11 of Moscow’s Most Beautiful Metro Stations

Novoslobodskaya Metro Station

Mayakovskaya Metro station

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Mayakovskaya Metro station

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Elektrozavodskaya Metro Station

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Shosse Entuziastov Station

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Nakhimovsky Prospekt Metro Station

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Park Pobedy Metro Station

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Elektrozavodskaya Metro Station

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Ploshchad Revolyutsii Metro Station

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Park Pobedy Metro Station

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Victory Park Station

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Prospekt Mira Metro Station

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Kievskaya Station

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Komsomolskaya Metro Station

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Komsomolskaya Metro Station

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The city of Moscow opened its Metro service in 1935 with a single 11 km line connecting just thirteen stations, but it has since grown into the world’s fourth busiest transit system, spanning more than 300 kilometers and offering 188 stops along the way. The Moscow Metro was one of the USSR’s most extravagant architectural projects with the intention of building palaces for the people. Built when Stalin was in power, the metro’s artists and architects went about designing stations that were to epitomize the Russian word ‘svet’, meaning radiance & brilliance and ‘svetloe budushchee’ – a radiant future. This project was used an opportunity to showcase the country’s power. With their reflective marble walls, high ceilings and grandiose chandeliers, many of Moscow’s Metro stations are likened to famous European palaces.

via amusingplanet