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Salaryevo
/Саларьево |
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In the southern
entrance of the station is the shortest escalator of
the Moscow metro. It lifts passengers by only 3
meters |
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Rumyantsevo
/Румянцево |
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Rumyantsevo
station was terminal for the shortest period of time
in the history of Moscow metro: from January, 18th
to February, 15th 2016, that is, only 29 days.
However, it was terminal only for passengers, not
for trains: after having put down the passengers at
Rumyantsevo empty trains moved further,
till Salarievo station, which was not open
yet. There they turned tail and started moving in
the opposite direction.
The station,
which was terminal for the second shortest period of
time, is “Orekhovo” (a total of 8 months).
And the station, which served as terminal for the
longest period of time and continues to be terminal
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Alexandrovskiy sad station |
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Troparyovo
/Тропарёво |
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The first station
of the Moscow metro, which has two points above
"Ё" in its name written on the wall. It happened
in 2014. Before that time the names of stations
having "Ё" in their names (before
Troparyovo opening there were 8 such stations)
were written without points.
After the opening
of Troparevo a new tradition of dotting "Ё"
was started |
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Universitet
/Университет |
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One of the two
Moscow metro stations, whose name is written on the
platform wall with a capital letter. The second
station is
Serpukhovskaya |
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Vorobyovy gory
/Воробьёвы горы |
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1.
The only
Moscow metro station and the first subway station in
the world, which is located on the bridge, running
over the river. South entrance on the station is
located on the right (high) bank of the Moscow
river. North entrance is located on the left (lower)
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2.
The longest
station of Moscow metro. Its platform length is 284
meters. It takes 4 minutes to go thought the
platform from its beginning to the end |
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3.
One of the two
Moscow metro stations, which is used as an
exhibition hall. The second station is
Vystavochnaya |
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4.
There was a
19-year long break in the history of the station’s
operation. From 1983 to 2002 reconstruction of the
bridge took place, during which the station was
closed. However, that was not considered as an
obstacle to the change of the station's name. Before
1999 the station was called "Leninskiye gory" |
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Sportivnaya
/Спортивная |
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In 1967 at the
southern ground entrance hall of the station (on the second
and the third floors) the Moscow metro museum opened
its doors. In 2016 the museum moved to
Vystavochnaya station |
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Biblioteka imeni Lenina
/Библиотека имени Ленина,
literally:
Lenin
library |
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1.
The transfer between Biblioteka imeni Lenina and Alexandrovskiy
sad stations is the first transfer built
in Moscow metro. It operates since 1938 |
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2.
The
station retains its original name Lenin library,
despite the fact that the library in 1992 was
renamed the Russian State Library |
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3.
The name
of the station on its platform wall is written in
letters of different sizes: the words "BIBLIOTEKA"
and "LENINA" are written in capital letters,
while "IM." Is written in small letters. That
was the writing tradition in the thirties |
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Okhotny Riad
/Охотный
Ряд |
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The station
changed its name four times, having established a
record in Moscow metro. Since its opening in 1935 to
1955 it had been named Okhotny Ryad, from
1955 to 1957 - Imeni Kaganovicha, from 1957
to 1961 - Okhotny Ryad again, from 1961 to
1990 - Prospekt Marksa |
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Lubyanka
/Лубянка |
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During the
reconstruction of the station in the 1970s the
original decoration, designed by architect N.A.
Ladovsky, was completely reworked. Currently only a
small fragment of the original decoration can be
seen at the south-west end wall of the station |
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Krasnye Vorota
/Красные
Ворота |
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The first station
of Moscow metro, which was equipped with ticket
barriers. It happened in 1952. Prior to this,
controllers tore and composted paper tickets
manually |
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Komsomolskaya
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1.
It is only in
2016, that the names of the nearby railway termini
and stations started to be announced in the cars
arriving at the station. And before that time, such
an announcement was being made only at
Komsomolskaya metro station
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2.
The first
(and, for a long time, the only) Moscow metro
station with pedestrian galleries (balconies)
located above the track. Other stations with similar
architecture – Vystavochnaya,
Zyablikovo, Delovoy
Tsentr, Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo, Petrovsky
park and Elektrozavodskaya of Line 15 |
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3.
