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What a unique and artistic show! Kilo did maybe half of her RIRT album and it was accompanied by some of the short films she made that was projected onto a screen while she was singing and dancing. The concert seemed like more of a performance piece and she was super high energy and very into her role. She used props like a telephone, briefcase, and newspaper and wasn't afraid to get down on the ground, dance, squirm around on the ground, and really give 110% of herself and commit to this performance. I (and a big portion of the other audience members) was a little bit disappointed since the performance only really lasted 35-40 minutes, but it was so impactful/ she was so sweet and approachable after the performance ( I got a picture w her!) that I was seriously over the moon.

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Kilo Kish is an amazing artist who not only sings beautifully and expressively, but also has a surprising theatrical performance which builds one more layer to the atmosphere and tone of her concert creating an entire diegesis.

She is hypnotic and it was amazing to be able to see her from within less than 2 meters far - great venue choice!

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Kilo Kish Is Still Being An Alternative Black Artist On Her Own Terms

Over the past decade, kilo kish has been a gem in the indie music space. now, she talks about her roots, her new album american gurl , and how she found her way in new york..

Kilo Kish has never wanted to fit in. For the past 10 years, music has been the connecting factor between all the creative spaces the multi-hyphenate exists in. But before she became known as the alternative Black artist behind music projects like her 2012 debut Homeschool EP and the recently-released American Gurl (as well as a visual artist whose work has been displayed at The Getty Center and The Hammer Museum), Kish was Lakesha Robinson, a kid from Orlando, Florida.

From a young age, Kish felt different from those she grew up with because of her interests: listening to Bjork, cutting up and creating clothes, and reading Vogue . But she found camaraderie in a group of close friends she did everything with when she started to attend Winter Park High School, as well as friends she met in church. 

“[High school] was pretty chill, it was also kind of crazy. When I was in high school, I just also smoked weed a bunch and did drugs,” she said. “It was weird because it was this dichotomy of having all this academic stuff and then also exploring.”

When she wasn’t with friends, she was taking International Baccalaureate (IB) classes and drawing classes, the latter of which came about after she decided she’d be applying to art schools in New York for college. After building a portfolio, she applied to Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Pratt, Parsons, and other art schools in New York before landing at Pratt, where she left after a year of being there because her financial aid fell through. Kish would later return to college — this time, FIT — after taking up jobs at a Black-owned salon and different restaurants. During this time, she’d also met Justin, her late manager who introduced her to The Internet ’s Matt Martians. That introduction would culminate into a collaboration between Kish and Martians’ other group with Pyramid Vritra, The Jet Age of Tomorrow, as well as play a part in Kish making her own music.

From there, Kish said a weird convergence of things began happening: more music-making, booking modeling gigs and attending college. But it would be in 2012, when she made her debut with Homeschool , that things really took off. Fast-forward to now, and Kish has released American Gurl , which is out today. At its core, the album provided space for her to showcase how she identifies within a culture driven by the internet and social media. But it’s also a full-circle moment: a testament to her being able to enjoy who she is as an alternative Black artist who continues to explore an experimental path.

“I’m a musician, but I don’t necessarily identify fully as that,” she said. “I identify just as an artist that works in different mediums.” 

Okayplayer spoke with Kish about the origins of American Gurl , why she feels she constantly dives deep into her mental state within her music, her earliest years in New York, and finding her identity as an alternative Black artist. 

Let’s start at the beginning, what was it like growing up in Orlando?

I painted a lot. I was really into graffiti and I was trying to learn how to do spray paint and graffiti. I would always cut up clothes and try to make clothes. So yeah, I was creative. I tried to be on the step team. That didn't really work out that well. I was really a part of my church as well. I was always at church because my mom was super religious, which was fun. I felt like I could be who I wanted to be, but I definitely felt different. People were like, "She's a little bit weird, that one."

Hip-hop was poppin’ in the South at that time but people weren’t listening to hip-hop from the North, at least that’s my experience. So it was just very interesting. My parents are from up here. 

Mine, too. My mom, it was like she would always be like, "You're from up North." She would always try to say that. And I [would tell her], "I actually was born here and I've been living here this whole time, so I'm pretty much Floridian." She's like, "You spent time in New Jersey. You're from up north." It's like, it was this weird thing of not wanting to be "country" or that kind of vibe.

People get stuck in Florida.

For sure, and it gets harder to get unstuck the older you get, too. It's funny being from Florida and then moving to a city like New York. I did feel like a New Yorker when I lived here. I learned the culture of how to behave in New York, but it's not my first language. It's like, the first language is like, “Oh, slower pace.” So you're always like, "I could just chill." There's always that. And I feel like that's still part of my personality for sure.

