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Alghalayini Group which was established in Amman-Jordan in 1999 now it consists of more than five companies specialized in different fields within Travel and tourism. NASHMI Travel was established in Amman-Jordan 2015 as part of the group specialized as a tour operator (incoming & outgoing) and a wholesaler in both Jordan and Iraqi markets as we opened our branch in Erbil in Jan-2016.

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Touring the Top 10 Moscow Metro Stations

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Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

Moscow subways are very clean

To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?

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Paul Bates Ushers in a New Era of Southern Cool in His Contemporary Birmingham Cottage

The architect's design voice shines through the unpainted oak, balletic curves and a crush of 1930s élan in his hillside home.

His work is innovative, often bold (convince clients to make an entirely black house? Check.), but always consistent in its sure and subtle taste. I think of how architect Gil Schafer has a voice; one can close one’s eyes and know that a house by him will be about the restraint of Charles Platt or perhaps the crisp American elegance of Bulfinch. Likewise the work of Tom Kligerman relates to Lutyens and Voysey, and his investigation of what he can do to move that vocabulary forward. This will come to be said about Bates, in connection to architects from the late 1930s like John Volk and Maurice Fatio, in whose quietly innovative hands classicism became viable for the Atomic Age. If you care about this style and love Palm Beach because of them and Beverly Hills because of Paul Williams, it’s not an exaggeration to say some of the most sophisticated work in the world is coming out of Birmingham, Alabama, in the form of houses by Bates.

His home, which he shares with his husband, Alnashmi “Nashmi” Alketbi, is an example of the deftness with which this architect makes tradition cool. The recipe involves equal parts respecting the past and seeing around corners to find a future more stylish than that past ever actually was (cue the round window). I caught up with Bates at his newly completed residence and spoke about these things—also how a 12-foot high door by David Adler can become a kitchen cabinet and where a young man growing up in the South found glamour and learned to use it.

Paul Bates: When we bought this house, it was just by chance. We were riding by and I said, “Oh, I’d love for us to buy that house one day.” And then six months later, it came on the market. We walked in it once and we bought it. I thought we could move in just as it was, but when we went back a second time, I realized we couldn’t. The beams in the living room were all sort of a dowdy dark brown, and I wasn’t sure what we were going to do. Right after that Nashmi and I went to Paris, and I saw all these examples where they weren’t afraid to paint old beams. So that’s what I did, and it was probably the most important step to freshening things up.

David Netto: I’ve noticed in your work consistently that you have a certain love of what might be called the year 1937. There’s a conversation you’re always having in your design vocabulary with something that happened in architecture right at that moment, in between modernism and tradition.…Is what I’m saying true? How did you learn about this particular moment in architecture that I’m referring to?

PB: I used to watch old movies with my mother. But the other thing I’ve always been interested in is the work of David Adler and buildings of his like the Clow house in Chicago. It was brutal and kind of stark on the outside, but inside it felt modern and clean, if still arranged traditionally. He did it best and I think I just fell in love with that strategy to make traditional houses feel sleeker. My kitchen cabinets here at home were directly inspired by doors at Clow.

DN: One trick I’ve noticed you love is to work in a round window. It is a recurring element in your work, and we have one here in your bathroom.

PB: Pure forms, or forms in their purest state, I always love. Whether it’s a perfectly round window or a room that’s a cube, there’s something about those perfect geometries. I don’t design with them in mind, but I go back to the forms and find a way to bring them in. Also the round window is something we can touch and operate. I always do them so that they pivot if they are accessible to open. People like to engage, and use, whatever is given to them.

DN: There’s something about the stair, very sensual with its solid wall reminiscent of a parapet wall, that has too much glamour to have originally been in this kind of stockbroker Tudor house. Did you put that in?

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PB: I did, yes. We tore out and replaced the stair. Now it’s funny you mention glamour. I’ve always loved glamorous things; when I was growing up, my mother drove a Lincoln Continental Mark IV. It was huge. It was the length of our house practically. And it had oval opera windows in the back. There was something very glamorous about it, and I’ve always aspired to that. But at the same time, there’s this dichotomy going on with me. I’m after sweetness just as much as anything else.

DN: I see that sweetness, although I might have called it humility. That natural wood you love to use, usually white oak, and you never paint it. You did a whole kitchen out of it on another project. Like the oculus window, it’s a signature of yours to use this raw oak a lot, and there’s a humility to that, which goes hand in glove with the glamour.

