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APOLLO BROWN & PHILMORE GREENE – COST OF LIVING TOUR 2023

24 October 2023 – Hamburg (Germany) – Hebebühne

25 October 2023 – Berlin (Germany) – Cassiopeia

27 October 2023 – Vienna (Austria) – Flex

28 October 2023 – Linz (Austria) – KAPU

29 October 2023 – Zurich (Switzerland) – Werk 21 Dynamo

30 October 2023 – Munich (Germany) – Strom

31 October 2023 – Cologne (Germany) – Veedel Club

1 November 2023 – Paris (France) – New Morning

2 November 2023 – Toulouse (France) – Connexion Live

3 November 2023 – Brussels (Belgium) – BXL CENTRAL

4 November 2023 – Munster (Germany) – Skaters Palace

APOLLO BROWN’s BEAT LIFE III feat. STU BANGAS

10 March 2023 – Bergamo (Italy) – INK Club

11 March 2023 – Bolzano (Italy) – Pippo Stage

12 March 2023 – Bologna (Italy) – Sghetto Club

APOLLO BROWN & FRIENDS feat. Skyzoo, Guilty Simpson & Rapper Big Pooh

19 August 2022 – Vienna (Austria) – Flex Club

20 August 2022 – Royal Arena Festival

21 August 2022 – Cologne (Germany) – Veedel

22 August 2022 – Berlin (Germany) – Cassiopeia

23 August 2022 – London (UK) – The Jazz Cafe

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Apollo Brown is currently touring across 2 countries and has 2 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at GrooveStation in Dresden, after that they'll be at New Morning in Paris.

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It was a beautiful event and Apollo rocked it. And he took the time to talk to people after the show. The atmosphere was really good too And the place has a a nice staff and a good sound system.

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THIS INTERVIEW with Apollo Brown: Homecoming – Part 2

Referring to Apollo Brown as simply a music producer is, when you think about it, a bit undersold. Acclaimed throughout the music industry, especially in the Hip Hop community, the Grand Rapids, MI native turned Detroit icon is the living embodiment of sound creativity and sonic unity. Apollo is an instrument of togetherness. (Read that again)

Having traveled the world, gracing stages of the highest regard, Apollo brings the feelings of every vibe he’s ever felt into fined tuned embroidery. Recording artists anxiously request his tailoring to match their vocal outfits, like those found on albums The Easy Truth , This Must Be the Place , and the breathtaking Sincerely, Detroit .

We caught up with Apollo Brown for THIS INTERVIEW ahead of his homecoming concert in Grand Rapids at The Pyramid Scheme (Dec. 2, 2022), an event he co-headlines with comrade super producer, fellow Grand Rapids native/iconic Detroit resident, and life-long best friend Bronze Nazareth .

Apollo Brown, you’re returning to your hometown of Grand Rapids, MI to co-headline a homecoming concert at The Pyramid Scheme with Bronze Nazareth. How are you feeling about it?

I’m feeling good! I’m feeling real good! Over my long career I’ve only performed in Grand Rapids one time.

Really??!!!

Yeah! I did show some years back with Vinnie Paz and Ill Bill. I was on tour with them. But that was the only show I’ve done there in my whole career. So, I’m excited and nervous at the same time. This is the original hometown. I’m an Ottawa Hills graduate! I came out in 1998 and I’ve been in Detroit ever since.

How often do you go back to Grand Rapids?

I go back every now-and-then. My sister still lives there, but my folks don’t live there anymore. They’re in Florida. I don’t really have a lot of people to come home to. A lot of people that I knew and grew up with have moved out. They’re in different states, they’re all over the place. I try to get to Grand Rapids when I can but it’s not often. So, I’m excited for this show.

Tell us about your relationship with Bronze.

Bronze and I grew up together. We grew up in the same neighborhood and I’ve known him my whole life. That’s my brother. There’s no one in my life that I’ve known longer than him. There’s no one in my life that I’ve been through as much stuff and things in life as him. That’s my best friend. Being able to come back home and do a show together, that’s great! That’s amazing !

