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The Moscow Metro [a] 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 .
Of the Moscow Metro's 236 stations, 80 are deep underground, 114 are shallow, and 42 (25 of them on the Central Circle) are at or above ground level. Of the latter there are 12 ground-level stations, four elevated stations, and one station (Vorobyovy Gory) on a bridge.
Today, the Moscow Metro contains fifteen lines, mostly underground with a total of 271 stations. The Metro is one of the deepest subway systems in the world; for instance the Park Pobedy station, completed in 2003, is at 84 metres (276 ft) underground, Maryina Roscha station has the longest escalators in Europe (lifting height - 64.5 m (211.6 ...
Moscow Metro. Many of the Moscow Metro's Soviet-era stations were designed as palaces for the people. ... Glasgow’s Subway struggles to meet the criteria for a metro “system” but its age and ...
Map of all the world's metro systems The year the metro system was opened for commercial service at metro standards. In other words, parts of the system may be older, but as parts of a former light rail or commuter rail network, so the year that the system obtained metro standards (most notably electrification) is the one listed.
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.
The Sokolnicheskaya line (Russian: Соко́льническая ли́ния, IPA: [sɐˈkolʲnʲitɕɪskəjə ˈlʲinʲɪjə], formerly Kirovsko-Frunzenskaya (Ки́ровско-Фру́нзенская) (Line 1; Red Line) is a line of the Moscow Metro. It opened in 1935 and is the oldest in the system.
Moscow Metro has introduced a trial ‘early bird’ ticketing program, giving passengers traveling at off-peak times a discount of up to 50 percent on their fare.