The first full name of the metropolitan metro was remembered by netizens in the Moscow: History of Moscow community during “In contact with”.
“Now, probably, few people will remember that the Moscow metro was originally called the Kaganovich metro. Lazar Kaganovich was a man very close to Stalin and changed many posts throughout his career. By the way, it was Stalin who especially insisted that the subway be named after Lazar Moiseevich, ”said the moderator of the group.
The metro was named after Lazar Kaganovich from 1935 to 1955, then the metropolitan subway was renamed in honor of the revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. After that, the Okhotny Ryad station of the Sokolnicheskaya metro line bore the name of Koganovich for several years, subscribers recalled in the comments.
Previously, the cost of travel in the Moscow metro in the last century was disclosed.
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