The name Komsomolskaya is an absolute
champion among metro station names by its incidence.
From 1987 to 1992, 8 metro stations and 1 metrotram
(premetro) station had such a name |
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4.
The ceiling
of the station Komsomolskaya is pillared by
a record (for Moscow metro) number of columns – 136.
46 of them are installed directly on the station
platform and 90 are on the pedestrian galleries
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5.
Komsomolskaya station is the first station, at
which a train arrived. The first test train from the
nearby depot Severnoe stopped at the
station on October 1, 1934, seven months before the
metro opening |
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Sokolniki
/Сокольники |
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It is from
Sokolniki
station, that the first train with passengers in the
history of Moscow metro dispatched. It happened on
the metro opening day – May 15, 1935. Pyotr Latyshev,
engineer from "Red proletarian" factory, was the
first passenger of Moscow metro |
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Bulvar Rokossovskogo
/Бульвар
Рокоссовского,
literally:
Rokossovsky boulevard |
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Bulvar
Rokossovskogo street is located at a considerable
distance away from the metro station named after it.
It makes more than half a kilometer. However, the
previous name of the station (until 2014 it was Ulitsa
Podbelskogo), which had been used for 22
years, did not have any relevance to the name of the
street, on which the station was located, because
the street itself (ulitsa Podbelskogo) had changed
its name to Ivanteevskaya street back to 1992 |
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Dinamo
/Динамо |
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In 1940, at the
night time, a physical laboratory functioned at the
station. Cosmic radiation, which interfered in
terrestrial laboratories, could not penetrate to the
station, located at 40-meter depth. Thanks to the
experiments conducted by physicists G.N. Flyorov and
K. Petrzhak, the spontaneous fission of uranium had
been discovered |
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Mayakovskaya
/Маяковская |
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The name of the
station on the platform walls is written in the
smallest letters. Their height is only 9
centimeters. This is 27 times smaller than the
largest caption, which is located at the
Solntsevo
station. The height of the letters on it is two and
a half meters |
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Novokuznetskaya
/Новокузнецкая |
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At the station, there is the only Moscow metro escalator, the tunnel vault of which is decorated with molding |
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Paveletskaya
/Павелецкая |
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The longest
crossing (150 meters long) between the stations of
Moscow metro connects the stations Paveletskaya
of Lines 2 and 5 |
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Tekhnopark
/Технопарк |
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Tekhnopark
station was opened in 2015 at the operating line
between Avtozavodskaya and Kolomenskaya
stations. Prior to that trains had been circulating
here without stopping for 46 years. This is a record
for Moscow metro.
Also, much later
than their line "neighbours" the stations Tverskaya
(41 years later), Spartak (39 years
later) and Shabolovskaya (18
years later) had been opened
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Kashirskaya
/Каширская |
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The platform wall
of Kashirskaya station is decorated with
the image of another station of Moscow metro – Mayakovskaya |
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Kantemirovskaya
/Кантемировская |
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The first (and,
for a long time, the only) Moscow metro station, the name of which is
written in inclined letters on the platform walls.
Other stations
are Borovskoe shosse and Kakhovskaya |
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Tsaritsino
/Царицыно |
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In 1990, when the
station changed its name from Lenino to
Tsaritsyno, some letters from the old platform
walls inscriptions were used in the writing of new
ones. Until now, the letters "I", "N"
and "O" on the platform walls are visibly
different from the other |
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Alma-Atinskaya
/Алма-Атинская |
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Alma-Ata (also
known as Almaty) is the
most distant (and the only non-European) city,
mentioned in the title of Moscow metro stations.
Moscow and Alma-Ata are separated by more than 3,000
kilometers |
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Myakinino
/Мякинино |
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1.
The only Moscow
metro station, which is entirely located outside
Moscow boundaries, namely, in the Krasnogorsk
district of Moscow region (as opposed to
Novokosino
and Kotelniki stations, which are located
on Moscow border, as well as Rumyantsevo
and Salarievo stations, which are located
in so-called New Moscow) |
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2.
