The Moscow metro is a means of delivery and movement of passengers not only in the Russian capital, but also in the immediate suburbs. It is both underground and aboveground, and also represents the fifth most intensive system of its kind in the world, passing only the metro of Seoul, Beijing, Tokyo and Shanghai. So how many lines and stations are part of the Moscow metro?
Some historical facts
The first station and line of the then Metro named after L.M. Kaganovich were opened May 15, 1935 from Sokolniki to the Park of Culture with a branch to the Smolenskaya station.
Renaming of the subway in the name of V.I. Lenin happened in 1955.
In 2013, the Moscow metro transported 2.49 billion people, and this figure shows a steady increase from 2.433 billion in 2012, 2.388 billion in 2011 and 2.348 billion in 2010.
But quite a lot of time passed before reaching such indicators. For the first time, the idea of the metro in Moscow appeared among the authorities of the then Russian Empire in 1875. According to it, the subway was supposed to connect Kursky Station, Lubyanka and Trubnaya Squares, as well as Maryina Grove. But then the project was postponed.
They returned to the idea of the Moscow metro in Russia in 1902, 1913, 1916 and in 1925. Nevertheless, various problems, including financial ones, constantly impeded its implementation until 1931, when construction finally began.
