MOSCOW (Reuters) - In Moscow, some of the best architecture may lie many metres underground. With its vaulted ceilings, marble floors and tiled mosaics of Vladimir Lenin and the Red Army, the Moscow ...

A historic marble plaque on the wall of Sokolniki underground station marks the opening of the Moscow metro 90 years ago. Considered the most beautiful underground railway system in the world, the ...

Moscow has equipped more than 240 of its metro stations with a new system called Face Pay that uses facial recognition to charge passengers for their fare, which is said to be more convenient than ...

A man threw a hot drink in a woman's face when she forbade him to follow her through the turnstile without paying. A message ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of the deepening Russia-China relations, Moscow is hosting a series of events to celebrate the Chinese New Year, with the participation of senior government officials. On Wednesday, Russian ...

An undated still photo provided by PROFIT Ltd Russian film making company shows a scene from "Metro,” a disaster movie which pictures what might happen if Moscow's metro system sprung a leak from the ...

The station is a history lesson. MOSCOW -- The Moscow Metro is more than just a means of transportation. It reveals a lot about the city. Some of the other stations -- Kievskaya, Mayakovskaya and ...

TASS; Public Domain Okhotny Ryad holds the record for the most different names, having changed names four times over the years. The Moscow metro system has 275 stations, and 28 of them have been ...

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 ...