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Moscow's metro has been planned in the socialist era, 1931, to be the most beautiful, the safest, and the most comfortable metro in the world. At least in terms of beauty, they probably succeeded. The photos below cover a small subset of Moscow's stations. They don't show only the spectacular stations but try to give an overview of the variety of different designs. If the photos on this page do not quite match Metro Bits' quality standards, this is because they date from 1995. I didn't have a digital camera back then and sometimes made the big mistake of using a flash in the underground. Hopefully, the great station architecture can speak for itself nevertheless. I hope to get the opportunity to make some better photos in the future. Last update: 15 January 2007.
	Arbatskaya Line 4. Entrance building. 1935.
	Arbatskaya Line 3. 1953.
	Barrikadnaya Line 7 (with transfer to line 5). 1972.
	Belorusskaya Line 5 (with transfer to line 2). 1952.
	Elektrosavodskaya Line 3. 1944.
	Escalators Many escalators in Moscow are made of wood and run very fast.
	Escalator Guard At the bottom of each set of escalators is a guard sitting in a glass cabin watching the passenger flow.
	Komsomolskaya Line 5 (with transfer to line 1). 1952.
	Komsomolskaya Line 5 (with transfer to line 1). 1952.
	Kropotkinskaya Line 1. 1935.
	Mayakovskaya Line 2. 1938.
	Medvedkovo Line 6. 1978.
	Novoslobodskaya Line 5 (with transfer to line 9). 1952. Exit sign. Being able to decipher cyrillic characters is essential when using Moscow's metro.
	Kitay-Gorod Line 6 (with transfer to line 7). 1971.
	Ploshchad Revolutii Line 3 (with transfer to line 2). 1944.
	Ploshchad Revolutii Line 3 (with transfer to line 2). 1944.
	Profsoyuznaya Line 6. 1974.
	Semyonovskaya Line 3. 1961.
	Train Interior
	VDNKH Line 6. 1958.
	Bridge Near Kievskaya When the metro runs across the bridge in the background, passengers get a view of some nice buildings. Larger version.
	Transfer Route Between Teatralnaya station (line 2) and Okhotnyi Ryad station (line 1), opened in 1944, and probably being the first underground transfer route between separate lines in Moscow.
Photos ©1995 M. Rohde.
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Arbatskaya

Arbatskaya

Barrikadnaya

Belorusskaya

Elektrosavodskaya

Escalators

Escalator Guard

Komsomolskaya

Komsomolskaya

Kropotkinskaya

Mayakovskaya

Medvedkovo

Novoslobodskaya

Kitay-Gorod

Ploshchad Revolutii

Ploshchad Revolutii

Profsoyuznaya

Semyonovskaya

Train Interior

VDNKH

Bridge Near Kievskaya

Transfer Route