Myth of the Ring Line

Legend has it that the Ring Line originated with a cup of coffee. During a planning meeting for the Moscow metropolitan, the engineers presented a map of the Metro's radial lines to Stalin. As he explained the system to him, he sipped his coffee in silence. When they finished, Stalin set his cup down in the center of the engineering plans and walked wordlessly from the room. When the engineers lifted the coffee cup, they discovered Stalin's genius: a circular brown ring defining the line that would complete the city's sprawling underground. To this day, the Moscow Metro's ring line is colored brown on the map.

Whether one believes that story or not, it is impossible to imagine the Moscow Metro without this essential loop around the city center. The line loosely follows the Garden Ring in the South of the city, and pushes beyond it in the north to link with nearly all of Moscow's inter-urban train stations, thus linking Moscow with cities from Tashkent to Tomsk, Vladivostok to Warsaw, all by rail. But the Ring Line, like the rest of the Moscow Metro, is not simply a system of transport: it is a monument to Soviet grandeur and power.

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