Moscow Monorail
with photographs by
Konstantin Ventzlavovich and Anton A. Chigrai
commentary by Kim Pedersen
page one of four
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Welcome to Moscow! Thanks to TMS members Konstantin Ventzlavovich and Anton A. Chigrai, we bring you the following Moscow Monorail photographs and information. We start off with a look at a map of the six-station, 4.7-kilometer system. The stations are, from left to right:
1. Timiryazevskaya (from the name of Timiryazev) - named for a well-known botanist.
2. Ulitsa Milashenkova (Milashenkov street) - named for a WWII pilot.
3. Telecentr (Television center)
4. Ulitsa Akademika Korolyova (Academy member Korolyov street) - named for a famous inventor of the first soviet rockets
5. Vystavochniy centr (Exhibition center)
6. Ulitsa Sergeya Eizenshteyna (Sergey Eizenstain street) - named for a well-known Russian movie director.
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Let's take a tour. We enter the station via this stylish entry, complete with three escalators to the platform.
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The six-car trains are equipped with state of the art features, including air-conditioning, heating, audio- and visual passenger information systems, automatic door operation and are designed for handicapped access. The system is designed to run in a fully-automated mode.
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Each train has a capacity of 200 passengers. The system is designed for 6,000 passengers per hour per direction.
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Note the platform level and train floors match up. Let's take a ride!
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