This year, the Moscow metro is 80-years-old. With more riders than almost anywhere in the world today, Moscow's subway system is one of the Soviet Union's greatest lasting achievements. When it opened in 1935, the metro had a single 11-kilometer (6.8-mile) line and just 13 stations. Today, the Moscow subway system boasts 12 lines and nearly 200 stations, covering more than 325 kilometers (more than 200 miles). In light of this eight-decade milestone, Meduza has collected photographs from some of the Moscow metro's most celebrated stations.
Photo: Vladimir Goroschenko/ Lori
Sokolniki (the very first station)
Photo: Kent Kobersteen / National Geographic Creative / Corbis / Vida Press
Novoslobodskaya
Photo: Nikolai Galkin / TASS / Corbis / Vida Press
Novoslobodskaya
Photo: Jon Hicks / Corbis / Vida Press
Mayakovskaya
Photo: Jon Hicks / Corbis / Vida Press
Mayakovskaya
Photo: Sergei Karpov / TASS / Corbis / Vida Press
Kiyevskaya
Photo: Nikolai Galkin / TASS / Vida Press
Taganskaya
Photo: Nikolai Galkin / TASS / Vida Press
Taganskaya
Photo: Graham Lawrence / Robert Harding World Imagery / Corbis / Vida Press
Partizanskaya
Photo: Jonathan Irish / National Geographic Creative / Corbis / Vida Press
Ploshchad Revolyutsii
Photo: Vladimir Goroschenko/ Lori
Belorusskaya
Photo: Elena Koromislova / Lori
Arbatskaya
Photo: Jon Hicks / Corbis / Vida Press
Komsomolskaya
Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev / TASS / Corbis / Vida Press
Vystavochnaya
Photo: Nataliya Volkova / Lori
Aeroport
Photo: Alexey Kudenko / RIA Novosti / Scanpix
Vorobyovy Gory
Photo: Oksana Aleshina / Lori
Spartak (the newest station)
Photo: Alexander Vilf / RIA Novosti / Scanpix
Park Kultury