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Empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.

When it comes to our mission of empowering everyone on the planet to achieve more, it’s all about the journey. Where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re headed. At the Microsoft Company Store and Visitor Center, we’re excited to take you on that journey.

At the Visitor Center, you can dive into all things Microsoft. Explore the future of AI. Build a new world with Minecraft. Put your gaming skills to the test. Learn more about our company including our journey from garage startup to global technology leader.

Visit today to check out the latest technology and pick-up exclusive Microsoft branded products that you can’t get anywhere else.

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Experience the past, present, and future of Microsoft. Take a self-guided tour, interact with displays and presentations, get hands-on with the latest Xbox games, and bring your imagination to life in our Minecraft display, and more.

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Step in this new space for visual presentations, product demonstrations, and software trainings. Private groups and tours can take a deeper dive into the world of Microsoft.

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Microsoft Company Store

Our company store on Microsoft Campus’ in Redmond feature interactive displays to test out the latest Microsoft products, including the Xbox and Surface product lines, plus Microsoft swag that can’t be found anywhere else.

The Microsoft Company Store and Visitor Center are a great way to understand the past, present and future of Microsoft. We encourage Microsoft teams, business customers and external stakeholders to join us to find out more about Microsoft’s technology. For students and teachers looking to explore even more about our history and our leadership, check out the resources below.

Questions about visiting our space? Call or email our Microsoft Company Store and Visitor Center Reception team at:

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Xbox Launches a 20th Anniversary Site, Including a Museum Exhibit About You

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As part of Microsoft's celebrations surrounding the 20th anniversary of Xbox, the company has launched its own interactive museum. The online space features a number of information-filled exhibits and even one about you, and your Gamertag's history.

Launched by Microsoft on the Xbox website , the virtual treasure trove comes with a number of nifty features that you can use to brush up on your Xbox facts, relive moments of nostalgia from throughout various generations of the console's history, or find out more about your own journey with Xbox.

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Upon loading the site, museum visitors are greeted by a coffee table-based hub packed with different Xbox memorabilia that each takes you to an iconic aspect of Xbox's twenty-year-long history. Via interactive links, users can move around and explore various areas set up to celebrate the studio's key console generations as well as an exhibit on the Halo franchise, and another on you as an Xbox player.

After logging into the site, you can find a range of information about your history personal history with Xbox displayed elegantly through your own curated museum exhibit. The display itself includes a range of information about your time with Xbox, such as data on the different console generations that you've owned, information about your most played games with Microsoft, your achievement history across that time, and more.

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The launch of the Xbox museum features as just another way that Microsoft has been celebrating its trademark console series this year. Earlier in the year, Microsoft announced that it would be partnering with Adidas to create its own Xbox-inspired anniversary sneakers while further celebrations have also included the addition of over seventy games to the studio's backward compatibility service , an anniversary livestream , and insights into the birth of Xbox Game Pass .

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Touring the Microsoft Xbox facilities

So if you hadn't noticed, Peter and I were in Seattle last week — one of the things we were treated to for driving out to Redmond was an all-access tour of the Xbox facilities, courtesy of our main man, Major Nelson. See if you can notice which color plays a central role in the interior design theme of the facilities. Interesting side note: Xbox HQ is off-site from Microsoft's main campus in Redmond — apparently they wanted Xbox to function as its own independent creative unit apart from regular Microsoft operations. Click on for the full tour!

We hear when they shut down for the day this Master Chief statue gets powered on and actually patrols the halls with a Covenant Energy Sword.

The original Xbox trophy case. Memmmorieees.

The halls of the quite expansive three-floor Xbox HQ building. Think we came on trash day.

Yes, these are pallets of Xboxes. International ones though, shipped in straight from China for testing before launch.

This crew right here is who?s watching Live 24x7x365. They?re the ones who make sure every game and service stays up, and act as liasons between the NOC and end user support peeps.

... and if there are any problems, they have a library of every Xbox game every published ready for testing. We tried making off with a couple bins but we were wearing our tight jeans that day.

The central Xbox Live NOC is in an undisclosed location, but at Xbox HQ they have a 350+ server testing environment for developing new versions of Live, as well as debugging problems with the, uh, live version of Live.

