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Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Ceiling Murals
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Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Ceiling Murals
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The Moscow Metro is said to carry more passengers each day than any system in the world. Many stations are elegantly decorated in the style of Socialist Realism, paying tribute to composers, poets, patriots and aviators. In 1991 a ride on the subway cost five cents. Today it costs more than twenty five cents and critical Muscovites complain that service is not as good as it used to be, but by most standards it is still excellent, with trains arriving nearly every 60 seconds on most lines at peak hours.Bill Swersey One of the most beautiful is the Mayakovskaya Station, beneath the square named for the revolutionary poet Mayakovsky. Finished in marble and polished steel, the arched ceiling contains mosaics of military, industrial and sporting scenes. After rush hour when traffic slows a bit, two children peer up at a mosaic depicting a formation of biplanes flying over the Kremlin's Spassky Gate tower (seen just to the right of St. Basil's Cathedral in the Red Square PhotoBubbles).
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