This is the easier map to look at to understand the city's layout. I'm a 15-minute walk from Kuzminki Station. It's down at the bottom, right-hand corner of the map (on the purple line).
A few of my different work sites:
- Park Kultury (bottom left, red line, attached to the brown circle)
- Shabolovskaya (bottom left, orange line)
- Dynamo (top right, green line)
- Rechnoy Vokzal (top right, green line)
- Kurskaya (middle right, blue line)
And our office is located not far from Pushkinskaya (where the purple line meets the green line).
The following map is a little difficult to understand, but it's basically the same system laid out in a more accurate way.
The metro is pretty sweet. It opened back in 1935, has 12 lines, 180 miles of track, and 177 stations. I'll take some pictures of the stations for you to see - some of them are pretty fantastic, but they're all crowded during the day. The system serves about 7 million people everyday. You can buy a one way ticket for 22 rubles (61 cents), or you can buy a longer term ticket. You walk up to the gates, flash your ticket card over the machine, and it allows you through.
Be careful though; if you:
A) go on the wrong side of the machine,
B) don't scan your ticket correctly, or
C) try just running through,
then the gate slams on you, plays a cute song, and a uniformed grandmom comes up to harass you.
It's a super easy system to use; everything is clearly labeled. Also, the announcer's voice is easy to understand. Speaking of, if you're going into the center of the city, it's a male voice, but if you're leaving the center, it's a female voice. If you're on the circle line, you hear a man speaking when you're going clockwise, and a woman when you're going counterclockwise.
