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Circular station vestibules in Russia
Russian metro stations are best known for the ornate design at platform level, but the entrance vestibules back at ground level can also be quite amazing. This is the original entrance to Park Kultury station, opened along with the first […]
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Tagged architecture, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, railway stations, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Metro
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Interchange stations on Soviet metro systems
Interchange stations on Soviet designed metro systems are a little odd for anyone accustomed to urban rail networks elsewhere in the world – the platforms for each line are treated as their own station, with their own street entrance, and […]
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Tagged Kiev, Kiev Metro, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Metro, Ukraine
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Building blocks of a Soviet metro station
In cities of the former Soviet Union such as Moscow, Saint Petersburg and Kiev, you will find an metro networks filled with ornately decorated underground stations, none of which look the same. But if you look a little deeper at the strcture of each, you will find that each of these stations actually have a common set of building blocks that they all follow.
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Tagged escalators, Kiev Metro, metros, Moscow Metro, rail operations, Russia, Saint Petersburg Metro, underground
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Escalator attendants of the former Soviet Union
Across the former Soviet Union there are many metro stations found deep below ground, with incredibly long flights of escalators linking them to the surface. That in itself is not unusual, but there is one feature of them which is – escalator attendants.
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Tagged Kiev Metro, metros, Moscow, Moscow Metro, Russia, Saint Petersburg Metro
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