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As professional golf continues to be played on mini-tours across the country, Haley Moore became the latest winner on the Cactus Tour.

The former Arizona standout and current LPGA rookie collected $2,500 by defeating 16 other players in the three-day event that concluded Thursday at Sun City (Arizona) Country Club. Moore shot 65-69-65 to finish at 13 under, two shots clear of Sophia Popov.

“I’ve played in these events before I went to Q-School and everything, and I just wanted to stay competitive through this time just because if I go home to California, there’s not really much stuff open right now,” Moore said in a “Golf Central” interview on Thursday evening. “In Arizona, they are keeping the courses open right now, so that’s a good sign. I think that just me being outside doing what I love with golf, I just love it better than just staying inside, but I’m also keeping healthy and staying safe, as well.”

Since the LPGA, PGA Tour and other top tours were halted in mid-March, Moore has teed it up in all three Cactus Tour events in the greater Phoenix area. She said she plans to head back to California for a couple of weeks before potentially returning to Arizona for more Cactus Tour events later in the month.

“I just want to stay competitive and stay sharp with my game,” Moore said, “and then just also stay healthy with my body and everything to get ready for the tour once it starts up again.”

The next Cactus Tour tournament is scheduled for Wednesday-Friday at Western Skies in Gilbert, Arizona. Despite criticism, the mini-tour continues to be played without spectators and with other safety measures in place – twosomes, one player to a cart, pool noodles in holes, no bunkers rakes.

Arizona, in consistency with other states’ stay-at-home laws, currently deems golf as an allowable activity during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s very safe what they’re doing,” Moore said.

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Field breakdown: casino del sol golf classic, some lpga tour players have kept their games sharp by competing on the cactus tour.

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With three LPGA Tour events canceled in Asia out of an abundance of precaution for the coronavirus, players scheduled to compete in Thailand, Singapore and China were left with a lot of time on their hands. Some went home. A few stayed in Australia to make a Ladies European Tour start. Others went to South Florida or Arizona or other warm climates to work on their games.

A few found an unlikely competitive outlet on the Cactus Tour, the southwest developmental circuit that helps a lot of young players prepare their games for the next steps in their careers. This week, that tour saw some unlikely and familiar names on the leaderboard. At the Legends course at Morongo Country Club in Beaumont, Calif., LPGA Tour veteran Carlota Ciganda shot five under par for 54 holes and won the Cactus Tour event by seven shots. Tiffany Joh, who played one round with Ciganda, finished one under and in fifth place while rookie Haley Moore finished T14.

“Yeah, I didn’t realize Carlota was playing,” Joh said. “I got paired with her on Friday (the final round, as the event was played Wednesday through Friday) and I was like, ‘Girl, you just won a million-dollar bonus. What are you doing out here?’ But she hadn’t played the Australian events. So, for the last four months, she’d only played one event in Boca Raton. She wanted to tune up and wanted something to do in the off weeks.”

Joh hadn’t intended to play the Cactus Tour. After the ISPS Handa Australian Women’s Open, she went to New Zealand with her parents for a week. “They already had this trip planned and are going to stay (in New Zealand) for about a month,” Joh said. “So, when I didn’t have anywhere to go, I decided to tag along as the third wheel in their romantic getaway. Alison Whitaker was supposed to provide commentary for Thailand and Singapore, so she went too and hung out with us for a week.”

After sightseeing with family and friends, Joh flew back home to San Diego where she still had three weeks to kill.

“If I don’t have a tournament to prepare for, I have trouble practicing,” Joh said. “I would be a surf bum and live at the beach all day. Then I saw that there are a couple of Cactus Tour events that are pretty close to home. I live in inland San Diego, so Morongo is only about an hour and a half away. It was very commutable. The Cactus Tour is pretty mellow with how you register, so I got in.

“It was really fun. You play in carts and you move fairly fast. And the competition is pretty strong. In one of the rounds, I played with Britany Yada and Caroline Inglis, both of whom have LPGA experience. Caroline is actually making her return to the LPGA Tour in Phoenix. So, she was using this as a comeback tournament.

