Moscow metro is the fastest and most convenient transport in the capital.

If you want to go by metro, then you need to buy a pass at a ticket office located inside any metro station. You can buy a pass for one trip and go in any direction and as long as you wish with it. You can buy a pass for two, five or ten trips or a monthly pass. All fares are posted next to a ticket office window. When you give money to a cashier, it’s necessary to say what pass you would like to buy: for one trip, two trips, five trips, ten trips, etc.

There’s an electronic chip in every paper ticket. When you put a ticket to a turnstile, wait for the green light and go.

Metro lines are similar to all main city streets. You can see a CIRCLE line, which goes under the main thoroughfare of Moscow – “Sadovoye Koltso” or “Garden ring.” Radial metro lines cross the Circle line. The have different colors on the scheme. The places where lines cross are transfer stations. Transfer stations may have only one name, for example: Prospect Mira. In order not mix anything we say: Prospect Mira radial (orange color) and Prospect Mira circle (brown color). But transfer stations can also have two names: Dobryninskaya/ Serpuhovskaya, or even three names:Ohotny Rjad/Teatralnaya/Ploschad Revoljutsyi.T

There’s a scheme of all metro lines at every station and in any metro train carriage, so if you have some problems, don’t panic! You can have a look at the scheme once again and find a needed station in any place of Moscow metro.

VVTs/VDNH and other recreation places in Moscow.

VVTs means All Russian Exhibition Centre, which is located near metro station VDNH. This is a very interesting place in Moscow. One can have a walk, rest and visit many exhibitions, fairs and make shopping here.

VDNH is first of all a historical place, which reflects tastes and priorities of Soviet era. This was the time of severe repressions, killings of innocent people, poverty. In August 1, 1939 an exhibition is opened which demonstrates achievements of the Soviet people in agriculture. The visitors is this agricultural exhibition, which later on became permanent, admired abundance of huge fruits and veggies, big domestic animals, selected cereals. This is how a future society will live, this will be the life of communist “tomorrow”.

The best architects built beautiful palaces-pavilions for the exhibits of the exhibition. There was (and today you can see it ) a big Square of the Collective Farms with a fountain in the middle of the architectural ensemble. There’s a famous monument “A Worker and a Collective farmer” made by Vera Muchina in front of the entrance to the exhibition. This sculpture demonstrated a triumph of the Soviet society.

There was a recreation zone around the pavilions of the exhibition. You can study a popular “Stalin” style on their example. There was also a big park, some rollercoaster, a place for the summer theatre. One can spend his leisure time here as well as in another park of Moscow – Gorky Park. You can walk, roller skate, ride a bicycle, skate and ski in winter time here.

Moscow is a green city. There’s a green belt in the very centre of Moscow – the belt of boulevards. It’s called a Boulevard Ring, where one boulevard follows the other: Chistye Prudy, Sretensky Boulevard,Rozshdestvensky Boulevard, Petrovsky, Tverskoy, Nikitsky…

There’re small but very interesting ancient parks in the centre of the city: Alexandrovsky sad (metro station Alexandrovsky sad), Aptekarsky ogorod (metro station Prospect Mira), sad Ermitaz (metro station Raretny riad).

Kolomenskoye, (metro station Kolomenskoye), Ostankino, Kuskovo (metro station Rjazansky Prospect), Lefortovo, (metro station Aviamotornaya), Izmailovo (metro station Izmailovsky Park), Poklonnaya Hill (metro station Park Pobedy), Zarizino (metro station Zarizino), Sokolniki (metro station Sokolniki), Park MGU on the Sparrow Hills (metro station Vorobjovy Gory) and many others.

If you came to Moscow in summer time you can make a walk in the centre of the city along the Moskva-river by a small boat, which is called a river boat. The boat goes from Novospassky stop (metro station Proletarskaya) or Kievskaya stop (metro station Kievskaya) and passes the oldest and most interesting districts of Moscow, including the picturesque panorama of the Kremlin. If the weather is fine, you’ll have unforgettable impression from this river journey!