You have this rich, endearing personal relationship, but you have an equally connected professional relationship too. You’ve performed together countless times before, right?

We’ve done shows together on tour overseas, we’ve done shows together other places. It’s just crazy that we’ve never done a show together in Grand Rapids!

The greenroom in The Pyramid Scheme has a lot of stickers, signatures, and other visual representation of artists who have performed there before. None of them, though, can eclipse the aura left behind by Bronze’s brother, the late great Kevlaar 7.

Man… I’ve known him all my life too. Me and Bronze being together all the time, naturally the older brother is there too. He was another close friend of mine growing up. Being older than us he obviously had his own set of friends, but as we all got older, we all kind of came together.

I still get butterflies in my stomach when I think of Kev. Gone way, way, way too soon.

Kev was one of the many prominent artists in Grand Rapids who left heavy footprints on its music scene, especially at that venue. How often over the years have those artists from GR attempted to build a bridge to you in Detroit?

Monk Matthaeus always reaches out to me and wants to do different things, or just to see how I’m doing. Me and Monk, and his brother Dave, we go way back. There are different artists from the city that we went to high school with, like Willie The Kid and La The Darkman. There’s definitely people who reach out, but nothing ever materializes until now.

I would love to keep doing shows in Grand Rapids and keep coming back. I’d like to invest in Grand Rapids and invest in the Hip Hop community in Grand Rapids. | THIS ENT

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James Brown Live at the Apollo – a classic report from the vaults

"A re you ready for Star Time?" exclaimed MC Lucas "Fats" Gonder from the stage of Harlem's Apollo on 24 October, 1962. The eager crowd of 1,500 yelled affirmatively and Fats launched into his now epochal introduction:

"Thank you and thank you very kindly. It's indeed a great pleasure to present to you at this particular time, nationally and internationally known as the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business, the man who sings I'll Go Crazy! Try Me! You've Got the Power! Think! If You Want Me! I Don't Mind! Bewildered! Million-dollar seller, Lost Someone! The very latest release, Night Train! Let's everybody shout and shimmy! Mr Dynamite, the amazing Mr Please Please himself, the star of the show, James Brown and the Famous Flames!"

It was an apposite overture to perhaps the greatest live soul album ever recorded. Two days into the Cuban missile crisis, this equally sweat-inducing affair was rocking the Apollo. That night James Brown worked – harder than he'd worked in his life. In fact, the live album was a big gamble. Bankrolled by Brown himself, if it failed he risked financial ruin. Success, though, whispered sweet promises of escape from the gruelling chitlin' circuit and a wide open door into the lucrative white market.

In 1962, Brown's status was certainly impressive. From 1956, with Please Please Please , he'd recorded a string of million-selling singles for King Records. The sales figures for his LPs though were dramatically less; between 5,000 and 10,000. Performing about 300 gigs a year, Brown had forged a formidable following and by the very early 60s was anointed the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business. Quite simply, the man worked his show – the live performances were electric.

Subsequently Brown's logic was: capture the live magic on wax and sell it. Today, he remembers: "The songs were a lot different live. Any artist, if he's really got his act together, his live show will be twice as good as the record. And I tried to convince King Records." Concert albums, though, were a very rare breed at the time. Indeed, at King Records, boss Syd Nathan's preferred thinking was: if a live album is available in record stores, why go to the gigs?

So Nathan – also famously tight – vetoed the project. But Brown was adamant, stumping up the cash himself for the recording and also renting the Apollo, which cost $5,700, in the region of $70,000 in today's currency. Bobby Byrd of the Famous Flames recalls: "James was very intense because he was booking the Apollo himself. He had everyone in tuxedos." James Brown and the Famous Flames started their Apollo residency on 19 October but decided to record their performances on Wednesday 24. This was the raucous amateur night, as Byrd explains: "You got a crowd of people that's really ready to go."

