Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Commuters make their way through the Komsomolskaya station, one of the Moscow underground's many stations that double as works of ...

On May 15, 1935, a bold new chapter in Moscow’s history began underground. The city unveiled its first metro line — just 11.5 kilometres long, with 13 stations connecting Sokolniki to Park Kultury and ...

The Moscow metro is known for its efficiency and its beautifully ornate stations. It's also one of the busiest metro systems in the world, with more than 8.5 million riders every day. Read more: There ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Moscow has unveiled a refurbished metro station this week decorated with an inscription heaping praise on Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, sparking outrage from opposition and human ...

Moscow mayor Sergey Sobyanin. Credit: Mayor and Moscow Government Press Service. Yevgeny Samarin. Moscow Metro has opened the new Line 8 section (Solntsevskaya Line) between Ramenki and Rasskazovka ...

David Burdeny, Taganskaya Metro Station, Moscow, Russia, 2015 (all images courtesy the artist and Jennifer Kostuik Gallery) For two weeks last year, Canadian photographer David Burdeny spent his ...

To step onto the Moscow metro is to step back in time and enter a museum of architecture and history. Opened 80 years ago -- on May 15, 1935 -- it is an extravagant gallery of communist design, ...

The tragic news of the 29 March twin suicide bombings of two Moscow Metro stations during the morning rush hour has produced outrage worldwide, with the Kremlin quickly adding that the attacks were ...

If you want to provide public transportation to a booming city of 12 million people, you better have quite a metro for them. Boasting 188 station stops and covering 195 miles of track, Moskcovsky ...

The death toll in a Moscow metro derailment Tuesday has reached 22, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency said. Another 160 people are injured, of whom more than 120 were hospitalized, the Moscow ...