METRO, Introduction

Hi, my name’s Jill, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World, the Moscow Metro.

The Moscow Metro is universally considered to be the most beautiful underground railway in the world, so much so that it has become one of the city’s main tourist attractions.

It has been running since 1935, when the first 11-kilometer-long line connecting 13 stations was opened. Today, its routes stretch over 300 kilometers with 200 stations, and it is still expanding.

The Moscow Metro was one of the most extraordinary projects carried out by the Soviet Union, not only as an incredible feat of engineering, but also as a great artistic and architectural achievement. Stalin himself selected artists and architects to design a structure that would emblemize Russia’s "Svetloe budushchee", that is, its bright future....