Equipment was hired from Manhattan's A1 Sound, and microphones were dangled just above the crowd to catch their gasps and whoops. Then James Brown and band hit the stage. The resultant recording of their performances on that Wednesday night unquestionably shows Brown as a master of his art.

Switching from short, wild instrumental vamps to hot, sweaty ballads, the atmosphere is feverish. The extraordinary drama and pace of a James Brown show is caught as he exhausts his audience, preaching about the heights of passion or the depths of frustration and loss. The centrepiece of the concert is the 10-minute Lost Someone . Brilliantly stretching out this febrile ballad, he scorches it with a myriad of emotions. Brown's mesmerising relationship with the crowd is palpable: "I feel so good I wanna SCREAM!" he hollers, as they attempt to out-scream James Brown himself. The show finishes with a runaway version of Night Train , the track heavyweight champ Sonny Liston trained to.

The recording of that Wednesday's shows was not without its obstacles though. In one of the early performances an elderly woman, just below a microphone, repeatedly screamed: "Sing it, motherfucker!" Debating this dilemma between performances, the band realised she was actually an asset, encouraging the rest of the audience to shriek louder. So King's vice-president, Hal Neely, bribed her with popcorn into attending the other shows, although he discreetly moved the microphone out of cussing range. Bobby Byrd: "She brought the house down, she was a big part of the album."

As owner of the recordings, Brown forced Nathan to buy the tapes from him. But Nathan wasn't impressed. Brown: "He didn't like the way we went from one tune to another without stopping … I guess he was expecting exact copies of our earlier records, but with people politely applauding in between." Once Nathan finally agreed to press 5,000 copies of the album, both men argued about the promotional single. James Brown: "Mr Nathan was waiting to see which tune the radio stations were going to play from the album, and then he would shoot it out as a single. I said, 'We're not going to take any singles off it. Sell it the way it is.'"

Amazingly, the radio DJs, encouraged by the audience, started playing the whole album, dropping in commercials in between the first and second side. Bobby Byrd: "People were calling in, they really wanted to hear the whole thing, the excitement and everything." The recording was so palpably alive, the radio listeners could almost see the rapt crowd and yellow spotlight on James Brown as he knelt, head bowed, holding the microphone stand with both hands, and imploring, "I lost someone!"

Live at the Apollo subsequently sold millions of copies by word of mouth, climbing to No 2 on the pop album charts, just behind Andy Williams's Days of Wine and Roses. It catapulted Brown out of the chitlin' circuit and attracted those much-coveted white fans. Also, as Bobby Byrd remembers: "Everybody started doing live albums, everybody jumped on the bandwagon." James Brown went on to perform in a multitude of arenas and stadiums, in Vietnam and Africa, for presidents, and on television shows beamed to millions. But on a cold night in October 1962, in front of 1,500 hungry Harlemites, he really ripped the roof off the sucker.

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Two music icons, James Brown and the Apollo Theater, both steeped in rich history and community, bringing out the best in each other: That's what you'll hear on the brand-new collection, JAMES BROWN BEST OF LIVE AT THE APOLLO: 50TH ANNIVERSARY. This anniversary edition showcases 12 tracks from Brown's three landmark albums recorded at the historic building: Live At the Apollo (recorded 1962, released 1963), Live At The Apollo Vol. II (recorded 1967, released 1968), and Revolution Of The Mind: Recorded Live At The Apollo Vol. III (recorded and released 1971), and includes two unreleased tracks taken from the live album Get Down At The Apollo with The J.B.'s: Live At The Apollo Vol. IV. The latter was recorded September 1972, but was ultimately never released.

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Introduction of moscow subway system (metro).

