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06-07-2017, 10:42 AM
Moscow’s metro is one of the busiest and most visually stunning underground systems in the world. Created as a showcase for the Soviet Union, its elaborate, spacious stations are adorned with mosaics, marble statues and stained glass that tell the story of the communist state.
When it opened in 1935, the metro had just 11 stations and attracted 285,000 curious riders on the first day. Today there are 206 stations and up to nine million passengers a day.
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The Moscow metro’s immaculate stations are a mix of old and new. Get off at Ploshchad Revolutsii (Revolution Square) and you will see passengers going up to a statue of a border guard and rubbing his dog’s nose for luck. There are four such statues in the station, and all the dogs have shiny noses from the constant rubbing.
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The metro was originally named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and the Bolshevik leader’s image was and still is found in stations throughout the metro: in statues, mosaics and a giant bust of Lenin on the wall in Ploshchad Ilyich (Ilyich Square) metro station.
The image of his successor Josef Stalin was also seen on the metro until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced him in 1956, prompting the dismantling of statues of him all over the Soviet Union. At Dobryninskaya metro station, a mosaic shows a happy crowd holding up a photo of a cosmonaut. The photo previously depicted Stalin and the cosmonaut was parachuted in to hide the disgraced leader.
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A statue of Stalin was removed from Kurskaya metro station in central Moscow, but a quote from the Soviet national anthem: "Stalin reared us on loyalty to the people. He inspired us to labour and heroism" was controversially restored to the metro's entrance in 2009
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At Kievskaya, a station built in 1954 when Ukraine was firmly a part of the Soviet Union, a vivid mosaic dedicated to Russian-Ukrainian friendship occupies one wall. The two countries are now at loggerheads after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
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When it opened in 1935, the metro had just 11 stations and attracted 285,000 curious riders on the first day. Today there are 206 stations and up to nine million passengers a day.
https://photos.wi.gcs.trstatic.net/e9hyHkaRFZdDV_jLZuTS6m42G2_1pg-NPwJ_0pDPPizYhgiDRc6t18Qt41YfFIFxElBvBTXmLk7KRwhn1 s2ACw
The Moscow metro’s immaculate stations are a mix of old and new. Get off at Ploshchad Revolutsii (Revolution Square) and you will see passengers going up to a statue of a border guard and rubbing his dog’s nose for luck. There are four such statues in the station, and all the dogs have shiny noses from the constant rubbing.
https://photos.wi.gcs.trstatic.net/e9hyHkaRFZdDV_jLZuTS6nOEKc-CiLrH59nr_H24hZc7uxS1MGdKnoHys02q5GuIq0sFmFI-jATCjaltFg7T_w
The metro was originally named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and the Bolshevik leader’s image was and still is found in stations throughout the metro: in statues, mosaics and a giant bust of Lenin on the wall in Ploshchad Ilyich (Ilyich Square) metro station.
The image of his successor Josef Stalin was also seen on the metro until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced him in 1956, prompting the dismantling of statues of him all over the Soviet Union. At Dobryninskaya metro station, a mosaic shows a happy crowd holding up a photo of a cosmonaut. The photo previously depicted Stalin and the cosmonaut was parachuted in to hide the disgraced leader.
https://photos.wi.gcs.trstatic.net/e9hyHkaRFZdDV_jLZuTS6gPwJHBwhe4eQgQqoTlZmoJX0GoZbj z_vWlAAmKLxRkm7uDcJPWa4KKtp8qTNZC-eg
A statue of Stalin was removed from Kurskaya metro station in central Moscow, but a quote from the Soviet national anthem: "Stalin reared us on loyalty to the people. He inspired us to labour and heroism" was controversially restored to the metro's entrance in 2009
https://photos.wi.gcs.trstatic.net/e9hyHkaRFZdDV_jLZuTS6v4AcJ0vhDCmtqfCusrwosa7SgawzM JFmEylFA26XdGAjF1Oily4bUHsLbufNpY0BA
At Kievskaya, a station built in 1954 when Ukraine was firmly a part of the Soviet Union, a vivid mosaic dedicated to Russian-Ukrainian friendship occupies one wall. The two countries are now at loggerheads after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.
https://photos.wi.gcs.trstatic.net/Q_R5ChVKlRml3tKGh9ARALRddvbGagyqtXneELAYLfuI5tD6ea aMcSvge1z75wPVqHfZCtQWQNbOn5OfRxLV9jDIa4QvlXJPYElo qIvZf8s
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