One discovery a day. A glimpse of Paris in Moscow

I was sure that won`t be here for some time, as the conference is at its climax now, so not enough free time and not enough routine work (starting to miss old boring routine :)

Anyway am here today to show what I`ve discovered just yesterday. The photos are made in quite the center of Moscow, still within the central city line (so-called “the cirle line” or “koltsevaya” if in the local lingo).



Close to one of the railway stations – a huge one named after Kiev, as it uses south-western direction, the “Kievsky railway station” – there is an underground station entrance which imitates Paris! Which of course was just nice to notice among all those dirty spring puddles in Moscow.



Today I was not resizing the pictures much, so by clicking on them you can see them in quite a big size and (if possible) enjoy all those nice (less or more) Moscow details. Such as: a back of a relaxingly promenading policeman, a tramp eating from the ground, a crowd waiting for a city bus, a huge and tasteless shopping center, a classical building of the actual railway station, an advert using some classical plot. And also: a real Moscow metro map and a metro map advert “made” with flowers (watch the colors of the lines), buses, a trolleybus and boring weather. Besides there is an electrical poll carrying clocks, bus schedule, advert of speed medical analysis (speaks for something) and also stars shining for holidays, and also “fancy” electrics… I love Moscow! It`s crazy and sometimes ugly, but it is fantastic.



I also love Paris, and as I know it now, all that metro mimicking is because the train to Paris (two-days-way for one way) starts from the Moscow Kievsky railway station.


PS, just in case: it`s not me going to France by train, but the conference just happened close to the place.

PS, in case anybody is interested: "Paris" is pronounced like "Parizh" in Russian :) The flower-like letter in the end of the word "Париж" is pronounced like "zh" sound.