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The Moscow Metro —Moscow Metro) is an off-street (mostly underground) urban public transport with electric traction, located in Moscow and partly in the Moscow region, the first and largest metro in the USSR, Russia and the CIS countries. The Moscow Metro is the sixth in the world in terms of intensity of use after the Beijing, Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul and Guangzhou metro; the fourth in the world and the first in Europe in terms of the length of the operated lines. The metro is operated by the State Unitary Enterprise "Moscow Metro" (the state unitary enterprise of the city of Moscow "Moscow Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor Metro named after V. I. Lenin").

The first line - Sokolnicheskaya - was inaugurated on May 15, 1935; at the time of launch it numbered 13 stations, had a length of 11.2 km and ran from Sokolniki station to Okhotny Ryad station with a fork branch to Park Kultury and Smolenskaya. For 2021, the metro consists of 14 lines with a total length of 438.6 km in double-track calculation, excluding monorail and MCC. Now there are 250 stations in the Moscow Metro, of which 3 are being reconstructed ("Rizhskaya", "Varshavskaya", "Kashirskaya"); by 2010, 44 stations were recognized as objects of cultural heritage, and more than 40 are architectural monuments.

By 2024, according to the plans of the Moscow government, another 25 stations and 58 kilometers of lines should be built.

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