A look at transport in the Soviet capital in 1948, just three years after the end of the Great Patriotic War.
STREET SCENE. Thousands of taxis, busses and streetcars traverse Moscow’s streets. This is Gorky Street, near its juncture with the Leningrad highway.
SUBWAY ENTRANCE. The Moscow Subway’s fame often overshadows the capital’s other means of transport, shown on these pages..
ON THE MOSCOW RIVER: These boats are popular with Muscovites who want to relax for an hour or two.
STREETCAR. Moscow’s cars, which carry 53 per cent of the city’s passengers, carried an even greater percentage before the subway was built. This is a new, all-metal type.
''BAGGAGE TAXIS.” Two hundred of these vehicles provide quick transport for travelers’ luggage
CAB STAND. Taxicabs at a railway station wait for the morning train from Latvia.
DOUBLE- DECKER. Moscow’s busses carry 940 thousand passengers every day.
THE OLD AND THE NEW. The relatively old streetcars at the left are rapidly being replaced by the most modern busses. In 3950, Moscow’s bus network will have expanded 50 per cent over its 1945 level.
RUSH HOUR. Electric trains take thousands of Moscow suburbanites to and from their homes. Here early-morning arrivals jam the Kazan Station platform.
From USSR Information Bulletin, September, 1948
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