Nowadays the Moscow Metro has 12 lines, light subway and monorail. All stations are unique and beautiful in their own way. Unfortunately, in order to visit them all, you need to spend many days. I invite guests to visit the ones that have the greatest cultural and historical interest from my point of view. Among them are the Revolution Square, Arbatskaya, Kievskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line № 3); Kievskaya, Belarusskaya, Novoslobodskaya, Komsomolskaya (the Ring line number 5). Let us dwell a bit on each.

Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line

Subway station "revolution square".

Most recently - in the year 2008-2010 – the Eastern lobby was renovated. Because of the terrorist attacks in the Moscow subway that took place several hours before the planned opening of the East lobby after renovation, the solemn part of the event was canceled.

Subway station Arbatskaya

Subway Arbatskaya is located on the same subway line as the station "Revolution Square." It was founded in 1953. It received the name in honor of the Arbat Street. It has one ground lobby (Western). Initially, the lobby was in a separate building, but the new building of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense started, the lobby appeared to be in its atrium. The old exits were bricked up; a new entrance was built into the building of General Staff of the street Vozdvizhenka. There is a huge frame with a missing portrait in the ground lobby - until mid-1950 there was a portrait of Stalin. According to some reports, it survived, but closed with plaster.

The lobby was restored and partially reconstructed in 2007-2008.

The depth of the station is 41 meters.

Pylons are finished with red marble at the bottom, decorated with bouquets of flowers made from ceramics. The floor is laid out with gray granite. The walls lined with glazed ceramic tiles, white top and black bottom. The station hall is illuminated by massive bronze chandeliers in the form of rings.

Subway station Kievskaya

There are several subway stations "Kievskaya" in Moscow, located on different branches. This name is quite popular. It comes from the capital of Ukraine - one of Russia's nearest neighbors - the city of Kiev. The name is fully consistent with the idea of the subway station. The interior the station devoted to Soviet Ukraine and the reunification of Ukraine and Russia. The station is decorated with a large number of paintings .Twenty four murals depicting workers of Soviet Ukraine are placed on the arch above the pylons. The wall from the side of platform also contains frescos, mainly with images of fantastic plants. Pylons are decorated with light marble and additionally decorated with colorful ceramic cornice. The butt of the station has a large mosaic, depicting festivities to celebrate the 300 anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine and Russia.

Opened in 1953, this subway station for a long time was the final (1953-2003).

The station has one lobby, combined with the station ring line and located in the building of the Kievskaya railway station. The diameter of the central hall station is 9.5 m, the diameter of side one is 8.5 m. The depth of the station is 38 meters.

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It opened in 1954. The station received its name after the Kiev station, and locked the Ring line. During the construction of the station many projects were proposed, but the victory in the competition won the Kiev architects who made the construction of the station. It is the only station of the Ring Line which is not located in the Central Administrative District of Moscow.

The station has a pylon structure. Eighteen pylons are decorated with mosaic panels of glazes, decorated on the theme of Ukrainian history and friendship between the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, which started in the mid-17 century.

On the front wall of the central hall of the station a large panel with molding in the form of flags and a mosaic portrait of Lenin in the center are located. There are lines of the Soviet national anthem around the portrait, and under the portrait - the words of Lenin. One of the ways out of the station was designed by French architects modeled on the Paris Subway in 2006.

At one of the mosaics – “The Struggle for Soviet power in Ukraine "- modern passengers observe a mobile phone and PDA in the hand of one of the guerrillas, and on his knees - a laptop. In fact, he uses a field telephone, which was really a heavy thing (guerrillas holds it in two hands), and thing that people see a laptop is the lid of a box with a telephone. However, these phones have begun to produce only in the second half of the 20-ies of XX century. We must assume that the mosaic depicts a foreign field telephone transmitter.

Subway station Belorusskaya

The founded of the station was in 1952. It received the name after the Belarusian railway station nearby. The station has two ground-based lobbies. The Western one goes to Tverskaya  Zastava. It is decorated with beautiful carvings. The Eastern one leads to Butyrskiy shaft and Forest Street. The Eastern lobby is known for its majolica panels.

