How deep underground is the Moscow Metro?

It is the third metro system in the world (after Madrid and Beijing), which has two ring lines. The system is mostly underground, with the deepest section 84 metres (276 ft) underground at the Park Pobedy station, one of the world's deepest underground stations.



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The standard Moscow metro reached Vnukovo airport only in 2020, while the secret Metro 2 was built much earlier. This secret underground network of bunkers in the Ramenki area, connected via secret metro line, were built in the 1950s and 1960s. Construction was reportedly completed in the late 1960s.

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The depth is attributed to the geography of Kyiv, whose high bank of the Dnieper River rises above the rest of the city.

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Carrying millions of passengers every day, the Moscow Metro is the 8th-largest metro system in the world and the largest outside of China. It is exceedingly well operated, and at peak hours, trains arrive every 90 seconds.

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The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, making it the world's oldest metro system.

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The Shanghai Metro is the world's longest metro network at 803 kilometres (499 mi) and has the highest annual ridership at 2.83 billion trips. The New York City Subway has the greatest number of stations with 472.

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The Moscow city limits are already comparable. Paris's city limits are 105.4 km2, while London's are 1,572 km2. The Moscow city limits are almost twice the size of London's city limits and twenty-five times larger than Paris's.

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Underground City in Ramenki A complex of buildings of the research base of Association Science (NEBO Nauka), built to a depth of between 180 m (590 ft) and 200 m, is the largest underground bunker in Moscow.

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At the time of construction the communists were worried that Prague might be targeted by the West as a great place to drop a nuclear bomb. So they created the metro deep underground to doubly serve as a nuclear bomb shelter.

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THE world's deepest metro, underground station is the Arsenalna Station on the Kiev Metro in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep.

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THE world's deepest metro system is the Pyongyang Metro in North Korea which is 110 meters deep. The tunnel was built as part of an underground military facility. THE world's deepest metro, underground station is the Arsenalna Station on the Kiev Metro in Ukraine, at 107 meters deep.

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