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Metro News
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A Komsomolskaya circle line metro station escalator injured 10 people on Sunday. Two of them, including a 15-year-old Omsk resident, had to be hospitalized.
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04/16/2012 |
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Vimpelcom, a major Russian mobile operator, announced it will deploy the NFC-based contactless payment system it implemented in St. Petersburg last year within the Moscow subway. Widespread commercial launch in Moscow is scheduled for the end of the year.
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04/09/2012 |
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The Moscow metro systems green line will need to be shut down in order to install sound insulation for the Bolshoi Theater, Moskovsky Komsomolets reported on Tuesday...
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10/18/2011 |
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A police unit in charge of patrolling Moscow’s metro has been seriously reprimanded after failing to spot a hoax bomb...
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10/04/2011 |
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More trains will be operating in the Moscow Metro during rush hour...
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10/04/2011 |
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Krasnye Vorota station service is suspended from September 26 till December 23, 2011 due to escalators overhaul.
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09/22/2011 |
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New metro stations are to open in eastern, south-eastern and southern districts of the capital, where both under- and over-ground transport routes are currently seriously overloaded...
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09/16/2011 |
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A unique exhibition of puppets dedicated to the 80-th anniversary of the Sergey Obraztsov State Academic Central Puppet Theater and 110-th anniversary of its founder Sergey Obraztsov is now on public display at Vorob’evy Gory station. The exhibition organized jointly by Moscow Metro and the Obraztsov Puppet Theater was opened on September 10, 2011...
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09/14/2011 |
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Moscow metro continues to explore innovative fare payment technologies and offers its passengers new ticketing solutions such as mobile phone and bank card payment systems...
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09/14/2011 |
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Holders of Muscovite’s social smart cards get access to Komsomolskaya station (Circle line) vestibule
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09/14/2011 |
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An explosion believed to have been caused by a bomb ripped through a subway station next to the office of Belarus’s authoritarian president on Monday evening, killing at least 12 people, wounding more than 100 and worsening an already tense political situation there.
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04/12/2011 |
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Additional three billion roubles will be allocated in 2011 to finance the development of the Moscow metro system...
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04/12/2011 |
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The investigation has identified all of the actual perpetrators and masterminds of terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro underground rail service that were staged a year ago at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations...
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04/05/2011 |
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Dmitry Gayev, the former head of the Moscow subway, became a suspect in the criminal case under Article 201 of the Criminal Code (abuse of authority), which provides up to 4 years imprisonment as a penalty...
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03/28/2011 |
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It is planned to build about 18 kilometres of underground tunnels and 19 stations...
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03/18/2011 |
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Starting from March 15, 2011, the frequency of trains running on the Sokolnicheskaya line from 6:00 till 10:00 and from 16:00 till 19:00 will increase by 15%.
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03/16/2011 |
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Plans to create a second circle line for Moscow's Metro are a step closer to becoming a reality, as work on the first leg of the new line has begun.
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03/14/2011 |
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The Moscow metro is planning to begin trials of a state-of-the-art security system.
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03/14/2011 |
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Moscow ladies have no chance to evade congratulations on Women’s Day this year, as compliments and words of love are to be heard even on Moscow’s underground...
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03/08/2011 |
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Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin has instructed Moscow metro managers to replace the whole old ventilation system in the Moscow metro within three years...
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03/08/2011 |
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Moscow Metropolitan had issued an instruction what to do if you felt down on metro tracks...
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03/06/2011 |
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Passengers of Moscow Metro (underground) will have a possiblity to gain information about overloaded lines and stations. It should be like traffic information congestion problems in the streets...
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03/04/2011 |
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It is planned to build 124 kilometers of metro lines before the year 2020, Shumakov said. In his words, the city metro needs the track five times longer than the current one to work normally...
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03/01/2011 |
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North exit of Medvedkovo station is out of service from February 28 till November 30, 2011 due to escalators overhaul.
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02/28/2011 |
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All new Moscow metro stations will have elevators for passengers with limited mobility and transparent safety barriers along the platforms, said Nikolai Shumakov, chief architect of the Metrogiprotrans design institute...
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02/15/2011 |
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Gayev, who had headed the Moscow metro since 1995, was relieved of his duties “at his own request,” a curtly worded statement posted on the City Hall web site said Monday...
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02/08/2011 |
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Park Kultury station (Circle line) is to be closed for reconstruction and escalators replacement from February 5, 2011 till the end of the year...
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01/13/2011 |
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Changes in Service
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