Can you tell me what it was like when your music took off after Homeschool ?

That was around the time when I graduated from FIT. I just remember not really having a plan and having this amazing opportunity come up with people caring about my music, which was not my goal at all at the time. I wanted to do textile design or do something in fashion. At the same time, [I was] getting street cast for modeling stuff and all of that — this was before Instagram. So it was like, people would just see you at a restaurant and be like, "Oh, would you like to go to this casting for this thing?" And you would get a lot of those types of things. So, it was all of that and this weird convergence that all happened at the same time that birthed Kilo Kish.

It’s been ten years since your first SoundCloud project. How does that feel?

I feel good about the last 10 years. I feel like, obviously, some things did not go as planned but that's just the nature of life and learning a whole industry — a hard industry as well. I feel like I have created a space for myself that's mine, that's unique, and that's all that I really wanted to do. Be as honest and truthful as I can about who I am and explore it and learn more about myself, and learn more about my world and dissect it. 

I also feel like in the last 10 years, so much of my time was spent trying to fit into music. And it's like — from the very get-go, I wasn't interested in the same things that my music artist peers were interested in, and I fought against that for so many years. It's just not my personality. I like to work by myself. I like to be insular. I like to be heady and think about things, and then I like to share them and present them at the end and give context and all of that, as opposed to being a personality that's constantly in your face and people are constantly seeing.

I feel like that has to be very draining to do that. 

Well, I think for some people it's actually what they love. For some people, getting on stage and just being that center of attention or just being that star is really empowering for them and important. There needs to be people like that but not all artists have the same personality. And I think that's part of the industry — it kind of sucks that the introverted ones are like, “You just get less because you're just not constantly putting yourself out there all the time.”

I think I've just learned — or at least I'm learning — to try to respect my actual self more. Respect what I need, respect my own boundaries of what I feel comfortable doing or not feel comfortable doing.

Would you say that's the biggest lesson that you've had to learn in the past 10 years?

That, and also trusting your own vision of something. I'm pretty rebellious still. I still like to do my own thing, but there's been times [when] I've tried something that someone else wanted to do and it totally backfired. I was like, "See, I should have done my idea. I would've been much happier."

What about your life allows you to keep making music that focuses on your inner feelings? Has it always been your goal to share that part of yourself with your fans?

I think I'm just constantly in an inner dialogue. Everybody is, but it's what I am constantly thinking about. So, I'm always just wondering about everything in life and how things are connected. That's what I choose to make my music about because it's what interests me. 

There's a lot of things you could write about but I guess I always try to think like, "What could I do that someone hasn't done?" Even though, obviously, a lot of things have been done, the only thing that I can speak on is my personal experience and the way that I see the world. That changes all the time. But sometimes it does feel uncomfortable. For example, in Reflections in Real Time , I felt really vulnerable to release a project like that because it was really my headspace, and it wasn't always the best headspace. 

What was the driving force behind your new album American Gurl ?

I was super, super, super burned out. And I was frustrated with all the things that I was talking about before. I was frustrated by [the] industry and teams and trying to do all of these different things. I mean, being alternative — alternative black artists in general — it's a weird kind of space that people don't really always know where to [put us]. It's much more well-received now, but I think sometimes people are like, "Well, can't you just do it like this? Or can't you just do it like that?" I think this project was like me detoxifying myself from all of the stuff that I heard all the time and the people that I was around, and the scenes and the conversations and just the sugarcoated nature of everything. 

I don't know why, I just started thinking about McDonald's in this way — like sugary candy and Coca-Cola. I just started thinking, “What if I made an album that feels really bright and really kind of like pop on the surface, but then it's really diving into some themes?” It's kind of more like Reflections in Real Time , where it's something that's very near and dear to me but it's coated in this plastic. That's the theme of American Gurl — exploring that I am a product of my environment and these are the things that have been put on me in this time so far.

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Kilo Kish on New Album “American Gurl” and Redefining Success Amid Capitalism

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For a decade, artist and musician Kilo Kish has approached each new project with vigor and imagination, creating thought-provoking art that is a conduit for personal healing while also questioning the world around her. On her 2016 debut album Reflections in Real Time , the singer and visual artist examined how she presents herself in the social media age. Six years later, she’s past those ruminations.

“ Reflections now feels so far away,” she tells Teen Vogue . “Those same things don't burden me anymore. The making of projects as a whole is way to release your sensitivity to those things and you’re able to move forward in a new way.”

