History of the Moscow Metro
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[edit] Origins
The first plans for a Rapid Transit System in Moscow were formed back in the times of the Russian Empire when the Tsarist administration thought to create a fast rail service that would serve the second capital. The city of Moscow in those times barely resembled what it is now, not only in infrastructure, but also in layout. Also, as advanced tunneling methods were not widely known in the Empire, the system proposed was to be an elevated one resembling the first lines of the Berlin U-Bahn and Paris Metro.
