moscow going undercover

What happens when a city goes underground? Well people in Montreal know, because for now Montreal still has the largest underground city in the world. It consists of 32 km of tunnels and covers an area of 3.6 square kilometres.

But the haydays of the RESO might be over soon. Because Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow's powerful mayor, plans to build an underground version of his city. For a start Luzhkov wants to build 3 million square metres over the next three years.

I knew that there was a lot happening in Russia that shuns daylight, but to go completely underground seems quite absurd, don't you think?

Did you know that Russians were already thinking about an underground transportation system as early as the 1870s? But it would take up to 1935 before the first line of the Moscow Metro would go into service.

O yes, there's also the story of Metro-2, a secret subway system used by the former KGB. The system was built supposedly during (or from) the time of Stalin and codenamed D-6 by the KGB. No one has officially confirmed it's existence yet. Who knows what construction workers will find when they start digging for the new city.