Photo: Jon Hicks / Corbis / Vida Press

This year, the Moscow metro is 80-years-old. With more riders than almost anywhere in the world today, Moscow's subway system is one of the Soviet Union's greatest lasting achievements. When it opened in 1935, the metro had a single 11-kilometer (6.8-mile) line and just 13 stations. Today, the Moscow subway system boasts 12 lines and nearly 200 stations, covering more than 325 kilometers (more than 200 miles). In light of this eight-decade milestone, Meduza has collected photographs from some of the Moscow metro's most celebrated stations.

Photo: Vladimir Goroschenko/ Lori

Sokolniki (the very first station)

Photo: Kent Kobersteen / National Geographic Creative / Corbis / Vida Press

Novoslobodskaya

Photo: Nikolai Galkin / TASS / Corbis / Vida Press

Novoslobodskaya

Photo: Jon Hicks / Corbis / Vida Press

Mayakovskaya

Photo: Jon Hicks / Corbis / Vida Press

Mayakovskaya

Photo: Sergei Karpov / TASS / Corbis / Vida Press

Kiyevskaya

Photo: Nikolai Galkin / TASS / Vida Press

Taganskaya

Photo: Nikolai Galkin / TASS / Vida Press

Taganskaya

Photo: Graham Lawrence / Robert Harding World Imagery / Corbis / Vida Press

Partizanskaya

Photo: Jonathan Irish / National Geographic Creative / Corbis / Vida Press

Ploshchad Revolyutsii

Photo: Vladimir Goroschenko/ Lori

Belorusskaya

Photo: Elena Koromislova / Lori

Arbatskaya

Photo: Jon Hicks / Corbis / Vida Press

Komsomolskaya

Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev / TASS / Corbis / Vida Press

Vystavochnaya

Photo: Nataliya Volkova / Lori

Aeroport

Photo: Alexey Kudenko / RIA Novosti / Scanpix

Vorobyovy Gory

Photo: Oksana Aleshina / Lori

Spartak (the newest station)

Photo: Alexander Vilf / RIA Novosti / Scanpix

Park Kultury