One hall proudly displayed flowcharts of every possible 360 screen. We had no idea how many there really were.

And finally we have J. Allard?s conference room. Look familiar ? And yes, believe it or not the 360 shortage hit so hard that even the 360 in the centerpiece isn?t real. Can someone please get J a 360 for Christmahannukwanzaa?

Thanks again to the Major and his crew for their hospitality! Maybe next time we?ll give them a grand tour of the Engadget offices .

Oh, and Sony and Nintendo: we?re still waiting for our tour, you don?t want Microsoft showing you up, now do you?

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Microsoft’s Visitor Center is housed in Building 92 on our main campus in Redmond and is a mix of a hands on environment for the latest technology with a look back at the history of the company. It’s open to all employees and visitors to the Microsoft campus but I decided it was time to open the doors to those who can’t make it out to Redmond. What better way than Photosynth (video I hear you say….maybe next time).

I headed over to the Visitor Center with my trusty Nikon in hand last week and took around 600 photos – hoping to create an amazing synth. It turns out it’s harder to get a synthy synth than I thought and with the low and changing lighting environment of the Visitor Center, it’s made even more tricky. With an hours snapping done, we had real guests knocking on the shutters so I had to pack my gear and get out – hopefully I’ll get back there soon and improve upon the synth but for now, here it is. Note that you can click on the highlighted sections in the right hand panel to zip around the space.

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The Channel 9 Team take you behind-the-scenes of Microsoft's corporate campus in Redmond, WA.

Microsoft Campus Tour: How the Tech Giant’s HQ Reflects an Evolving company Culture

They call it a campus. And as you wander through Microsoft’s sprawling headquarters in Redmond’s Overlake neighborhood, it’s impossible not to compare the encompassing bustle to the energy of a major university.

The company employs over 50,000 people in the Puget Sound region — most of whom work in Redmond — and during lunch hours you’ll find a lot of them lounging in Microsoft’s many cafes and eateries, strolling between buildings and browsing the shops like it’s the weekend in a small town. 

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Over the last few years, reporters have written many tens of thousands of words examining Microsoft’s latest technological offerings, its cultural reorientation and the ongoing construction of a new-look headquarters. With all that focus on the company of late, we decided to take a closer look at Microsoft’s Redmond home, and how its sprawling campus influences its ongoing cultural transformation.

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At the heart of it all

Known as The Commons, Microsoft HQ’s central complex is home to cafes, banks, phone service providers, package shippers, the popular Boardwalk bar and restaurant, and a sports store that services bicycles in the summer and switches to skis and snowboards when there’s snow on the Cascades. The Commons spills onto one of Microsoft’s several sports fields, where employee soccer and cricket leagues are hugely popular.

A global cross section of the world’s varied culinary tastes sprawls across the lower floors, while delegates for this conference or that lecture hurry to and from event spaces upstairs. Unlike many of its Silicon Valley rivals, Microsoft does not provide free food for employees at its Redmond headquarters. The company says people place less value on free meals, so it instead subsidizes the meals on campus to reduce food waste, reflecting a sustainable sensibility distinct to the Pacific Northwest.

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Tech among the trees

The snow-clad peaks of the Cascades — including mounts Rainier and Baker — are often visible above the evergreens from certain points all over Microsoft’s campus, and the company appears to place great value on the landscape it inhabits. Walking trails meander through the clutches of evergreen forest that fill space between office buildings, few of which are over six stories tall in an effort to preserve a natural skyline.

One of the most obvious examples of the company’s emphasis on harmony with nature is a set of so-called treehouse meeting rooms, built in and around clutches of Douglas fir trees. The timber rooms are designed to inject a little calming green into employees’ workdays.

The treehouses are hot property, of course, but that doesn’t mean the rest of Microsoft’s employees lack a daily connection with the natural world. Many workspaces and cafes sit adjacent to little patches of shady evergreen woods, or feature picture windows that can be dark and moody on an overcast day or dappled with sunlight when the weather brightens.

