Even if train travel doesn’t excites you, when it comes to Moscow underground, there’s more to train travel than meets the eye. Apart from being cheap, efficient and fast, the Moscow underground encompasses more than 180 stations spread across 12 conventional lines with 299.3 kilometres (186 miles) of track. Close to most major places of interest in the city of Moscow, it is an easy way to get around town.
The fee for 1 trip is fixed and not dependent on the length of your journey. You can use it as a means of going from point A to point B, or you can make as many line-changes as you need to or want to. The ticket is good until you actually exit the metro system.
Why would you want to visit the various stations? After all isn’t one station pretty well the same as another? In this case absolutely not.
Many of Moscow's metro stations are actually works of art designed and embellished by prominent Russian architects, artists and sculptors.
Each central station has its own unique style. For example one station is decorated with bas-relief sculpture picturing folk dances. Featured on the walls of others are national ornaments and painting. In another one still, there are 76 bronze statues placed in niches in broad columns.
The subject matter of these art works encompass the whole spectrum of human life, from farm workers, to soldiers and sailors, to children and athletes, to national heroes.
In their inception, grand stations were designed like palaces, decorated with stained-glass windows and lighting effects designed to avoid glare. Walls were faced with marble, granite, and other various stones while pillars supported the roofs.
In short, the metro is a veritable museum of Russian history in art form.
The length of the station platforms, which are 150 metres, or 492 ft, accommodates eight cars. With each car designed to seat fifty passengers, and has standing room for 140 persons, a full train can carry 1,500 passengers. On an average day, the metro operates 9,702 trains carrying an average of 53 passengers per car.
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