Moscow metro passengers will soon be able to get a taste of Chilean poetry: verses from five of Chile’s most famous poets will be available for display on a “Reading Moscow” train.
Moscow metro passengers will soon be able to get a taste of Chilean poetry: verses from five of Chile’s most famous poets will be available for display on a “Reading Moscow” train.
The four carriages will have fragments of verses, photos and biographies of the authors, and the story of the new metro project. The train could enter service as early as next Wednesday. The first carriage will be devoted to Pablo Neruda and Gabriela Mistral and the others to Gonzalo Rojas, Vicente Garcia-Huidobro and Nicanor Parra.
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© RIA Novosti . Mikhail Fomichev
The “Reading Moscow” train has been well-known to Muscovites for a long time. It was unveiled for the first time on May 31, 2008, at the Vorobyovy Gory metro station.
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© RIA Novosti . Vladimir Fedorenko
The Kurskaya Duga train entered service on May 8, 2003, ahead of Victory Day. Its launch was devoted to the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Kursk Battle and the metro workers who were involved in the battle on Prokhorov field.
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© RIA Novosti . Alexei Nikolskiy
The Krasnaya Strela (Red Arrow) train was launched on October 9, 2006, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the first deluxe Moscow-St. Petersburg train. It is colored red, not the usual blue, and the horizontal line on the train is yellow instead of white.
In 2007, the Aquarelle train runs on the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line. The five carriages were covered with the images of flowers and fruit. Inside the carriage, seats and windows have been removed to make space to hang paintings under special lights.
A train in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Moscow metro was introduced on the Sokolnicheskaya line in 2005. The posters in its carriages told about the history of the metro construction.
Five years later, on May 15, 2010, the 75th anniversary was marked by a retro train on the Sokolnicheskaya line that was an exact copy of the first train in 1934.
