Transport in Moscow, the Glossary
Transport in Moscow includes buses, trams, subway system, motorways, trains, helicopters and planes to provide connectivity between Moscow's districts and beyond.[1]
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68 relations: Bicycle-sharing system, Bus, Carsharing in Moscow, Central Suburban Passenger Company, Chandelier, Commuter rail, Electric buses in Moscow, Elektrichka, Escalator, Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy, Gett, Government of Moscow, Helicopter, Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line, List of metro systems, Little Ring of the Moscow Railway, Mayor of Moscow, Mosaic, Moscow, Moscow Belorussky railway station, Moscow Central Bus Terminal, Moscow Central Circle, Moscow Central Diameters, Moscow Domodedovo Airport, Moscow Kazansky railway station, Moscow Kiyevsky railway station, Moscow Kursky railway station, Moscow Leningradsky railway station, Moscow Metro, Moscow metropolitan area, Moscow Monorail, Moscow Oblast, Moscow Paveletsky railway station, Moscow Ring Road, Moscow Rizhsky railway station, Moscow Savyolovsky railway station, Moscow Yaroslavsky railway station, Mosgortrans, Moskva (river), Mural, Myachkovo Airport, North River Terminal, Oka (river), Pacific Ocean, Park Pobedy (Moscow Metro), Profsoyuznaya (Moscow Metro), Public transport, Rapid transit, Russian Railways, Saint Petersburg, ... Expand index (18 more) »
Bicycle-sharing system
A bicycle-sharing system, bike share program, public bicycle scheme, or public bike share (PBS) scheme, is a shared transport service where bicycles are available for shared use by individuals at low cost.
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Bus
A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van, but less than the average rail transport.
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Carsharing in Moscow
Carsharing in Moscow is a rapidly developing type of public transport in the city.
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Central Suburban Passenger Company
Central Suburban Passenger Company (CSPC; Центральная пригородная пассажирская компания) is a Russian commuter railway company.
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Chandelier
A chandelier is an ornamental lighting device, typically with spreading branched supports for multiple lights, designed to be hung from the ceiling.
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Commuter rail
Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns.
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Electric buses in Moscow
There are over 1,700 electric buses operating in Moscow.
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Elektrichka
Elektrichka (p; elektrychka) is a Soviet and Eastern bloc commuter (regional) mostly suburban electrical multiple unit passenger train.
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Escalator
An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure.
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Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy
Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (Выставка достижений народного хозяйства, Vystavka dostizheniy narodnogo hozyaystva, abbreviated as VDNKh or VDNH, ВДНХ) is a permanent general purpose trade show and amusement park in Moscow, Russia.
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Gett
Gett, previously known as GetTaxi, is an Israeli B2B Ground Transportation Management (GTM) platform and marketplace, and B2C ride-hailing app headquartered in London, and owned by GT GetTaxi (UK) Limited In May 2024, it was reported that Pango will purchase the "Gett" transportation service application at a price of approximately 175 million dollars.
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Government of Moscow
The Government of Moscow (Правительство Москвы) is the highest executive body of state authority of Moscow.
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Helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors.
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Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line
The Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line (Калу́жско-Ри́жская ли́ния) is a line of the Moscow Metro, that originally existed as two separate radial lines, Rizhskaya and Kaluzhskaya opened in 1958 and 1962, respectively.
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List of metro systems
This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide.
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Little Ring of the Moscow Railway
The Little Ring of the Moscow Railways (MK MZD, Малое кольцо Московской Железной Дороги), is a orbital railway in Moscow.
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Mayor of Moscow
The Mayor of Moscow (Mer Moskvy) is the head and the highest-ranking official of Moscow, who leads the Government of Moscow, the main executive body of the city.
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Mosaic
A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface.
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Moscow
Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.
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Moscow Belorussky railway station
Belorussky railway station (Белору́сский вокза́л) also referred to as Moscow–Passenger–Smolenskaya (Москва́-Пассажирская-Смоле́нская), Informally the whole station can be called as Moscow Belorusskaya (Москва Белорусская), is a railway terminal of the Moscow Railway located at the front of Tverskaya Zastava Square in Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow.
