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Built as part of the third stage of the Moscow Metro and opened on 15 May 1944 during World War II, the station is one of the iconic symbols of the system, famous for its architectural decoration which is work of architects Vladimir Shchuko (who died whilst working on the station's project in 1939) and Vladimir Gelfreich, along with ...
Route map Sokolnicheskaya line ... Rapid transit: System: Moscow Metro: Operator(s) ... Metro is an 11.6 km extension to the town of Kommunarka on June 20, ...
21 rapid transit lines 14 Moscow Metro lines; 5 MCD lines; 1 Moscow Monorail line; 1 MCC line > 950 bus routes > 950 local routes; 76 electric bus routes; 38 tram routes; 19.800 carsharing vehicles; Annual ridership: 6 billion: Chief executive: Mayor of Moscow: Headquarters: 20, Staraya Basmannaya Street, Moscow: Website: https://transport.mos ...
The Moscow Metro [a] is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union .
Partizanskaya (Russian: Партизанская, IPA: [pərtʲɪˈzanskəjə]), known until 2005 as Izmailovsky Park (Измайловский парк), is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was built during World War II, opened in 1944 and is dedicated to the Soviet partisans who resisted the Nazis. The name ...
Of the Moscow Metro's 236 stations, 80 are deep underground, 114 are shallow, and 42 (25 of them on the Central Circle) are at or above ground level. Of the latter there are 12 ground-level stations, four elevated stations, and one station (Vorobyovy Gory) on a bridge.
German submarine U-629 was sunk in the English Channel by a B-24 of No. 53 Squadron RAF. Japanese destroyer Hayanami became the second ship to be torpedoed and sunk in the Sibutu Passage by USS Harder in as many days. American destroyer Meredith struck a mine in the English Channel and was severely damaged. Salvage efforts would be abandoned on ...
This station is very busy, as one of the biggest Moscow institutes (Moscow State Technical University) is located not far away. The station was closed in 2015 for repairs, maintenance and escalator shaft replacement. The escalators at Baumanskaya were the oldest on the network, having operated non-stop since 1944.