PB: Well, that’s true. And for me there’s something very genuine about it and authentic. Most important to me is building a relationship with a client and being genuine. I came from the bayou—I don’t want to put on any airs. I also grew up with a dad who was a woodworker, and woodworkers love raw wood. They don’t like to stain it; they don’t like to paint it. You can watch it age as it slowly deepens in color.

DN: Let’s talk about the young energy in this house; for example in details like your doors made of horizontal boards—some of which have a porthole window.

PB: I started doing horizontal planks because it felt a little modern. But because it still seemed traditional, people still felt comfortable and didn’t realize it was modern. If I started out telling somebody, “Oh, I’m going to do this modern room for you,” that’s often not what they want to hear here in the South.

DN: If you wanted to share something with me that was a regret or a mistake, what would that be? Every project has one of those, right?

PB: OK, I’ll tell you. I insisted to Nashmi that “I want this solid Dutch front door.” Because we don’t have many doors on the lower level, I wanted it to relate to the other old oak doors with horizontal planks. Well, when it went up it made things so dark. In the end I had that top half remade with glass lights and folding wood shutters on the inside. So I make mistakes all the time. And life is an experiment. I don’t have that opportunity necessarily to experiment in a chancy way with other people, but I can do it here.

DN: As Julia Child said when she dropped a potato pancake on the table, “Remember you are alone in the kitchen and nobody can see you.”

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The Moscow Metro Museum of Art: 10 Must-See Stations

There are few times one can claim having been on the subway all afternoon and loving it, but the Moscow Metro provides just that opportunity.  While many cities boast famous public transport systems—New York’s subway, London’s underground, San Salvador’s chicken buses—few warrant hours of exploration.  Moscow is different: Take one ride on the Metro, and you’ll find out that this network of railways can be so much more than point A to B drudgery.

The Metro began operating in 1935 with just thirteen stations, covering less than seven miles, but it has since grown into the world’s third busiest transit system ( Tokyo is first ), spanning about 200 miles and offering over 180 stops along the way.  The construction of the Metro began under Joseph Stalin’s command, and being one of the USSR’s most ambitious building projects, the iron-fisted leader instructed designers to create a place full of svet (radiance) and svetloe budushchee (a radiant future), a palace for the people and a tribute to the Mother nation.

Consequently, the Metro is among the most memorable attractions in Moscow.  The stations provide a unique collection of public art, comparable to anything the city’s galleries have to offer and providing a sense of the Soviet era, which is absent from the State National History Museum.  Even better, touring the Metro delivers palpable, experiential moments, which many of us don’t get standing in front of painting or a case of coins.

Though tours are available , discovering the Moscow Metro on your own provides a much more comprehensive, truer experience, something much less sterile than following a guide.  What better place is there to see the “real” Moscow than on mass transit: A few hours will expose you to characters and caricatures you’ll be hard-pressed to find dining near the Bolshoi Theater.  You become part of the attraction, hear it in the screech of the train, feel it as hurried commuters brush by: The Metro sucks you beneath the city and churns you into the mix.

With the recommendations of our born-and-bred Muscovite students, my wife Emma and I have just taken a self-guided tour of what some locals consider the top ten stations of the Moscow Metro. What most satisfied me about our Metro tour was the sense of adventure .  I loved following our route on the maps of the wagon walls as we circled the city, plotting out the course to the subsequent stops; having the weird sensation of being underground for nearly four hours; and discovering the next cavern of treasures, playing Indiana Jones for the afternoon, piecing together fragments of Russia’s mysterious history.  It’s the ultimate interactive museum.

Top Ten Stations (In order of appearance)

Kievskaya station.

Kievskaya Station went public in March of 1937, the rails between it and Park Kultury Station being the first to cross the Moscow River.  Kievskaya is full of mosaics depicting aristocratic scenes of Russian life, with great cameo appearances by Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin.  Each work has a Cyrillic title/explanation etched in the marble beneath it; however, if your Russian is rusty, you can just appreciate seeing familiar revolutionary dates like 1905 ( the Russian Revolution ) and 1917 ( the October Revolution ).

Mayakovskaya Station

Mayakovskaya Station ranks in my top three most notable Metro stations. Mayakovskaya just feels right, done Art Deco but no sense of gaudiness or pretention.  The arches are adorned with rounded chrome piping and create feeling of being in a jukebox, but the roof’s expansive mosaics of the sky are the real showstopper.  Subjects cleverly range from looking up at a high jumper, workers atop a building, spires of Orthodox cathedrals, to nimble aircraft humming by, a fleet of prop planes spelling out CCCP in the bluest of skies.

