Curious Facts about Russia and Moscow

The deepest metro station in Moscow is “Dubrovka” – 62 meters

The longest stage of the Moscow metro is between “Tekstil’shiki” and “Volgogradskyi Prospect” stations – 3, 5 km. The shortest one is between “Alexandrovskyi Sad” and “Arbatskaya” statins – 460 metres.

There are 76 statues on the “Ploshad’ Revoluzii” metro station: 76 bronze workmen, peasants, soldiers, sailors and other proletarians. By the way, there is a students’ sign connected with the statue of a frontier guard with a dog. You should rub the bronze dog’s nose.

Tension of the contact rail is 850 Volt.

If there is no escalator at a station it means that the depth of that kind of stations is less then 10 metres. If there is only an up-going escalator – the depth is 15 metres.

The cost of building 1 km of the deep location station is 30-35 million dollars, and of the shallow is 15-30 million dollars.

During the Second World War metro stations were used as air-raid shelter. 150 people were born there.

Vodka was introduced in Russia in the period from 1448 to 1474. Less than 100 years later the first “czar tavern” was set up in Moscow.

Russia went through 5 state alcoholic monopolies: in 1474 – 1605; 1652-1689; 1697 - 1716; 1894 - 1914; 1924 - 1992.

The biggest pyramid of champagne glasses was built by a Dutchman Luke Broos in 1990. It consisted of 56 levels and 30856 glasses.

The most expensive Russian White Wine “Livadiya” (1891) was sold by auction for 2900Ј.

The way from Moscow to Chicago is closer than from Chicago to Rio-de-Janeiro.

There is the closest point between Russia and America that is only 4 km long.

There are 7 towns in the Golden Ring of Russia.

There are 1045 battlements on the Kremlin walls.

The total length of the Kremlin walls is 2235 meters.

There is a larch in the Botanical Gardens that was planted in 1706 by Peter the Great.

The Moscow River is 65 km long and flows along the whole city.

The biggest flood in Moscow was in the year of 1908 when waters went up to 9 metres and immersed 1600 hectares of the city territory.

There are 7 absolutely the same high-rise buildings in Moscow: 2 hotels, 2 administrative buildings, 2 blocks of flats and the Moscow State University.