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Where the work gets done

The original iteration of Microsoft’s campus featured a series of X-shaped buildings — now undergoing demolition to make way for the campus renovation — designed to maximize the number of offices with windows. Aside from being an inefficient use of space, the layout reflected a now-antiquated philosophy at the company, where teams and individuals were siloed and encouraged to compete with one another. In the early years, the company’s mission statement simply desired to put a PC on every desk, and in every home.

During the latter part of Steve Ballmer’s tenure as CEO, Microsoft began to change. The mission statement evolved into a more aspirational slogan: “empowering every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.” And recently, much has been made of current CEO Satya Nadella’s role in shifting the mindset of some 50,000 employees in the five years since he took the job: performance reviews now emphasize collaboration as well as individual achievements, company-wide hackathons have replaced the traditional day-long annual meeting. And with a new emphasis on collaboration across teams, the old office layout is disappearing.

In Microsoft’s newer workspaces — which offer a glimpse at the offices that will dominate once the renovations are complete — teams of eight to 12 work together in large pods, with a clutch of phone booths and conference rooms available nearby. Buildings are speckled with informal lounge areas, cafes, games facilities and even music rooms filled with instruments. Timber and glass abound, with atriums designed to deliver as much natural light as possible to every nook and cranny of the space.

This is speaking generally, of course, for Microsoft sprawls across almost 100 buildings in Redmond alone, and there are plenty of notable aberrations from this new rule. The Garage hosts workshops, VR lounges and tools for employees to tinker with personal projects in their spare time. A cybercrime center detects and report harmful activity to the relevant authorities. And a prototyping building hosts, among other things, the quietest room in the world. The ambient noise inside it is only marginally louder — like, a couple of decibels — than the sound of atoms colliding, just one surreal corner of what is a rather surreal corporate headquarters.

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Where is Xbox headquarters?

Details. Xbox Game Studios creates and publishes interactive, intuitive, and wickedly fun games The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington .

Where is the Xbox headquarters located?

Xbox Game Studios (previously known as Microsoft Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, and Microsoft Games) is an American video game publisher and part of the Microsoft Gaming division based in Redmond, Washington.

What company is Xbox owned by?

Xbox is a video gaming brand created and owned by Microsoft.

Who is CEO of Xbox?

After two years co-piloting the biggest acquisition in video game history past an onslaught of challenges, Xbox CEO Phil Spencer now moves on to his next quest: making Microsoft’s takeover of Activision Blizzard worth the hassle.

Is Xbox in Redmond WA?

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The Visitor Center

Take a self-guided tour, interact with displays and presentations, get hands-on with the latest Xbox games, and bring your imagination to life in our Minecraft display, and more.

Is Microsoft in Bellevue or Redmond?

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, WA. The company also has a major workplace presence in Donwtown Bellevue where it leases thousands of square feet of office space across multiple towers.

What franchises does Xbox own now?

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Why is the Xbox one called that?

It is the first Xbox game console to be released in China, specifically in the Shanghai Free-Trade Zone. Microsoft marketed the device as an “all-in-one entertainment system”, hence the name “Xbox One”.

Who is the owner of Microsoft?

Inspired by the January cover of Popular Electronics magazine, friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft – sometimes Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and software – to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer.

Who did Xbox just buy?

NEW YORK — Microsoft has completed its acquisition of video game-maker Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, closing one of the most expensive tech acquisitions in history that could have repercussions across the video game industry.

What was the first Xbox called?

The Xbox was launched it the US on November 15th 2001, then Japan, Europe and Australia in early 2002. Originally titled the ‘DirectX Box’, it was the first American-made console since the Atari Jaguar in the mid-90s. It was also the first console to have a built-in hard drive.

What is the mother company of Xbox?

The Xbox is a home video game console manufactured by Microsoft that is the first installment in the Xbox series of video game consoles.

What is the latest Xbox called?

Xbox Series X is the fastest, most powerful Xbox yet. Xbox Series S offers next-gen performance in the smallest Xbox ever.

Is it worth buying a Series S?

Despite coming in at a super low price point in comparison, the Series S can play all the same games as the more expensive Xbox Series X. As well as saving money, you’ll also save on shelf space – the Xbox Series S is completely disc-less so you need to buy all your games digitally.

