On May 28, a postage stamp dedicated to the Moscow Metro was put into postal circulation



The Moscow underground railway (Moscow Metro) is rail-based off-street (mostly underground) urban public transport with electric traction, located in Moscow and partially in the Moscow Region. It is historically the first and largest underground railway in the USSR and Russia, and one of the largest in the world.

On May 15 of 1935, the first 11.2 km long metro line between Sokolniki and Park Kultury stations with a branch line to the Smolenskaya station opened in Moscow. The initiator of the construction was the head of the Party organization of the capital L. Kaganovich. In 1935-1938, the construction of sections of the second phase was underway. The first of them was the Smolenskaya - Kievskaya section (opened on March 20 of 1937). Before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Moscow Metro was supplemented with two more lines. The projects of the third phase of the Moscow Metro construction were continued during the War, the work was resumed already in May of 1942. Two sections were put into operation: Ploshchad Sverdlova - Zavod Imeni Stalina (since 1956 - Avtozavodskaya) in January of 1943, and Kurskaya - Izmailovsky Park (since 2005 - Partizanskaya) in January of 1944. After the end of the war, the construction of the fourth phase of the Metro started with the Ring Line and the Arbatskaya deep line from Ploschad Revolutsii to Kievskaya. Soviet architects strived not only to make the stations convenient for passengers, but also to give each of them a unique appearance.

Today, the Moscow Metro consists of 15 lines with the length of about 471.7 km in double-track calculation, not including a monorail track, the Moscow Central Circle and Moscow Central Diameters, and has 271 stations, of which more than 40 stations are cultural heritage monuments.

The postage stamp provides an image of Moscow-2024 cars and a car of Model 81-714 against the background of the symbols of the Moscow underground railway; the coupon features cars of E and A types.

In addition to the issue of the postage stamp, JSC Marka produced First Day Covers and a special cancel for Moscow, as well as a maxi-card.


Design Artist: S. Kapranov.
Face value: 90 rubles.
Stamp size: 58×26 mm, sheet size: 136×128 mm.
Emission form: a sheet with formatted margins with (2×4) 4 stamps and 4 coupons.
Quantity: 60 thousand stamps (15 thousand sheets).

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