The station Belorusskaya is located at a depth of 42.5 m below ground. The diameter of the central hall is 9.5 meters.

Pylons are faced with light marble. The walls lined with white ceramic tiles, the floor is covered with ceramic tiles, gray, white and red colors. Lamps placed on pylons, in the form of vases made of glass and marble. The theme of decoration is economy and culture of Belarus. Decorative pattern on the floor repeats the theme of traditional Belarusian embroidery. Decorations of the ceiling consist of stucco decorations and 12 mosaic panels depicting the life of the Belarusian people.

Subway station Novoslobodskaya

Built in 1952, Subway station Novoslobodskaya got its name from the eponymous street:  the station is located at the very beginning of it.

Novoslobodskaya is pylon station of deep foundation (its depth is 40 m) with three arches.

Exit to the street is through the ground lobby with column portico, located on Novoslobodskaya Street lined with gray marble. Pylons of the underground station are faced with marble from the Urals. Thirty two spectacularly illuminated stained-glasses, placed inside the pylon and bordered by steel and gilt brass are splendid decoration of the station. A remarkable mosaic "World Peace" is located at the end of the central hall. The picture depicts a happy mother with a baby in her arms; it was the face of Stalin at the picture: the child gave a hand to him. But in times of Khrushchev the face of the former leader of USSR was removed from the panel. The walls are lined with bright marble; floor is covered with white and black granite slabs, placed in a checkerboard pattern.

Subway station Komsomolskaya

The station was built in 1952 and named in honor of the Komsomolskaya Square, which is situated nearby.

This subway station is the station of the deep bedding. Its depth is 37 meters. The station has column and three- arched design. Cast iron decoration is used in the construction, monolithic slab used as a tray for a collapsible finishing. The length of the boarding hall is 190 meters; width of it is 10 meters. There are 68 octagonal columns at station.

The main theme of the interior of the station is the fighting of the Russian people for their independence. The ceiling is decorated with eight station mosaic mural made from glazes and precious stones. Six of them represent the Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, Alexander Suvorov and Mikhail Kutuzov, the Soviet soldiers and officers at the walls of the Reichstag.

 Two other panels, depicting Stalin ("Victory Parade" and "Presentation of the Guards Banner"), were replaced after the dethronement of Stalin's personality cult in 1963. New panels depict Lenin's speech in front of the Red Guards and the Motherland on the background of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower.

The yellow ceiling is decorated with mosaic and moldings. The hall is illuminated by massive chandeliers hanging between the panels; platforms are illuminated with smaller chandeliers. The columns are decorated with marble capitals and trimmed with light marble, as well as the wall station. The floor is laid with pink granite. There is a bust of Lenin at the end of the hall. At the opposite end of the escalator is a large Florentine mosaic of the Order of Victory with red banners on the background. The ground lobby of the station is decorated with bas-reliefs.

In conclusion...

Each of the stations of the Moscow subway is attractive and interesting in its own way. Each has its own long and fascinating history and is beautifully decorated. The Moscow subway is a whole world, which can be talking about for hours. I suggest you short - no more than one hour and a half - and a fascinating journey through the world of the Moscow subway. The pleasure is guaranteed!

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Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

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This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

We did the tour with Anna her knowledge and understanding of the History surrounding the metro brought the tour alive. Well done Anna!

This tour was amazing!

Anna was a great tour guide. She gave us heaps of interesting information, was very friendly, and very kindly showed us how to get to our next tour.

Amazing beauty and history.

An excellent tour helped by an absolutely amazing guide. Anna gave a great insight into the history of the metro helped by additional material she had prepared.

great tour and guide - thanks again

great will do it again, Miriam ke was very good as a guide she has lived here all here life so knew every interesting detail.a good day

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Moscow Metro

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 Tour

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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)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• 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 .

What you get:

• + 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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