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The first Moscow Metro passenger train set off on its maiden journey on October 15, 1934. It made its trial trip from the Komsomolskaya station to Sokolniki. Since then the Joseph Stalin trains have made way for more comfortable Rusich trains with air conditioning.

The first Moscow Metro passenger train set off on its maiden journey on October 15, 1934. It made its trial trip from the Komsomolskaya station to Sokolniki. Since then the Joseph Stalin trains have made way for more comfortable Rusich trains with air conditioning.

© RIA Novosti / Go to the mediabankThe first Moscow Metro passenger train set off on its maiden journey on October 15, 1934. It made its trial trip from the Komsomolskaya station to Sokolniki. It had only two red and sand color cars.
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The first Moscow Metro passenger train set off on its maiden journey on October 15, 1934. It made its trial trip from the Komsomolskaya station to Sokolniki. It had only two red and sand color cars.
© RIA Novosti . Shagin / Go to the mediabankThe insides of the first trains were papered with lincrusta. They were in use up until the middle of the last century. Pictured: Moscow Metro construction workers become the system’s first passengers. 1935.

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The insides of the first trains were papered with lincrusta. They were in use up until the middle of the last century. Pictured: Moscow Metro construction workers become the system’s first passengers. 1935.

© RIA Novosti . I. Bakhtin / Go to the mediabankNowadays the ancestor of all passenger trains is a museum piece and is exhibited in the Izmaylovo locomotive depot. Pictured: Car №1, constructed in 1934.

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Nowadays the ancestor of all passenger trains is a museum piece and is exhibited in the Izmaylovo locomotive depot. Pictured: Car №1, constructed in 1934.

© RIA Novosti . I. Bakhtin / Go to the mediabankCar №1 in Izmaylovo, where the metro museum is located.

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Car №1 in Izmaylovo, where the metro museum is located.

© RIA Novosti . Prihodko / Go to the mediabank1978, Turgenevskaya station.
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1978, Turgenevskaya station.
© RIA Novosti . Nikolai Zaytsev / Go to the mediabank1979, The V. I. Lenin train departs from the Krasnaya Presnya depot
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1979, The V. I. Lenin train departs from the Krasnaya Presnya depot
© RIA Novosti . Alexander Liskin / Go to the mediabank1984, Inside a metro car


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1984, Inside a metro car


© RIA Novosti . Pavlov / Go to the mediabank1984, Moscow Metropolitan. Experimental electric train “I”

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1984, Moscow Metropolitan. Experimental electric train “I”

© RIA Novosti . Alexander Makarov / Go to the mediabank1995, New electric train “Yauza”
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1995, New electric train “Yauza”
© RIA Novosti . Ruslan Krivobok / Go to the mediabank2008, Metro carriages, renovated to make them more secure and comfortable. Sokol depot

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2008, Metro carriages, renovated to make them more secure and comfortable. Sokol depot

© RIA Novosti . Mikhail Fomichev / Go to the mediabank2008, The “Reading Moscow” train at the Vorobievy Gory station. It is decorated with famous characters from literature.

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2008, The “Reading Moscow” train at the Vorobievy Gory station. It is decorated with famous characters from literature.

© RIA Novosti . Sergey Pyatakov / Go to the mediabankThe first Moscow Metro train Rusich with air conditioning, where temperature does not exceed 24 degrees Celsius operates on the Koltcevaya line


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The first Moscow Metro train Rusich with air conditioning, where temperature does not exceed 24 degrees Celsius operates on the Koltcevaya line


© RIA Novosti . Сергей ПятаковThe Rusich train was launched from the Partizanskaya station
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The Rusich train was launched from the Partizanskaya station
© RIA Novosti . Sergey Pyatakov / Go to the mediabankRusich trains will fully replace old ones on the Koltcevaya line

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Rusich trains will fully replace old ones on the Koltcevaya line

© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankThe Moscow Metropolitan launched an Akwarel (Water Color) train featuring reproductions of paintings by Russian artists ahead of its 75th anniversary
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The Moscow Metropolitan launched an Akwarel (Water Color) train featuring reproductions of paintings by Russian artists ahead of its 75th anniversary
© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Vyatkin / Go to the mediabankA new train took off from Partizanskaya in May 2009. It will be operated for six months.
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A new train took off from Partizanskaya in May 2009. It will be operated for six months.
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