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 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 ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A monument to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin erected in Moscow's metro is stirring debate, with some Russians welcoming it as a historical tribute, but others saying it's a mistake to ...

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 ...

The current death toll makes it the worst attack on Moscow since February 2004, when a suicide bombing killed at least 39 people on a metro train. Here are some details about Moscow's metro system, ...

Known as one of the world’s grandest subway systems, the Moscow Metro is filled with materials more commonly associated with palaces or museums – marble and granite walls, bronze columns, and lavish ...

Moscow's metro has unveiled a facial recognition-based payment system, The Guardian reported. Riders can now pay at more than 240 stations without needing a card, cash, or phone. But privacy advocates ...

The well-dressed British Shorthair was in peak Shakespearean form. A British Shorthair cat in a car of a train marking the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death put into service on the ...

Trains on the Moscow’s famous Metro subway system will now be driven by women, after a decades-long ban on female drivers was overturned. The first of a new generation of women drivers started work on ...