Now, with her sophomore album AMERICAN GURL , released March 25, Kish has fresh philosophical terrain to travel: What is the meaning of success in American culture? And is it even something worth having? Throughout the 14-track LP, Kish takes an expansive dive into her measure of happiness and how that fits into societal definitions of achievement. On the album’s title track, a euphoric stream-of-consciousness where she re-evaluates her own “making it” as an influential multidisciplinary artist, she reflects on the person she’s becoming when she yields to traditional expectations of accomplishment: “Who are you baby?/Who are you keeping around//I’m changing places/So I can’t see you anymore.”

Meanwhile, she’s embarking on exciting creative projects outside of her own music and existentialism. Kish recently handled art direction and packaging design for Vince Staples’ latest album RAMONA PARK BROKE MY HEART , a diaristic LP that interrogates the boundaries of family trauma and the meaning of home. The album covers present cut-out images from Staples’ family archives, building a sense of warmth and comfort that goes along with the record. It’s a taste of just how far Kish’s talents can reach.

In this interview with Teen Vogue, Kilo Kish talks about trying to manage the burden of capitalism, the inspiration behind her new album, and what she’s learned from having nearly 10 years in the music industry under her belt.

Teen Vogue: It’s been six years since your last album. What have you been doing in that time span?

Kilo Kish : Between Reflections and now, I’ve done a couple of EPs and toured a little bit and had two solo art shows and one group show. I’ve just been working the whole time. It doesn’t really feel like it’s been six years. It’s just been like continually doing things because once the album’s come out, I also then do all the creative for the rest of the album. Then there’s video, and I direct those. Then there’s merch and touring and then I’m directing and figuring that out, so it doesn’t feel like that much time has gone by, but it totally has.

I think what set up this particular album is that I was just working a lot, and I felt really just tired and strained by the process of going, going, going and doing, doing, doing. It kind of made me dissect what our culture is a bit. I started writing this album in 2019, and I wrote REDUX [Kish’s 2019 EP] in between that, then I toured [for] REDUX . When the pandemic happened, it really gave me time to think about what I had been doing for the past years, my workload and if I was happy in the life that I created for myself…it really just was dissecting a lot of like, what it means to have to make your own way, and I think the values that people preach in America are a lot of that. I really wanted to use Americanism as an umbrella to dissect some of these things that I was dealing with. Am I where I want to be financially? Did I do enough? Am I working hard enough? Am I pretty enough? Am I good enough?

TV: Did you learn anything about yourself in the process?

KK: I guess I’m just always looking for freedom. Whatever the purest form of freedom is, I’m always trying to find it. I don’t know if it’s fully attainable, but I think by figuring out the places that you don’t necessarily feel free, you’re able to kind of get a sense of what would make you happier. This project is basically unburdening myself a little bit from the things that I thought I had to care about or the things that I thought I needed to do to be happy and be successful, and dissecting what is success today because it’s not what it was five years ago. It’s not what it was 10 years ago.

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TV: What does the term “American Girl” mean to you?

KK: It can mean so many different things. For me, at this point in the project, it kind of means being a product of my environment in a way. It’s me dissecting my environment and being like, these are the things that shaped me as a person, and deciding whether I’m going to keep going with those things or not. I grew up being the only Black person in my entire school in elementary school, so I grew up being this different oddball to people, or not what was expected. Then, I did a ton of academic stuff, so I was always studying and really working hard, so I think always feeling like you’re always needing to prove yourself or feeling like you need to be the poster child for your race or your family or for any of these things. Going into the fashion industry when I first started, I would always go to these shows and there would be no other Black people there….why am I always made to feel that I’m here but I’m not really here? It’s really something that has been embedded into who I am, and this constant search for freedom and this ability to just be who you are.

TV: “ NO APOLOGY! ” is a very subversive yet simple song. What was the process in creating it?

KK: With all of the songs, I went through a lot of American art that I like, Jenny Hauser or Barbara Kreuger or artists that use texts to create these kinds of manifestos everywhere. For this album, I wanted a lot of the songs to be quite simple, to feel like an art manifesto in that way. “NO APOLOGY!” is one of those songs. It’s very, very direct. For me, it’s written for a lot of different people. When I wrote a lot of these songs, people were really just not understanding me…so I felt I was in a lose-lose situation where if I got pissed, then I’m being a bitch or I’m being emotional. If I’m just serious and just directly, calmly, plainly, then I don’t get heard. It’s kind of this thing of what is too much? What is not enough? Then me feeling guilty…I don’t want to deal with all of that anymore.

TV: What other songs were manifestos for you?

KK: “ DEATH FANTASY ” was also kind of written like that. It was written like a manifesto at the beginning of the album. “ SUPER KO LOVE ” is also written like that. It’s one of the more positive songs on the record where it’s about allowing yourself to go after what you really, really want. Those [singles] are the most focused on a particular theme.

