Moscow Metropolitan, a cinematographic excerpt for the secondary-school pupils post-1976. This is an instructional and promotional movie about the convenience of the Moscow Metropolitan / Metro transit system (subway). Shown are several subway stations, two of the 6 types of commonly-circulating subway trains, the use of an entrance gate, mechanical stairs. Subway cleaning crews, various small infrastructure (inter-train interval wall clock, subway traffic lights) also appear in this movie.

Highlights:

Beginning to 0 :30 pan and scan shots of Kremlin

0:30 to 0:42 Shots of the Gagarin Square from above, then New Arbat Avenue – from above and at street-level

0:44 to 1:00 Subway entrance booths and buildings

1:00 to 1:07 Post-1961 coin-operated entrance gates accepting the 5 kopecks coin for a fare, which was standard until April 1991.

1:15 Mechanical stairs leading to the subway

1:24 Belorusskaya Station of the Zamoskvoretskaya line

1:27 Kiyevskaya station of the Arbatsko-pokrovskaya line

1:31 Kiyevskaya station of the ring line

1:35 Mayakovskaya station

1:40 to 1:43 Subway maintenance worker woman cleaning the floors with the Vega floor-cleaning machine (indigenously designed and produced from 1963 ?) another image of the same machine in Kiev.

1:51 Pushkinskaya station

1:52 to 2:00 shots of the crowd boarding a subway train

2:00 to 2 :10 Shot of a departing 81-717 type subway train, cab and drive-by. This, along with the cars and fashion means the movie certainly postdates 1976

2:11 shots inside the passenger compartment and from inside the carriage

2:30 to 2:40 Smolensky viaduct

2:40 Possibly a D-type subway train

The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system serving Moscow, Russia, and the neighbouring Moscow Oblast cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki. Opened in 1935 with one 11-kilometre (6.8 mi) line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. As of 2019, the Moscow Metro, excluding the Moscow Central Circle, Moscow Centreal Diameters and Moscow Monorail, has 232 stations (263 with Moscow Central Circle) and its route length is 408.1 km (253.6 mi), making it the fourth longest in the world and longest outside China. The system is mostly underground, with the deepest section 74 metres (243 ft) underground at the Park Pobedy station, one of the world’s deepest underground stations. It is the busiest metro system in Europe, and is considered a tourist attraction in itself.

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