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Moscow Central Bus Terminal
Moscow Central Bus Terminal is a bus terminal in Moscow for long-range and intercity passenger buses with daily overturn of about 25 thousand passengers serving about 40% of long-range bus routes in Moscow.
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Moscow Central Circle
The Moscow Central Circle or MCC (Московское центральное кольцо, МЦК), designated Line 14 and marked in a strawberry red/white color is a orbital urban/metropolitan rail line that encircles historical Moscow.
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Moscow Central Diameters
The Moscow Central Diameters (MCD) (Moskovskiye tsentralnye diametry (MTsD)) are a system of city train services on existing commuter rail lines in Moscow and Moscow Oblast, Russia.
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Moscow Domodedovo Airport
Moscow Domodedovo International Airport (p) (IATA: DME, ICAO: UUDD), formally Domodedovo Mikhail Lomonosov International Airport, is an international airport serving Moscow, the capital of Russia.
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Moscow Kazansky railway station
Kazansky railway terminal (Каза́нский вокза́л, Kazansky vokzal) also known as Moscow Kazansky railway station (Москва́-Каза́нская, Moskva-Kazanskaya) is one of nine railway terminals in Moscow, situated on the Komsomolskaya Square, across the square from the Leningradsky and Yaroslavsky stations.
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Moscow Kiyevsky railway station
Kiyevsky railway terminal (Ки́евский вокза́л, Kievskiy vokzal) also known as Moscow Kiyevskaya railway station (Москва́-Ки́евская, Moskva-Kievskaya) is one of the nine railway terminals of Moscow, Russia.
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Moscow Kursky railway station
Kursky railway terminal (Ку́рский вокза́л, Kursky vokzal), also known as Moscow Kurskaya railway station (Москва́-Ку́рская, Moskva-Kurskaya), is one of the ten railway terminals in Moscow.
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Moscow Leningradsky railway station
Moscow Leningradsky railway terminal (Ленинградский вокзал, Leningradsky vokzal) also known as Moscow Passazhirskaya station (Москва-Главная-Пассажирская) is the oldest of Moscow's nine railway terminals.
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Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union., the Moscow Metro, excluding the Moscow Central Circle, the Moscow Central Diameters and the Moscow Monorail, had 294 stations and of route length, excluding light rail Monorail, making it the 10th-longest in the world and the longest outside East Asia.
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Moscow metropolitan area
The Moscow metropolitan area (Московская агломерация) or Moscow capital region (Московский столичный регион) is the most populous metropolitan area in Russia as well as in Europe, with a population of around 21.5 million.
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Moscow Monorail
The Moscow Monorail (Московский монорельс) is a monorail line located in the North-Eastern Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia.
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Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast (Moskovskaya oblast,, informally known as label) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast).
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Moscow Paveletsky railway station
Paveletsky station (Павелецкий вокзал) is one of Moscow's ten main railway stations.
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Moscow Ring Road
The Moscow Automobile Ring Road (Moskovskaya koltsevaya avtomobilnaya doroga), or MKAD (МКАД), is a ring road running predominantly on the city border of Moscow with a length of 108.9 km (67.7 mi) and 35 exits (including ten interchanges).
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Moscow Rizhsky railway station
Rizhsky station (Рижский вокзал, Rizhsky vokzal, Riga station) is one of the ten main railway stations in Moscow, Russia.
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Moscow Savyolovsky railway station
Savyolovsky station (Савёловский вокза́л, Savyolovsky vokzal), alternatively spelled Savyolovskiy, Savelovsky or Savelovskiy, is one of the ten main railway stations in the Maryina roshcha District of Moscow.
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Moscow Yaroslavsky railway station
Moscow Yaroslavsky railway station (Yaroslavsky vokzal) is one of the nine main railway stations in Moscow.
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Mosgortrans
Mosgortrans (Мосгортранс) is a state-owned company operating bus and electrical bus networks in Moscow and the Moscow Oblast.
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Moskva (river)
The Moskva (река Москва, Москва-река, Moskva-reka) is a river that flows through western Russia.
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Mural
A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate.
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Myachkovo Airport
Myachkovo (Мячково) is an airport in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located southeast of Moscow.
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North River Terminal
The North River Terminal or Rechnoy Vokzal (Речной вокзал, meaning "River Station"), is one of two passenger terminals of river transport in Moscow.
