- Red Square received it's name from an adjective used to describe St. Basil's Cathedral. The Russian word Krasnaya stands for "beautiful" and is the same word for "red". The Cathedral was always described as beautiful, enough so that it was eventually used to describe the entire area that is now called Red Square.
- The Moscow Metro system is the 2nd most used public transportation in the world, behind only Tokyo. The stops are beautiful and are decroated with chandeliers, stained glass, ect. I took a picture of the Komsomolskaya-Koltsevaya metro stop yesterday while on a trip back from Red Square.
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