Moscow Metro Stations Tour with Hotel Pickup

Moscow Metro Stations Tour with Hotel Pickup

Journey through the story of the Soviet Union on a tour underground.

See some of the world's most artistic metro stations.

Get tips on the most interesting places in Moscow you can reach by metro.

The Moscow Metro is called the most beautiful in the world – 44 of the nearly 200 stations are cultural heritage sites.

Itinerary
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Stop At: Ploshhad Revolyutsii Metro Station, Bogoyavlenskiy Ln. Nikolskaya St., Moscow 109012 Russia

Ploshchad is decorated with 76 sculptures one cut into each corner of each column, arranged thematically moving from parents with their children to athletes, students to farmers, industrial workers to hunters to soldiers. There is also a frontier guard with a dog whose nose people rub for good luck.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Triumfalnaya Sq., Moscow 125047 Russia

Mayakovskaya is considered to be one of the most beautiful station in the system. Based on a Soviet future as envisioned by the poet Mayakovsky, the station features graceful columns faced with stainless steel and pink rhodonite, white Ufaley and grey Diorite marble walls, a brilliant flooring pattern of white and pink marble, and 35 niches, one for each vault. Surrounded by filament lights there are a total of 34 ceiling mosaics by Alexander Deyneka with the theme «24-Hour Soviet Sky.» A passenger can look up and see the bright Soviet future right above him.

Located 33 meters beneath the surface, the station became an air raid shelter during World War 2. On the anniversary of the October Revolution, on 7 November 1941 Joseph Stalin addressed a mass assembly of party leaders and ordinary Muscovites in the central hall of the station.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Metro Station Novoslobodskaya, Novoslobodskaya st., Moscow Russia

Built in 1952, Novoslobodskaya is best known for its 32 stained glass panels, which are the work of Latvian artists E. Veylandan, E. Krests, and M. Ryskin. Each panel, surrounded by an elaborate brass border, is set into one of the station’s pylons and illuminated from within. Both the pylons and the pointed arches between them are faced with pinkish Ural marble and edged with brass molding. At the end of the platform is a mosaic by Pavel Korin entitled «Peace Throughout the World.»

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Metro Station Komsomolskaya, Komsomolskaya sq., Moscow Russia

Komsomolskaya opened in 1935. The station has tall pillars faced with pinkish limestone and blue-grey marble and the floor is tiled with grey granite. The imposing Baroque celling, painting in yellow is decorated with eight mosaic panels of smalt and precious stones. The theme of the panels represent the Russian fight for freedom and independence throughout history.

Duration: 20 minutes