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Oka (river)
The Oka (Ока) is a river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga. It flows through the regions of Oryol, Tula, Kaluga, Moscow, Ryazan, Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod and is navigable over a large part of its total length, as far upstream as the town of Kaluga. Its length is and its catchment area., Russian State Water Registry The Russian capital Moscow sits on one of the Oka's tributaries—the Moskva.
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Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
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Park Pobedy (Moscow Metro)
Park Pobedy (lit) is a station of the Moscow Metro in the city's Dorogomilovo District.
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Profsoyuznaya (Moscow Metro)
Profsoyuznaya (Профсоюзная. English: Trade Union's) is a station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of the Moscow Metro.
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Public transport
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.
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Rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas.
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Russian Railways
Russian Railways (OAO Rossiyskie zheleznye dorogi (OAO RZhD)) is a Russian fully state-owned vertically integrated railway company, both managing infrastructure and operating freight and passenger train services.
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Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.
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Sheremetyevo International Airport
Sheremetyevo Alexander S. Pushkin International Airport (ʂɨrʲɪˈmʲetʲjɪvə) is one of four international airports that serve the city of Moscow.
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Sokolnicheskaya line
The Sokolnicheskaya line (Соко́льническая ли́ния,, formerly Kirovsko-Frunzenskaya (Ки́ровско-Фру́нзенская) (Line 1; Red Line) is a line of the Moscow Metro. It opened in 1935 and is the oldest in the system. There are currently 26 stations open on the line., the line is long.
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South River Terminal
South River Terminal is one of two passenger river terminals in Moscow.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Timiryazevskaya (Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line)
Timiryazevskaya (Тимиря́зевская) is a station on the Serpukhovsko–Timiryazevskaya line of the Moscow Metro.
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Tram
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.
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Trams in Moscow
The Moscow tramway network, which is divided into two sub-networks, is a key element of the public transport system in Moscow, the capital city of Russia.
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Trans-Siberian Railway
The Trans-Siberian Railway, historically known as the Great Siberian Route and often shortened to Transsib, is a large railway system that connects European Russia to the Russian Far East.
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Trolleybus
A trolleybus (also known as trolley bus, trolley coach, trackless trolley, trackless tramin the 1910s and 1920sJoyce, J.; King, J. S.; and Newman, A. G. (1986). British Trolleybus Systems, pp. 9, 12. London: Ian Allan Publishing..or trolleyDunbar, Charles S. (1967). Buses, Trolleys & Trams. Paul Hamlyn Ltd.
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Ulitsa Sergeya Eyzenshteyna
Ulitsa Sergeya Eyzensteyna (Улица Сергея Эйзенштейна, Sergei Eisenstein Street) is the eastern terminus of the Moscow Monorail.
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Universitet (Moscow Metro)
Universitet (Университе́т, University), named after the nearby Moscow State University, is a station on the Moscow Metro's Sokolnicheskaya Line.
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Urban rail transit
Urban rail transit is a wide term for various types of local rail systems providing passenger service within and around urban or suburban areas.
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Velobike
Velobike (Велобайк) is a bicycle-sharing system run by the city of Moscow, Russia.
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Vladivostok
Vladivostok (Владивосток) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia, located in the far east of Russia.
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Vnukovo International Airport
Vnukovo, formally Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev International Airport (named after Andrei Tupolev) (p), is a dual-runway international airport located in Vnukovo District, southwest of the centre of Moscow, Russia.
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Vostochny Railway Terminal
Vostochny railway terminal ("Eastern") (Восточный вокзал, Vostochnyi vokzal), previously known as Cherkizovsky railway terminal is the newest of the ten railway terminals of Moscow, Russia, opened on 29 May 2021.
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Yandex Taxi
Yandex Taxi (r; stylised as Yandex.Taxi) is an international company operating taxi hailing and food delivery services across Russia, the CIS, Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
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Zhukovsky International Airport
Zhukovsky (Жуковский), formerly (and still occasionally) known as Ramenskoye (Раменское) is an international airport, located in Moscow Oblast, Russia, southeast of central Moscow, in the city of Zhukovsky, a few kilometers south-east of the closed Bykovo Airport.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Moscow
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