every old town has its own legend.Surrounded by legends and the Moscow Metro.Some of them are quite fantastic, but some do not have a single drop of mysticism.He added fuel to the fire and writer Dmitry Glukhov, the author of science fiction books "Metro 2033" and "Metro 2034".These works, taken on them films and developed on the basis of their video games have become a cult, heated public interest in the subway up to the maximum limit.Now more and more into the ground down adventurers and professional diggers, and the mysteries of the Moscow Metro are beginning to be slightly opened to the curious glances.Let's look and we are in this wonderful world.
little history
first metro project was developed in 1872 and paving the way suggested by the present Kursk railway station to Lubyanka.The second project (1890) called for a significant expansion of the subway network.To begin the necessary preparatory studies.But because of the dissatisfaction of the people (especially the cab drivers and clergy) of the Moscow Duma rejected the draft.The idea of the construction of the subway only back under Stalin, then was laid the beginning of construction.
archaeological secrets of the Moscow metro
Until now, the construction of new lines of drifters come across a valuable archaeological finds: the remains of the ammonite and belemnite, fish-lizard (plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs).Curlicue of fossilized nautilus and sea lilies decorate the station "Lenin Square".In the transition between the stations "Lenin Library" and "Borovitskaya" emblazoned shell gastropod found in the vicinity.The very same marble quarried in the capital.According to legend, the first subway station was decorated with precious white stone, which later went to the restoration of the Serpukhov Kremlin.
underground shrine
Secrets of the Moscow subway, with religious content or sacred meaning, attract researchers now more than a dozen years.As an example, we can recall the first altar erected in the "October".One can clearly see the royal doors decorated with complicated patterns that distance is perceived as a huge Orthodox cross.The station "Komsomolskaya" is decorated with mosaics of rare beauty, also supporting religious elements.Author mosaic - Hereditary painter P.Kochin, begotten in the panel "Alexander Nevsky" lost face Nereditskogo Saviour.The Banner of Our Savior and the artist put into the hands of Dmitry Donskoy.Risk, however, step - in the Soviet time!It is said that the painter nearly paid for his initiative.But Catherine saved his Furtseva, Minister of Culture.Beauty paintings so moved her that she had personally interceded for the artist in front of the leader.
mysterious new building
Since 1996, the cars were marked with metro scheme Station "Fiztech."Rumors about the beginning of construction.However, it appeared that such a station and no draft.It turned out it's just a joke physics students created on the computer and print out a fake.Since then, periodically appear skhemy- "duck" with stations in Biryulyovo, Dolgoprudny, Mytishchi.It seems to uncover the secrets of topographic Moscow metro is not too difficult (because the real circuit in the free market!), But year after year the story of the non-existent station repeats.
With exactly the opposite: the missing Scheme
many mysteries associated with the Moscow metro alleged, but not in official sources stations, outcrops, whole branches and even armored bunkers.For example, rumors surrounded by a kind of "small ring".The logic is: eat more, should be small.Really Small Ring really planned, but the project was never realized.Fanned by rumors and mystery "Soviet".Its construction has not been completed, the station is a place and is not.But turned into the headquarters of the Civil Defense, towering on 2 floors above ground and leaving a few tens of meters deep.
"Day" and "Kaluga" - the old station lost its importance.Their fate is similar: in the past, end-station after the extension of the branches have been abandoned or converted, and the new routes were their namesake.Passing by the empty hall "Volokolamsk 'passengers can see traces of the gloomy vaults and tiles.Lifeless-looking station - the usual unfinished.As you can see, many of the mysteries of the Moscow Metro are easily logical explanation.But, following the same logic, where something came from, these superstitions?Will open when you weird Moscow subway all my secrets?
