Fun fact: people living in Moscow usually name the nearest metro station when you ask about their adress)

When it comes to the population of Moscow, as a rule, incorrect figures are given. The fact is that in Russia, the population count in a city is based on the number of people who are registered in that city. In fact, the population of Moscow is much larger, more than 20 million people.

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I had 2 weeks in Moscow. I can say that I am in love with the transportation system. I never needed any taxi or car. You can simply go to random metro station and go wherever you want. Greetings from Türkiye

I literally dont ever need a car in Moscow. I can get everywhere by public transport. Free wifi is everywhere, free charging ports...

i freakin love Moscow metro, you can pin-point your arrival time within 2-3 minute margin at all times

As an expat I lived in Moscow for 15 years from 2005. The transformation of the city and speed of it was insane. Especially after 2010 with the election of new mayor Sobyanin whose still running the city with amazing efficiency. I took metro to my office and most of my business meetings. One thing I always remember and pointed to my friends visiting Russia was that, once a metro train left the platform, before its rear red lights dissapeared out of sight in the tunnel, you could see lights of the new train coming from the other end of the tunnel. I love Moscow, my favourite city in the whole world.

watching as an employee of a transit system in florida and i cant help but cry, bravo moscow and the russians for such a beautiful smart eficent network.

You forgot consider three lines of aeroexpress from central Moscow to airports and also electric ferries.

Fun fact. The word "koltsevaya linia" translates to english as "ring line". So the orbital lanes name for us russians are: - Ring line - Big Ring line - Moscow Central Ring (officially called Moscow Central Circle)

I've once heard a joke: "If subway in Moscow stopped working for a day, everyone would get lost immidiately". That's so true as no one really knows how to get around the city by streets

Our elephant!!!🇷🇺🗣️🔥

Is actually take the 4.5 hour gap as a positive thing. Maintenance is very important esp with cleaning and repairs. NYC struggles with cleanliness and sees massive disruptions in service when maintenance needs to occur

Kudos for pronouncing all those difficult names of the lines! Just a sidenote: people living in Moscow almost never use those names, they just call them "red line", yellow line", or "salad (green) line" (not to be mistaken with simply "green line"). When a new line is planned, there's a big debate about which color to choose, because it's hard to find a color that wasn't already used and could be easily named by an everyman.

Now living in Moscow I can confirm this is so true. It's so much easier than London, Paris, New York etc not to mention beautiful, clean and spacious!

As a local, I can say one more awesome thing that no one is talking about. Museums and art galleries have huge collections and are absolutely free if you are under 25 (Everyone can issue a "Pushkin card" for free and pay for tickets from her account, which is replenished at the expense of the state once a year) The opportunity to see with your own eyes the treasures of Troy, paintings of the 15th century, real mummies, hundreds of dinosaur skeletons, a collection of the rarest minerals in the world for free is amazing Or, for example, one of the world's largest zoos, which costs $ 5 for adults and is free for children in which you can sometimes be allowed to feed a flamingo or a giraffe.

As a student I can say, that some categories of people can pay even less money, about 500 rubles or 5 dollars per month. That saves a lot of money, because every day I'm going to the other side of the city to get to my university

And if you have a Troika card, you can use the same card on a bus, metro and ferry, for just about 50p per journey of any distance within the city. The suburban trains are also frequent, and there’s a bike hire system. It’s easy, so easy to get around Moscow by public.

И вот я живу в Москве, я все это знаю, я пользуюсь всем общественным транспортом города, и не могу понять, почему я слушаю и смотрю этот ролик)

I'm from Russia myself, but even I was interested in listening and learning a few new things. Thank you very much for your work!

I live in Moscow for 23 years now. And sometimes, I got a feeling by communicating with residents, that at least 50% of them doesn't even know how to get from A to B by roads. They simply use metro all the time, it gets them everywhere they ever want. It's a shame tho, Moscow is as beautiful on the surface as beneath it.

It is worth noting that the orbital design is not only in Moscow's public transport, but also in the roads and layout of the city.

