Moscow Underground

The Scheme of the Underground

The earliest projects of building Moscow Underground appeared in 1875. The engineers wanted to build the road through the Red Square not under the ground but от the surface of it. But the project failed.
Crazy idea.

On 15 of June 1931 it was decided to build the Moscow Underground to improve the traffic situation in the city. Moscow Metro was opened on 15 May 1935 . The road was 11 km long and had 13 stations.
The problem of traffic jam was decided.

There is no such a magnificent underground in the world. Look at the Komsomolskaya station.
Modern Architectural Masterpiece

On the walls of more than twenty stations you can see various fossils . There you can find a nautilus shell , ammonites and other prehistoric shellfish.
Traces from Ancient Times

The deepest station — "Park Pobedy" (84 m)
The underground station located closest to the surface of the earth — “Pechatniky”
The longest stage — Krylatskoe — Strogino (6625 m) The longest escalator — 126,8 m, lifting height of 63.4 m "Park Pobedy“The longest period from the beginning of construction of the station prior to its opening — 39 years (station "Spartak“)
Records

Vorobyovy Gory
The longest station (the length of the platform) — Vorobyovy Gory (282 m) is located on the bridge over the river Moscow.

Metro station “Taganskaya” (Таганская) in Moscow is located at a distance about 2.3 kilometers to east from the Kremlin and Red Square. It opened on 1 January 1950. Magnificent underground station.

Novokuznetskaya (Russian: Новокузнецкая) is one of the most beautiful metro stations in Moscow.
Novokuznetskaya (Russian: Новокузнецкая) is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. The station was opened on November 20, 1943.