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Kiev Railway Station

Photographer: Bill Swersey
Railroad tracks reach out from the center of Moscow like spokes on a bicycle wheel. Each of about a dozen regions of the former Soviet Empire are served by a different station. These central terminals also serve Moscow's commuter railway system. The Kievsky (Kiev) Railway station is one of the most dramatic, with a dark vaulted glass roof covering the train platforms.

The stations always make for interesting people watching, if you can talk your way past the armed guards at the entrance. A few years ago homeless people and refugee families were camped in every available alcove of the station, but since a crackdown against these 'undesirables,' you are supposed to show a valid train ticket to get to the waiting rooms and platforms.

All day long, travelers scurry about, as trains arrive from and depart to the Ukraine, Moldova and other points to the Southwest. Many Ukrainians make the overnight trip to Moscow several times a week to sell produce and cheap consumer goods in the huge open market next to the station. Just before this train left the station men finished cigarettes and bid each other goodbye. Porters pushed their carts back to the entrance to look for more paying customers.


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