Metro highlights of the Moscow Metro

Each metro station in Moscow has its own unique architectural style. Marble and various ores from more than 20 different origins, including the Ural Mountains, Altai, Central Asia, Caucasus and Ukraine, cover the station hall. Exquisite marble art statues, reliefs, elegant chandeliers, glass mosaics and mosaics on the top of the platform represent the builder's exquisite skills, making the station feel like an art museum.

In addition to the ceiling lights, the subway carriages are also designed with local light sources that are convenient for reading and reading newspapers, and an electronic display screen for station registration is installed at the door of the carriage. In addition to being built according to national characteristics, subway stations are also built with celebrities, historical deeds, and political events as themes.

Each subway station is built with themes of national characteristics, celebrities, historical deeds, and political events. The most prominent one is the subway station with the theme of patriotism. These subway stations, such as Revolution Square Station, have sculptures themed after the victory of the October Revolution and the Soviet Red Army's anti-fascist war. The vivid faces of the Soviet Red Army charging into battle and the sentries standing guard have long been fixed in the passionate historical era. There is the *** Youth League Station, a must-visit for tourists, which is as splendid as a tsar's palace. There are also some with the theme of famous writers, accompanied by sculptures of various figures and relief pictures of historical themes. Under the bright lights, they not only display the historical pictures, but also look magnificent, allowing people to enjoy both art and artistic enjoyment. , and obtained spiritual lessons from it.

In addition, many subway stations are also named after great Russian writers, such as "Pushkin", "Chekhov", "Turgenev", etc. The most famous among them is the "Mayakovsky" station. The "Mayakovsky" station commemorates the Soviet revolutionary poet Mayakovsky. There is a portrait of the poet standing at the entrance of the subway, with a penetrating gaze. "Mayakovsky" station is famous not only because of the poet, but also because of the architectural features of the station. The architectural style of this subway station was classified as "Stalinist neoclassicism" at the time. The avant-garde design concept incorporated traditional decorative elements, giving it a poetic and romantic feeling. Each marble arch on either side of the hall is lined with stainless steel. Lights are arranged in a circle and embedded in the dome. The red marble "channel" in the center of the floor is like a red carpet, as if welcoming every passenger. The most attractive part of a subway station is the ceiling: don’t think it’s just as simple as lights arranged in a circle. In fact, there is scenery inside each circle. There are 31 mosaic murals by the famous Soviet painter Deineka. The design won the grand prize at the New York International Exhibition in 1938, making the "Mayakovsky" station a world-class subway station.

Generally speaking, the Moscow Metro retains a strong flavor of the Stalin era. It can be seen from the names of some subway stations, such as October Square, Marxist, Red Guards, Lenin Street, Communist Youth League members, etc. Moreover, at Kursk Station in the center of Moscow, you can still see slogans from the former Soviet Union, "Stalin taught us to be loyal to the country and inspired us to work hard for a great cause!"

Moscow *** Youth The Tuanshan Metro Station is the most famous on the Cortesevaya metro line and the entire Moscow subway system. It is also a symbol of Moscow, partly because it is located in Moscow's busiest transportation hub - *** Youth League Square. This metro station is a hub to Moscow and other parts of Russia. Its design theme is to display patriotic history and inspire people to yearn for Russia's future. The Moscow Youth League Metro Station opened on January 30, 1952 and is part of the second level of the Ring Line.

A subway station comparable to a palace

The murals at Kiev Station are naturally mainly about Ukrainian scenery and life scenes. The sturdy Cossacks on the Don River, the beautiful Ukrainian girls dancing with ethnic customs, and the charming scenery of Crimea and the Black Sea, each one attracts people's attention. These all reflect the life, customs and traditions of the Ukrainian nation, which are vivid and distinct.

Ukrainian genre paintings at Kiev station

Patriotism is also the theme of subway murals. Major historical events in Russia and the Soviet Union, such as the resistance against Napoleon's invasion in 1812, the outbreak of the October Revolution, etc., some have the anti-fascist war as the theme, reflecting the spectacular scenes of the heroic fighting of the Soviet people. The maximum slope of the line is 40‰, the minimum curve radius is 300 meters, and the track gauge is 1524 mm.

The early section tunnels were shallow-buried and constructed with open-cut double-line rectangular sections, 7.6 meters wide and 3.9 meters high above the rail surface. Most of the interval tunnels built in the future are two single-line circular tunnels constructed with deep burial and shield method, with an inner diameter of 5.46 meters.

Most of the stations are buried deep, such as Dinamo Station, which is 40 meters deep. The cross-section of the deeply buried station tunnel adopts several forms such as single arch, three-arch column and three-arch tower column, and is equipped with an island platform. The platform width is generally 10 to 14 meters (shallow stations are generally 8 to 10 meters), the height from the platform surface to the suspended ceiling is 4 meters, and the platform length is generally more than 150 meters. Deeply buried stations are all equipped with escalators, and there are a total of 82 escalators at each station on the circular line. The average station spacing is 1.84 kilometers. The trains are powered by the third rail, which is 825 volts DC. On November 5, 2014, the Moscow Metro opened a virtual library of Russian classic literature. Moscow Metro stations provide passengers with more than 100 classic literary works for free. Passengers only need to scan the code with a smartphone or tablet to browse the library's virtual bookshelf.

Every year, the Moscow Metro has 2.49 billion passengers, and classic literary works will be available for free download for these passengers, including novels by Russian literary giants Pushkin, Tolstoy and Chekhov. In addition, Moscow has launched similar projects on buses, trams and trolleybuses. In November 2014, the project was only put into trial operation in 195 Moscow metro stations. By the end of 2014, all Moscow metro carriages will also have free Wi-Fi.