Subway Stations in Moscow (Part 2)

Komsomolskaya


Komsomolskaya


Krasnopresnenskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Oktiabrskaya

Park Kultury

Paveletskaya

Ploshad Revoluţia

Prospekt Mira

Semionovskaya

Taganskaya

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Subway Stations in Moscow (Part 1)

The Subway in Moscow deserves a special visit. You will have the opportunity to go thru these images and appreciate Moscow’s Subway Stations’ Architecture...



Work on the Subway started in 1930 – Its length is approx. 256 km (159Miles), actually the subway has 138 stations, and the most beautiful stations are located near the center of the capital.

Baumanskaya


A Special Visit is very impressive to the foreign tourists, who will think they’re in a museum or even a palace with very spacious hallways.

Baumanskaya


One is pleasantly surprised by the marvelous decorations, by the monumental richness of the marble decorations: medalions, columns, mosaics & sculptures that display the Great Events in Russian History



Belorusskaya


For example, in Revolution Square Station, The Bronze statues represent revolutionaries in 1917 "Red Octomber", in Komsomolskïa Station - Kutuzov maybe seen, who beat Napoleon, in Kievskaïa Station , Peter The Great at the Battle of Poltava, in Teatranlaïa Station there are ballerinas in national costumes and columns of flowers.


Belorusskaya


Durind World War II, The Moscow Subways, due to its depth, offered shelter for thousands of mosowites during the Aerial bombings.

Dobrininskaya


Each year the Subway Lines get longer and get deeper into the far away suburbs where new subway stations are built , where the architecture is sober.

Dynamo


Subway in Moscow houses 9 lines which are color coded on large signs helping passengers to go where they need to.

Electrozavodskaya


Subway hours are between 5:30 a.m. - 1:30a.m. trains come at 1 minute intervals, sometimes even less especially during the evening hours.

Kievskaya

Kievskaya

Kievskaya

Komsomolskaya

Komsomolskaya

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Unusual Underground in Eastern Europe

Lebedyan town in Lipetsk region is known for the greatest juice producing plant in Eastern Europe, but very few people know that the most unique and weird underground station in the world is located there as well. It was constructed just 2 meters beneath the surface of the earth. The works began in 1984, and 166 people were eager to start as soon as possible, but when they learnt that the money would come only when the construction paid for itself, they all backtracked in a second. So, the whole project was to be implemented by the one who brought it up, Leonid Muliarchik.

A self-made concrete mixer for making mortar. The site is wired for electricity (for work - 12 volts and for common purposes – 220 volts). This underground has all required papers and licenses, and except for the transport function Muliarchik is going to lay on water supply and drains for the residents of the area.


Now we are heading to the main tunnel, the arch design can carry the load of 60-ton lorry doing over it outside (that’s according to the local expert report). The height of the main tunnel is nearly 150 cm.


Here is a hole in the wall in case the owners of the neighboring house would need to have a metro of their own, leading right into their dwelling.


On the average, Leonid spends one day one constructing one meter of the tunnel and three days more on concreting the walls and the ceiling. The project is financially supported by Leonid, who spends most of his retired pay on purchasing the building materials.


The concept is that when the tunnel is ready, there will be several small all-automated cars, which are meant to carry three or four people at a time. It’ll be like you push a button, and get to the other side of the tunnel (or to the station you want to get to).

We walk along the main tunnel, 100 meters are behind and now we turn left, to the first technical tunnel. Here we see a pumping facility, which gets water from a well 70 meters far from the spot. There is also a little boiler room a few meters from that place. This boiling room can heat only four houses, but the builder left some space on the right for a big boiler installation able to heat up to 20 houses.

These stairs lead from Leonid’s house to the underground.

This is the first tunnel dug by the builder. The first tunnel in the project. The ceiling here is very low, just a meter high or so.

Let’s get back to the main entrance in the parallel tunnel. Its walls and ceiling are plastered as required according to the fire safety standards. Leonid has a nice idea: he wants to rent it out for clubbing – some fantastic, psychedelic parties underground would help him make some money for the construction to be carried on. It has all things needed – space to make girls’ and boys’ rest-rooms and a bar.

Leonid plans to have everything ready in a few years and make it useful for local people. Maybe, the place will also attract bunches of tourists, and at last this project will turn to be a paying concern. As for now it just takes the money, and gives back nothing but trouble. Still, Leonid likes it.




Photo Credit: http://victorprofessor.livejournal.com/106201.html#cutid1

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A Giant Sinkhole

A giant hole has appeared right in the middle of Russian town Berezniki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berezniki). It’s hard to say what caused it to happen but it’s a great luck that there were no cars or people on the road which got underground.

For more information on this Giant Sinkhole and further reading, please refer to:

http://www.ifdc.org/focusonfertlizer6.html

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