On the station’s
platform walls there are the largest letters,
forming the name of the station. The letters’ height
is about 1 meter |
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Strogino
/Строгино |
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Distance between
Krylatskoe and Strogino stations is
the longest in Moscow metro. Its length is 6473
meters. Trains cover the distance in 7 minutes. The
distance is 17 times longer than the shortest one (see
facts about
Mezhdunarodnaya
station). The second longest distance (between Volgogradskiy
prospekt and Tekstilschiki stations)
is two times shorter |
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Krylatskoe
/Крылатское |
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The first (and
for a long time the only) station of Moscow metro
with assymmetric decoration. One station wall is
flat, with light-beige marble finishing. Second is
semiround, covered with white plastering. The lamps
are also placed only on one side of the station.
Other stations with asymmetric decoration:
Pyatnitskoe shosse, Bitsevskiy park, Khovrino,
Michurinsky prospekt (Line 8a) and
Elektrozavodskaya (Line 15) |
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Kuntsevskaya
/Кунцевская |
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The passage
between Kuntsevskaya stations of Lines 3
and 4 is the only overland transfer hub of Moscow
metro |
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Park Pobedy
/Парк
Победы |
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1.
The deepest
station in Moscow metro (73 meters) with the longest
escalators (126 meters). The air pressure difference
between the upper and the lower steps of the
escalator is 6 mm Hg |
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2.
One of the
inscriptions featuring the name of the station on
its wall differs from others for some reason: near
the last car of the train going to the Minskaya
station, there is one inscription on an orange
background, while the others are placed on a white
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Kievskaya
/Киевская |
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There is an
orthographic mistake on one of the station’s wall
paintings. At this painting a Ukrainian girl holds a
book. On the book cover one can easily read the name
of its author – "I. Сталiн" (“J.Stalin”).
This inscription on the book’s cover had been
painted out in 50ties, in the framework of
de-Stalinization. Nowadays, in 2015, while restoring
the wall paintings, it has been decided to restore
the inscription. Unfortunately, the renovators did
not look into the dictionary of Ukrainian language
and the name has been written with a mistake. In
fact, in Ukranian the name “Joseph” should be
written as "Йосип"
or "Йосиф"
(“Yosip” or “Yosif”).
Thus, the inscription on the book should have been
as follows: "Й.Сталин"
(“Y.Stalin”) |
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Ploschad Revolutsii
/Площадь
Революции |
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The most famous
lucky place of Moscow metro is located at the
station: if you rub the nose of the bronze dog,
making part of the sculpture "Border guard with a
dog" luck will not be long to coming. As a result,
all four noses of the station’s bronze dogs are
spit-polished |
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Elektrozavodskaya
/Электрозаводская |
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1.
There is a record
number of inscriptions with the station’s name on
walls and pylons of the station. The inscription is
repeated 54 times |
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2.
The station is
the first transfer from suburban trains to metro
which is located not in railroad terminal. Also, that transfer is
the only, where firstly the metro station was open
(in 1944) and only afterwards the station of
suburban trains was built (in 1949) |
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Partizanskaya
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1.
There is an
additional third way in the center of the station. The plan was to use the third way
to increase the capacity of the station during mass events held at the stadium named after
Stalin. The stadium, however, was never built, and
now the third way is sometimes used for trains going
to/from the nearby depot. It also hosts exhibitions
of rare cars.
The same is
characteristic for
Polezhaevskaya
station |
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2.
Partizanskaya station is the most remote
(among Moscow metro stations) from the street of the
same name. Partizanskaya street is located 22
kilometers away from the station, not far from
Molodyozhnaya |
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3.
On the 20th of
August, 1963 a unique event took place in Moscow
metro: two stations interchanged their names. Two
neighboring stations Izmaylovskaya and Izmaylovskiy
Park (now Partizanskaya) were involved
in this exchange. The exchange was made in order to
bring into accordance the name of the metro station
with the location of the main entrance to the park |
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Pervomayskaya
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One of the two
Moscow metro stations, which were originally located
elsewhere. The original station, built in 1954,
served as terminal and was located on the surface.
Following the eastward extension of the line in
1961, it had been closed to passengers and was
converted into a depot. Instead, an underground
station was built in the new location.
Another station
with the same history –
Kaluzhskaya |
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Aleksandrovsky sad
/Александровский сад |
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1.
The passage
between Biblioteka imeni Lenina and Alexandrovskiy
sad stations is the first passage of the Moscow
metro. It operates since 1938 |
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2.
