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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.

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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UK Government’s top scientist tours Durham campus

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The UK Government’s top scientist has toured science facilities on our campus, meeting staff and students and hearing about the research being undertaken.

Professor Dame Angela McLean, the UK Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser (GCSA), visited our departments of Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Biosiences, Computer Science and Mathematical Sciences.

Strength across the sciences

During her tour, Dame Angela learned about Durham’s strengths in quantum technology, energy, smart soils, biomolecular interactions, biochemistry and robotics and automation.

She met many of our leading researchers, and had lunch with some early career researchers.

The visit was led by Professor Clive Roberts, our Executive Dean for Science, and Professor Dagou Zeze, Deputy Executive Dean (Research).

Look closer at science at Durham

Our Science Faculty is home to a diverse community of staff and students, across eight academic departments. Our research impacts society, transforming lives for the better.

Natural Sciences at Durham was recently ranked 92 nd in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024. Earth and Marine Sciences ranked joint 48 th , Physics and Astronomy 69 th , Psychology 74 th , and Geology and Geophysics both in the top 100.

Our ambitious Science Transformation programme will ensure that, as we mark 100 years of the science campus at Durham University, we make an even more significant contribution to the challenges facing society in future.

Find out more

• Explore more about our Faculty of Science
• Meet our new Executive Dean for Science, Professor Clive Roberts
• Read more about the work of Professor Dame Angela McLean

UK Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Dame Angela McLean with colleagues in the Department of Biosciences

UK Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Dame Angela McLean with Professor Toby Breckon in the Department of Computer Science

UK Chief Scientific Adviser Professor Dame Angela McLean with Science Faculty colleagues at the Mathematical Sciences and Computer Science building

Brazil-Mexico Soccer Game Coming To Kyle Field Has Potential To Break Attendance Record

If there’s one thing Aggies can do, it’s fill all 102,733 seats at Kyle Field for Texas A&M Football. Now Athletics Director Trev Alberts puts the challenge out to A&M and surrounding areas, Texas and beyond to break an attendance record for the upcoming Brazil vs. Mexico soccer match at Kyle Field June 8.

The game is part of a five-city U.S. tour, the MexTour , for the Mexican national men’s soccer team in advance of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The current MexTour attendance record of 90,526 was set in 2010 at Pasadena’s Rose Bowl Stadium against New Zealand.

In anticipation of the match at Texas A&M this summer, former international soccer players Emerson da Rosa from Brazil and Pavel Pardo from Mexico visited campus last week to tour Kyle Field and get to know Aggieland.

During their two-day stay in College Station, accompanied by ESPN soccer commentator and Texas A&M graduate Fernando Palomo , the players visited Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park on April 30 to watch Aggie Men’s Baseball and, while they were there, learned the meaning of “saw ‘em off.”

Pardo and da Rosa were joined by Alberts at a press conference at Kyle Field during their visit. The players were asked what they thought about the stadium — Kyle Field is the largest in Texas and one of the largest in the nation — as well as the campus as a whole. “We are like Aggies now,” Pardo joked. “Congratulations, because all the things you do [at Texas A&M], all the people, it’s amazing. …Part of the game, when you are there on the field, it’s like you say here: ‘the 12th Man.’ That’s very important. For me, when I step on the field with a crowded stadium, it’s amazing.”

Da Rosa was equally complimentary of A&M’s environment. “This place is really special,” he said. “Congratulations on the great structure and for the passion that runs through here. …We hope that Brazil will present itself very well here.”

Alberts thanked the players for their visit to campus and said, “We’re incredibly honored to get to host, this is a really big deal for us. …Kyle Field is a pretty special place, so if you’re going to do something on Kyle Field, it has to be pretty special, something like this.

“And by the way,” he added, “I like breaking records, so can we today announce that we want to break the MexTour attendance record? …This is an international university, we have impact across the globe…so this is a remarkable opportunity for us to participate, to continue growing the brand of Texas A&M as an institution and as an athletic department.”

Alberts and the players discussed their hopes to grow the popularity of soccer in the U.S., noting these types of events can stimulate greater interest in the sport. They noted MexTour games traditionally have fans from 30 different states who are buying tickets, in addition to many countries, so it’s a true international event.

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Trump’s comparison of student protests to Jan. 6 is part of effort to downplay Capitol attack

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at the Waukesha County Expo Center in Waukesha, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Pro Palestinian students lock arms, sing and chant as they braced for New York Police Department officers to raid campus after Columbia University President Minouche Shafik called on the NYPD to dismantle encampments and remove individuals from Hamilton Hall, Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in New York. (Seyma Bayram via AP)

Students with the Gaza solidarity encampment block the entrance of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after taking over it on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in New York. Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine called for mobilization close to midnight. Students have been occupying part of campus since calling for the university to divest from institutions that have ties to Israel. (Marco Postigo Storel via AP)

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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump this week lamented the possibility that Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian protesters could be treated more leniently than the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, marking the second time the former president has invoked the ongoing campus protests to downplay past examples of right-wing violence.

Speaking Tuesday in the hallway outside a Manhattan courtroom where his criminal hush money trial is taking place, Trump questioned whether student demonstrators who had seized and barricaded a campus building , some of them vandalizing it in the process, would be treated the same way as his supporters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop certification of the presidential results.

