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Upon its opening, Maryina Roshcha will become the second-deepest station in the Moscow Metro, after Park Pobedy. [5] At a depth of 72 m (236 ft) underground, Maryina Roshcha has four 130 m (430 ft) escalators, the longest escalators in Moscow. [5] [1] [6] [7] [b]
It also contains the longest escalators in Europe, each one is 126 metres (413 ft) long and has 740 steps. The escalator ride to the surface takes approximately three minutes. The two platforms, the work of architects Nataliya Shurygina and Nikolay Shumakov, are of identical design but have opposite colour schemes.
Today, the Moscow Metro contains fifteen lines, mostly underground with a total of 271 stations. The Metro is one of the deepest subway systems in the world; for instance the Park Pobedy station, completed in 2003, is at 84 metres (276 ft) underground, Maryina Roscha station has the longest escalators in Europe (lifting height - 64.5 m (211.6 ...
The theory of the world’s “longest rail ride” originated when the Laos-China railway opened for business, linking Kunming and Vientiane – a missing link in the rails between Europe and ...
The Bolshaya Koltsevaya line (Russian: Большая кольцевая линия) (English: Big Circle Line [3]) (Line 11 [4]) is a rapid transit line of the Moscow Metro. It is the third circle line on the system, running outside of the existing circle Koltsevaya line and interlocking with the Moscow Central Circle .
The Metro is one of the deepest subway systems in the world; for instance, the Park Pobedy station, completed in 2003, at 84 metres (276 ft) underground, has the longest escalators in Europe. The Moscow Metro is the busiest metro system in Europe, as well as one of the world's busiest metro systems, serving about ten million passengers daily ...
A terrifying escalator accident caught on camera at Repubblica metro station in Rome, Italy, left nearly two dozen people injured on Tuesday, Reuters reports.. The majority of those involved are ...
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 .