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	Moscow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Patriarch of Moscow, whose residence is the Danilov Monastery, serves as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.
		Moscow also remains a major economic center and is home to a large number of billionaires and is perennially considered one of the most expensive cities in the world.
		In 1991 Moscow was the scene of a coup attempt by the government members opposed to the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moscow (7145 words)

	Moscow Metro
		The Moscow Metro in Moscow, Russia is the world's largest underground rail system, in terms of passenger rides.
		The projects of the third stage of the Moscow metro were delayed during the World War II.
		In the further development of the metro, the term stages was not used anymore, although sometimes the stations opened in 1957-1958 are referred to as the fifth stage.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mo/Moscow_Metro.html (622 words)

	Moscow Metro Details, Meaning Moscow Metro Article and Explanation Guide
		The Moscow Metro in Moscow, Russia is the world's most heavily used metro system (see List of metro systems).
		In total, the Moscow Metro has 265.2 km of track, 11 lines and 165 stations, and on a normal weekday it carries 8-9 million passengers.
		A group of architects came to Joseph Stalin with the Metro blueprints to let him know about the progress and what was being done at that moment.
	www.e-paranoids.com /m/mo/moscow_metro.html (991 words)

	MOSCOW METRO UNDERGROUND SUBWAY IN MOSCOW TUBE RUSSIA MAP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-02)
		The stations of Moscow's subway system have often been called "the people's palaces", for their elegant designs and lavish and profuse use of marble, mosaics, sculptures and chandeliers.
		Up until 1955 the metro was named after Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin's most trusted advisors and an instrumental figure in the construction of the metro, but the system was renamed the V. Lenin Moscow Metropolitan Railway.
		During WWII the city's metro stations were used as air-raid shelters and many of the larger stations were used for important political and tactical meetings.
	www.voentour.com /excursion/metro.shtml (897 words)

	Moscow metro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-02)
		The metro is the fastest and cheapest way to reach many points in Moscow with 10 radial lines and one circular (more are being constructed) and over 200 kilometers of track.
		The Moscow metro was constructed in the early 1930's and is famous for its palatial marble stations with mosaics, chandeliers and precious materials.
		The Museum on the History of the Metro is at the entrance of Metro Sportivnaya.
	www.transsib.com /moscow/moscow_metro.html (363 words)

	Moscow Metro
		The project of metro construction presented in 1902 to Moscow Duma implied that some metro lines would pass overland, and the trains would run by the tunnels and platforms from the Central Railway Station that was supposed to be nearby the Red Square.
		The first line of Moscow metro was opened on May 15, 1935, at 7 a.m.
		The general length of the metro is over 265 kilometers, and since early morning till late night 170 stations function.
	www.moscow-hotels-russia.com /metro.htm (456 words)

	Moscow Weekend
		Moscow Metro (still named after V.I.Lenin) is considered to be one of the best in the world.
		Today the Moscow metro seems to be the busiest in the world, carrying an average of 8-9 million passengers on a normal weekday, i.e.
		The gamut of original materials, which were used to ornament the stations, is so wide that the Moscow Metro may be called a unique Museum of Geology or even a peculiar Museum of Arts.
	www.moscowweekend.ru /sights/metro.html (399 words)

	Moscow Metro on the Right Track with Zetron (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-02)
		The new line L19, is a light metro line running from Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya to Bunninskaya Alleya and is an extension to the longest line in the metro network (construction is already underway for a further expansion).
		Moscow Metro has taken the opportunity to use this line for development and testing of new technologies: new lighting, new seating, new communications, new everything, all of which could be incorporated later across the entire Metro system.
		Compared to the existing legacy system, which is a hard-wired button based console system used by the rest of the Metro network, the greatest benefit for Moscow Metro is the capability of combining all the different communication systems.
	www.zetron.com /data/site/templates/?resolutionfile=templatespath\|ZetronTemplate.asp&area_0=pages/Menus/NewsNewsletter&area_1=pages/News/Newsletter/2005/August/7441 (787 words)

	Fifty feared dead in Moscow metro bomb attack - Money News
		MOSCOW, RU - A suspected suicide attack on the Russian metro has left a feared 50 people dead.
		The train had left the Paveletskaya station, on the metro system's green line, and was travelling south from the city centre to the Avtozavodskaya station through a tunnel when the blast occurred.
		Russian police said that they believe the blast was caused by a suicide bomber and suspicions have inevitably fallen on separatist militants from Chechnya, who have been responsible for similar attacks in the past.
	www.moneynews.co.uk /181/fifty-feared-dead-in-moscow-metro-bomb-attack (179 words)

