ИСТИНА

Moscow Metro presents a complicated mixture of a multi-purpose underground structure. It is primarily a transportation system for more than 9 million passengers a day. It is also an underground museum with its issues of preservation, restoration, authenticity, accessibility, security, vandalism of 48 listed stations (1935-1957). Tours conducted there by professionals and amateurs, by Metro Administration, tourist agencies, web-sites, on foot, by cars – during the day and at night: dozens/day It is a venue for studies and publications on its technology, art, propaganda, psychology, sociology, demography, ecology, geology, geography etc. Moscow Metro is a representation of a complex of features of underground constructions worldwide with convincing messages, especially in Stalinist era.