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Unique, unnavigable and steeped in history, the BBC's extraordinary Maida Vale studio complex exemplifies everything we love about our national broadcaster!

From the Beatles to Beyoncé, Led Zeppelin to David Bowie, from the Undertones to the swansong of the late Bing Crosby: over the last 75 years, one British studio can claim to have recorded more famous artists than any other. This studio also houses not only a professional choir, but also one of Britain's busiest orchestras, and has been responsible for some of the most influential developments in the history of music technology and electronic music. Less than a mile from the world-famous EMI studios at Abbey Road, this is the Delaware Road home of the BBC's Maida Vale Studios.

Maida Vale has been at the centre of BBC music since 1934, when it was taken over as a home for the newly formed BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO). Built in 1909, it was originally the Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace and Club; with a seated capacity of 2620 people, and its own orchestra balcony, it was the largest indoor roller-skating rink in Europe.

The roller rink was a sadly short-lived concern, and in the years that followed, the building was taken over by the Ministry of Health for offices until, in 1934, over a hundred workers gutted the interior, preserving only the shell and the doorway arches. Inside they set out rehearsal and studio space for what was to become, under the leadership of Sir Adrian Boult, one of Britain's premier orchestras and, in the pre-war years, one of the pre-eminent orchestras in the world. Famous for the Promenade Concerts or Proms, it has boasted such illustrious conductors as Sir Thomas Beecham and Arturo Toscanini. Maida Vale was to be the orchestra's home, and consequently become one of the BBC's first permanent studios.

During the Second World War, the orchestra was evacuated to the comparative safety of Bristol, then Bedford, while Maida Vale played an important role in BBC radio news. The studio was damaged during the Blitz, but was repaired in time for the BBC SO to resume recording and broadcasting from Maida Vale in 1945. It continues to do so today — although the BBC SO is only one small part of this complex of studios, which has housed, recorded and broadcast some of the most important figures in British music over the last 75 years!

On the day we visit the complex, only three of the studios are in use. Studio One is a vast, 756-square-metre room with a seated balcony, and can accommodate an audience of 220 as well as a 100-strong choir and an orchestra of 150 musicians. Today, though, it's playing host to a much more intimate recording session with the BBC Singers and composer Sir Harrison Birtwhistle: a dual-purpose recording for Signum Classics and BBC Radio 3, for probable release in Spring 2013. The ensemble seem dwarfed by the size of the recording space, but their sound is filling the room easily! The session is being recorded by the BBC under the able eyes of Marvin Ware, one of the Senior Studio Managers. The BBC Singers are a permanent choir based at Maida Vale. Formed 70 years, ago they specialise in contemporary scores and have an international reputation for recording and performing many types of works, from Britten to Boulez.

As Marvin sits behind the splendid Studer D950 digital desk, a prototype of the popular Vista series, he explains how he approaches a session like this. "Well, I think about the repertoire — in this case, complex, multi-layered choral writing that needs detail, but at the same time a homogenous blend. The BBC Singers were either 24 or 18 voices for these sessions, and it's very easy to not get that choral blend if you get the miking wrong: the result is too spotty, with individual voices sticking out, usually sopranos!

"The main rig is four Schoeps MK22s in front of the choir and quite high, which helps to get the men on the back row, plus a main pair of DPA 4015s, a good compromise in a studio, and a DPA 4006 as in-fill to gel it all together. I run two Lexicon reverbs to blend it all together, not too long. Spots for the wind instruments were all Schoeps MK4s and DPA 4011s on the drum. It's all recorded to stereo on SADiE and backed up on SADiE multitrack at 24-bit.” 

Like many of those who work at Maida Vale, Marvin references the sheer variety of the work as a highlight. "Although I work for a network that is predominately classical in output, I manage to work completely across the board. This includes world music, jazz, esoteric and slightly bonkers contemporary music, as well as opera, orchestral, chamber music and so on. I'm involved in all aspects of output on the network, including feature and music editing on SADiE, continuity and live studio shows too. I head up the sound management planning for WOMAD, Latitude, London Jazz Festival and the odd other ad-hoc festivals for Radio 3, and I'm often seen in the summer on some of the many Proms that crop up. I'm also lucky to be involved in a bit of field and festival recording around various corners of the world, either with an RME M32 at festivals, or Sound Devices eight-track and a bag of mics and bits and pieces. If you love music of many styles, then I have one of the best jobs around!”

