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Taylor Swift Is Releasing ‘Partially Obstructed’ Tix To The Eras Tour So Here’s What To Expect

Alexandra Koster

General public ticket sales for the Eras Tour kicked off on Friday, June 30 and they were a bloodbath. Now, a final round of tix are going on sale today Friday, November 10. And while there are limited numbers and many are partially obscured side-view tickets, fans are scrambling to get their hands on a chance to be in the same (admittedly large) room as Miss Swift.

So if you’re anything like me, you’re in full delulu mode and planning your Taylor Swift outfits , operating under the assumption that you’ll absolutely get tickets in this final drop despite the fact that literally millions of people are trying to get them, far outweighing ticket availability.

Sounds bad for you, but not me! I’m getting tickets! Surely! Hooray!

At this stage, it’s important to note that being able to buy any ticket at this stage is considered a success . But we’re dreamers here at PEDESTRIAN.TV. We’re also a little bit delulu, envisioning a world where we’ll not only be able to skip the queue and buy tickets, we’ll be able to choose what section we’re getting to sit in.

But even if that’s not at all possible, let’s have a look at the layout of the venue and what we can expect if we do end up with partially constructed side-view tickets.

Luckily, a bunch of Eras concertgoers overseas have kindly spilled the tea on TikTok, sharing what the seats around the stadium actually look like. They’ve shared important things like potential visual obstructions and what your view will actually look like. And also less important things, like how likely you are to be battling hundreds of thousands of teenagers with their phones out for the full two-hour concert duration or the potential to breathe the same air as Taylor (a gift).

Regardless of what you end up with, be assured that there are no bad seats at a Taylor Swift show (except for the one next to me). Trust me, I sat on the very last possible row for her Reputation Tour back in 2018 and it was the best time ever.

So read on for the DL on each seating category for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour and real-life videos about what kind of view you’ll cop based on where you sit.

Taylor Swift Eras Tour seating map: What will seating look like for Sydney and Melbourne shows?

Despite the MCG and Accor Arena being wildly different venues, all Taylor Swift Eras Tour shows have a pretty similar layout in terms of seats and stage design.

All shows will have your standard stadium seating, as well as some extra floor seats closer to the stage.

There are plenty of opportunities to get up close to Tay as all shows have a little runway stage that goes deep into the crowd. On this runway, there’s a big ol’ diamond, which Taylor spends a lot of time in (as she should — boo needs to be front and centre!).

Accor Stadium Seating Map | Taylor Swift Eras Tour

Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) Stadium Seating Map | Taylor Swift Eras Tour

You can peep the Sydney Accor Stadium Taylor Swift map here and Melbourne Cricket Ground’s Taylor Swift map here .

Reserve seating breakdown: Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour

Great, now we can dive into IRL videos of what your view and experience might look like based on the tickets you buy.

While I’d love to be able to give you seat views based on the reserve class, that’s just not possible as we don’t quite know what seats will be under each category.

For example, A Reserve might mean floor tickets near the stage, but it might also mean front-row tickets in the lower bowl. Similarly, you might assume C Reserve is in the grandstands, but it also might mean an obstructed floor ticket. Ya feel?

With that in mind, we’ve rounded up a bunch of vids that show the Eras Tour experience based on where you’re sitting in the stadium. Please note that it’ll be hard to actually gauge how much these will cost you until we’re actually in the blood bath buying tickets.

We’ve all seen those videos of those people that somehow managed to cop front-row tickets on the floor (black magic, probs). But how do floor seats fare when you’re a couple of rows back?

Uh, pretty damn good. While they might be a toughie if you’re really short or bringing kids, the view here is so good, I’d sell my firstborn for it.

They’re also ideal if you really wanna be in on the action, like this TikToker who managed to get confetti’d into oblivion. Love that for her.

Despite everyone standing in Eras Tours videos, floor seating is allocated, so unfortunately, you won’t be able to smoosh that cute little face of yours to the front row unless you actually have tickets there.

To me, the lower bowl is the blend of all things good. You’re close enough that you feel like you’re in on the action, but being a little bit further away from the floor means there’s slightly less chaos around you.

You also have the benefit of being able to see properly thanks to tiered seating, so it’s a good choice for any shorties out there.

Lower bowl seats mean you can also take in the atmosphere as you’ll usually cop a nice 360 view of everything.