It is the first station in Moscow metro history,
which had been renamed. It happened in 1946, when
Ulitsa Kominterna (this was the original name
of Alexandrovskiy sad station) changed its
name to Kalininskaya |
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3.
The
section Alexandrovskiy sad – Kievskaya
had served as a part of three different metro lines:
from 1935 to 1938 – as an offshoot of the Line 1 (at
that time the line was single and yet had no
number), from 1938 to 1953 – as a part of Line 3,
and since 1958 up to the present time – as a part of
Line 4 |
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4.
The station holds
the record for the duration of serving as a terminal
(from 1958 to the present day). Next comes
Schelkovskaya
station (from 1963 to the present day).
Among the
stations, which are no more terminal, Rechnoy
vokzal
is the leader – it had served as terminal for over
half a century (53 year).
See also the fact
about
Rumyantsevo station, which served
as terminal for the shortest time |
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5.
The first
(and for a long time the only) curved station in
Moscow metro. Other curved stations of Moscow metro
are Kutuzovskaya, Vystavochnaya,
Mezhdunarodnaya, Zyablikovo and
Pyatnitskoe shosse |
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Smolenskaya
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1.
The only Moscow
metro station, lined with hexagonal tiles. Until the
end of the 50s, the hexagonal tiles was also at
Kropotkinskaya station, but was later replaced
by marble panels |
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2.
In July 1941,
during one of the air raids, a bomb broke through
the tunnel ceiling between Arbatskaya and
Smolenskaya stations. The imprint on the
ceiling of the tunnel remained intact until
nowadays. The incident caused the closure of the
subsurface line and the start of the construction of
the parallel section of Line 3
with the same station names. But after a while the
subsurface line was re-opened, as a part of Line 4.
This is the reason why in Moscow metro there are two
stations named Smolenskaya and two stations
named Arbatskaya with no transfer from one
to another |
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3.
The underground passage located under Garden Ring
road near Smolenskaya station, that
nowadays does not have anything to do with metro,
once was a part of the station. One could take it in
order to get in one of the ground entrance halls, which does
not exist anymore. For this reason, the passage is
located deeper, than other underground passages and
the distances between columns in its middle vary |
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Kievskaya
/Киевская |
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One of the
entrances to the station Kievskaya of Lines
4 and 5 lines was decorated by French architects
inspired by the projects of Hector Guimard, who
decorated the entrances to the first stations of
Paris metro in 1900-1910. In response to this Moscow
metro make a present of "Speckled Hen" stained-glass
window, which was installed at the station
"Madeleine" in Paris |
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Fili
/Фили |
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The only station
of Moscow metro, which stands at the junction of
tunnel and open tracks |
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2.
The names of Fili are the shortest (4 letters) in Moscow metro (except
for stations using abbreviations as names) |
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Kuntsevskaya
/Кунцевская |
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1.
The passage
between Kuntsevskaya station of Lines 3 and
4 is the only overland interchange node of Moscow
metro |
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2.
At the
station, there is only one way. Trains arrive on it
and depart from it. This feature of the station is
unique for Moscow metro |
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Vystavochnaya
/Выставочная |
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1.
One of the two
Moscow metro stations, which is used as an
exhibition hall. The second station is
Vorobyovy gory |
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2.
In the tunnel
between Kievskaya and Vystavochnaya
stations there is a part of track with the
greatest slope (2.92 degrees) in Moscow metro. With
each meter train
lowers by 5,1 cm |
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3.
At the pedestrian
galleries of the station there is a Moscow metro
museum (before 2016 the museum had been located for
a long time in the ground entrance hall of
Sportivnaya
station),
career center, technical library and metro
sightseeing tour agency. Thus, the station can be
called “the face of Moscow metro” |
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Mezhdunarodnaya
/Международная |
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1.
The station is
equipped with the narrow landing platforms of Moscow
metro. The width of the platform is 2.5 meters |
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2.