	RIA Novosti - Russia - Moscow Metro needs steady financing - official
		Comparing the Moscow Metro with the London Tube and the Paris Metropolitan, Gayev said Moscow's Metro transported about 56% of the passenger volume, whereas London and Paris' metro systems carried 20%-25%.
		The Moscow Metro lines, which transport 8-9 million passengers on weekdays, cover a distance of more than 278 km, with 11 lines and 171 stations featuring various styles of architecture.
		The official said the Moscow government had recently adopted a plan for the development of the Moscow Metro until 2015, which includes a provision to build an additional 80km and expand the underground transportation network to 340km.
	en.rian.ru /russia/20051122/42178849.html (312 words)

	Article - Moscow metro bombing: new details emerge - News From Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-02)
		The Federal Security Service has established that the explosive device that detonated in the Moscow metro was very similar to explosives used to blow up two electric trains in the Stavropol region last year.
		The death toll in the Moscow metro explosion rose to 40 after an unidentified man injured in the blast died in Moscow’s Hospital 53.
		The explosion in the Moscow metro, which happened between the stations Paveletskaya and Avtozavodskaya at the height of morning rush hour on February 6, killed 39 peopled.
	www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_209213.php (774 words)

	Moscow Metro Excursion Tour Soviet Russia History Guide
		Discover the unparalleled grandeur of the Moscow metro stations as well as its important role in the history of Soviet Russia and the city of Moscow.
		She is the mother of all metro systems and on a daily basis transports more passengers than the underground systems of Paris and New York combined.
		During your visit to the Moscow Metro Museum, you will be introduced to the fascinating history of the Moscow metro system and its role in Soviet life.
	www.moscow-culture.com /moscow_mertro.html (171 words)

	VRMAG - MOSCOW METRO STATIONS - UNDERGROUND PALACE PANORAMAS
		Transplanted Dutch native Bee Flowers’ Moscow Metro project may have started out for purely selfish purposes, but he is now sharing his 28 panoramas and more than 500 photos of Moscow’s renowned subway stations with the rest of the world.
		The construction of the Moscow Metro was begun in the early 1930s and is world famous for its palatial marble stations with mosaics, chandeliers and precious materials.
		The Metro uses a unique method for denoting the travel direction: On the ring line male voices are used for clockwise travel and female voices for counter-clockwise travel; the incoming (towards Moscow’s center) radial lines use male announcers while the outgoing use female.
	vrm.vrway.com /issue15/MOSCOW_METRO_STATIONS_-_UNDERGROUND_PALACE_PANORAMAS.html (888 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Moscow at Epinions.com
		The decision to build Moscow metro was made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1931.
		Half the area of the walls in Moscow metro is decorated by various kinds of marble, as old as 2 billion years.
		Besides the mere presence of natural/semi precious stones, Moscow metro is a triumph of architecture.
	www.epinions.com /trvl-review-37F4-9C0DF29-38AA353E-prod2 (498 words)

	The Moscow Metro — Official Moscow Travel Information
		It's not a great idea to use the Moscow metro during rush hour, especially in the morning when everyone is hurrying to work.
		If you must use the Moscow metro at those times, be prepared for large crowds and chaotic prossesions of people transferring stations.
		To make your travel on the Moscow metro a pleasant one, try to avoid the crowds, so you can take in the decoration and artwork of each individual station.
	www.all-moscow.com /info/metro.html (1071 words)

	FIRE CAUSES CHAOS ON MOSCOW METRO
		A fire broke out in the Moscow metro on 4 March, bringing the city's circle line to a halt during the morning rush hour, Russian and Western agencies reported.
		Four people were slightly injured as a result of the incident, caused by a short circuit in a stretch of high-voltage cable in a tunnel.
		Moscow subway workers have long complained that maintenance work is underfunded, and Izvestiya quoted the head of the Metrostroi company as saying equipment in older stretches of the system is so worn out that there could be a repetition of Monday's accident with more serious consequences.
	www.parovoz.com /library/omri.05.03.96.html (124 words)

	MOI / News /
		The Moscow Metro Militia have completed a special operation named Teenager- Metro and held from June 1 through 10, 2006.
		With the aim of pre-empting criminal acts, misbehavior and child neglect and protecting minors’ rights, the Moscow Metro Militia’s juvenile officers held an operation codenamed Teenager-Family, which extended to Moscow Metro stations.
		All of them were delivered to hospitals, and those who misbehaved were taken to juvenile temporary detention centers of the Moscow Militia Directorate that are to gather required documents and send them to the teenagers’ place of abidance.
	eng.mvdrf.ru /index.php?newsid=2525 (285 words)

