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Moscow Metro Images 8 images Created 17 May 2009

The Moscow Metro spans almost the entire Russian capital and is the world's second most heavily used rapid transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its stations, which contain outstanding examples of socialist-realist art. It is famous worldwide for some of its ornately decorated stations, some with frescos and chandeliers. It was also used during WWII as a bomb shelter.
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  • Novoslobodskaya Station, Moscow Metro.  For train lovers, the Moscow Metro is a showcase of individually designed subway stations.  This is Novoslobodskaya Station with its belle epoque stained-glass windows lighted from within.  As there is no tradition of stained glass windows in Russia, they were designed in Latvia and each window is different with vases overflowing with fantastic flowers, cooing pigeon windows and colored medallions.
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  • Arbatskaya Station, Moscow Metro Arbatskaya station was designed by L.M. Polyakov, V.V. Pelevich and Yu.P. Zenkevich. Since it was meant to serve as a bomb shelter as well as a Metro station, Arbatskaya is large - the 250 metre platform is the second longest in Moscow.  It is also very deep - forty one metres underground.
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  • Arched dome in the interior of Oktyabrskaya Station - designed by Leonid Polyakov who took the neoclassical empire style as the basis, and incorporated the themes of the 1812 victory over Napoleon to match the 1945 Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War. The station has a large vestibule on the Kaluzhskaya Square hence the station's original name Kaluzhskaya.
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  • Park Pobedy Station, Moscow Metro; "Victory 1945" Muralist: T. Tsereteli -<br />
Park Pobedy Station or "Victory Park" is  84 metres underground and the deepest station on the Moscow Metro. It also contains the longest escalators in Europe, at 126 metres long and has 740 steps. The ride to the surface takes approximately three minutes.
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  • Kievskaya Station, one of the busiest within the Moscow Metro network and an attraction in itself with frescoed ceilings, chandeliers, and marble benches.  What other subway system in the world can boast such beauty and design?  Note the absence of soft drink machines, litter and graffiti.
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  • The Moscow Metro is an attraction in itself.  Frescoed ceilings, chandeliers, art nouveau benches - what other subway system in the world can boast such beauty and design.  Though it's true that the trains themselves could use a makeover, the stations are well worth a look.  This is Komsomolskaya Station - probably the most famous of all for its museum-like look.
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  • Elektrozavodskaya Station, Moscow Metro - Elektrozavodskaya, literally the "Electricity Factory", is one of the most spectacular and better known stations on the Moscow Metro. Built as part of the third stage of the Moscow Metro and opened  during the Second World War, the station is one of the iconic symbols of the system, famous for its architectural decoration and art deco depictions of "electricity".
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  • Rimskaya Station, Statue of Romulus and Remus - The Moscow Metro is an attraction in itself with its artwork, frescoed ceilings and chandeliers. What other subway system in the world can show such beauty and design without the usual graffiti, fast food outlets and litter?  Rimskaya Station is one of the more modern ones with provacative modern art displayed.
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