For a long time in Moscow they planned to build a metro to facilitate the movement of passengers, but they did not dare, considering the dungeon to be the halls of Lucifer. The metropolitan subway opened its doors only under Stalin.
The first line from the Park of Culture to Sokolniki began its work in May 1935.
In addition to the statistical facts presented on the official portal of the Moscow metro, there are several mystical stories and statements that have the right to exist.
1. It is believed that Stalin, when creating the metro, took as a basis the astrological chart of the famous capital warlock Bruce, which includes 12 signs of the zodiac. Therefore, there are 12 stations on the circular line.
2. Stone of destroyed churches was used to decorate some of the Moscow stations. For example, during the construction of the first line - the white-stone Serpukhov Kremlin, for Novokuznetsk and Kropotkinskaya - the Cathedral of Christ the Savior destroyed in 1931.
3. During the war, the subway also worked as a bomb shelter. Clean Ponds were converted into Stalin's office, into which he got on a secret metro line directly from the Kremlin.
4. Also on Chistye Prudy in the 30-40s the secret bunker of the leader was tripled. The construction was carried out under the heading "top secret", for which young men were brought here from orphanages, they worked on the project for 4 years. At that time, a legend about evil spirits arose around the station, because noise and voices were constantly heard from under the ground, clearly audible at night. After the completion of construction, all those involved were shot by order to take the secret with them to the grave.
5. Initially, the metro was designed as a strategic object. Everything depicted on the subway diagram is only 1/10 of the actual tunnel system. Each deep station is equipped with a hermetic seal, which allows you to completely isolate from the outside world. And the number of secret bunkers to which massive doors lead from deep stations totals almost a hundred.
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6. There is a legend about the object "D-6" - a deep network of tunnels or Metro-2, which connects the main city objects and goes far beyond the Moscow Ring Road. For example, in Ramenki, they suspect the presence of an entire underground city, whose system of basic infrastructure facilities will allow a person to live comfortably for 30 years. Moscow subway researchers confirm the existence of Metro-2, and Boris Yeltsin even rolled NATO generals there.
7. Ghost stations. Old-timers in Moscow remember about the open and once functioning stations Sovetskaya (opposite the City Hall), Pervomayskaya (in the building of the Izmailovo depot), Kaluzhskaya (opposite the Merilian Palace of Culture), which are now not operating. You can meet the unfinished station in front of Tverskaya, as well as the platform of the laid, but not opened Volokolamskaya (between Shchukinskaya and Tushinskaya).
8. The stations of the center are full of their ghosts and inexplicable entities. This is explained by the fact that many of them were built on the site of former necropolises, where the deceased were buried for decades. For example, at the Sokol station there was a fraternal military cemetery, where blurred figures of people are most often seen. Similar accumulations of necrotic energy are found on the Arbatskaya and Borovitskaya. People not only see ghosts here, but these places are leading in the number of suicides.
9. The most curved and most unstable station is Aleksandrovsky Sad. Fickle because it was renamed 5 times. And the train tunnel here is bent so dashingly that the driver does not see the end of the train he is driving. Therefore, the departure of each train is assisted by the attendant on the platform. According to the first version, the reason for the bend is the location of the secret Kremlin facilities, according to the second, earlier there was a sewer junction here, which the builders bypassed.
10. Sea kingdom in the subway? Easy! The finishing marble of many stations contains inclusions of representatives of the aquatic world. At the station Ploshchad Ilyich you can find nautilus, a large snail meets you in the passage from the Library. Lenin on Borovitskaya, a squid shell on Victory Park.
GORBUNOVA MARIA