This vid was captured “from the 700’s”, which is a nice way of saying the very, very, very back of the stadium.

As you can see, it’s actually a surprisingly schmick view, proving that all seats are good seats.

Obstructed View

An obstructed view can mean a lot of things. It might mean you’ve got a dirty big pole in your way, or it might mean that you’ve been seated at the last possible seat on the side and don’t get a full view of the stage. For those gearing up to buy ticket’s in today’s drop, this is what you’ll have to make peace with.

In this TikTok, we can see that a person is seated almost next to the stage, resulting in a slightly obstructed view. That said, these seats are still pretty good as you’ve got a full view of the diamond, which Taylor spends a lot of time in.

These kind of seats might be worth it if you want to save a buck, just make sure you check what the obstructed view is.

What are the worst seats in Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour?

There’s a popular phrase going around currently: there are no bad seats at a Taylor Swift concert.

But if you’re really concerned about getting bad seats, it’s probably a good idea to steer clear of any seats with obstructed views. It’s also a pretty good rule of thumb that the more expensive your tickets, the better the seats. So with that logic, you’d probably want to avoid F and G Reserve tickets.

That said, I would happily sell my kidneys for any Eras Tours — even if it’s behind a big, fat pole.

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Revealed: the seating plan for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour at the MCG

From seating plans to venue capacity, this is everything you need to know about Tay’s shows in Melbourne this week

Deep breaths, everyone – today is the day Blondie officially kicks off the Aussie leg of her Eras Tour , and if you're anything like us, this week has been a blur of making friendship bracelets, memorising the setlist and lining up for official merch . But, it's also time to fine-tune all the important details – like planning your route to the MCG , and figuring out exactly where your seats are.

So pop on your heart-shaped sunnies, add a coat of red lippie and grab your bag ( with a maximum of two compartments, and smaller than A4 size ), here's  everything you need to know if you’re headed to see Swift at the MCG.

What’s the Taylor Swift MCG seating plan? 

The MCG has issued a colour-coded map illustrating the seating plan for Swift's three concerts. There are seven key areas across the arena floor and stadium seating bays. It will remain the same for all shows. 

A Reserve – Red

B Reserve – Pink

C Reserve – Orange

D Reserve – Blue

E Reserve – Purple

F Reserve – Green

G Reserve – Yellow

Every single seat at the Melbourne nights of the Eras Tour is assigned, so there's no need to line up early to score a front-row spot (anyone having flashbacks to last year's Harry Styles concerts can breathe a huge sigh of relief).

What’s the MCG's capacity? 

The MCG is enormous, with capacity for 100,000 people. It's expected that 260,000 Swifties  will pour through the gates over the three dates– that's an average of 86,000 a night. The current record holder for the biggest concert crowd at the 'G is none other than Swift's pal Ed Sheeran , who played to a mind-boggling  109,500 fans on March 3, 2023.

How much are Eras Tour tickets in Melbourne? 

If you were one of the lucky ones to snap up tickets, chances are you didn't really care how much they were – as long as they were sitting in your Ticketek app. A Reserve tickets started at $379.90, with the cheapest available from $65.90 (although the view from these seats are partially obstructed). Swift also released six tiers of VIP packages, with the following prices. 

We Never Go Out Of Style Package – $349.90

It’s A Love Story Package – $399.90

Ready For It Package – $599.90

I Remember It All Too Well Package – $749.90

Karma Is My Boyfriend Package – $899.90

It’s Been A Long Time Coming Package – $1249.90

When is Taylor Swift playing in Melbourne?

Melburnians have been lucky enough to score three of Tay Tay's seven Aussie tour dates (the other four are all in Sydney ). The confirmed dates she will be playing at the MCG in 2024 are  February 16 , 17 and 18 .

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All seating bays at the mcg begin with row a closest to the fence and continue back to row z, before reverting to row aa, bb, cc and so on., seating structure.