Lived in Moscow my entire life, and its metro is the feature that i miss the most now that im away. Sometimes I used to get on a central ring line (the one on the ground) and just take a ride to look out of the window cause its so comfortable

This video is incredibly well-designed! :) Thank you so much for having made it - learnt a lot! Keep up the incredible work, and I wish you all the very best!

As a resident of Moscow and an employee of the Moscow metro, I confirm that the video reflects reality.

thank god, Zamoskrovetskaya line finally gets new "Moskva 2024" trains, such a relief for ears

I'm from Moscow, and I should note that the Troika card (a travel pass for all types of transport) costs only 19,500 rubles ($207) for a year. In addition, this annual pass allows you to rent city rental bicycles for free, and can also be replaced if lost (you must register in advance in the mobile application).

All of Moscow is waiting for the metro to connect Moscow to St. Petersburg

Fun detail: In peak times, around 7-9 AM, when the train leaves the station you can already see the headlights of the next train. On some lines the usual time between trains are closer to 50 seconds.

Thank you! So nice to hear somone across the board acknowleges our public transport system! At the same time I agree with about the traffic problems. Some people just can't get off their cars XD. Thoug most of the roads have special line for public transport so even traffic is not that big of a problem for busses.

Comment from Moscow, thanks for your video! :)

Moscow public transportation is amazing. The best I have ever seen and used. Many cities should learn from it. It is very easy to understand it for a foreigner. St. Petersburgh and Kazan's pub transport are great as well

Theres a reason there is a series of Books and Video Games set arouns the Moscow Metro system.

Sometimes when I’m in a certain mood I board the last train car (it usually has no more than 10 people in it) on the Circle (aka Koltsevaya) line and just chill for about an hour enjoying the Metro sounds.

Заебись, внатуре лучший город Земли. Спасибо дедам за такой родной город.

The best thing About mcc and mcd is that unlike metro trains, they have toilets

4:46 correction: there are 16 night bus routes they travel from 12AM to 5 AM

Such a good video, brief and informative, thank you for sharing this!

By the way it's really easy to establish a time when a train comes using yandex maps, it also made it really easy to choose the wagon which doesn't have a crowd in it. Public transport in Moscow is extremely comfortable, there are many chargers in buses, wagons etc

As Moscow resident, i must say, that cirle lines do a great work. I live at south-west corner of city, the end of red line, and worked at Aviamotornaya at south-east. With introduction of Big Cirle Line my journey to work became shorter by 30 minutes. An additional spare hour per day! And it greatly improved situation in city center and radial lines.

Arguably the best metro in the world. Considering how big the city is, the fact that you can get from point to point so easy was very impressive when I visited. I heard it is consistently getting expanded too

One of the important part of transport system in Moscow at spring-summer-autumn are scooters which are available everywhere. You can simply rent an electrical scooter using mobile phone and move anywhere around. The price is ultra cheap

Hi! We also have electric scooters in the capital that we can rent. And yes, we have a really serious problem with traffic jams on the roads. And yet, even in the dead of night, cars make a lot of noise. Thank you for the video about Moscow! (Russia💖💖)

The circle design is actually how most cities were found in early days, because circle is the easiest to defend. Then it expanded and again expanded, and we have a city that was built on that basis, circles. Good for metro, good for defense, but horrible for cars. As I recall, most US cities are designed in blocks, heck, even St. Petersburg was designed like that. This is optimal for cars, but makes the city large and inconvenient for pedestrians

Thanks for that representative video 🙏🏼 it was insanely interesting to find real facts about our transportation system from the foreigner’s point of view. Many thanks, this video sould be more viral so I comment in case of that. One more fact: during the rush hour its almost a 30 seconds gap between trains in metro.

Seems like amazing place to bar hop around with friends on Saturday, I can imagine.

It’s very nice and pleasant to see, that people overboard interested in my beloved city and country 🌞

Important point to note: the original design and the core idea of Moscow's transport system its a Soviet design. Its centered arround people's need, and its meant to connect neighborhoods and therefore the people, and not just workers to their workplaces, like western metro systems.