Novoslobodskaya Station

Novoslobodskaya is the Metro’s unique stained glass station.  Each column has its own distinctive panels of colorful glass, most of them with a floral theme, some of them capturing the odd sailor, musician, artist, gardener, or stenographer in action.  The glass is framed in Art Deco metalwork, and there is the lovely aspect of discovering panels in the less frequented haunches of the hall (on the trackside, between the incoming staircases).  Novosblod is, I’ve been told, the favorite amongst out-of-town visitors.

Komsomolskaya Station

Komsomolskaya Station is one of palatial grandeur.  It seems both magnificent and obligatory, like the presidential palace of a colonial city.  The yellow ceiling has leafy, white concrete garland and a series of golden military mosaics accenting the tile mosaics of glorified Russian life.  Switching lines here, the hallway has an Alice-in-Wonderland feel, impossibly long with decorative tile walls, culminating in a very old station left in a remarkable state of disrepair, offering a really tangible glimpse behind the palace walls.

Dostoevskaya Station

Dostoevskaya is a tribute to the late, great hero of Russian literature .  The station at first glance seems bare and unimpressive, a stark marble platform without a whiff of reassembled chips of tile.  However, two columns have eerie stone inlay collages of scenes from Dostoevsky’s work, including The Idiot , The Brothers Karamazov , and Crime and Punishment.   Then, standing at the center of the platform, the marble creates a kaleidoscope of reflections.  At the entrance, there is a large, inlay portrait of the author.

Chkalovskaya Station

Chkalovskaya does space Art Deco style (yet again).  Chrome borders all.  Passageways with curvy overhangs create the illusion of walking through the belly of a chic, new-age spacecraft.  There are two (kos)mosaics, one at each end, with planetary subjects.  Transferring here brings you above ground, where some rather elaborate metalwork is on display.  By name similarity only, I’d expected Komsolskaya Station to deliver some kosmonaut décor; instead, it was Chkalovskaya that took us up to the space station.

Elektrozavodskaya Station

Elektrozavodskaya is full of marble reliefs of workers, men and women, laboring through the different stages of industry.  The superhuman figures are round with muscles, Hollywood fit, and seemingly undeterred by each Herculean task they respectively perform.  The station is chocked with brass, from hammer and sickle light fixtures to beautiful, angular framework up the innards of the columns.  The station’s art pieces are less clever or extravagant than others, but identifying the different stages of industry is entertaining.

Baumanskaya Statio

Baumanskaya Station is the only stop that wasn’t suggested by the students.  Pulling in, the network of statues was just too enticing: Out of half-circle depressions in the platform’s columns, the USSR’s proud and powerful labor force again flaunts its success.  Pilots, blacksmiths, politicians, and artists have all congregated, posing amongst more Art Deco framing.  At the far end, a massive Soviet flag dons the face of Lenin and banners for ’05, ’17, and ‘45.  Standing in front of the flag, you can play with the echoing roof.

Ploshchad Revolutsii Station

Novokuznetskaya Station

Novokuznetskaya Station finishes off this tour, more or less, where it started: beautiful mosaics.  This station recalls the skyward-facing pieces from Mayakovskaya (Station #2), only with a little larger pictures in a more cramped, very trafficked area.  Due to a line of street lamps in the center of the platform, it has the atmosphere of a bustling market.  The more inventive sky scenes include a man on a ladder, women picking fruit, and a tank-dozer being craned in.  The station’s also has a handsome black-and-white stone mural.

Here is a map and a brief description of our route:

Start at (1)Kievskaya on the “ring line” (look for the squares at the bottom of the platform signs to help you navigate—the ring line is #5, brown line) and go north to Belorusskaya, make a quick switch to the Dark Green/#2 line, and go south one stop to (2)Mayakovskaya.  Backtrack to the ring line—Brown/#5—and continue north, getting off at (3)Novosblodskaya and (4)Komsolskaya.  At Komsolskaya Station, transfer to the Red/#1 line, go south for two stops to Chistye Prudy, and get on the Light Green/#10 line going north.  Take a look at (5)Dostoevskaya Station on the northern segment of Light Green/#10 line then change directions and head south to (6)Chkalovskaya, which offers a transfer to the Dark Blue/#3 line, going west, away from the city center.  Have a look (7)Elektroskaya Station before backtracking into the center of Moscow, stopping off at (8)Baumskaya, getting off the Dark Blue/#3 line at (9)Ploschad Revolyutsii.  Change to the Dark Green/#2 line and go south one stop to see (10)Novokuznetskaya Station.

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Jonathon Engels, formerly a patron saint of misadventure, has been stumbling his way across cultural borders since 2005 and is currently volunteering in the mountains outside of Antigua, Guatemala.  For more of his work, visit his website and blog .

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