“I think I can give you the answer right now,” he said. “And that’s why people have lost faith in our court system.”

Trump’s remarks demonstrate anew how he and the Republican Party have tried to minimize the deadliest assault on the seat of American power in over 200 years, arguing that violent or criminal behavior by the left is a larger threat. Trump has called the rioters “unbelievable patriots” and has talked openly about the prospect of issuing pardons if he wins a second term.

His comments come as he runs to reclaim the White House and is juggling charges in four separate criminal cases. They promote his position that the charges are being orchestrated by Democrats to keep him out of the White House and that he and his supporters are the targets of political persecution by a fundamentally corrupt justice system.

What to know about student protests

• What’s happening: Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up at many college campuses following the arrest of demonstrators in April at Columbia University.
• Why : The students are protesting the war’s death toll and are calling for universities to separate themselves from any companies that are advancing Israel’s military efforts in Gaza.
• On campus : As students around the country protest, student journalists are covering their peers in a moment of uncertainty.

“They took over a building. That is a big deal,” Trump said of the Columbia protesters. “And I wonder if what’s going to happen to them will be anything comparable to what happened to J6, because they’re doing a lot of destruction, a lot of damages, a lot of people getting hurt very badly. I wonder if that’s going to be the same kind of treatment they gave J6. Let’s see how that all works out.”

Hours later, New York police stormed the campus building the protesters had occupied and arrested several dozen people. The scene prompted Trump during a Wednesday rally in Wisconsin to characterize New York as being “under siege” the night before.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said those who had taken over the Columbia building would face charges that included burglary, trespassing and criminal mischief. In the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, more than 1,350 people have been charged with federal crimes. Over 800 have been sentenced, with roughly two-thirds receiving terms of imprisonment ranging from a few days to 22 years . According to the Justice Department, 89 have pleaded guilty to federal felony charges of assaulting law enforcement officers.

Legal scholars and political scientists said Trump’s strategy could help his campaign, but point out there are stark differences between Jan. 6 and the campus protests against the Israel-Hamas war. College students have gathered in encampments on Columbia and other campuses to call for a ceasefire and demand their universities cut financial ties to Israel.

“The Columbia protests are not aimed at stopping the peaceful transition of power following an election, so they do not threaten the functioning of U.S. democracy,” said Richard Hasen, an expert in election law and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles law school.

Hakeem Jefferson, an assistant professor of political science at Stanford University, said the demonstrations at a Columbia building that also was occupied during a civil rights protest in the 1960s reflect a long tradition of college students “pushing on the conscience” of their country.

“This is a tradition of protest. Disruptive, to be sure. Annoying to university administrators, to be sure,” Jefferson said. “To the contrary, what happened on January the 6th was a violent attempt to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. There is no tradition of that in American history. It is unprecedented. And that is why we should, of course, treat it differently.”

Some of the recent campus protests have erupted into clashes with police, and hundreds of students have been arrested. Protesters in some parts of the country have hurled water bottles or other objects at officers, and police have deployed chemical agents to disperse crowds or carried them away amid screams.

Trump’s remarks build on a strategy of Republicans and conservative social media influencers to reframe what constitutes an insurrection as part of an ongoing attempt to influence the public’s perception of Jan. 6. They have used the term to describe public demonstrations and even the 2020 election that put Democrat Joe Biden in the White House.

Students with the Gaza Solidarity Encampment block the entrance of Hamilton Hall at Columbia University after taking it over on Tuesday, April 30, 2024 in New York. (Marco Postigo Storel via AP)

Some social media users on Tuesday called the takeover of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall an “insurrection,” and said the media wouldn’t describe it that way because the views of the protesters aligned with the political left. Fox News used the reference in an article Tuesday about the student protesters, reporting that “the insurrection began at approximately 12:30 a.m.”

Legal experts say the term “insurrection” has a specific meaning — a violent uprising that targets government authority — and that protests that do not involve an attempt to dismantle or replace a government shouldn’t be classified that way.

Tuesday was the second time in a week that Trump has compared the campus protests to past examples of right-wing violence.

Last week, he claimed the deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where torch-wielding white supremacists chanted “Jews will not replace us” was “nothing” compared to the antisemitism displayed at the campus protests.

“The hate wasn’t the kind of hate that you have here,” he said.

He returned to the reference in his comment outside court on Tuesday, saying, “Charlottesville is peanuts compared to what you’re looking at now.”

The campus protests have pitted students against one another, and videos show instances of demonstrators making antisemitic remarks and violent threats. Some Jewish students say the hateful rhetoric has made them afraid to set foot on campus.

Meanwhile, organizers of the protests, some of whom are Jewish, say it is a peaceful movement aimed at defending Palestinian rights and protesting the war.

Columbia University on Tuesday said students occupying Hamilton Hall would face expulsion.

“Protesters have chosen to escalate to an untenable situation — vandalizing property, breaking doors and windows, and blockading entrances — and we are following through with the consequences we outlined yesterday,” said Ben Chang, the university’s spokesperson.

Associated Press writer Melissa Goldin in New York contributed to this report.

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