SoCultures Magazine 2018 SoCultures Magazine November 2018

SoCultures November 2018 India & Russia Every day on a busy day when it’s the peak hour in Moscow, crowds of people pour out into the streets reaching stations in hurry, waiting for their destination trains, entering and leaving the station. Looking at their watches…adjusting to the demands of a busy life... The scene at the metro station is buzzing with all the hustle – bustle…with people of all looks and personalities in colourful fashions and colours can be seen hurriedly walking around. Oh! It’s really an interesting scene at any station —some sipping tea, some reading newspapers, some chatting, some looking worried and some pacing up and down the platform and when the train stamps in, there is huge noise and commotion everywhere. But there is something more to the Russian metro stations apart from this regular scene at a metro station; it’s the stunning art, murals and breathtaking beautiful architecture all around you. And it’s indeed worth talking about. Metro, Murals and Marvels It’s huge! The Moscow Metro transportation system has earned its incredible status of one of the busiest, beautiful and efficient systems in the world. Sometimes, on weekdays, the number goes up to nine million. There are whooping number of stations - approximately two hundred stations and more than three hundred sixty kilometers of tracks. The great story is that forty four of these stations are cultural monuments. Moscow metro stations’ architecture has almost recreated the history, cultures and heritage of Russia. The visions of the 1930s, the years that stood between the changing times…actually these stations have frozen time. It has elevated subjects like the importance of particular districts and development directions over the years. Started with Stalin? So the words of appreciations can go on and on..Cause it’s difficult to put in the words the grandiose and magnificence of the arts works and intricate carvings, rhythm and symmetry of designs…but then how did it all start? 26

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