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May 15 is the birthday of the Moscow metro 🚍

It was on this day in 1935 that the first train set off. The first stage of the metro consisted of 13 stations: the main line ran from Sokolniki to Park Kultury, and there was also a branch to Smolenskaya.

The data on the first passengers varies. The newspapers wrote that these were the metro builders themselves. The newsreel also included a worker of the Krasny Proletary plant, Pyotr Nikolaevich Latyshev, who bought ticket number 1 of series A at the Sokolniki station.

On the first day, the metro was visited by tens of thousands of people, but in the following days the number of passengers decreased. By the beginning of World War II, the metro carried only 14% of passengers, and most Muscovites continued to use the tram.

By the way, at the very beginning of the war, the metro was almost destroyed by order of Kaganovich, when the Germans came close to the city. On October 16, the metro did not work for the first time since 1935, but by evening the panic subsided and the order to destroy it was canceled.

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