Russia-IC brings you some tit-bits about the Moscow Metro:
      
      
      8,745 million passengers use the Moscow metro daily.
      
      The metro map features 12 lines and 171 metro stations.
      
      The overall length in both ways totals 277,9km.
      
      The longest line is the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line, with 41.2km.
      
      The shortest line is Kakhovskaya, with 3.3km.
      
      The deepest-lying station is Park Pobedy.
      
      Closest to the earth is Planernaya and Prospekt Vernadskogo.
      
      The longest platform is Vorobyovy Gory – 282m long.
      
      Video monitoring is done at 136 stations and 103 passages.
      
      The largest distance between the stations is between Volgogradsky Prospekt and Tekstilshchiki, with 3.4km.
      
      The shortest distance lies between Aleksandrovsky Sad and Arbatskaya, with 0.5km.
      
      There are 613 elevators operating at the stations. If joined in one line, they would run to 64.7km.
      
      The longest 126m elevator is situated at Park Pobedy.
      
      The minimum interval between trains is 90 seconds.
      
      The average distance of a passenger is 13km.
      
      35,211 – 17,675 men and 17,536 women – work for the Moscow subway.
      
      There are 46 medical centres under the ground.
      
      New information and warning systems are being installed. Video equipment is also being placed inside the cars.
      
      There will be wi-fi hotspots available on some of the central stations.