'Pobeda' station Moscow is especially famous for the beauty of its subway stations. But, few people know that, in Soviet times, subway systems appeared in several other Russian cities and, sometimes, they were not inferior in decoration to the capital. For example, in Samara, a city with more than a million people.
The subway system in the industrial city of Kuybyshev, as Samara used to be called in Soviet times , was planned to be built before World War II. But, the project design and construction dragged on for decades. Kuybyshev Metro was opened only in 1987.
By that time, subway systems already existed in four cities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic — Moscow, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) and Novosibirsk. Kuybyshev metro was opened on December 26, 1987.
At the 'Pobeda' station Here's what you need to know about the Samara subway system that became the fifth in Russia (and the tenth in the whole Soviet Union). 1. It only consists of one line You can't get lost in the Samara Metro, as there is only one line! It consists of 10 stations with a total length of 11.
6 km. It takes just 22 minutes and 38 rubles (approx. $0.
43) to ride the line from one end to the other. Samara's metro map Samara is an industrial city, stretched quite a bit along the Volga River. The subway does not reach all districts and is not close to the center.
This is, however, not accidental. The original idea was to connect industrial districts and residen.