The distance between
Vystavochnaya and Mezhdunarodnaya
stations is the shortest in Moscow metro. Its length
is 379 meters, which is less than an average
distance between tram stops in Moscow (read more)
By the way, the
shortest distance is 17 times shorter than the longest
one (see facts about
Strogino
station) |
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Kievskaya
/Киевская |
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One of the
entrances to the station Kievskaya of Lines
4 and 5 lines was decorated by French architects
inspired by the projects of Hector Guimard, who
decorated the entrances to the first stations of
Paris metro in 1900-1910. In response to this Moscow
metro make a present of "Speckled Hen" stained-glass
window, which was installed at the station
"Madeleine" in Paris |
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Dobryninskaya
/Добрынинская |
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Peter Dobrynin is
the youngest historical figure, among those whose
names were used for Moscow metro stations
entitlement. He died 22 years old |
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Paveletskaya
/Павелецкая |
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The longest
crossing (150 meters long) between the stations of
Moscow metro connects the stations Paveletskaya
of Lines 2 and 5 |
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Taganskaya
/Таганская |
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An underground
bunker, built in 1956, sides with the station. The
bunker, aka "Object GO-42", was built to be
used in case of a nuclear attack and operated as an
alternate command center of long-range air force
until 1995, then it was declassified and turned into
museum |
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Kurskaya
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At the station
there is a unique inscription "Курская
большого кольца” (“Kurskaya of Big Circle
Line") made during the station’s construction in
1950. At that time it was planned to build two
circle lines – "Small Circle Line" and "Big Circle
Line" |
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Komsomolskaya
/Комсомольская |
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1.
It is only in
2016, that the names of the nearby railway termini
and stations started to be announced in the cars
arriving at the station. And before that time, such
an announcement was being made only at
Komsomolskaya metro station platform.
This is due to
the fact that the names of the railway termini (Leningradskiy,
Yaroslavskiy and Kazanskiy) located here are
different from the name of the metro station itself.
The remaining six Moscow railway termini (Kievskiy,
Paveletskiy, Kurskiy, Rizhskiy, Belarusskiy and
Savyolovskiy) names are identical to the names of
metro termini, which are nearest to them |
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2.
The name Komsomolskaya is an absolute
champion among metro station names by its incidence.
From 1987 to 1992, 8 metro stations and 1 metrotram
(premetro) station had such a name |
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Novoslobodskaya
/Новослободская |
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Stained-glass
windows of the station were made by Latvian artists.
For the production they used the glass-work, which
was stored at Riga Cathedral and was intended for
churches decoration |
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Kaluzhskaya
/Калужская |
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1.
One of the
two Moscow metro stations, which were originally
located elsewhere. The original station, built in
1964, was terminal and located on the surface.
Following the extension of the line to the south in
1974, it was closed to passengers and converted into
a depot. Instead an underground station at the new
place was built.
Another station
with the same story is
Pervomayskaya |
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2.
The
station named Kaluzhskaya had been opened
three times in Moscow metro, each time in a new
place. The first (present Oktyabrskaya of
Line 5) was opened in 1950 and was renamed in 1961.
The second was opened in 1964 (see previous fact)
and closed in 1974. After that the third in a row
Kaluzhskaya station was opened, and this one
holds the name up to date |
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Turgenevskaya
/Тургеневская |
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On the
Kitay-Gorod - Turgenevskaya section, Line
6 runs over the Line 3 in a tunnel. No station was
built in this place. This is the first line crossing
in the Moscow metro without a transfer. It appeared
in 1971.
Since then, there
have been five more such crossing |
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Kitay-gorod
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At the station
there is a cross-platform transfer, which had been
first in Moscow metro. In order not to mix up the
two stations, the nicknames for each of them were
invented: "Crystal" and "Harmonica",
deriving from the form of the station’s columns.
In addition to
Kitai-Gorod, five cross-platform transfers are
currently operating in the Moscow metro:
Kashirskaya, Tretyakovskaya,
Kuntsevskaya, Park Pobedy and
Petrovsko-Razumovskaya |
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Prospekt Mira
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The ground
entrance hall on the station is integrated into the building
of Moscow metro administration. Here the Moscow
metro management works. Thus, the station can be
called “the capital of Moscow metro” |
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Alekseevskaya
/Алексеевская |
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From 1958 to 1966 the station had the shortest name
in the history of Moscow metro: Mir (3
letters) |
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V.D.N.Ha.
/ВДНХ |
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1.
The only name
among Moscow metro stations names, in which the
letters are set in alphabetical order (Russian
alphabet) |
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2.