Two Into Three

Studio Two suffered heavily during the 'Birt years', when then Director General John Birt introduced his policy of Producer Choice, a sort of internal market within the BBC. Some previously busy studios found themselves uncompetitive in this market and became increasingly under-used. This led to the decommissioning of several studios at Maida Vale, with the loss of the SSL desks in Studios Two and Five, and the closing down of one of Maida Vale's best loved departments, the Radiophonic Workshop, of which more presently. Studio Two is now used primarily as a rehearsal area by the BBC singers. It has a lively sound that suits chamber music and piano sessions better than pop music, and is used infrequently for recording these days, although it has recently been refitted with a small Roland digital console and some Dynaudio monitors.

Studio Three is our next port of call, and we're grateful for the geographical knowledge of our guide, Andy Rogers, who is Senior Producer of Live Music at Radio 1. Maida Vale is a warren of similar-looking corridors and staircases, which can lead you to a dead end or a fire exit as often as to a studio or office.

When pressed, Andy admits that Studio Three is his favourite room at Maida Vale, and so too does Marvin: "It's perfect for the sessions we do in there, and it's always nice to see the look on musicians' faces when they first come in!” It is indeed a lovely room, large but with a great acoustic — in fact, many Maida Vale staff think it sounds better than the similarly sized live room at Abbey Road Studio Two! Having escaped the threat of modernisation a few years back, it has retained its fern-green walls, laurel-green curtains and distinctive diamond-style parquet floor. The live area is large enough for small concerts with invited audiences, or medium-sized orchestras, and the control room features an SSL 9000 J-series analogue console and a decent selection of outboard.

Studios Four and Five have been home to Radio 1 sessions for many years, from the famous Peel sessions to more recent evening recordings for current DJs. Studio Five has a compact but nice-sounding wood-panelled live area and a huge control room; this once housed an SSL, but is now home to a rather more humble Soundcraft Ghost. Studio Four's live area is slightly larger and less lively, while its SSL J-Series desk is still present and correct in the control room. Like all the Maida Vale studios, they feature headphone monitor systems for the artists that have been custom-made by Maida Vale's technicians to meet the studio's specific needs — allowing musicians some control over their monitor balance, but not too much!

When we visit, Scottish metal band Yashin are recording a session for the Rock Show in Studio Four, to a fairly typical Maida Vale timescale: having arrived mid-morning, the band are just setting up when we walk in at lunchtime. When we leave again at five, they've recorded several songs, packed up, and are saying their thank-yous and goodbyes.

Looking Askew

Simon Askew, who is behind the SSL for the Yashin session, records more artists in a year than most engineers do in their entire careers. As a result, he has evolved some very distinctive working methods to suit the particular challenge of capturing a band's sound in a short live session — methods which will interest anyone who has to work fast!

Simon's originality as an engineer is perhaps most obvious in his approach to drum miking. He works on the principle that the centre of the drum kit lies along a line connecting the centre of the kick drum and the middle of the snare drum. In other words, rather than treating its stereo panorama from either the drummer's or the audience's perspective, his approach in effect rotates things by 45 degrees.

The way in which Simon translates this principle into mic placement is also typically idiosyncratic. An AKG C24 stereo valve mic is positioned at eye level directly above the kit, while Coles 4038s are placed in front of and behind the drum set, with all three mics carefully positioned so as to be the same distance from the imaginary line between kick and snare. Although the C24's twin capsules are panned conventionally, both 4038s are narrowed by 50 percent, or even panned centrally, on occasion. The beauty of this approach, according to Simon, is that simply by changing the balance between the C24 and the 4038s, he can obtain a wide range of overhead sounds very quickly, without moving mics or running into phase issues. Simon explains that placing the C24 at his eye level (he is six foot four!) also ensures a good phase relationship between overheads and his kick and snare mics. The latter are usually an SM57 on top of the snare and a Beyer M201 underneath, and the bass drum is likewise double-miked, with an AKG D12 just outside the resonant head and a Sennheiser 902 just inside.

