Legends, fables and secrets of the Moscow metro

2024 Author: Miguel Ramacey | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 06:11

Each old city has its own legends. Surrounded by legends and the Moscow metro. Some of them are absolutely fantastic, but in some there is not a drop of mysticism. Added fuel to the fire and writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, author of science fiction books "Metro 2033" and "Metro 2034". These works, films based on them and video games developed on their basis have become simply cult, fueling public interest in the subway to the maximum limit. Now, more and more often, adventurers and professional diggers are descending underground, and the secrets of the Moscow metro are beginning to be revealed to curious eyes. Let's look into this wonderful world.

A bit of history

The first metro project was developed back in 1872 and involved laying tracks from the current Kursk railway station to Lubyanka. The second project (1890) provided for a significant expansion of the metro network. The necessary preparatory studies have begun. But due to the dissatisfaction of the people (primarily cabbies and the clergy), the Moscow Duma rejected the project. The idea of building a metro was returned only under Stalin, and then the start of construction was laid.

Archaeological secrets of the Moscow metro

Until now, during the construction of new lines, drifters stumble upon the most valuable archaeological finds: the remains of ammonites and belemnites, fish lizards (plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs). A bizarre pattern of petrified nautiluses and sea lilies adorns the Ploshchad Ilyicha station. In the passage between the stations "Library named after Lenin" and "Borovitskaya" flaunts the shell of a gastropod mollusk found in the vicinity. The marble itself is also mined in the capital. According to legend, the first metro stations were decorated with noble white stone, which was later used for the restoration of the Serpukhov Kremlin.

Underground shrines

The secrets of the Moscow metro, having a religious content or a sacred meaning, have attracted researchers for more than a dozen years. As an example, first of all, we can recall the altar built on the "Oktyabrskaya". The royal doors are clearly visible, decorated with a complex ornament, which from a distance is perceived as a huge Orthodox cross. The station "Komsomolskaya" is decorated with the rarest beauty of the mosaic, which also bears religious elements. The author of the mosaic is the hereditary icon painter P. Kochin, who revived the lost image of the Nereditsky Savior on the Alexander Nevsky panel. The artist put the banner of the Savior into the hands of Dmitry Donskoy. However, a risky step - in Soviet times! They say that the icon painter almost paid for his amateur performance. But Ekaterina Furtseva, the Minister of Culture, saved him. The beauty of the canvases touched her so much that she personally stood up for the artist in front ofleader.

Mysterious new buildings

Since 1996, subway schemes with the icon of the Fiztekh station have appeared in the cars. Rumors spread about the start of construction. However, it turned out that there is no such station in the project. It turned out that this was just a joke of physics students who created and printed out a fake on a computer. Since then, "duck" schemes have periodically appeared with stations in Biryulyovo, Dolgoprudny, Mytishchi. It seems that revealing the topographic secrets of the Moscow metro is not so difficult (after all, the real scheme is on sale!), but from year to year the story with non-existent stations repeats itself.

Exactly the opposite: missing from the diagram

Many secrets of the Moscow metro are associated with allegedly existing, but missing in official sources, stations, exits to the surface, entire branches and even armored bunkers. For example, a certain "Small Ring" is surrounded by rumors. The logic is this: there is Big, there must be Small. In fact, Malaya Koltsevaya was really planned, but the project was not implemented. Fanned by rumors and the mysterious "Soviet". Its construction was not completed, this place never became a station. But it turned into the headquarters of the Civil Defense, rising 2 floors above the ground and going several tens of meters deep.

"Pervomaiskaya" and "Kaluzhskaya" are old stations that have lost their significance. Their fate is similar: in the past, the end stations after the extensionbranches were abandoned or converted, and their namesakes appeared on new routes. Passengers rushing past the empty hall of Volokolamskaya can see gloomy vaults and traces of tiles. The seemingly lifeless station is an ordinary unfinished building. As you can see, many of the secrets of the Moscow metro are easily amenable to logical explanation. But, following the same logic, where did these superstitions come from? Will the mysterious Moscow metro ever reveal all its secrets?