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Prospekt Vernadskogo (Russian: Проспе́кт Верна́дского, English: Vernadsky Avenue pronunciation ⓘ) is a Moscow Metro station in the Prospekt Vernadskogo District, Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Sokolnicheskaya line, between Yugo-Zapadnaya and Universitet stations. Built in 1963, it conforms to the ...
The city's name is thought to be derived from the Moskva River. [24] [25] Theories of the origin of the name of the river have been proposed.The most linguistically well-grounded and widely accepted is from the Proto-Balto-Slavic root *mŭzg-/muzg- from the Proto-Indo-European * meu - "wet", [25] [26] [27] so the name Moskva might signify a river at a wetland or marsh. [24]
Arbatskaya (Russian: Арба́тская) is a station on the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro.Along with Smolenskaya and Kievskaya, it was built in 1953 to replace an older, parallel section of track which has since become part of the Filyovskaya line.
On the Metro, in the tunnels near the station at Park Kultury, built in 1935, is starting to structurally fail.One tunnel night crawler, Sergeitch (Sergey Sosnowski), sees water leaking into the tunnel where it runs underneath the Moscow River and informs the assistant station master (Michael Fateev), who mocks the old man for worrying about it, saying it is only groundwater.
Ulitsa 1905 Goda (Russian: Улица 1905 года, romanized: Ulitsa tysyacha devyat'sot pyatogo goda pronunciation ⓘ) is a Moscow Metro station in the Presnensky District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. It is on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line, between Begovaya and Barrikadnaya stations. The station was opened on 30 ...
Smolenskaya (Russian: Смоленская) is a station on the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro. It was built in 1953 to replace an older station of the same name, though that one was later reopened as part of the Filyovskaya line. The two stations are not connected.
Kiyevskaya (Russian: Киевская), named for the nearby Kiyevsky railway station, is a station on the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro.Opened in 1953, it is lavishly decorated in the quasi-baroque style that predominated in the early 1950s.
In Moscow, the name Red Square originally described the small area between St. Basil's Cathedral, the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin, and the Lobnoye Mesto herald's platform. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich officially extended the name to encompass the entire square, which had previously been called Pozhar , or "burnt-out place", reflecting that ...