• M bays - Level 1 (ground level)
• N bays - Level 2
• P bays - Level 3
• Q bays - Level 4

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• Level 1 (M): Row Y
• Level 2 (N): Row H
• Level 3 (P): All undercover
• Level 4 (Q): All undercover
• Level 4 (Q): All undercover (please note: no cover in bays Q56-Q57)
• Level 4 (Q): All undercover (please note: no cover in bays Q29-Q30)
• Level 2 (N): Row B
• Level 3 (P): No cover
• Level 1 (M): Row NN
• Level 2 (N): Row M
• Level 3 (P): Row F
• Level 4 (Q): Row MM
• Level 3 (P): N/A
• Level 2 (N): Row Q
• Level 1 (M): Row LL
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Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour

18th February 6:00 pm

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The record-breaking, eleven-time GRAMMY winner Taylor Swift will perform at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) for the first time as part of Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour this February. She will be joined on the hallowed turf by Sabrina Carpenter for the February 16, 17 and 18 shows.

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Taylor Swift Eras tour Melbourne concert: relive the pop star’s biggest ever show – as it happened

This blog is closed. The once-in-a-lifetime show has finally come to Australia. For the millions who couldn’t get tickets, might a slightly chaotic blog be the next best thing? The night 1 setlist (spoilers), all the surprise songs, the atmosphere of 96,000 people at the MCG – if you missed it you can read it all again! Start at the beginning .

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‘We are close to the stage so wanted to draw attention’

So. Many. Sequins.

Dani and Lily are in row six. Lily said it was “pure luck! We waited so many hours. We joined the queue at the start and we didn’t get on till 7-8pm.”

The pair are dresses as mirror balls from the era/album folklore.

We wanted to be as sparkly as possible,” Dani said. “We are close to the stage so we wanted to draw as much attention. As selfish as that is! I am most excited for the first few moments of seeing Taylor. It’s been six years since the last tour and it’s going to be incredible to see her up close and personal again.

People are inside!

People are now posting from INSIDE the stadium – with Sabrina Carpenter due to come on at 6.30PM AEDT. More on her later – but for now, some first looks:

in my bejeweled era✨ #MelbourneTSTheErasTour @taylornation13 pic.twitter.com/oXybCbrBiN — emily grace✉️🕯️🪶 eras melb + syd (@emily_grace8913) February 16, 2024

ITS ME, HI, IM THE PROBLEM ITS ME @taylornation13 @taylorswift13 #MelbourneTSTheErasTour #TSTheErasTourMelbourne pic.twitter.com/oY2OopphKf — ally ( taylor's version ) 💜✨🦋🌜✨ melb n1 (@taylorslore) February 16, 2024

The queues. They are long.

‘I was making bracelets for Blink-182’

Back outside the MCG, Millie, Pierre, MacKenzie, and Liana have just met and are trading bracelets.

Pierre and Millie are self-described “Swemos”. Swemos, for the uninitiated, are emos (think Paramore/Fall Out Boy) who also love Taylor.

The pair have been making bracelets since tickets were released, and have brought with them a whole bag to trade.

“We got Taylor Swift tickets and then we were like, ‘Excellent, we have gained a hobby’,” Millie says.

“We’ve been doing it for eight months,” Pierre says.

Millie says after tonight, they are just going to keep making them. “We had a Blink-182 show last week, I was making bracelets for Blink … Just every event, we are like, ‘Oh – a bracelet!’”

Like many fans, MacKenzie thought they had possibly missed out.

“I was in the hospital when I got them, I managed to get accessible seats when I was in there. They called the day after – I thought we had no chance, and now we are here!”

The TayTay academics who descended on Melbourne

Melbourne is by no measure playing it cool that Swift is in town (see: Flinders Street Station all lit up). But earlier this week the University of Melbourne also hosted a “ Swiftposium ”: an academic symposium dedicated to all things Swift.

More than 400 papers were submitted by academics from around the world, working in fields as varied as economics and gender studies.

Studies presented at the Swiftposium included: the impact of the Eras tour on cities, with politicians sometimes begging Swift to tour in their towns in order to see a corresponding economic boom; how her music is being used in CPR training; how Australian politicians have used Swift references to appear relatable; and even an analysis of how public transport is mentioned in her lyrics (which reportedly found that, as her private jet use has increased, so have the references to trains and buses).

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Swifties gather for largest show of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour to date at the MCG

‘I am proud of her’

Chris, who is dressed as Reputation, is currently outside the MCG waiting for his friends. He’s been to see every Taylor tour she has done in Melbourne .

I wore the same outfit to the Reputation tour. I’ve seen every tour, I saw her when she was at Billboard in Russell Street, and now she’s at the MCG.

This was a lot harder to get tickets to, but I think it will be her best one yet,” he said.

