Moscow Metro Station Tour

In Moscow, metro stations have palace airs, including Canadian photographer David Burdeny captures the whole size of Russia

Under the streets Moscow , there is a whole other universe of opulent architecture that visitors must absolutely discover: the metro stations . These are not the kind of visits you would think about at first sight, but the metro stations in the Russian capital are extremely beautiful, from an architectural point of view.

David Burdeny , an architect who became a photographer from Canada, believes that he was the first photographer to have been allowed to take pictures of the subway stations after hours of service, when they were closed to users. He had the chance to immortalize the beauty of these stations without the presence of passengers. It took the help of producers of the English television program Top Gear , who makes a documentary on the Russian metro, so that he can get an authorization.

The metro Moscow , which opened in 1935, was designed to be a great Soviet propaganda project. Opulent architectural designs were designed to provide for a bright future for the empire, as the guiding principles of design were "svet" (light) and "sveltloe budushchee" (big future or promising future). Many stations have busts of Soviet leaders such as Lenin or mural paintings with classic Soviet propaganda elements such as Homo sovieticus .

David Burdeny's photo series A Bright Future: New Works from Russia , was relayed by the site FastCoDesign , on which the artist explains that "the first stations to be built are not necessarily inspired by constructivism; They're almost religious. The following are then inspired by the art deco » .

Taganskaya Metro Station, Moscow

Elektrozavodskaïa Metro Station, Moscow

Komsomolskaya Metro Station, Moscow

Mayakovskaya Metro Station, Moscow

Novolobodskaya Metro Station, Moscow

Arbatskaya Metro Station, Moscow

Kiyevsskaya Metro Station, Moscow

Sokol Metro Station, Moscow

Kiyevsskaya Metro Station (east), Moscow