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Over the more than 80 years of work, the Moscow Metropolitan has created a vast array of myths and legends. We separated the surprising facts from the history of the metropolitan subterranean from the fiction and found out whether the mausoleum really had to be under the station and whether it was true that the prototype regulator from the Revolution danced with Elizabeth II...
Tramp lobby
The Moscow subway could be built even before the Revolution, since the first draft of the underground line of the railway public transport was proposed for consideration by the City Duma in 1902. His engineers in Balinsky and Knorra, they thought the line was supposed to extend from Zamskvortek to the Twerp.
However, he was dismissed with a rather derogatory resolution: " The Lords of Knorra and the Balinsky to deny them ... " . Turns out lobbyists were responsible for supporting the city's injuries. Tramway then made a significant portion of the profits to the casket, so the city's public thoughts criticized the project and turned it into underdeveloped.
Mausolem station
However, the idea of underground transport was too good to give up on it so easily. They returned to her after the change of power in the country.
By 1925, the first project of the Moscow Metropolitan, commissioned by the German company Siemens Bauunion Gmbh, was prepared. However, 80 kilometres of tunnels and 86 stations remained on paper, no money was found for implementation.
At the same time, a national project on the metro line has been established, which has been preparing for seven years a special unit established under the Moscow City Railway. It was in the end that it was approved in 1930.
Almost all the stations designed by the developers have been built and are now receiving passengers. Unless the platform under Mausolem in Red Square was decided to give up.
During the opening of the new line of the table subway. Photo: TASS
Golden escalator
The construction of the capital subway began at the end of November 1931. The first site opened in the courtyard of Rusakowski Street No. 13, near Sollnikov. The opening of a single station was planned for the next anniversary of the Revolution in 1934.
However, the deadlines had been broken, and there were no escalators. The problem was that there were only two firms in the world that were released, and the Metrostay acquired only one escalator for 200,000 gold rubles to replicate and extend the stairs. By the way, the longest escalator in the Moscow subway has been installed at the deepest Park Victory station, located 84 metres underground.