What does Xbox stand for?

The story behind the X in Xbox isn’t as mysterious as you might think. The original name was the DirectX box, which came from a group of Microsoft DirectX developers. Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces.

What is the lifespan of the Xbox One?

“According to Microsoft, the Xbox One is designed to last approximately 10 years.

Why was Xbox invented?

Twenty years ago, a small group within Microsoft took on a seemingly audacious ambition at that time: to create a video game console from scratch and take on much more established competitors. Despite many obstacles, Xbox was born.

Is Xbox still being sold?

Microsoft has stopped manufacturing all Xbox One consoles. The software giant originally discontinued the Xbox One X and digital Xbox One S ahead of the Xbox Series X launch, then quietly stopped manufacturing the Xbox One S at the end of 2020, leaving retailers to sell out their remaining stock.

How many companies does Xbox have?

Our 23 game development studios, now including the studios under Bethesda Softworks, focus on delivering great games for everyone, wherever they play – on console, PC, or mobile devices.

How many Xbox One owners are there?

Microsoft has sold 58 million Xbox One units worldwide as of July 2023. The increase in numbers for 2023 is consistent with Microsoft’s projection, seeing as the company sold around 51 million worldwide in 2022, 32 million of which were sold in North America.

Why is Microsoft leaving Bellevue?

On the other hand, Microsoft also said it will not renew its lease at the 26-floor City Center Plaza in Bellevue when it ends in June 2024. The move comes at a time when remote work and slowdown resulting in layoffs have been crucial factors in cutting demands for office space in Seattle and other places.

Where is Microsoft’s massive headquarters?

Redmond, Washington, U.S. As of November 2018, the campus holds 83 buildings. Additional offices in the Eastside suburbs of Seattle are located in Bellevue and Issaquah.

Why is Redmond famous?

Redmond is best known as the home of Microsoft and Nintendo of America.

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Blommer Chocolate to close Chicago factory

Blommer will move its headquarters and a research and development center to the merchandise mart..

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Blommer Chocolate Co. factory at 600 W. Kinzie St. will be closing at the end of May. It opened in 1939 when the company was founded.

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Blommer Chocolate Co. will close its factory in the heart of Chicago at the end of May due to increasing costs of running the aging facility at 600 W. Kinzie St., the company announced on Friday.

It will cut 250 jobs, according to a spokesperson.

“The location and age of the Chicago facility coupled with increasing repair and maintenance of the building and equipment has elevated operating costs and created production reliability issues,” Blommer said in a statement.

Employees learned of the closure Friday afternoon. Several people were seen walking out of the factory carrying pieces of paper with information about next steps.

Some employees will move to other roles within the company, others to competing confectioneries who have agreed to take them on.

“They’ve been working very hard to keep this plant operational for many years. They know the struggles that it’s taken to run something of this vintage,” Robert Karr, senior vice president of Blommer, said. “They’ve taken the news as we have — very hard — in the sense that we’ve all been so committed. And while we don't want this day to come, it’s a sad day, but it’s also a part of the future.”

The factory known for wafting mouth-watering chocolate aromas across downtown Chicago opened in 1939 when the company was founded. The site is also the original manufacturing plant.

Karr said while the loss of the chocolate smell will leave a void downtown, the company is looking forward to the future.

“This is where our headquarters is located so we’re not leaving Chicago,” he said. “We have people when we walk around the neighborhood from all over the world wondering where the chocolate is and we’re all going to miss it. It’s a big part of Chicago.”

‘Missed for sure’

Blommer’s corporate headquarters and lab will remain at the Merchandise Mart. The company said its new research and development center will open at the Mart in fall 2024 and will focus on processing and ingredient research, “concept tasting” and more.

Over the next several years, Blommer will invest $100 million in its remaining production facilities in East Greenville, Pennsylvania; Union City, California; and Campbellford, Ontario in Canada.

Fulton River District residents were shocked at hearing about the closing. Many said the smells from the neighboring factory were a part of their daily routines.

“I guess it’s not going to smell as good around here anymore, unfortunately,” Tom Favero, 26, said. "It’ll be missed for sure.”