The newest mics in Simon's locker are also the most dented, no doubt because they often find their way onto the toms (although he prefers Maida Vale's two Neumann FET 47s if there are few enough toms). These Milabs are among the smallest large-diaphragm capacitor mics on the market, thanks to their distinctive rectangular capsules. The capsule shape gives them a polar pattern that is different in the vertical and horizontal planes: Simon prefers the sound of them positioned sideways across the head of the drum, and they get hit less often in this orientation.

Although the Maida Vale studios boast some very nice mics and outboard, resources aren't unlimited, and some lateral thinking is necessary on occasion. When we visit, for example, Simon is recording Glaswegian metal band Yashin. He explains that for their style of singing he would ideally use Shure SM7s on both vocalists — but with only two SM7s available, he's unwilling to move either from their position in front of the guitar cabs. Instead, both singers get an AKG SolidTube valve mic, with its distinctive yellow foam windshield, and Simon uses Antares' Mic Mod plug-in in Pro Tools to morph these project-studio perennials into something more expensive — in this case, a Neumann U47 and an AKG C12A.

The DASH To Digital

The BBC sessions that Simon records now get tracked to Pro Tools HD, but this is still a fairly recent innovation. Until three years ago, the primary multitrack system was the venerable Sony 3348 DASH digital multitrack tape recorder; Maida Vale engineers still regard the Sonys as great-sounding machines, but their reliability had become unacceptable after many years of intensive use.

Although Simon Askew is typically grumpy about the move to Pro Tools, it's clear that he has fully embraced the idea of working 'in the box', albeit in his own special way. He uses the SSL desk in Studio Four to provide monitor mixes, routing and talkback, but much of the actual mixing is done using plug-ins, and balances are handled within Pro Tools rather than on the faders. Indeed, he says that he much prefers the sound of the Waves SSL G-Series compressor plug-in to that of the hardware bus compressor in Studio Four's J-Series console! His master bus within Pro Tools also usually features the Waves Kramer Master Tape plug-in, and an L2 limiter set to take 3 or 4dB off the loudest drum hits — not so much to achieve maximum loudness as, he explains, to prevent Radio 1's broadcast limiters reacting badly to these transients.

When you have three or four tracks to mix in a couple of hours, there's limited scope for detailed fader rides, so with a hard rock act like Yashin, Simon uses a combination of hardware and software compressors to manage levels. There are three hardware 1176s in Studio Four's rack, and his Pro Tools session also features many instances of the Waves CLA version. Both are employed for the tonal changes they introduce as well as for level control. Simon often uses expanders rather than conventional gates on tom mics, meanwhile, and sometimes calls on Wavemachine Labs' Drumagog to layer tom samples over them, in effect pushing cymbal spill further into the background without any messing about with time constants.

One area where Maida Vale is well supplied is artificial reverb, with several nice digital units, including a Lexicon 480L, and no fewer than three EMT 140 plates. These are wired in such a way as to make them accessible from all the control rooms, and Simon Askew takes full advantage, typically employing the tube-based plate on vocals and one of the solid-state models as a general reverb. He also loves the non-linear reverb from Studio Four's Klark Teknik reverb on snare drums.

Simon Askew has been a fixture at Maida Vale since 1987, apart from a two-month sabbatical when he was tempted onto the road by Pendulum as their front-of-house engineer. "Never again!” he says of his stint in live sound. "We covered 38,000 miles in 21 days. By the end of it I was full of flu and my hearing was shot. The actual gigs were the easiest part. What kills you is the travelling, and trying to get a different broken PA system working every night.” The experience gave him a new appreciation of Maida Vale and its unique culture. "Live sound is very compartmentalised — everyone has their own job and they stick to that. Here, we work as a team, and everyone helps everyone else out.”

Lyrical Mastery

The day we visit, MV5 is hosting the Radio 1Xtra UK Garage show's Lyrical Master battle for the title of hottest MC in the UK: a face-off between MCs NxtGen and Flameus representing the east and west sides (of the Midlands!). This is being filmed, as many of these sessions are, for Internet use. Engineer Jamie Hart sets the levels whilst the two MCs goad him into getting their mics to sound louder, and crisper than each other's, a taste of the lyrical banter due to commence. Jamie started his career at Trevor Horn's SARM Studios; again, his move to Maida Vale was prompted by the hope of a more varied musical diet.

