Metro in Moscow

Metro in Moscow

Metro

Сорокина Г.В.

МОУ «СШИ №2»

г. Магнитогорск

The most popular means of transport in Moscow is the metro. It’s very fast.

It takes the people not much time to get to the different parts of the city

  The first line was opened on  May 15, 1935  and the line went from the station “Sokolniki” to the station “Park Kultury”

Interesting facts

• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .
• The average operating  speed of trains  is 41.61 km / h. . 
• The  longest line  is dark blue, Arbat-Pokrovskaya, with the length of 45.1 km.
• The  shortest line  is Kakhovskaya – only 3.3 km long with only 3 stops

Passengers pay for their trip and go through the turnstile

It is always very busy. Seven million people use it every day from 6 am to 1 am

At that moment there are 12 underground lines. The total length is about 325-330 km, and it consists of almost 200 stations

The most of the stations are under the ground, but 9 stations are on the surface of the earth (on the street), and 5 stations are generally located above the ground

(at bridges…)

The deepest underground station in Moscow is Victory Park, witch received its name in honor of the eponymous park.

Its depth is approximately 80 meters, the length of escalators is 126.8 meters

The distance between the stations may have different lengths. For example, the longest is 6.5 km. from Krylatskoye to Strogino, the shortest is only 0.5 km. from International to Business Centre

There are a lot of signs for not to get lost

Moscow metro system is the most beautiful in the world. It looks like a wonderful palace

Kievskaya

Kievskaya

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Taganskaya

Mayakovskaya

Internet resources:

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