Moscow Metro
 Moscow's Metro system is one of the highlights of the city - a far cry from the grotty tube stations of London or New York, Moscow's is more like a subterranean equivalent of the Louvre Museum. Vast hallways, each themed-up in true propaganda style, make the metro a must-see during your stay. Moreover, it's easily the fastest and safest way to get around town.
Palace-like underground vestibules with their magnificent columns, sparkling chandeliers, splendid mosaic panels, sculptures, stained glass pictures, and luxurious décor leave a long-lasting impression. /one can find elements in classicism and baroque styles as well as ascetic form here. Many stations commemorate significant events in the country life. Each of them is unique and bears an imprint of the time when it was built. Thousands of brilliant painters, sculptors, architects and construction workers contributed their talent and soul to this underground ensemble.
In total, the Moscow Metro has 282.5 km of rail, 12 lines and 173 stations; Moscow Metro is a state-owned enterprise. Each day some 9915 trains operate.
Each line is identified by a number, a name and a colour. The voice announcements refer to lines by name, while in colloquial usage they are mostly referred by colour, except the Lyublinskaya Line (number 10) and the Kakhovskaya Line (number 11) which have been assigned shades of green similar to that of the Zamoskvoretskaya Line (number 2). Most lines run radially through the city, except the Koltsevaya Line (number 5), which is a 20-km-long ring connecting all the radial lines and a few smaller lines outside. On all lines, travelers can determine the direction of the train by the gender of the announcer: on the ring line, a male voice indicates clockwise travel, and a female voice counter-clockwise. On the radial lines, travelers heading toward the centre of Moscow will hear male-voiced announcements, and travelers heading away will hear female-voiced announcements (a good mnemonic rule here is: ‘the boss calls you to work; the wife calls you home’). In addition, there is an abundance of signs showing all the stations that can be reached in a given direction.
The system is almost entirely built underground, although some lines (SL, GZL, FL) cross the Moskva river and SL also crosses the Yauza river by bridge. Other exceptions include the Filyovskaya Line which has a long surface section (seven stations) between the stations Kievskaya and Molodyozhnaya and the Butovskaya Light Metro Line (L1) with 4 elevated stations. Two further surface-level stations exist on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line and on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line.
The Moscow Metro is open from 5:35 until 1:04 (the time may vary at different stations according to first/last train schedule).
Two new stations - "Marina Roscha" and "Dostoevskaya" - of Lublin-Dmitrovskaya line of Moscow metro has opened in June 19, 2010.
Now Metro has 182 stations and more than 300 km of lines.
Both new stations are very beautiful and comfortable.
Station "Marina Roscha" got its name from the eponymous district of Moscow, and the station Dostoevskaya was so named because it is located near the house, the birthplace of the great Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The station Dostoevskaya is made by the artist Ivan Nikolaev in black and white. It is frescoed with illustrations of Dostoevsky's works (including "Crime and Punishment"). The station was placed under Suvorov Square near the Theatre of the Russian army. The platform station has a length of 160 m.
Station "Marina Roscha" is colored and made of lovely mosaic panels by people’s artist of Russia Sergei Goryaev.
Station "Marina Roscha" is one of the so-called deep-laid stations. In the construction of the "Marina Roscha" firstly applied Tunnel complex "Victoria", which is designed to create a sloping escalator tunnel. This Tunnel complex allowed to build escalator slope much faster at lower cost. Previously, such work used to be carried out manually.
In the future, it is considered to build a connection station “Ploschad’ Suvorova” on the existing stretch between “Novoslobodskaya” and “Prospect Mira”.
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