I think she’s just come into her own, I feel like she’s at the peak of her career, I don’t think it’ll drop anytime soon but it’s just a celebration of all her eras and the hard work she’s put into her music. I am trying to be calm, but I am so excited. I am proud of her – she’s awesome.

Will Travis Kelce show?

Are the rumours true that Taylor Swift’s boyfriend might make a special appearance at an Eras show down under?

Kansas City Chiefs tight-end Travis Kelce, who has been dating Swift since September last year, mentioned he could be flying to Australia following his huge Super Bowl win on Monday.

On his New Heights podcast that he co-hosts with his brother Jason, the footballer said that he was “about to go on a f--ing adventure myself over to an island here soon”.

When asked by his brother which island, Kelce said:

I don’t know. I think the best ones are south right now. I’m going to go south.

While the comment doesn’t confirm the athlete will hop on a plane to Australia, the reason fans are speculating is because, firstly, Kelce has been super supportive of Taylor during her Eras tour.

I will leave this here:

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kissing after the Eras Tour in Argentina. pic.twitter.com/FQdTAjDUZ7 — Pop Base (@PopBase) November 12, 2023

Taylor did just fly halfway around the world through multiple time zones to watch him play (and win!) the Super Bowl …

‘The energy in the stadium will be electrifying’

Outside the MCG fans are starting to gather for Taylor’s first Melbourne show of this tour. People are buying merch and lots are wearing sequins.

Emily and Charlotte are down here from Sydney – they almost missed out on tickets. Emily said she cried when she thought they didn’t get them.

“I’ve been a fan of Taylor since I can remember when. Childhood, birth, came out of the womb with Taylor Swift . I was like if I don’t get this, when she’s playing every single era, I will die.”

Charlotte said she sat online for hours and eventually scored a hotel package, which the pair jumped on.

“When Taylor comes out, the energy in the stadium will be electrifying. It’ll be amazing to be surrounded by a bunch of people who share this love for Taylor.”

They both said there was a real sense of community in the air down here as the crowd built, with people chatting and sharing friendship bracelets.

“It’s much different than any other concert I’ve been too,” Emily said. “I went to ten concerts last year and most of those were tiny, tiny venues, but this feels more close than those ones.”

Why are we liveblogging this?

Hello it is culture editor Steph here, with an enormous coffee (this thing goes until 11pm???!) and a guest post.

We did debate whether or not we were overdoing it with the Taylor Swift coverage – but the Eras tour juggernaut has become one of the biggest cultural moments of our time, AND it’s particularly huge news for Australia, AND sometimes having fun is good.

Besides, liveblogging so-called “things-that-aren’t-news” has a rich history at the Guardian. Once we tried to live blog a leap second ; another time, on a fairly hot day, we cracked an egg on the pavement outside and liveblogged what happened to it (not much) .

We’re not sure how this will go. The MCG is a notorious reception black hole during big events, and while Telstra have promised to optimise their capacity “by adjusting the configuration of cells and the balance of traffic between them”, we have absolutely no idea what that means – so we’re sending a satellite phone as back-up.

Here is a photo of the satellite phone we may resort to if reception conks out at the MCG tonight. No one can say we're not taking this live blog seriously. #MelbourneTSTheErasTour https://t.co/Ydvbfdw6uG pic.twitter.com/EcQCKJEzMp — steph harmon (@stephharmon) February 16, 2024

This technology is usually used by the Guardian in war zones and bushfires. Whoever ends up with it will have to pull out its very long antenna and aim it at the sky in order to send us text messages by rapping out numbers repeatedly on a keypad, just like in the old days.

MCG gates are open

We can see the Swifties getting excited as the gates begin to open at the MCG.

As we reported earlier in the blog, this will be Taylor’s biggest concert yet with an average of 86,000 people attending each Melbourne concert over the next three nights.

The schedule is as follows :

4.30pm gates open

6.20pm show starts

The music is set to kick off with pop princess Sabrina Carpenter as the opening act.

Taylor is set to come on stage around 7.30pm or 8pm at the latest. But we will keep you posted.

We’ve also just set up a TIP LINE because we are TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY. If you want to send us fun facts/pics/a lot of emotions, hit us up at [email protected]

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As Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Hits One Year, Let’s Take a Look at Its Staggering Numbers

O n March 17, it will officially have been one year since Taylor Swift's Eras Tour kicked off in Glendale, Ariz. In the 12 months since that fateful first show, Swift has broken untold records , made history as TIME's 2023 Person of the Year , cultivated a new legion of NFL fans , and announced her forthcoming 11th studio album— The Tortured Poets Department , out April 19—among a litany of other accomplishments.

