                                                           Park Kultury

                                                                         Paveletskaya

Ploshad Revoluţia

Prospekt Mira

Semionovskaya

Taganskaya

This is the End of our Virtual tour of the Moscow Subway System