Interconnecting doors between MV4 and MV5 allow larger projects to utilise not just their live spaces, but also two control rooms at the same time, thanks in part to an innovative patching system. A large panel of multi-pin connectors allows any or all of the many remote input boxes and audio or video tie lines to be connected to any control room. This comprehensive patch system is typical of the BBC's attitude to specifications. It allows engineers to set up microphones just about anywhere in the building, no matter which of the studios they are working in. Maida Vale also pioneered the use of digital networking: almost unbelievably, the studios have all been connected via MADI for nearly 20 years, though the system is only now beginning to be utilised to its full potential.

Radiophony Reborn

Although the Radiophonic Workshop closed its doors at Maida Vale in 1998, it has recently resurfaced as a 'virtual institution' under creative director Mathew Herbert: "At its best, the Workshop was the most important electronic experimental studio the UK has ever had. Part of what made it great, though, was that it did some of its experimenting in the visible mainstream. With the launch of thespace.org, the free experimental arts platform run by the BBC and the Arts Council, it felt logical that the sonic and musical elements of this new site were shaped by some of those original principles of the workshop: experimentation and accessibility. It also feels right, for the moment at least, that it is in a virtual home now, and is free to imagine what it means to be the Workshop again at a time when everyone has a complex recording studio in their pocket.

"I grew up without a TV, so my big Radiophonic experience was listening to The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy on Radio 4 in the late '70s. Their ideas, though, permeated through so much of our culture, from TV to technology, to music to radio.” Hopefully, that innovative spirit will continue on-line: check it out at http://thespace.org/items/s0000q7e

A Different Sort Of Engineering

Like many long-established studios, Maida Vale has permanent technical staff on site, and has a long history of building or adapting custom equipment to suit its own particular needs. A comprehensive team of engineers and technicians maintain everything from the SSL desks to the outboard equipment, the large collection of often vintage microphones, and even the internal computer networks. Their workshop houses probably the best-qualified repair department outside of the armed forces! Most have solid university engineering and science backgrounds, and have worked in industry before ending up at Maida Vale.

The combined knowledge and expertise of this group of technicians has led to many innovations at the BBC. If something is not available commercially, it is designed and made, like the headphone submix stations that are used in each studio. The PMC BB5A main studio monitors were designed by ex-BBC man Peter Thomas along with Adrian Loader of FWO Bauch. The Mitchell & Todd 301A monitors that sit on the SSL meter bridge were designed by a pair of ex-BBC engineers, Stuart Mitchell and Jason Vincent-Newson. Stuart started work on his speakers during down time, developing the prototype 101A speakers from an original design requested by colleague Jason's wife for her kitchen! All the Maida Vale engineers contributed to the project with feedback, evaluating and responding to any changes in design, as they still do. The 301As exemplify the qualities needed in gear used at Maida Vale: they are rugged enough to be used 24 hours a day without fatiguing the listener. When we visit, the same designers' 202As, which were installed in MV5 in 1996 have just been serviced and upgraded, having worked eight hours a day, seven days a week for the last 16 years!

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During this year’s visit to Abbey Road Studio s our Year 3 participating students were able to take time out from a busy recording schedule for an hour-long tour of BBC’s Maida Vale studios. Organized by Declan Vink in a gesture of thanks to our students for their involvement in recording the BBC Introducing Balcony Sessions over the past year, this was a fantastic opportunity to explore the labyrinthine environment of a building with a long association with the British recording industry, including many BBC Introducing broadcasts and Live Lounge sessions.

Our knowledgeable tour guide was Jacob Breach who regaled us with many interesting facts and anecdotes concerning the history of Maida Vale and the numerous artists who had recorded there, including The Beatles, David Bowie, Slipknot, Coldplay, Madness and Blondie. In addition, Maida Vale has also been the home to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop (best known for the Dr Who themes) and sound effects recording for BBC radio drama broadcasts.

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In a monumental shift for the music and entertainment industry, the legendary Maida Vale Studios, a historic gem nestled in the heart of London, has found new custodians in a business partnership led by the celebrated Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer, along with film producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. Steeped in a rich history dating back to the 1930s, this iconic facility has been a crucible for musical legends, hosting luminaries from Adele and David Bowie to The Beatles. The sale of Maida Vale Studios by the BBC to this visionary consortium marks the dawning of a new era, where the past will be seamlessly interwoven with the future.

