Interesting facts about Moscow and Moscow underground

Do you know that:

21. Library of Lenin (Biblioteka im.Lenina) - the largest in Europe and the second in the world after Library of the Congress of the USA.

22. The first-ever museum of stealing of cars was opened in Moscow on July, 9th, 2002. The museum carries a name of well-known film car thief Jury Detochkina.

23. The Moscow underground includes 278,3 km of ways, 12 lines and 172 stations (including the light underground); in the usual working day it transports 8,6 million passengers.

24. The most part of stations - underground. Only nine stations - ground, and five - elevated (on bridges).

25. The average interval between trains (from departure of one structure till the following departure) is 2,5 minutes. The minimum interval in "rush hours" - 90 sec., the maximum interval can reach for about 10 minutes (for example, at night during week-end).

26. The average distance between stations - 1800 m; the shortest stage - between stations "Business centres" and "International" - 496,8 m, the longest - between stations «Volgograd prospectus» and "Textile workers" (3,413 km).

27. The deepest station of the Moscow underground - «Victory Park» - 84 m.

28. The Cost of building of 1 km of the Moscow underground - 63,77 million euro.

29. On radial lines at the movement to the centre of Moscow stations are announced by man's voice, and at the movement from the centre - female. On the Ring line man's voice announces stations at movement clockwise, and female - at movement counter-clockwise.

30. There are 76 bronze figures representing the Soviet heroes are established in niches-arches of "the Revolution Square" station. But there are a few problems. Somebody periodically steals a revolver from a statue of the Red Army man: in average the weapon vanishes 3-4 times a year. And students prefer sculptural group "the Frontier guard with a dog". They believe, that if to grate a nose of a sentry dog, they successfully pass all examination. As a result the dog nose shines, as well polished samovar.