SUNDAY - The Metros are the Moscow subways and are the fastest way to get around the city. The metro system is amazingly efficient and fast, with a new train arriving at each station every 45 seconds. The metros handle 9 million Moscow residents every day.
Though sometimes 200 feet below the surface (under the Moscow river and several underground rivers too), the stations of the metro are relatively clean and very beautiful. Retired citizens are issued permanent passes for free metro rides.
Built by the early communist party as a sort of palace of the working class, each station has its own architectural and artistic motif, usually celebrating the state, or a particular region of the former Soviet Union, and the Russian people.
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