The original name
of the station (V.S.Ha.V.) was the most
short-lived in the history of Moscow metro. It had
been used only for a year and a half |
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Medvedkovo
/Медведково |
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At the tunnel
between Babushkinskaya and Medvedkovo
stations there is a covered bridge over Yauza river.
From inside, it does not differ from the tunnel and
therefore stays imperceptible to passengers. From
outside the metro bridge is visible enough, there is
a walking pass on its top. It is located near the
junction of Grekova street and Shokalskogo passway.
The other covered metro bridges (there are some more
of them in Moscow, see
Map of the depths of Moscow
metro) are over smaller rivers and are
imperceptible even for people passing by |
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Planernaya
/Планерная |
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Currently, the
station name sounds like Planernaya.
However, from its opening in 1975 and until 1990 the
name of the station was pronounced like Planyornaya
in the voice announcements in the trains arriving at
the station |
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Polezhaevskaya
/Полежаевская |
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1.
The
station is equipped with two platforms, one of which
has not been used for a long time. The second platform was built for the
branch leading to Serebryaniy Bor district, but the
project of the branch construction was not
implemented due to the passenger traffic, which was
huge at the line.
It began to be
used after the reconstruction of the station and the
construction of a transfer to the Line 11. Now the
second platform is used by passengers of the
trains, coming from Oktyabrskoe pole
station. This was done to separate passenger traffic
on a narrow (8 meters) platform.
The station also
has an additional third track, but it is still not
used.
The situation is
similar with the two platforms at the station
Partizanskaya |
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2.
The name
to the station Polezhaevskaya had been
given immediately after the death of the outstanding
subway constructor Vassiliy Polezhaev. Besides him
such an honor was awarded only to Kalinin and Kirov,
who are no more presented in the names of Moscow
metro stations. Without this death the station would
be called Khoroshyovskaya with it name
coming from the name of the nearby high road |
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Kitay-gorod
/Китай-город |
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At the station
there is a cross-platform transfer, which had been
first in Moscow metro. In order not to mix up the
two stations, the nicknames for each of them were
invented: "Crystal" and "Harmonica",
deriving from the form of the station’s columns |
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Tekstilschiki
/Текстильщики |
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The station was
the only in Moscow metro, where the wall navigation
plates were made in unique design, harmonized with
the overall decoration of platform walls. Remaining
plates were dismantled after the line extension till
Zhulebino station in 2013. It postulated a
necessity to add the names of two new stations to
the platform wall navigation. And in order to unify
the navigation design, all the old plates were
replaced with standard ones |
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Vikhino
/Выхино |
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1.
The most loaded
station of Moscow metro. There is a so-called
"effect Vykhino": trains
arriving at the station at rush hour are filled up
to the extent that at all the next stations, until
junction with Line 5, new passengers cannot fit into
the train at all |
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2.
Two side
platforms of Vykhino station do not
intercommunicate. Therefore, if one, for example,
missed station of one’s destination and arrived to
Vykhino, one will either have to go out and
re-enter through ticket barriers (thus, paying once
more) or to go even further – till the next station,
where it will be possible to change the train
without re-entering the station |
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3.
The only station of Moscow metro, where there is no
written name of the station at the station itself.
Inexperienced passengers have to ask someone in
order to find out at what station they are right now |
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Kotelniki
/Котельники |
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1.
The station
is located on the border of three cities: Moscow,
Kotelniki and Lyubertsy. There is a separate way out
from the station for each city |
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2.
Moscow metro
lost and found office is located at the station. All
items found in trains, at passages and platforms are
brought here. In order to inquire forgotten things,
one can call +7 495 622-20-85. Till 2015, the lost
and found office was located at Universitet
station, before 1967 – at Komsomolskaya
station |
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Ploschad
Ilyicha
/Площадь
Ильича,
literally:
Ilyich
square |
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The station
retains its original name Ilyich square,
despite the fact that the square in 1994 was renamed
the Rogozhskaya Zastava square |
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Park
Pobedy
/Парк
Победы |
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1.
The deepest
station in Moscow metro (73 meters) with the longest
escalators (126 meters). The air pressure difference
between the upper and the lower steps of the
escalator is 6 mm Hg.
