No other form of public transport is as shrouded in myths as the metro.
If in the West the construction of the metro was approached in a mundane manner, building half-stations, or even leaving stopping points on the surface, then in the USSR these were works of art, real fruits of creative labor.
We'll tell you where the deepest metro station is located.
The Smith-9 Streets station on the New York City subway, located above the Gowanus Canal, opened in 1932.
There is nothing remarkable about this object, except that it is located on the surface of the earth, above the water and at a height of 27 meters.
The builders decided to do this in order to reduce the cost of the project.
When building the Arsenalna metro station in Kyiv, the Soviet leadership decided to take a different path.
As a result, on November 6, 1960, the deepest metro station in the world appeared – 105.5 meters (exactly 5.5 meters deeper than the Puheung station in Pyongyang, DPRK).
You have to go down two escalators, and the entire journey takes more than 5 minutes.
The sculptor Ivan Makogon decorated the lobby and halls with white and pink marble, with forged bars, columns and marble benches.
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