[Reader-list] Moscow Metro postscript

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http://travel.discovery.com/fansites/worldsbest/subway/subway1.html

Best Subways Around the Globe
By James Fintel
1. Moscow, Russia
What's Cool: The marble, quartzite and other stones covering the subway
stations came from all four corners of the former Soviet Union.
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With huge, cathedral-like stations designed and embellished by prominent
Russian architects, artists and sculptors, one might wonder if the Moscow
Metro is a subway or a vast underground art museum. Moscow's is now the
busiest subway system in the world, carrying some 8 million passengers each
day. The Russian people have a sentimental attachment to their subway, and
not just because of its beauty. Metro tunnels sheltered the city's residents
from German bombs in World War II and were deliberately dug deep into the
ground to serve as refuge from a possible American nuclear strike.