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| | Gallery in the Round: Moscow Panorama: Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Subway Car (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | After many, many attempts, the doors opened exactly in front of me. The Russian Army officer reading the newspaper was in just the right spot and I knew I had captured a good moment. |
 | | In the fall of 1941, as German tanks approached Moscow, Josef Stalin met with a group of generals in the Mayakovskaya Metro Station to plot the defense of the city. |
 | | During the war, the deep, deep station, was a used as a bomb shelter. |
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