Everything about Moscow Metro totally explained
Moscow Metro, which spans almost the entire
Russian
capital, is the world's
most heavily used metro system.
It is well known for the ornate design of many of its
stations, which contain outstanding examples of
socialist realist art.
Description of the Metro
In total, the Moscow Metro has 292.2 km (181.6 miles) of route length, 12 lines and 176 stations; on a normal weekday it carries over 7 million passengers. Passenger traffic is considerably lower on weekends bringing the average daily passenger traffic during the year to 6.8 million passengers per day. The Moscow Metro is a
state-owned enterprise.
Each line is identified by an alphanumeric index (usually consisting of just a number), a name, and a colour. The voice announcements refer to lines by name, while in colloquial usage they're mostly referred to 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, travellers 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, travellers heading toward the centre of Moscow will hear male-voiced announcements, and travellers heading away will hear female-voiced announcements. In addition, there's an abundance of signs showing all the stations that can be reached in a given direction.
The system was built almost entirely underground, although some lines (numbers 1, 2 and 4) cross the
Moskva River, while line number 1 also crosses the
Yauza River by bridge. Less than 10% of the stations are at or above the surface level. The surface sections of the Metro include the western part of
Filyovskaya Line continuing as
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line between
Kievskaya and
Molodyozhnaya (eight surface stations), and the
Butovskaya Light Metro Line (L1) with 4 elevated stations. The other surface stations are
Vykhino and
Vorobyovy Gory (the latter is unique in the world being built into a lower level of a bridge).
The Moscow Metro is open from about 5:30 until 1:00 (the opening time may vary at different stations according to first train schedule but all stations close for entrance simultaneously at 1:00). During peak hours, trains run roughly every 90 seconds on most lines. At other times during the day, they run about every two to three and a half minutes, and every six to ten minutes late at night. As trains are so frequent, there's no timetable available to passengers.
The lines of the Moscow Metro
The colours in the table correspond to the colours of the lines in the map above.
Metro lines
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