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Under the stewardship of Hans Zimmer, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Steven Kofsky, the future of Maida Vale Studios is set to shine even brighter. While the terms of the deal remain undisclosed, reports indicate that the studios were advertised on the property market for offers exceeding £10.5 million ($13.3 million) last year. The Grade II listed building, originally a roller-skating palace, is poised for a remarkable revitalization. A multi-million-pound refurbishment is on the horizon, designed to shape the studio into a “world-class studio space for the next generation of composers, producers, editors, and engineers.” The creative journey of countless musicians, composers, and artists will be elevated by the splendor of these newly reimagined surroundings.

Empowering Communities: A Not-for-Profit Educational Initiative

Beyond the transformation of physical spaces, the visionaries behind this project are committed to creating a positive impact on the local community. Hans Zimmer, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Steven Kofsky are not only entrepreneurs but also social catalysts. They envision a not-for-profit educational facility within Maida Vale Studios that will serve as a beacon of opportunity for the local populace. By providing jobs and a space for learning, this initiative aims to fortify the creative spirit and foster a dynamic ecosystem where artistic aspirations can flourish.

In a world characterized by constant change, the acquisition of Maida Vale Studios by this visionary partnership illuminates the enduring power of art and music. As the walls of this iconic space continue to resonate with the echoes of legends past, the torch has been passed to a new generation of creators. With Hans Zimmer, Tim Bevan, and Eric Fellner at the helm, the future of Maida Vale Studios promises to be as resplendent as its storied past, ensuring that the legacy of creativity and innovation remains firmly embedded in its walls.

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BBC to leave iconic Maida Vale studios

• Published 5 June 2018

The BBC is to close its iconic Maida Vale Studios, which have played host to generations of pop stars, from The Beatles to Adele.

Director general Tony Hall announced the closure in an email to staff on Tuesday morning, saying the complex would be replaced by a new, state-of-the-art facility in east London.

The move means the BBC will "be able to record and broadcast more live music than ever before," he added.

It is expected to be ready by 2022.

The BBC hopes to relocate most of Maida Vale's functions to the Olympic Park in Stratford, alongside other arts organisations including the V&A, Sadler's Wells and the London College of Fashion.

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Built in 1909, Maida Vale Studios was originally the home of the Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace and Club.

In the 1930s, it became home to the BBC Symphony Orchestra, but was also a standby centre for BBC radio news during World War Two.

The orchestra still uses the studios for rehearsals, performances and recordings of classical music - but the complex is perhaps better known for playing host to John Peel's famous Radio 1 sessions.

The world's biggest pop stars - from Led Zeppelin to Radiohead and Jay-Z to Little Mix - have all performed there, while artists including The Beatles, David Bowie and The Fall have all released retrospective albums of their BBC performances.

Maida Vale also played host to the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop, famed for its realisation of the Doctor Who theme tune; while legendary crooner Bing Crosby made his final recording there in 1977, three days before he died of a heart attack on a golf course in Spain.

The studios have been under regular threat of closure - with the BBC announcing in 2007 that the run-down facility, located in a residential area in north London, was "wholly unsuitable for the 21st century".

However, no viable alternative was found and the studios were given a stay of execution - until today.

"I understand how much our musical heritage at Maida Vale means to us, to artists and to audiences," said Lord Hall in his note to staff.

"We haven't taken this decision lightly. But we're determined to ensure that live music remains at the heart of the BBC and moving to this new development gives us the opportunity to do just that."

The site will contain recording and rehearsal studios, providing a purpose-built base for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and the BBC Singers, as well as being used regularly by the BBC Concert Orchestra.

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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)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

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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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Key Details

• Mobile Voucher Accepted
• Free Cancellation
• Duration: 3 Hrs
• Language: English
• Departure Time : 10:00 AM
• Departure Details : Karl Marks Monument on Revolution Square, metro stop: Square of Revolution
• Return Details : Metro Smolenskaya
• If you cancel at least 4 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
• If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
• Tours booked using discount coupon codes will be non refundable.

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.

Local English-speaking guide

Pancake snack and drink

Additional food and drinks

Tickets for public transport

Souvenirs and items of a personal nature

Tips and gratuities for the guide

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Dress standard: Please wear comfortable shoes for walking. For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people

Traveler Reviews

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