Save the Soviet Metro in Moscow

I was in Moscow 2008 and 2009. I saw the Rusich in 08 on the light blue and blue lines. There were not a lot of them. One year later in the summer I came back to Moscow and saw really over 80% of the metro trains on the blue and light blue line were the new Rusich. Are they going to replace the soviet models? I really hope not. Is there a way to make a 50-50 split between the Soviet models and the Rusich? I feel that the Soviet models will disappear soon. It seems like they will be gone.

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• soviet
• union
• metro
• model
• save
• russia
• moscow
• underground
• subway
• россия
• метро
• советский
• союз
• москва

[MrSdfbruce]

This is my line. Philevskaya

[timosha21]

This is also my line. Arbatskoe-Pakrovskaya.

[mihan2d]

You are not right. In the Moscow underground the 80% of trains is the Soviet ones. Look at statistics:

Cars of "Е" series (USSR) and their modifications - 900 cars 19,8 %

Cars of 81-714/717 series (USSR/Russia) and their modifications - 3192 cars 69,8 %

[timosha21]

maybe the cars are left (like the purple line: has a mix of cars). But whole entire trains of this model seem to be going away.

[timosha21]

@altgovzen theres no need for bad language... they can modernize these ones...

[gaycowboy31]

hmm very interesting I assume like any ther place times of change are comeing to the new modern Moscow too

[Zecretboy1]

cool models. we should leave some of these models on the line. But keep it the way it is. Don't get rid of any more soviet models.z

[krizvasa]

I think new models are necessary for each metro system. They are better for passengers and cheaper for public transport authority too. I believe old soviet models will survive in museums. So although it can be sad for enthusiast it is important to buy new trains. 81-71 also finished operation in Prague replaced by new and reconstructed models. I´m always happy to see investment to future of public transport.

[mihan2d]

There are not mix of cars, but there are modernized E* cars on purple (Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya) line.

But you are partially right - original E*-cars gradually leave us. But I hope that in 2010 the Museum of metro-cars in Moscow nevertheless will be opened...

[Trainbrain1949]

I know how you feel. In the early 1990s Chicago got rid of out PCC fleet of subway cars that were built from streetcar (tram) parts in the 1950s. While they were not as nice as the Soviet cars, they too were a Chicago icon.

[trolleway]

Shkolota detected!

E* has expired life time. That's all.

And new trains have more power autimatic door, forced ventilation and even Air conditioner.