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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.
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]
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 ft), length - 130 m (426.5 ft
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 .
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 ...
The escalators of the station caused a significant disaster on the Moscow Metro on February 17, 1982, that killed at least eight people. [2]As evening rush-hour approached, escalator #4 was turned on at 16:30 Moscow time.
Some of longest and fastest escalators in Europe are found in Prague, and are set to be replaced with slower versions in order to meet modern safety standards. [44] One of longest and fastest Soviet-era escalators in Europe, within Náměstí Míru station in Prague
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