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Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Subway Car
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Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Subway Car

Photographer: Bill Swersey
To make a PhotoBubble showing the inside of the metro car, I set my tripod inches from the edge of the platform. Each time a train pulled into the station, I waited to see where the doors would line up. After many, many attempts, the doors opened exactly in front of me. The Russian Army officer reading the newspaper was in just the right spot and I knew I had captured a good moment.

In the fall of 1941, as German tanks approached Moscow, Josef Stalin met with a group of generals in the Mayakovskaya Metro Station to plot the defense of the city. During the war, the deep, deep station, was a used as a bomb shelter.


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