Christy Kelly, 36, and Matt Kelly, 38, got used to smelling chocolate and can’t imagine it being gone.

“We call it ‘the terrible factory smell’ ironically because we love it,” Matt Kelly. “We sit on the balcony of our place in the summer and when the wind carries the smell over it’s like the best place on earth.”

“It’s such a bummer," Christy Kelly said. "We’ll have to melt our own chocolate on our stove now.”

Karr, of Blommer, said the factory produced over 200 million pounds of chocolate a year. It officially ceased production Friday, and the equipment will be moved to other facilities.

Overall, according to the company, Blommer employs about 900 people and is the largest cocoa processor and ingredient chocolate supplier in North America.

Candymaking history

Henry Blommer Sr. and his brothers Al and Bernard founded Bloomer in 1939. Their grandfather, Conrad Blommer, a Milwaukee confectioner, opened Blommer Ice Cream, which became Wisconsin Creameries, according to Blommer’s website.

In 2018, Japanese company Fuji Oil Holdings Inc. announced it would purchase Blommer for about $750 million. Then in 2020, the chocolate maker shuttered its store inside the factory to allow expansion of the 270,000-square-foot facility.

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The company has faced its share of setbacks in Chicago. In 2005, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cited Blommer for alleged clean air violations after a citizen complained about odor and emissions. An EPA inspector observed dust from Blommer's grinders “that exceeded limits” for the amount of light obscured by emissions. And the facility has survived a number of fires , most recently in 2020.

But its financial hurdles appeared to have drawn concern from Fuji Oil in January, when it cut its fiscal year net profit forecast, citing high costs at Blommer, according to MarketWatch.

In an investor presentation released Friday, Fuji Oil said the chocolate maker's profitability "deteriorated significantly due to changes in the U.S. labor market, a sharp rise in interest rates, and a sharp increase in manufacturing costs caused by skyrocketing cocoa prices." It also noted "extraordinary losses" of more than $60 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2023.

The shuttering of Blommer’s factory closes another chapter in Chicago’s candymaking history, dating from the late 1800s. Tootsie Rolls, Brach’s, Frango, Wrigley Gum, Fannie May, and Mars Candy all have roots in the city . Fannie May’s first store was in the Loop and Frango mints were produced at Marshall Field's department store on State Street for 70 years.

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Entrance of Blommer Chocolate Co.'s Chicago factory on Friday, March 22.

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The University of Texas plays host to the First & Second Rounds of the NCAA Women's Basketball tournament at Moody Center.

2024 NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP: FIRST AND SECOND ROUNDS Friday, March 22 & Sunday, March 24 Moody Center • Austin, Texas • 2024 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball official bracket

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Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

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The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

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Buying Tickets

  • Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
  • You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
  • There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
  • Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
  • If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
  • You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
  • You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

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Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

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Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

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Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

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One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

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Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

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Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

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Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

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Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

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Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

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Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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Visiting a new city is akin to going on a first date, it is something you will never forget. Many people imagine Moscow as just a bunch of sporadic landmarks: Red Square, the Kremlin, Lenin’s Mausoleum and GUM. There is so much more to this wonderful city than that and even though we only have a few hours, we will do all we can to show you everything we know and love about our capital in one fell swoop. We will take you on a journey through the ages, from centuries ago, right up to the modern day, soaking in the sights of this vast and bustling metropolis. Bright, luxurious and both ancient and modern at the same time, Moscow invites you on a date you’ll never forget!

On our sightseeing bus tour of the city, you will see:

