Amazing Photos Of The Moscow Metro

Foreigners drive in the Moscow metro on trips. That's right: in other countries, it only performs the transport function, and only in the Russian subway for years of existence has become a museum of unusual stuff.

Revolution square ( Arbat-Pokrovskaya ) - In 1938, even went to a joke: "The Soviet people either sitting or kneeling," but Stalin disapproved: "As living." One of the sitters was a cadet naval school Olympia Rudakov, who 15 years later, when he was already captain of the 1st rank, danced a waltz with the Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II on her coronation. He posed for the figure sailor signalman.

Okhotny Ryad ( Sokolnicheskaya ) - The walls of the station hall are lined with light gray marble, but a small section in the region of the first car in the direction of "Boulevard Rokossovskogo" covered with shabby white and yellow tiles. The impression is that the would-be builders of something unfinished or patched. However, the piece of tiling is specially preserved - in the memory of what was the first station of the subway line since it was opened in 1935 and up to 2007.

Dostoevsky ( Lublin-Dmitrov ) - Artist Ivan Nikolaev strives to "meet the depth and tragedy" of the writer, so the station has issued the most dramatic images of scenes from the novel "Crime and Punishment", "The Idiot", "Demons" and "The Brothers Karamazov." On the walls we can count about a dozen deaths.

Mendeleev ( Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya ) - Bronze dog sculpture in the lobby of the station - put money actors and zoozaschitnikov monument wandering dog for boy named. Who lived at the station dog was stabbed mistress Staffordshire Terrier in 2001. Monument "Empathy" is dedicated to all homeless animals.

Marxist ( Kalinin-Solntsevo ) - Hall fixtures are in the form of vertically positioned spiral fluorescent lamps. This design symbolizes one of the principles of dialectical materialism - the progressive movement from lower to higher forms, a spiral development. Marx formulated this principle, rethinking the dialectics of Hegel.

Victory Park ( Arbat-Pokrovskaya ) - Moscow Metro - "Jurassic Park" for paleontologists. Marble used in the design of many plants, rich in fossils of ammonites, belemnite and other prehistoric cephalopods. On the "Victory Park" the largest number of large shells. Some of them reach 50 cm in diameter, although generally the size of the fossils in the underground no more than 10-15 cm.

Kiev ( Ring ) - On the mosaic "The struggle for Soviet power in Ukraine" on one of the columns shows the guerrillas with a mobile phone, PDA or laptop. So joking. In fact, a fighter controlled martial telephone UNA. Heavy pipe soldier holding two hands. In front of him - a box in which the device is mounted. However, the joke is not so absurd: these phones have begun to produce only in 1928, six years after the end of the Civil War.

Pipe ( Lublin-Dmitrov ) - The central hall of the station is decorated with stained glass work of Zurab Tsereteli with images on them are churches and cathedrals Russian cities. In 2007, as soon as the station opened, the passengers noted the strange absence of crosses on the domes and steel-partisan attachments in the right places to the panes of stained glass brass pectoral cross. Metro Guide that does not interfere, so that now Tsereteli's creations can count a dozen "people" crosses.

Dobryninskaya ( Ring ) - On the side mosaic mural in the lobby of the ground shows "Parade of Soviet athletes': athletes from the sports club" Dynamo "are portrait Gagarin. The station was opened on 1 January 1950. Then the future cosmonaut was not and 16 years. Originally, athletes carried a portrait of Stalin, but in times of Khrushchev's Thaw "Great Leader" became active "cast out" of the Moscow Metro. So on the poster in the hands of the demonstrators appeared first astronaut.

Roman ( Lublin-Dmitrov ) - The only station with the existing fountain. The sculpture depicts the end of the station in infants Romulus and Remus, climbing on a fallen column. Water flows through the end wall. With a fountain, not all was smooth: due to the high humidity walls and ceiling were covered with moss first, so the water was turned off periodically. But now the problem was solved, the fountain works.

Petrovsko-Razumovskaya ( Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya ) - Vertical niches wide marble columns decorated with symmetrical Spila rock veins which form a variety of patterns. With the known share of imagination can be seen in the marble image of humanoids.

 

Otradnoye ( Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya ) - Code of the station hall are separated partitions decorated with panels in the style of primitivism. On the scale "web" under the name "1812" depicted the attack grenadiers. If you count the legs, it turns out that six soldiers are only 11. "disabled person" - the third on the left.

Novokuznetskaya ( Zamoskvoretskaya line ) - According to one version, monumental bench in the hall were removed from the first church of Christ the Saviour before the demolition. On the other - made of marble shot with him. This marble, we can say lucky, but most of the memorial plates from 1812, the names of war heroes then allowed to litter to cover the tracks in a Moscow park.

Source - bubr.ru