Mic-Ro.co(s)m is a site dedicated to the various metro systems of the world. It features sections covering some of the art found in metros, sounds, photos of metros with spectacular views and of course pictures of the metros themselves, like the luxurious Moscow metro (shown below).
Moscow’s metro stations are one of the legacies of the communist regime. They were designed to be the “people’s palaces”, and were filled with the finest Soviet art to show how wonderful life was under Stalin. Other former soviet cities, such as Baku in Azerbaijan have similar features but the ones in Moscow are by far the most opulent.
One of the Moscow lines is a circle line, known as the Kol’tsevaya line. Legend has it that when Stalin was asked by architects what he thought of the designs, Stalin placed his cup on on the centre of the blueprints and left in silence. When the cup was removed, a brown coffee ring remained, and so the Kol’tsevaya (ring) line was born. Whether or not this actually happened is unknown, although the ring line is always drawn in brown. Other pictures of the Moscow metro can be found here, here and here.
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