According to many
sources, the depth of the station is 84 meters,
which is incorrect |
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2.
One of the
inscriptions featuring the name of the station on
its wall differs from others for some reason: near
the last car of the train going to the Minskaya
station, there is one inscription on an orange
background, while the others are placed on a white
background. |
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Lomonosovsky prospekt
/Ломоносовский
проспект,
literally:
Lomonosov avenue |
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The station named
after the Russian scientist Mikhail Lomonosov is,
however, decorated with the results of work of
another scientist - an Italian, Fibonacci. The
ranges of figures used for the station decoration
are the fragments of Fibonacci sequence: 1, 1, 2, 3,
5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ... |
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Michurinsky prospekt
/Мичуринский
проспект |
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1.
The
station was built under a hill slope along the
avenue. Because of this, the eastern station wall is
located below the ground level, and the western is
located above. The architects used this fact to
decorate the station more spicily, making the
western station wall transparent |
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2.
The caption on
the outer wall of the station's ground entrance hall
is the biggest in the Moscow metro. At the height of
the second floor there is an caption "Michurinsky
prospekt", made in three-meter letters. This caption
is not visible from the station platform, so it is
intended only for pedestrians on the street and for
drivers passing through cars |
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Ozyornaya
/Озёрная |
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Even two months
before the opening, the station had a completely
different name: Ochakovo. It was with this
name that the caption on the platform walls were
produced of metal and fixed. But during the station
technical setting in operation, the ceremony of its
renaming took place. On top of the inscription "Ochakovo"
temporary signs were installed, and then, hastened,
new caption were produced of metal.
A similar story
happened before the opening of the
Narodnoe Opolchenie
station |
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Solntsevo
/Солнцево |
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1.
On the platform
walls there are the largest painted letters that
make up the name of Moscow metro station. The height
of the letters is about two and a half meters. Due
to their large size, it is not convenient to read
the caption. So they rather make part of the
station’s decoration than of its navigation.
The smallest
caption on the platform walls is at the
Mayakovskaya
station. The height of the letters on it is only 9
centimeters, that is, 27 times less |
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2.
It is one of the
two stations (the second is
Pechatniki),
through which new metro cars arrive to the metro.
Near the station there is a special track (gateway),
connecting metro tracks with railway tracks. The
gateway is next to
"Novoperedelkino" railway station, an offshoot of the
Kievskoe
direction |
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Rasskazovka
/Рассказовка |
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In the square
near the station there is a monument to
metro-builders. The main element of the monument was
a tunnel boring shield. It was this shield that
excavate the tunnels to the station. |
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Bibirevo
/Бибирево |
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The first station
of Moscow metro, opened after the collapse of the
USSR. The opening ceremony took place in 1992. The
preceding station (Otradnoe) was opened a
year and a half before, during the Soviet era |
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Timiryazevskaya
/Тимирязевская |
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The only
single-vault deep station of Moscow metro |
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Mendeleevskaya
/Менделеевская |
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The monument
called "Sympathy" was installed in ground entrance
hall of the
station in 2007. It is dedicated to the humane
treatment of stray animals |
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Chekhovskaya
/Чеховская |
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The exit to the
city from Chekhovskaya station is the most
multistage in the Moscow metro. In order to
get from the platform to the street one will have to
pass by three escalators and three stairs |
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Serpukhovskaya
/Серпуховская |
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One of the two
Moscow metro stations, whose name is written on the
platform wall with a capital letter. The second
station is
Universitet |
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Sevastopolskaya
/Севастопольская |
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The passage
between Sevastopolskaya and Kakhovskaya
stations is the shortest in Moscow metro. Not taking
into account, of course, cross-platform transplants,
which allow to make transition between lines without
leaving the platform |
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Prazhskaya
/Пражская |
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The most
quiet Moscow metro station, thanks to a special type
of ceramic tiles, which the track wall of the
stations are faced with. The tile contains numerous
air pores absorbing noise |
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2.
The station
with the darkest design in Moscow metro. The track
walls are faced with brown tiles and the ceiling
above the track is painted in black |
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Ulitsa akademika Yangelya
/Улица
академика Янгеля |
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The only
station of Moscow metro, illuminated in orange light |
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Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo
/Бульвар
Дмитрия Донского |
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1.