“The first round I played with Veronica Felibert (another former LPGA Tour player),” Joh said. “Her coach, Jamie Mulligan, was on the bag and we’re kindred spirits because we both love golf and maybe love surfing a little bit more. And he also works with Patrick Cantlay and some others. So, I was talking with him about how people take their golf swings from the practice tee to the course, and we agreed that, honestly, there’s no secret or shortcut. You just have to play in enough events. It’s about learning to score with what you have. How you do that is with competitive reps.

“Everyone has their way of doing it. Some guys are going to play money games at their (home) clubs. I don’t do that because, living in San Diego, I don’t have a lot of pros who live in this area, and I’m not a gambler at all. I just have to play as many competitive rounds as possible. That’s the way I feel prepared. For me, playing these Cactus events is perfect. One day I had a 7:00 a.m. tee time so, even though the wakeup call was 4:00 a.m., I was home at 1:00 and I still got to surf in the evening. That was the best of all worlds.”

Joh was torn about whether or not to play again in the second Cactus Tour event at Morongo (a different course at the same site). But then she checked the surf forecast. When it didn’t look great, she entered.

“I’ll be playing the Cactus Tour again next week,” Joh said. “Getting in the kind of work I need.”

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As if there weren’t enough methods of torture in golf, self-inflicted and otherwise, there’s a new source of frustration in the age of the coronavirus, accompanied by a catchy little term for it: foamed.

Usage: “I hit a great putt on the 14th hole today, but got foamed!”

Mike Brown laughs about it. He is the one-man enterprise who operates the Cactus Tour professional women’s mini-tour in the Southwest, and he’s now heard the lament more often than he can count.

Taking precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic while staging tournaments—to the consternation of some—Brown has followed the practice of other golf courses in the country by inserting cut-down foam into the bottom of the cup so players don’t have to reach far into the hole to retrieve their ball. The trouble is, if the foam sits a bit too high, a ball can actually drop into the cup and pop out.

It’s golf’s new trampoline effect.

“I think it’s the moms who coined the phrase,” Brown said on the phone. “I had one mother say her daughter got ‘foamed’ four times. I told her, ‘I hope she was using protection.’ ”

But seriously, folks.

Brown, who admits to using some colorful language and having a twisted sense of humor, is currently teetering between giddy satisfaction and loopy exhaustion. Ten years ago, he purchased the rights to the Cactus Tour and has been staging about 30 events a year at desert locales in Arizona, California and Nevada.

You wouldn’t recognize most of the names, and the purses are decidedly mini—usually $2,000 to $3,000 to the winner of a 54-hole tournament, with about half the players in pro field getting at least their $577 entry fee back. (Close to 50 percent of recent fields have been amateurs, who pay $206 to enter if they are Cactus members.)

“I know my place,” Brown said. “We’re a steppingstone for these girls. Nothing more, nothing less. They’re chasing their dreams."

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At a time when the top two U.S. women’s professional tours, the LPGA and Symetra Tour, have put tournaments on hold, and no significant amateur golf is being played, Brown has never been busier or his tour more in the spotlight. His counterparts at the Outlaw Tour, the men’s version of the Cactus that also plays in Arizona, are saying the same thing.

“Never in my wildest imagination could I have seen this mini-tour getting this much attention,” Brown said.

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With strong demand from players, Brown has added three tournaments already to the schedule, with more on the way. Usually, by this time in the season, Brown is winding down to take a break and has about a dozen players in the field. But he’s approaching nine straight weeks of play, and this week there were 40 golfers competing at Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, where, even for Arizona, it’s been unseasonably toasty in April, with the temperature for Wednesday’s final round reaching 102.

Brown said he’s heard expressions of gratitude from players and their families while facing the wrath of some in the media and public for staging events at a time when large portions of America are locked down amid a heavy emotional and financial toll.

This past week’s Cactus event was the fifth played since President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency on March 13. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey issued stay-at-home orders on March 31, but designated golf as an “essential” business. Some Arizona courses chose to close, but most have remained open. Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix and is the fourth largest county in the country with 4.4 million residents, has experienced a relatively low number of coronavirus cases—3,723 confirmed as of Thursday, with 140 deaths.