  • The wonderfully historic city centre and its unique museums, magnificent cathedrals, the exquisite Chambers of the Romanov Boyars and of course, the famous towering red brick walls of the Kremlin, The charming beauty of the Alexander Garden awaits the capital's guests - a lush green oasis in the midst of the glass and concrete clad metropolis, basking in the etherial aura emanating from the whitewashed stone walls of the restored Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the world- renowned fairytale onion domes of St. Basil's Cathedral and other impressive monumental buildings such as the library built in Lenin's honour - the Russian State Library - and the State Duma.
  • The Lubyanka KGB headquarters is notorious to members of older generations and although nowadays, the face of the secret police has changed dramatically, the looming enigmatic building on the waterfront maintains its aura of mystery, shrouded in a variety of murky rumours and dark myths. Then, there’s another of Moscow's main attractions - the marvellous Bolshoi Theatre, yew simply cant leave Moscow without taking in its breathtaking architecture. Engrained in the fabric of Russia's cultural heritage, virtuoso performers such as prima ballerina Galina Ulanova, opera singer Feodor Chaliapin and pianist, composer and conductor Sergei Rachmaninoff once stood centre stage of this vaunted institution.
  • The memorial complex on Poklonnaya Hill was constructed in the glory and honour of our heroes who defended our nation in the many crucial battles of the Great Patriotic War (WWII). This is a place that embodies a particularly acute and inextricable link between older ancf younger generations. Moving on to the Moscow International Business Centre, not dubbed ‘Moscow City' for nothing, a true glimpse of the future in the present. This incredible, rather jaw-dropping project in the capital has shown that Moscow has come to accept the age of the skyscraper. Finally, the stunning views from the observation deck at Sparrow Hills will leave professional and amateur photographers alike itching to capture them. How could one resist?

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The president’s sharp-elbowed pitch came as polls show former President Donald J. Trump gaining ground with the crucial voting bloc.

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By Zolan Kanno-Youngs

Reporting from Las Vegas

President Biden on Tuesday began a tour through Nevada and Arizona by championing his economic policies and making a sharp-elbowed pitch to the crucial Hispanic electorate in the two battleground states, saying that former President Donald J. Trump, his Republican rival, “despises Latinos.”

Mr. Biden is seeking to use the trip this week through the Sun Belt to turn what polls have shown to be three of his biggest weaknesses — the economy, immigration and slipping support among Latinos — into strengths. The visit comes as the president has adopted an aggressive new tone as he opens the general election campaign against Mr. Trump.

As he traveled to Reno, Nev., and Las Vegas on Tuesday, Mr. Biden made clear his campaign has its eye on Latino voters, who are increasingly gravitating toward Mr. Trump, recent polls have found.

“This guy despises Latinos,” Mr. Biden said in an interview with Univision Radio that aired on Tuesday as he criticized Mr. Trump’s economic policies and proposals to launch mass deportations. “I understand Latino values.”

Mr. Biden’s remarks, among the most strident the president has made toward Mr. Trump on the subject, highlighted the fierce battle for an increasingly up-for-grabs voting bloc. And they illustrated the stakes for the president and his party if Latinos turn away from them, a shift that would threaten to unravel the diverse coalition that has delivered Democrats the White House, as well as a plethora of House and Senate seats, in recent years.

Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, accused Mr. Biden of caring more “about illegal immigrant criminals than American citizens.”

“President Trump will secure the southern border and deport illegal criminals to protect ALL American citizens,” Ms. Leavitt said in a statement.

Latino voters are particularly crucial in states like Nevada and Arizona, where they make up roughly one in four eligible voters and where Mr. Biden won in 2020. But Mr. Trump has found support in the diverse Latino electorate, including among evangelicals and those focused on border security. He has appealed in particular to those without college degrees, an educational divide that has captured the attention of the White House.

Surveys show Mr. Trump winning more than 40 percent of Latino voters, a level not achieved by a Republican in two decades. Some polls even show Mr. Trump ahead of Mr. Biden among Latino voters after Mr. Biden won nearly 60 percent of their vote in 2020.

“People like to be entertained and sometimes Donald Trump, what he does is it provides that entertainment. People like laugh at his rallies, you know, it’s like they’re going to a circus,” Arizona Democratic Party chairwoman Yolanda Bejarano told reporters in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday. “We just need to be very, very focused and you know, make sure that Latinos understand exactly who Donald Trump is and what a danger he presents to us.”

Mr. Biden’s campaign aides believe they can contrast the president with his predecessor by homing in not just on issues like abortion and the economy but also on what the president’s aides once viewed as a political vulnerability: immigration and the border. In a memo written by Mr. Biden’s campaign manager, Julie Chávez Rodríguez , his approach on immigration is listed as a primary way to “contrast on the issues that matter most to Western voters.”