The first Moscow
metro station, built outside Moscow Ring Road. The
opening of the station took place in 2002 |
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2.
In the passage
between Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo and
Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya stations for a long
time there were ticket barriers, since it was
assumed that the transit by Line 12 will be charged
separately (the line was considered as a separate
type of transport – light metro). But this solution
has not entered into force. Line became the twelfth
metro line, and the ticket barriers did not started
to be used |
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3.
The names of
Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo and Bulvar Admirala
Ushakova stations are the longest in Moscow
metro (22 Russian letters) |
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Pechatniki
/Печатники |
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It is one of the
two stations (the second is
Solntsevo),
through which new metro cars arrive to the metro.
Near the station there is a special track (gateway),
connecting metro tracks with railway tracks. The
gateway is next to
"Yuzhnyi port" railway station, an offshoot of the Kurskoe
direction |
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Rimskaya
/Римская |
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The only Moscow
metro station which is decorated with a fountain |
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Dostoevskaya
/Достоевская |
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The station has
the most “tragic” design. The station columns depict
the scenes of violence from novels by Fyodor
Dostoevsky: the murder of an old woman and the
suicide of Svidrigailov from "Crime and Punishment",
the murder of Nastasia Filippovna from "The Idiot",
the murder of Shatov and Stavrogin's suicide from
"Demons" |
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Kashirskaya
/Каширская |
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The platform wall of
Kashirskaya station is decorated with the
image of another station of Moscow metro –
Mayakovskaya |
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Kakhovskaya
/Каховская |
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The passage
between Sevastopolskaya and Kakhovskaya
stations is the shortest in Moscow metro. Not taking
into account, of course, cross-platform transplants,
which allow to make transition between lines without
leaving the platform |
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Savyolovskaya
/Савёловская |
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Feature of the
station is uncoated platform walls. They have only
construction tubing that holds the tunnel walls |
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Narodnoe
Opolchenie
/Народное Ополчение |
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1.
Even five days
before the opening, the station had a completely
different name: Karamyshevskaya. It was with this
name that the caption on the platform walls were
produced of metal and fixed, the names of bus stops
were signed and branded tickets were printed. On top of the inscription "Karamyshevskaya"
temporary signs were installed, and then, hastened,
new caption were produced of metal.
A similar story
happened before the opening of the
Ozyornaya
station |
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2.
The station was named after the street. However,
despite the long-term tradition of naming Moscow
metro stations, the word "Street" is missing from
the station name. This makes the name seem strange
for Russian speakers |
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Bitsevsky park
/Битцевский
парк |
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The railroad
switch at Bitsevskiy park station, by means
of which trains make a turnover, is located not in
the tunnel, but at the station itself. In front of
it there is a traffic light, so that all curious
could observe the switching of points |
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Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya
/Улица
Старокачаловская |
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В In the
passage between Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo and
Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya stations for a long
time there were ticket barriers, since it was
assumed that the transit by Line 12 will be charged
separately (the line was considered as a separate
type of transport – light metro). But this solution
has not entered into force. Line became the twelfth
metro line, and the ticket barriers did not started
to be used |
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Bulvar Admirala Ushakova
/Бульвар
адмирала Ушакова |
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The names of
Bulvar Admirala Ushakova and Bulvar Dmitriya
Donskogo stations are the longest in Moscow
metro (22 Russian letters) |
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Buninskaya alleya
/Бунинская
аллея |
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The farthest
station of the Moscow metro. It is 25 km or 17 stops
from the city centre |
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Nizhegorodskaya
/Нижегородская |
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There is a
transfer at the station between two circular lines:
14 and 15. This fact was the reason for placing the
sculpture "Moscow rings" near the station |
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Ulitsa
Dmitrievskogo
/Улица
Дмитриевского |
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Boris Dmitrievsky
was born in 1922, the last of all historical figures
who are in the names of Moscow metro stations |
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Nekrasovka
/Некрасовка |
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The subway, which
is nearest to Moscow (not taking into account Moscow
metro) is Nizhny Novgorod subway. There are 375 km
between Nekrasovka station located in
Moscow and Park kultury station located in
Nizhny Novgorod. This is only slightly more than the
total length of Moscow metro lines |
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FACTS ARE AS OF
June 2019 |
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