Published on: 2026-10-19
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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At the Moscow Transport Advanced Development Center on October 22 at 19:00, an educational meeting will take place where participants will learn more about the formation of the capital’s metro. The speaker will be engineer, metro historian, and tour guide of the “Metro Tours” project Vladimir Goraychuk.
The expert will explain how the construction of the section from the Sokolniki metro station to Park Kultury, with a branch to Smolenskaya, marked the beginning of a new era in the development of urban transport and laid the foundations of the domestic school of metro construction.
Listeners will be explained why the decision to create the metro in Moscow was made specifically in the early 1930s and what difficulties the first designers and builders faced. Special attention will be paid to foreign experience, including tunnel construction technologies previously used in the construction of European metros, and the principles of the domestic metro-building school, which are still used in the development of the Moscow Metro.
In addition, participants will learn about the challenging geological conditions in which the first stations and tunnels were built. For example, metro builders had to work with water-saturated soils — quicksands — which significantly complicated the excavation process.
To attend the lecture, registration is required at link until 23:59 on October 21. To attend the event, you need to have the original passport. The number of seats is limited, so registration may close early.
To find out how the capital has changed over the past few years, what initiatives aimed at making city life even more comfortable are currently being implemented, and what awaits Moscow and its residents in the near future, you can refer to the large-scale special project on the portal mos.ru, dedicated to the development of key sectors of Moscow. Among them are transport, industry, healthcare, education, sports, and construction sector.
Project “Transport” will be of interest to everyone who wants to learn about the key stages of development in this field, support for electric transport, and the development of the route network.
In recent years, Moscow’s public transport has become more comfortable and environmentally friendly, travel time around the city has significantly decreased, and infrastructure for private electric vehicles has appeared.
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