	Moscow Subway and Commuter Railroad.
		The sketch of Moscow Commuter Railroad (GIF, 34 Kb)
		Alexey Dobkin provides interesting collection of pictures taken inside the Moscow subway in April 1997 (several inline images, total size is 463kb).
		Moscow metro (subway) is a palace under the ground and the vital part of city transportation.
	www.friends-partners.org /oldfriends/mes/russia/moscow/personal/elektro.html (272 words)

	Demlink Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-02)
		Moscow Metro (walking tour) with its stations decorated with marble, mosaics, stained glass panels and bronze sculptures looks like a vast art museum.
		The first stations of Moscow Metro opened their doors to the passengers in 1930.
		The extensive but tasteful use of natural materials makes the Moscow Metro one of the most interesting tourist routes.
	www.demlinktravel.com /info.asp?menu=5&sbmenu=165 (151 words)

	Moscow metro museum of paleontology celebrates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-02)
		Riding the Moscow metro, students of the ecological department incidentally saw a fossilized nautilus, the shellfish.
		Metro fossils are hundreds of millions years of age.
		They are the largest ammonites of the Moscow metro: some shells are 70 centimeters in diameter.
	www.unexplainable.net /artman/publish/article_995.shtml (889 words)

	UrbanRail.Net - Moscow Metro - projects for the future
		After a decade of decline in 1990s, the situation with metro construction in Moscow has substantially improved in recent years.
		The main diversion from the new metro construction - the obsession with monorails and light metros - is now almost a thing of the past.
		Maps of the existing metro and regional-rail networks in largest Russian cities can be found at http://www.metromaps.da.ru/.
	www.mrl.ucsb.edu /%7Eyopopov/transit/projects_moscow.html (148 words)

	Moscow moscow metro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-02)
		When you are after high-class advice concerning moscow metro, you'll find it hard unscrambling quality information from poorly sourced moscow metro suggestions or help so it is important to know how to qualify the information you are given.
		An interesting tip to pursue when you're presented with information or advice on a moscow metro webpage would be to determine who owns the site.
		This may reveal the operators moscow metro credentials The quickest way to work out who owns the moscow metro web site is to find the sites 'about' page.
	www.europe-now.com /moscow/moscow-metro.htm (212 words)

	Moscow Metro
		Let's be frank - this is the mother of all metros - elegant and impressive compared with the rather grubby affairs in London and New York, and full of passion and style if you ever feel like putting it up against the soulless affairs of the Far East.
		Many of Moscow's metro stations are architectural masterpieces, heavily themed-up with sculptures, reliefs and mosaics expounding the benefits of a healthy communist life, so expect a full-on dose of soldiers, workers, tractor-drivers, artists and sportsmen.
		Forget the slow-closing and feeble doors of the London Underground - Moscow's train doors operate with guillotine-life efficiency and speed.
	www.moscow-life.com /moscow/metro (219 words)

	Moscow - The Metro Paveletskaya-Kievskaya-Mayakovskaya - QTVR pictures from panoramas.dk
		The Moscow Metro is famous for it's achitecture and attracts tourists and visitors from all over the world.
		The METRO project is actually not his normal style but it started out when he found out that no books or photographic documentation existed about the METRO.
		The panoramas are made handheld with a NIKON Coolpix + fisheye lens as a tripod is not alowed in the Metro.
	www.panoramas.dk /fullscreen3/f7.html (251 words)

	Moscow Metro Cheap Transportation in Moscow Metro. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-02)
		Built during Stalin's rule, these metro stations were supposed to become a showcase of Soviet architecture and design and show how privileged the Russian people was.
		The station is perhaps the brightest and most ornate station on the Moscow underground subway and features beautiful stained-glass windows crafted in Riga and a stunning mosaic panel entitled "Peace Throughout the World" by the famed Korin.
		Every metro station is just adorned with marble columns, statues, chandeliers and mosaic ceilings, and the metro is one of the city's major tourist attractions!
	moscow.adoption-travel.com /moscow-metro.html (182 words)

	Moscow Metro Trying Not Let Terrorists In - Kommersant Moscow
		Moscow Metro Trying Not Let Terrorists In Yesterday, the head of the Moscow Metro Dmitry Gaev announced about the intention to introduce in capital subway additional security devices, which should protect against possible terrorist acts.
		For instance, it is planed to set up at the entrances to the metro stations metal detectors and gas analyzers for explosive devices.
		According to Kommersant’s preliminary calculations, the cost of setting up the equipment in all Moscow stations (there are 171 stations in the capital subway) would be at least $2.9 million.
	www.kommersant.com /page.asp?idr=500&id=611447 (434 words)

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