Brown said no Cactus Tour players have reported testing positive for COVID-19.

“I had a lady write me when we played in Sun City saying that I was out there killing people,” Brown said. “That day I had 17 girls playing. There were 291 rounds of golf played on the same course that day. There are just some people who are going to bash it.

“I had some people come from California and their friends thought it was horrible that they were allowing their daughter to play while they had to sit at home and do nothing. That’s the point: You don’t have to do that; you choose to. Last time I looked there wasn’t a gate at the border.”

Asked further about the comments and publicity, Brown said: “It’s been more good than bad. The fact that courses are open and we’re adhering to the rules … I say this all of the time: There’s less chance of you being exposed out here than in a Walmart or Costco. I’ve decided to do what I do as long as I can and work through this.”

Players confirmed in interviews for this story that the Cactus has adhered to strict social-distancing standards. Golfers can use carts, but not ride together. They can’t touch the flagsticks, there is foam in the cups and no rakes in the bunkers. They can buy food in the clubhouse and take it outside, but otherwise there is no pre- or post-round socializing.

Sarah Burnham, a 24-year-old Michigan State alum who was looking forward to her second year on the LPGA in 2020, fortuitously moved to Arizona just weeks before the coronavirus outbreak, and she expressed few qualms about playing the Cactus Tour.

“I wasn’t really too concerned,” Burnham said. “We’ve got the foam in the cups and the other precautions. I carry Purell [hand sanitizer] and stuff, and I’m a little more cautious.

“I don’t feel like we or [Brown] are doing anything wrong [by playing],” she added. “The golf courses are open, and [Brown] is a one-man show. It’s not like he has all of these people out there running it. I was all in for him continuing to play the Cactus Tour.”

Haley Moore, who has seen much of her rookie LPGA season wiped out with tournament cancellations, has been traveling back and forth to Arizona from her home in Escondido, Calif., and staying in either friends’ homes or Airbnb rentals. She said she received a critical social-media post from one friend because she’s playing, but added, “I ignored it. Everyone has their side. I feel like our sport is one of the best at being able to social distance.”

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The upside for Burnham and Moore competing on the Cactus this spring has shown in their play. Moore, the circuit’s 2019 season money champion, won in Sun City on April 2, and Burnham won twice in a three-week span. Burnham got a roll of toilet paper among her prizes for the first one, and she pulled off the second victory in spectacular fashion, making an eagle from two feet on the last hole to edge Symetra Tour player Britney Yada, also a two-time Cactus winner this season.

“All that pressure, it was nerve-wracking,” Burnham said. “Even though this was the Cactus Tour, it felt like an LPGA event. You’re not going to get the same feeling in practice.”

Burnham, by the way, has spent some of her coronavirus downtime working as a shopper at grocery stories for people who make online orders. “I had to do something to not go insane,” she said with a laugh.

With a smattering of LPGA and Symetra Tour veterans getting competitive reps in—eight-time LPGA winner Anna Nordqvist shot 15 under at Moon Valley for a victory in late March—the Cactus Tour record book is being shredded. Less than two weeks ago, Sophia Popov shot an 11-under-par 61 in the opening round at Las Colinas in Queen Creek, Ariz., and backed that up with 69-64, winning by nine shots at 22 under.

“Obliterated our scoring record!” said Brown, noting that in the first 15 years of the tour, four players reached the previous best mark of 17 under.

The record lasted all of seven days. This week, Mina Harigae, a 30-year-old former U.S. Public Links champion who has played 11 seasons on the LPGA, scorched Longbow with a 54-hole total of 24 under with rounds of 63-64-65. Popov was second, nine shots back.

On the morning after, Harigae said she couldn’t remember ever going so low in three consecutive rounds.

“I just felt like I was doing anything I wanted to do,” she said.