I used to live in Moscow. I was there when the MCC opened, it was extremely useful. I really liked the public transport there. But driving, especially on the ring roads is HELL. I think Moscow's public transport is underappreciated on youtube, but I still can't forgive them for what they did to the trolleybuses. Also, you missed the new electric ferries, but those aren't that important

I never thought about that, thanks for the video!

As a person who was born and raised in Moscow (I'm still here lol), it makes me really happy to see Moscow talked about :] Hi everyone!!

I live in Belarus and in morning rush hours intervals are about 1 minute or slightly more. Very convenient

so happy to see some russian representation that doesn't demonize us. thank you so much 🙂

the amount of effort and engineering that went into this is insane ... and also i have used this rented cars before it is amazing

New York cannot even dream about this kind of public transportation organization. It was very surprising to me when I visited NYC-dirty metro with weird people everywhere. We, Russians, thankfully are very spoiled by magnificence and cleanliness of Moscows subway

Every European city is "Insanely Well Designed" compared to American ones...

7:33 "Lodz" is a small city of 680k inhabitants in poland. The fact that the traffic congestion is among the biggest cities in Europe is ridiculous. Its so bad people brag about how special it is.

Thanks for the vid. If I may add, there is also public river trams in Moscow right now)

You forgot to mention the river ferry transport that are now a part of the public transportation system too! Brand new, clean, all-year! Also, there is free wifi and charging USB outlets on buses and metro, not to mention how clean the transport is! I absolutely LOVE the M2 bus line, you can literally ride from Botanical gardens on the North through Mira ave, Jremlin, Bolshoi up to Arbat, and Victory Park - within 40 minutes while enjoying the most wonderful view of this beautiful city! The buses are allowed to use a separate line, so they're not subject to traffic jams. Oh I just absolutely love this city, best city in the world 🌎❤

You forgot about river trams, that are also electrical and works round the year and also part of troika rides

I've been to Moscow last year and can say that it's beautiful! So many changes since my previous visit in 2005.

Can you make on of the public transport in madrid? Great video, love it

Speaking about troika card and a price per trip. If you're a student, pensioner or a disabled person you have a special card with amazing prices - around 5 dollars for months pf using metro, around 9 dollars for everything else. It really saves tones of money for those who need it the most)

Good job with making this video Don't hear very often something good about my city from westerns

8:20 car sharing service in Russia let you rent cars not hourly, but for minutes. Some of them have option for "fixed rate" rides that work like Uber: you pay fixed price to go from point A to B. Costs almost the same as taxi though...

As a russian student that everyday ride from one end of MCD to the center of the city to my uni, it is very convenient and smart transport system, and I pay only 10$ a month. At the same time the amount of people in rush hours is insane! Thank you for video, it is great!

Man, so interesting! Continue to do same content!

Few notes from the citizen of Moscow: 1) Speaking about Electrobuses, Moscow used to have the largest trolleybus system in Europe until 2010-s. Now it's gone (despite the campaigns) and majorly replaced with regular buses, while electric ones are only a third, so in the end it became worse for the ecology. 2) MCD lines are refurbished suburban train lines with new trains, upgraded platforms and integrated ticket system, though it's not the case for some stations and trains, especially on recently opened line (D4 has the worst trains for now). D5 is the special case as it is initially planned to open as two separated parts with plans of building underground tunnel connecting them in the future. Old suburban train lines were not in good condition though. 3) Many transfers between new metro stations are too long (longer than it's needed to stretch passenger flow) and in some cases there's only ground transfer which is not comfortable. 4) While trams themselves are updated, that's not the case for the infrastructure. Maintenance happens very late and there have been no new tram routes in decades...

Btw in Moscow there is also a huge amount of electric scooters, which anyone can can rent like cars. The parking stations of the scooters are close to the metro stations and other places like shopping malls... So after using metro you can just switch to the scooter and reach any destination you need very quickly) and it’s extremely cheap!