By the end of 2023—less than halfway through its scheduled 152-show run—the Eras Tour had earned over $1 billion to become the highest-grossing concert tour of all time. During that period, every city where Swift played got a substantial economic boost from the so-called "Taylor Swift effect," a term that refers to the singer's unprecedented ability to influence consumer behavior. Following the inaugural U.S. leg of Eras, the U.S. Travel Association estimated that the tour's total economic impact likely exceeded $10 billion.

In the new year, Swift's staggering popularity seems to somehow still be on the rise. Less than a week after watching her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, win the Super Bowl, Swift played to the biggest concert crowd of her career while performing at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Australia during the first run of 2024 Eras dates, following four shows in Tokyo.

In honor of the first anniversary of the start of the Eras Tour, we're taking a numerical look back at the biggest year of Swift's career to date.

Read More: 2023 Person of the Year: Taylor Swift

Number of Eras shows and cities

Swift will have played 83 shows across 30 cities as of March 17. Of those shows, 53 took place in the U.S. in 20 different cities stateside. The remaining 30 were part of the Latin America and Asia-Pacific legs of the tour. By the end of 2024, Swift is set to play a grand total of 152 Eras shows across 54 cities worldwide.

Number of surprise songs

In addition to her 40-plus-song set list, Swift has played at least two "surprise songs" per Eras show. Taking repeats into account, she has performed 145 different tracks (counting mashups of repeat songs as unique entries) as her 167 surprise offerings.

Number of special guests

From MUNA to Sabrina Carpenter to Haim, Swift's Eras stops have featured 10 different opening acts. She has also brought out eight other special guests, from Maren Morris to frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, to join her on stage at various shows.

Number of people in attendance at her biggest show to date

Swift played three back-to-back shows at MCG on Feb. 16, 17, and 18 that were each attended by a record 96,000 people for a three-day total of 288,000 concertgoers. Ed Sheeran, who drew a crowd of around 109,500 each of the two nights he played at MCG in 2023, still holds the venue's single-night attendance record. But that's largely due to the fact that Swift's stage setup took up more room in the arena, cutting down on the number of available seats.

Number of Eras tickets sold

Swift sold an estimated 4.35 million tickets across 60 tour dates within concert trade publication Pollstar's chart year of Nov. 17, 2022 to Nov. 15, 2023. That's an average of 72,500 tickets per show, with each ticket costing an average of $238.95. Using those numbers to extrapolate across shows played since then, Swift has likely now sold around 6.02 million tickets.

Total Eras Tour gross

Based on the approximately $17.32 million in ticket revenue Pollstar estimates Swift earned for each of the first 60 Eras dates, her total tour gross currently sits somewhere around $1.44 billion. By the end of 2024, the tour is expected to have brought in an astronomical $2.165 billion. For comparison, the second-highest grossing tour of all time, Elton John’s multi-year Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, sold six million tickets over the course of 328 shows to earn $939 million.

Total Eras merch revenue

According to reports from different venues, Pollstar estimates Eras attendees were spending an average of $40 per person on merch at the first 60 Eras shows. That puts Swift's tour merch revenue at an estimated $240.8 million—not including non-concert day purchases—following her first run of 2024 Eras dates.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour box-office earnings

Since its Oct. 13 release in theaters, Swift's record-breaking three-and-a-half-hour concert film has grossed $180,756,269 in North America and $261,656,269 globally at the box office. An extended edition of the movie became available to rent via video on demand services on Swift's birthday, Dec. 13, followed by the longest and most complete version of the film, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version) , arriving on streaming on Disney+ March 14.

Number of new songs

Since the Eras Tour began, Swift has released two re-recorded albums, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) and 1989 (Taylor's Version) , and one new single, "You're Losing Me (From the Vault)," for a total of 45 new songs (including re-recorded songs and vault tracks). In their first week of sales, Speak Now (Taylor's Version) , which featured one Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hit, and 1989 (Taylor's Version) , which featured seven Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 hits, sold 716,000 equivalent album units and 1.653 million equivalent album units, respectively. "You're Losing Me (From the Vault)" tallied 8.7 million official streams and sold 19,000 downloads in the U.S. in the first two days after its Nov. 29 debut, according to Luminate .