Harigae, who lives in Gilbert, Ariz., had something of a home-course advantage as a regular at Longbow since winning there in her AJGA days. Her coach, Jeff Fisher, also is based there. Harigae, who has six Cactus Tour wins in the last four years, had only played in one previous event on the tour this spring, but decided to compete at Longbow because, “emotionally, I was kind of in a funk.”

“I was feeling no motivation,” she said. “I didn't know if we were going to start in June [now July], and even if we did, that's so far away. I played Longbow to give me a change of pace, hoping it would give me some juices flowing. It actually did, so I'm glad I played.”

Brown observed, “I’ve had some people say, 'I can’t believe you're letting these LPGA players take money from the Cactus Tour girls.’ These Cactus Tour girls need to learn how to compete.”

One other thing Brown never saw coming: People making wagers on the Cactus Tour. Odds are being posted and sports books are taking bets from gamblers obviously desperate for any kind of sports action beyond horse racing.

Moore was stunned at first to hear that people were laying down cash on her. The University of Arizona alum who won a national team title with the Wildcats in 2018 has been among the golfers most favored in the odds.

“It’s, like, oh my gosh, we’re getting bet on in Vegas!” Moore said. “I think that motivates us. We could make people a lot of money or if we play like crap, they could lose a lot! It’s crazy.”

There isn’t much that’s not crazy about these times, golf or otherwise.

$10,000 up for grabs in winner-take-all for top cactus tour players, share this article.

Talk about a belated Christmas gift.

Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, Arizona, is putting up $10,000 in a winner-take-all, 18-hole, four-player stroke play exhibition on Sunday in the inaugural Longbow Cactus Cup Championship.

The four golfers are the top four money winners in 2020 from the Cactus Tour, an Arizona-based mini-tour for up-and-coming women’s professionals.

Brittany Yada won the Cactus Tour money title in 2020. She will face off against Haley Moore, Mina Harigae and Savannah Vilaubi. They will play as a foursome.

Fans are invited to attend. There will be no admission charge and everyone will be required to wear masks and observe social distancing.

The Cactus Tour held 38 events in four states this past summer, giving women pros multiple playing opportunities during the pandemic shutdown for the LPGA and Symetra Tours.

The Symetra Tour’s 2020 Founders Tribute at Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, Arizona.

“We are excited to team up with the Cactus Tour for a fourth time in 2020, and welcome four of the top women professional golfers in the region for a season-ending exhibition,” said Bob McNichols, Longbow Golf Club General Manager, said in a statement. “The Cactus Tour made national news for offering professional golfers an opportunity to safely compete during the early days of the pandemic. This is a great opportunity to celebrate what was surely the most successful season in The Cactus Tour history.”

Longbow hosted the Symetra Tour’s Founders Tribute in August. Sarah White birdied the 18th hole to edge Casey Danielson and Sophia Popov by a shot. Popov went on to win the AIG Women’s British Open six days later.

“The Cactus Tour is really looking forward to this day of fun-filled championship golf at one of Arizona’s best courses for competitive golf,” said Mike Brown, Cactus Tour Director. “The Cactus Tour has awarded over $2.5 million to professional women playing in regional competition over the past nine years alone.”

The $10,000 prize would be a big boost for the winner. Yada won five times on the Cactus Tour to earn $25,400. Moore was the 2019 Cactus Tour money winner and finished second in 2020 after making $20,774. Harigae won four times to pocket $12,250, while Vilaubi made $10,900 in prize money.

Harigae holds the Cactus Tour 54-hole record score of -24 after shooting shot 62-63-64 at Longbow Golf Club earlier this year.

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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Moscow metro private tours.

2-hour tour $87: 10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
3-hour tour $137: 20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off.
Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
Have fun time with a very friendly local;
+ Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

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Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

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Drop-off at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
+ Russian lunch in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

Every day each car in Moscow metro passes more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
Moscow subway system is the 5th in the intensity of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is 90 seconds .

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+ A friend in Moscow.
+ Private & customized Moscow tour.
+ An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
+ An authentic experience of local life.
+ Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
+ Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
+ A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
+ Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
+ Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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Touring the Top 10 Moscow Metro Stations

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Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

Moscow subways are very clean

To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow. Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?