TV: Each track on the album was accompanied by mixed media images. What was the inspiration for that?

KK: When I first started, I kind of drank the Kool-Aid of bigger is better or more expensive is better, which is what people will tell you. It’s like you need to work with this director or you need to shoot with this person or wear these designer clothes in your photoshoot. It’s this feeling of you made it or you look like you made it when you have all of these accoutrements with your project, but, more and more, I’ve been just wanting to play. I think play doesn’t necessarily require that huge of a budget. These mixed media videos that I did, we shot these all one day on my iPhone with these green screens in these backdrops, but it’s more fun to discover how to edit and how to use different programs. What can I do with this here and build it out in something that feels a lot more grand? I think that’s really fun for me to try to do.

TV: You always take a detailed, interdisciplinary approach when creating art, music and fashion. How does that come to you?

KK: I'll come up with a theme first. Then, I will personally craft each thing to fit into that theme and to tell an overall story of the project. And then that's what I do on the music side. And then I do it on the visual side. And then I do it all across the creation of the project, so that there's layers of depth alluding back to that same central theme and asking questions in all of the different spaces. Sometimes I can do installations around, you know, the projects themselves and music project, so it's more of a multi-layered approach than generally focusing on making an album to only be digested as an album.

TV: AMERICAN GURL is orchestrated conceptually as a video game. The album starts with characters deciding to play the game “American Gurl” and ends with them being annoyed that the game abruptly ends. What made you think of implementing that for the album?

KK : Initially, the album was kind of dissecting the entertainment game that people essentially are always referencing, so I thought it would be fun to actually make a real game that you could play. so I might try to do something like that. I want to still make that for this project, but games take a long time. I was like. maybe I can play on past memories and things and mesh it all together. I also grew up in New Jersey for a part of my life and we would always go down to the shore and we’d go to the boardwalk, so the memory of arcades just in general and the sounds of coins, the sound of commerce — the brightness and richness of sound in an arcade — it just reminds me of industry. All of these things are bright and shiny, and I think sometimes that’s kind of what art is like and how artists are marketed. We’re all for sale, we’re all bright and shiny, we’re all loud and we’re all intense, so it’s a good introduction to the things I’m discussing, which is my relationship to the music game or the game of trying to make it as a working artist.

TV : April marks the 10-year anniversary of your debut EP Homeschool . How does it feel to be in the music game for a decade?

KK: It feels good to survive 10 years in the music business. That’s a very big feat to be able to do that, because it’s very difficult. To even have people still care [about] what you’re doing after ten years [is good]. Especially in the world we live in now, everyone’s attention span is a fraction of what it was, so it’s nice to know that you have fans and things are growing and expanding. I’m just now figuring out, and still fully don’t know, how I want my projects to live. In the beginning or the first five years of me doing music, it was very much like what’s the game and how do I play it? Now, I feel a lot more steady in what my lane is and what I want to do in music and art.

TV: How do you see the progression of your music and art in the next 10 years?

KK: I think for me, it’s really just now expanding music. I went to school for art and design and then I ended up kind of doing music on a whim, and it took my life in a completely different direction for 10 years. Through music, I came back to directing and making art and building things and designing clothes and designing sites, and it’s brought everything back around. I would just like a rounder and [more] rich creative practice, which is full of a lot of different things. Sometimes album, sometimes film, sometimes performance, sometimes installation work…now that I know for sure that I’m not playing the traditional music game, now it’s like, how can I explore the things that I do want to do?

TV: What are you hoping that people take away from listening to AMERICAN GURL ?

KK: I hope that it allows for people to ask their own questions about what are some of the things that you feel limited by or ways for you to find your personal freedom or ways for you to expand yourself or just believe in yourself more. For me, it’s just a bed for people to ask questions.

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Between ads for fashion labels, films, and cars, Kilo Kish looms large on digital billboards above Times Square in New York and on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. In her three-minute video titled “American Gurl” (2022), the rising multimedia artist and performer dons different outfits including a beauty pageant dress, an Evel Knievel-style jumpsuit, and a fringed cowgirl get-up as she poses in front of green screen backdrops of a farmhouse, museum, and the Grand Canyon. “American Gurl,” which runs through October, is the centerpiece of the fourth iteration of Womxn in Windows , a platform showcasing women filmmakers and artists of color. “With her combination of pop, camp, and fantasy, she’s questioning what success and power look like,” Zehra Ahmed, who co-curated this year’s lineup with Kish, told Hyperallergic.   Kish will give a public performance in Times Square on October 14.

