Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast.
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22 Facts About Metro Moscow
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In June 1931, the decision to begin construction of the Moscow Metro was made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
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Indeed, Holden's homage to Metro Moscow has been described as a gesture of gratitude for the USSR's helpful role in The Second World War.
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The latter branch was extended westwards to a new station in March 1937, the first Metro Moscow line crossing the Moskva River over the Smolensky Metro Moscow Bridge.
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The decoration and design characteristic of the Moscow Metro is considered to have reached its zenith in these stations.
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Metro Moscow was iconic because it showcased Socialist Realism in public art.
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Moscow Metro was one of the USSR's most ambitious architectural projects.
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Metro Moscow's team experimented with different materials and methods to optimize the technology.
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Moscow Metro furthered the construction of a socialist Soviet Union because the project accorded with Stalin's second five-year plan.
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The Moscow Metro was necessary to cope with the influx of peasants who migrated to the city during the 1930s; Moscow's population had grown from 2.
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The Metro bolstered Moscow's shaky infrastructure and its communal services, which hitherto were nearly nonexistent.
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Metro Moscow was determined to realise the Moscow Metro, regardless of cost.
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Moscow Metro underground has neither "point A – point B" tariffs nor "zone" tariffs.
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In modern Metro Moscow, turnstiles accept designated plastic cards or disposable-in-design RFID chip cardboard cards.
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On 1 September 1998, the Moscow Metro became the first metro system in Europe to fully implement "contactless" smart cards, known as Transport Cards.
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In January 2007, Moscow Metro began replacing magnetic cards with contactless disposable tickets based on NXP's MIFARE Ultralight technology.
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Since 2015, fare gates at stations accept mobile ticketing via a system which the Metro Moscow calls Mobilny Bilet which requires NFC-handling smartphone .
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Moscow Metro originally announced plans to launch the mobile ticketing service with Mobile TeleSystems in 2010.
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Program of happy hours for Moscow Metro is targeted against "Vykhino Effect", the congestion of Line 7 via Vykhino station on rush hours.
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Moscow Metro is undergoing a major expansion; current plans call for almost 150 kilometres of new lines to be opened between 2012 and 2022.
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Metro Moscow was shot dead by a man carrying a concealed Kalashnikov gun.
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Moscow Metro is the central location and namesake for the Metro series, where during a nuclear war, Moscow's inhabitants are driven down into the Moscow Metro, which has been designed as a fallout shelter, with the various stations being turned into makeshift settlements.
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