The Moscow Metro (Московский метрополитен / Moskovsky metropoliten) opened in 1935. It is perhaps most well known by the monumental designs of its stations. Here is an example, the Kievskaya station, in a postcard I received from Oksana P., from Moscow:
The Moscow Metro has 12 lines, identified by numbers 1 through 11 and “L1″, with the following names and official colours:
- 1 – Sokolnicheskaya / Сокольническая
- 2 – Zamoskvoretskaya / Замоскворецкая
- 3 – Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya / Арбатско-Покровская
- 4 – Filyovskaya / Филёвская
- 5 – Koltsevaya / Кольцевая (“Circle”). Unlike the homonym line in the London Underground, the line is really very close to being a circle (in the geometrical sense) and is schematically pictured as a perfect circle in the map.
- 6 – Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya / Калужско-Рижская
- 7 – Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya / Таганско-Краснопресненская
- 8 – Kalininskaya / Калининская
- 9 – Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya / Серпуховско-Тимирязевская
- 10 – Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya / Люблинско-Дмитровская
- 11 – Kakhovskaya / Каховская
- L1 – Butovskaya / Бутовская. The “L” comes from the fact that it is a Light Metro (not light rail) line.
The Moscow Metro company also runs the 6-stations Moscow Monorail service, which is also shown in the subway map.
This map was sent to me by Olga D., from Moscow, through Postcrossing.
Moscow subway map