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Komsomolskaya metro station looks like a museum. It has vaulted ceilings and baroque decor.

Hidden underground, in the heart of Moscow, are historical and architectural treasures of Russia. These are Soviet-era creations – the metro stations of Moscow.

Our guide Maria introduced these elaborate metro stations as “the palaces for the people.” Built between 1937 and 1955, each station holds its own history and stories. Stalin had the idea of building beautiful underground spaces that the masses could enjoy. They would look like museums, art centers, concert halls, palaces and churches. Each would have a different theme. None would be alike.

The two-hour private tour was with a former Intourist tour guide named Maria. Maria lived in Moscow all her life and through the communist era of 60s to 90s. She has been a tour guide for more than 30 years. Being in her 60s, she moved rather quickly for her age. We traveled and crammed with Maria and other Muscovites on the metro to visit 10 different metro stations.

Arrow showing the direction of metro line 1 and 2

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To Maria, every street, metro and building told a story. I couldn’t keep up with her stories. I don’t remember most of what she said because I was just thrilled being in Moscow.   Added to that, she spilled out so many Russian words and names, which to one who can’t read Cyrillic, sounded so foreign and could be easily forgotten.

The metro tour was the first part of our all day tour of Moscow with Maria. Here are the stations we visited:

1. Komsomolskaya Metro Station  is the most beautiful of them all. Painted yellow and decorated with chandeliers, gold leaves and semi precious stones, the station looks like a stately museum. And possibly decorated like a palace. I saw Komsomolskaya first, before the rest of the stations upon arrival in Moscow by train from St. Petersburg.

2. Revolution Square Metro Station (Ploshchad Revolyutsii) has marble arches and 72 bronze sculptures designed by Alexey Dushkin. The marble arches are flanked by the bronze sculptures. If you look closely you will see passersby touching the bronze dog's nose. Legend has it that good luck comes to those who touch the dog's nose.

Touch the dog's nose for good luck. At the Revolution Square station

Revolution Square Metro Station

3. Arbatskaya Metro Station served as a shelter during the Soviet-era. It is one of the largest and the deepest metro stations in Moscow.

Arbatskaya Metro Station

4. Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station was built in 1935 and named after the Russian State Library. It is located near the library and has a big mosaic portrait of Lenin and yellow ceramic tiles on the track walls.

Lenin's portrait at the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Metro Station

5. Kievskaya Metro Station was one of the first to be completed in Moscow. Named after the capital city of Ukraine by Kiev-born, Nikita Khruschev, Stalin's successor.

Kievskaya Metro Station

6. Novoslobodskaya Metro Station  was built in 1952. It has 32 stained glass murals with brass borders.

Novoslobodskaya metro station

7. Kurskaya Metro Station was one of the first few to be built in Moscow in 1938. It has ceiling panels and artwork showing Soviet leadership, Soviet lifestyle and political power. It has a dome with patriotic slogans decorated with red stars representing the Soviet's World War II Hall of Fame. Kurskaya Metro Station is a must-visit station in Moscow.

Ceiling panel and artworks at Kurskaya Metro Station

8. Mayakovskaya Metro Station built in 1938. It was named after Russian poet Vladmir Mayakovsky. This is one of the most beautiful metro stations in the world with 34 mosaics painted by Alexander Deyneka.

Mayakovskaya station

One of the over 30 ceiling mosaics in Mayakovskaya metro station

9. Belorusskaya Metro Station is named after the people of Belarus. In the picture below, there are statues of 3 members of the Partisan Resistance in Belarus during World War II. The statues were sculpted by Sergei Orlov, S. Rabinovich and I. Slonim.

10. Teatralnaya Metro Station (Theatre Metro Station) is located near the Bolshoi Theatre.

Teatralnaya Metro Station decorated with porcelain figures .

Taking the metro's escalator at the end of the tour with Maria the tour guide.

Have you visited the Moscow Metro? Leave your comment below.

January 15, 2017 at 8:17 am

An excellent read! Thanks for much for sharing the Russian metro system with us. We're heading to Moscow in April and exploring the metro stations were on our list and after reading your post, I'm even more excited to go visit them. Thanks again 🙂

December 6, 2017 at 10:45 pm

Hi, do you remember which tour company you contacted for this tour?

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