Alongside Kish’s video on digital billboards, this year’s program presents work by seven other artists who are featured in a print campaign on trash receptacles in Midtown Manhattan and included in a screening in Los Angeles on October 22 and accessible via QR codes. This is the first year that the program will take place in New York and Los Angeles concurrently.

Womxn in Windows was founded by Ahmed in 2019 with six video installations in the windows of art spaces in Los Angeles’s Chinatown. The jump to digital billboards came from a recent partnership with Times Square Arts and their Midnight Moment program, billed as the “world’s largest and longest-running digital public art program,” that coordinates video art nightly on nearly 100 digital billboards in and around Times Square from 11:57pm to midnight (except for New Year’s Eve). To commemorate their tenth anniversary, Midnight Moment decided to showcase women artists from April 2022 to March 2023. “It felt like the perfect fit and the next step,” Ahmed told Hyperallergic. 

For the Los Angeles component, Ahmed reached out to the owner of a building at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Olive Drive in West Hollywood that has prominent digital billboards on its facade. After a six-month review process, her proposal was approved, and Kish’s video began illuminating the intersection on October 1.

The artists, filmmakers, and musicians featured in “American Gurl”— which was inspired by and borrows the title from Kish’s recent album— explore and challenge the meaning of that moniker, and the associated intersection of identity, femininity, and consumerism. It is something that Ahmed, who moved to the US from Pakistan almost two decades ago to attend college, can relate to firsthand, but she still says she can’t “completely identify with being American. Born in Pakistan, we were fascinated with the idea of the American girl, this singular idea.”

In contrast to a “singular idea,” the artists in “American Gurl” offer myriad depictions of women in America. Ayanna Dozier’s “Softer” (2020) critiques the societal demands that African-American women “soften” themselves, specifically through their appearance. Christine Yuan’s “Hoyeon as the International Woman of Mystery” (2022), originally commissioned by Vogue, casts Korean model and Squid Game star Jung Ho-Yeon as an Irma Vep-style vamp who remakes herself for international (read American) consumption. “iGurl” (2022) by Sarah Nicole François is a disturbing digital vision of endless surgical enhancements in search of bodily perfection. “Can we keep up with the aesthetic pushed onto us?” questions Ahmed. “Can these surgeries actually work on us as fast as we can change ourselves online?” Other participating artists include Christelle de Castro, Kasey Elise Walker, Kitty Ca$h, and Leila Jarman.

Integrated into the very medium it critiques, “American Gurl” offers subversive alternatives to aspirational mass media. “I think advertising in general gives us clues on what’s deemed important and relevant in a culture, what we value, and what we crave,” Kish told Hyperallergic via email. “‘American Gurl’ as a project for me was exploring all of these ideas. Having the work bookended by the typical advertisements feels right.”

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Lakisha Kimberly Robinson also known professionally as Kilo Kish (b.  May 10th, 1990) is an American singer, rapper, and artist from Brooklyn, New York.

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Robinson collaborated with Gorillaz on the track Out Of Body , from the bands 2017 studio album Humanz . She later joined Gorillaz on the Humanz Tour and appeared on Demon Dayz Festival .

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Since the beginning of her career in 2010, Robinson has released five EPs, a mixtape, and two studio albums, Reflections in Real Time and American Gurl . She has featured on songs by artists like Vince Staples , Childish Gambino, Flatbush Zombies, The Internet, and many others. She is currently signed to Blacksmith Records.

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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• Mobile Voucher Accepted
• Free Cancellation
• Duration: 3 Hrs
• Language: English
• Departure Time : 10:00 AM
• Departure Details : Karl Marks Monument on Revolution Square, metro stop: Square of Revolution
• Return Details : Metro Smolenskaya
• If you cancel at least 4 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
• If you cancel within 3 day(s) of the scheduled departure, there is a 100 percent cancellation fee.
• Tours booked using discount coupon codes will be non refundable.

Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

Local English-speaking guide

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Additional food and drinks

Tickets for public transport

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Tips and gratuities for the guide

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Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Dress standard: Please wear comfortable shoes for walking. For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people

Traveler Reviews

This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

We did the tour with Anna her knowledge and understanding of the History surrounding the metro brought the tour alive. Well done Anna!

This tour was amazing!

Anna was a great tour guide. She gave us heaps of interesting information, was very friendly, and very kindly showed us how to get to our next tour.

Amazing beauty and history.

An excellent tour helped by an absolutely amazing guide. Anna gave a great insight into the history of the metro helped by additional material she had prepared.

great tour and guide - thanks again

great will do it again, Miriam ke was very good as a guide she has lived here all here life so knew every interesting detail.a good day

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Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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