In the interview with Univision, Mr. Biden attacked Mr. Trump’s comments saying migrants are “not people.” He also said Mr. Trump was to blame for encouraging Republicans to sink legislation that would have imposed sweeping restrictions at the southwestern border, partly to avoid providing Mr. Biden an election-year win.

“He says immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood’ of this country, separated children from parents at the border, caged the kids, planned mass deportations systems,” Mr. Biden said. “We have to stop this guy. We can’t let this happen. We are a nation of immigrants.”

While Mr. Biden has recently shifted his language around immigration to the right, he also emphasized his efforts to provide undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship.

John Tuman, a professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who focuses on the Latino electorate, said that was necessary in a state with voters interested in hearing about reforming the overall immigration system.

“It pays dividends politically to push immigration from the margins to the center,” Mr. Tuman said.

But Andrea Masnata, a 34-year-old Nevada resident who immigrated from Bolivia, said she and many Latino peers were not enthused with either candidate. She had also noticed Latinos increasingly becoming disengaged with the Democratic Party, said Ms. Masnata, the communications director for Make the Road Action in Nevada, a grass-roots group of Latinos and other working-class people of color.

“It’s a clear statement of the disappointment the community has,” Ms. Masnata said, adding that many of her peers were concerned about grocery and housing prices, and the administration using immigration as a political talking point. “They know we have one option that is less threatening to our community, but they don’t feel backed by President Biden, either.”

Like the overall electorate in Nevada, Mr. Tuman said, Latino voters want to see progress on the economy, including job growth and lower housing costs.

Mr. Biden visited Washoe County, the home of Reno and Nevada’s lone swing county, where he said Mr. Trump would work to undo the Biden administration’s agenda. At the same time, his campaign kicked off a program called Latinos con Biden-Harris, which will organize Latino voters in battleground states with significant Hispanic communities, including Nevada, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Wisconsin. It will focus on Mexican Americans, Venezuelan Americans and Puerto Ricans.

Mr. Biden later traveled to Stupak Community Center in Las Vegas, where he spoke of his efforts to cut housing costs.

In a sign of how the White House hoped his economic message would appeal to Latino voters, Mr. Biden was introduced by Juan Pablo Leos Soria, a member of a union for plasterers and cement masons, who rallied the crowd by saying he was on his way to soon buying a home.

“I know he’s making this a reality for so many people just like me,” Mr. Leos Soria said.

But Mr. Biden can do little to change mortgage rates — they are heavily influenced by the Federal Reserve. The average 30-year mortgage rate jumped to nearly 8 percent last fall from below 3 percent in 2021. It now sits just under 7 percent.

Mr. Biden once again called on Congress to pass a mortgage relief credit that would give first-time homeowners a $10,000 tax credit. He promoted his coronavirus stimulus plan, which invested $1 billion in Nevada to help provide affordable housing and lower housing costs. And he said his new budget proposal would include a $20 billion grant fund for affordable housing.

Mr. Biden later traveled to a Mexican restaurant in Phoenix and brought with him a blunt message.

“You’re the reason why in large part I beat Donald Trump,” Mr. Biden said at an event meant to rally Latino voters. “I need you badly.”

Zolan Kanno-Youngs is a White House correspondent, covering President Biden and his administration. More about Zolan Kanno-Youngs

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Presidential Race

No Labels, the group that for months has pledged to run a centrist presidential ticket in the event of a rematch between President Biden and former President Donald Trump, is running out of time to recruit a presidential candidate  after a string of rejections.

Biden’s re-election campaign had $71 million on hand at the end of February, more than double the money in Trump’s campaign account, as he continued to expand his fund-raising advantage  over his rival.

Trump indicated that he was likely to back a 15-week federal ban on abortion , with exceptions for rape, incest and life-threatening emergencies.

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Ohio will almost certainly go for Trump this November. Senator Sherrod Brown, the last Democrat holding statewide office, will need to defy the gravity of the presidential contest  to win a fourth term.

March 19 was the biggest primary night since Super Tuesday, and there were few surprises in the results. Here are the key takeaways .

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