Amazing Moscow Metro Station

During our visit to Moscow, the tour brought us to explore Moscow Metro station. There were 30 of us including the local guide and tour leader. They kept saying that we had to be careful with our stuffs (be careful with pickpockets) and we must be together in one group. The train door only opened a very short time, so we had to hurry to enter the train. Waiting for the local guide bought the tickets, it's decorated by some golden colour carving on the pillar. One ticket could be used by all of us, but we had to wait for our turn one by one passing the electronic gate.


We headed directly to the very long escalator to go downstairs. Standing must be on the right side, unless the hasty people would hit you. Entered "Prospekt Mira" Metro Station, we're stunned by different decoration style from the common metro station. The overall station was made from light coloured marble. Some marble benches attached to the wall available for people to wait for the train. The pillar decorated with flared white marble, ceramic bas-relief frieze (sculptor G.Motovilov) made of floral elements and a golden medallion at the center described agriculture development added the beauty of the environment. The chessboard floor pattern's made of grey and black granite. The ceiling vault is decorated with casts, and lighting comes from several cylindrical chandeliers.


The track walls decorated with dark red marble, a golden iron sculpture on the track wall displayed "1951" when the station was built. The local guide gave us chance to take pictures and enjoyed the environment by letting some trains passed by. The station was quite crowded, so we had to be patient to get the good shoot. After satisfied with pictures, we took the next train, it was quite clean inside, unfortunately we could not read the metro map as it's in Russian language.


We stopped at the next station called "Komsomolskaya". It looked more luxurious, dominated with yellow colour painting on the ceiling. Komsomolskaya was the apogee of Stalin’s Empire style of Moscow underground, designed as entrance of the visitors to give the best first impression of the capital. Designed by Dmitry Chechulin the platform had 68 pillars pinkish limestone and blue-grey marble, while the floor was tiled with grey granite. No sculpture on the pillar, but the imposing Baroque celling, was decorated with eight mosaic panels of smalt and precious stones. Using filling flash in the camera could get better color for the photo. The chandelier here was bigger than the previous station. The theme of the panels represented the Russian fight for freedom and independence throughout history created by Pavel Korin.


The last one we visited was Novoslobodskaya station, it's full of stain glass mosaic such as in church, designed by Alexey Dushkin, opened on 30 January 1952. Each panel was surrounded by an elaborate brass borderand illuminated from within. Both the pylons and the pointed arches between them are faced with pinkish Ural marble and edged with brass molding. Pavel Korin also designed a mosaic with a woman carrying her baby protected by couple doves, entitled "Peace Throughout the World" at the end of the platform. The elegant conical chandeliers fitted up to the overall artistic design of the platform.


If you visited Moscow, definitely you have to see their metro station, it's artistic and made people comfortable to enjoy the environment while waiting for the train.

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