1:21 is the Nakhimovsky Prospect (Avenue of Admiral Nakhimov), the station I was born and raised at, and spent my whole childhood and youth riding from

Been there as a tourist, LOVED the city, loved the transportation infrastructures.

as a person who has lived in Moscow since birth, I can say that I can get anywhere in the city in less than an hour. until I found out that it is not so convenient in other countries, I thought it went without saying, but it turns out that I was very lucky to be born in Moscow.

I live in Saint-P, it's way worse here in terms of public transport. But the Moscow officials say they want to expand their MCD up to our city for convenience. That would be quite a feat, hope they'll do.

Fascinating! This is awesome. Commented. Liked. Subscribed. 🙂

While watching this video I was riding in the Moscow metro, changing from mcc to bcl and then to zamoskvoretskaya. Interesting video, no irony, I cried.

I live in los Angeles and they close the Metro from 2am to 4am for maintenance, so from 2 to 5 is not to bad since that metro system is use more constantly through the day/months/years

Because ussr had centralised planning and socialism and planned whole cities from scratch. It's not just metro, it's factories, schools, hospitals, workers clubs and libraries, cultural buildings and parks.

In the end of January 2024, Vnukovo station opened. Now one can get by metro right to the airport (which is further then the suburb area). I think, Sheremet‘evo and Domodedovo stations should be waiting for its turn to be built. Also, this year opened an all-year line of the river transport („river tram“ we call it). So there is another extremely convenient connection now- and insanely beautiful because of the sightview, the Moscow river goes throughout the whole city center!

As a russian, i really like our underground, really comfortable and safe.

wow moscow. how clean their subway is is insane. cleanest in the world in my book

BMW driving on the sidewalk to avoid the traffic jam 9:37 Some things are the same around the world...

I am glad they mentioned it at the end, because my experience in Moscow is just waiting in traffic jams the whole time. I live so far away from the metro that taking it is impossible for most journeys. Very different experience to this video. On the pro side from my experience is that it’s really well priced and beautiful (although don’t ask about the prisoners that built most of the central stations)

I enjoyed your video, nice job! Except I don't use face recognition to enter the metro, because I've noticed it takes a long time to register for other passengers, I simply carry my trusty troika in my pocket when I'm out. Privet from Moscow!

I lived in Moscow for a few years and I loved it, the transport is the best I’ve ever seen and I’ve lived in a lot of places. The city is also very walkable and beautiful, as well as the rest of the country.

Another amazing thing about Moscow is that city is also spacy and green. Buildings stand afar from each other, leaving large amount of territory for plants. Moscow out of the old city center is also a one wonderful park!

Watching it from the Moscow metro train!❤

good work! i live in Moscow, love the city, not going to leave anytime soon to live anywhere else

So strange but refreshing to hear a South African accent in this type of UKposts video. Keep it up!

i'd also like to add that when you are going to the stations where you've never been before it can get mad confusing, but there are SOOOO MANY sighs just everywhere so it really feels like someone takes your hard and leads you to where you need

I haven’t been to Moscow, but my mothers side of the family lives in St Petersburg, they also have an incredible metro system there snd it’s basically the only transportation I need to use whenever I visit

Great video, thank you!

Wow, great video! Was really surprised to see something nice about Moscow at a time like this. It's a shame it won't get the views it deserves.

When metro/tube was built they were digging under streets and houses and in some cases they had to put a lot of support structures underground for a lot of buildings in the center, there are amazing photos about it as well as some houses were moved from their places - it was huge and very serious project.

Omg, guys it’s so cute if you say something cool about Russian because last time I think everyone can talk only about war. Thanks for a video, I live in Moscow and this video amused me ❤

I really liked the video, and It felt kind of entertaining to watch since this reminds me of metro 2033, and how the metro map looked like the one showed in the games (it was based on irl)

7:36 Moscow is the first biggest city in Europe. Istanbul is only half in Europe.

Moscow is on the river. There are electric river boats as a part of public transport system as well. Big and very interesting topic.

thats why i like Moscow + night vibe, when on the whole metro platform only you and couple-dozens people.

Wow! You explained something I had noticed but couldn't explain.

watching this while taking a ride to college on Moscow Central Line