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25 September 2023, 06:00

By Kathryn Knight

Romesh Ranganathan is back on tour with a brand-new show called 'Hustle'. Here's what you need to know about the tour from dates and venues to how to get tickets.

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After a sell-out tour in 2019 - 2022, Romesh Ranganathan is hitting the road again with a new show, 'Hustle' – examining the human condition, in which he'll be addressing questions like 'are people inherently good?', 'Is charity always a positive thing?', 'Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we've made up to keep people working hard for no reason?'

Romesh will be examining all these issues while providing no real answers of course.

The comedian hits the road in January, taking the show from Edinburgh Playhouse to Manchester AO Arena.

Here's the info you need from dates and venues to getting tickets...

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Venues and dates for Romesh Ranganathan's 2024 tour

Saturday 20 January Lincoln, Engine Shed

Sunday 21 January Lincoln, Engine Shed

Thursday 25 January Basingstoke, The Anvil

Friday 26 January Cheltenham, Town Hall

Saturday 27 January Cheltenham, Town Hall

Sunday 28 January Basingstoke, The Anvil

Thursday 1 February Reading, The Hexagon

Friday 2 February Reading, The Hexagon

Saturday 3 February Northampton, Royal & Derngate

Sunday 4 February Woking, New Victoria Theatre

Wednesday 7 February Leicester, De Montfort Hall

Thursday 8 February Leicester, De Montfort Hall

Friday 9 February Portsmouth, Kings Theatre

Saturday 10 February Portsmouth, Kings Theatre

Sunday 11 February Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Monday 12 February Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Tuesday 13 February Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Wednesday 14 February Oxford, New Theatre

Thursday 15 February Oxford, New Theatre

Friday 16 February Ipswich, Regent Theatre

Saturday 17 February Ipswich, Regent Theatre

Sunday 18 February Southampton, Mayflower Theatre

Wednesday 21 February Milton Keynes, Theatre

Thursday 22 February Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre

Friday 23 February Canterbury, Marlowe Theatre

Saturday 24 February Milton Keynes, Theatre

Saturday 2 March, Cambridge, Corn Exchange

Thursday 7 March, Stockton, The Globe Theatre

Friday 8 March, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 02 City Hall

Saturday 9 March, Stockton, Globe Theatre

Sunday 10 March, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 02 City Hall

Thursday 14 March, Douglas, Villa Marina

Monday 18 March, Norwich, Theatre Royal

Tuesday 19 March, Norwich, Theatre Royal

Thursday 21 March, Swansea, Arena

Friday 22 March, Bristol, Beacon

Friday 5 April, Glasgow, King’s Theatre

Saturday 6 April, Glasgow, King’s Theatre

Wednesday 10 April, Liverpool, Empire

Thursday 11 April, Liverpool, Empire

Friday 12 April, Sheffield, City Hall

Saturday 13 April, Sheffield, City Hall

Thursday 18 April, Brighton, Dome

Friday 19 April, Brighton, Dome

Saturday 20 April, Brighton, Dome

Thursday 25 April, Brighton, Dome

Friday 26 April, Brighton, Dome

Saturday 27 April, Brighton, Dome

Saturday 28 April, Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Monday 29 April, Southend, Cliffs Pavilion

Thursday 2 May, Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre

Friday 3 May, Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre

Saturday 4 May, Belfast, Grand Opera House

Wednesday 8 May, Plymouth, Pavilions

Thursday 9 May, Bournemouth, Windsor Hall

Friday 10 May, Bournemouth, Windsor Hall

Saturday 11 May, Bouremouth, Windsor Hall

Tuesday 14 May, Aberdeen, Music Hall

Wednesday 15 May, Aberdeen, Music Hall

Thursday 16 May, Edinburgh, Playhouse

Friday 17 May, Edinburgh, Playhouse

Wednesday 22 May, Eastbourne, Congress

Thursday 23 May, Eastbourne, Congress

Friday 24 May, London, The 02

Saturday 25 May, London, The 02

Tuesday 28 May, Cardiff, International Centre

Wednesday 29 May, Cardiff, Motorpoint Arena

Thursday 30 May, Birmingham, Utilita Arena

Friday 31 May, Birmingham, Utilita Arena

Saturday 1 June, Nottingham, Motorpoint Arena

Wednesday 5 June, Hull, Bonus Arena

Thursday 6 June, Hull, Bonus Arena

Friday 7 June, Leeds, First Direct Arena

Saturday 8 June, Manchester, AO Arena

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Romesh Ranganathan

Romesh will be starring in the new series of Avoidance which returns to BBC One for a second series on the 5th April.

Romesh returns as conflict-avoiding, Jonathan, who is determined to reinvent himself following the break up with his partner Clare (played by Jessica Knappett).

Series 2 takes place a year after the end of the first series where Jonathan is determined to win back his ex-partner Claire, and make his son happy. 

However with the introduction of additional potential new love interests Brett (Matthew Lewis) and Megan (Aisling Bea), this may get rather more complicated. 

Created by Romesh Ranganathan and Benjamin Green, who also directs. The series is written by Romesh Ranganathan, Benjamin Green and Jessica Knappett. 

Episode 1 will air on Friday 5 April at 9.30pm on BBC One, all six episodes will be available as a boxset on BBC iPlayer.

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The incredibly funny tongue-in-cheek comedian from Crawley

Known for his trademark cynicism, Romesh Ranganathan is one of the UK’s most popular TV presenters and comics. He was born in West Sussex in 1978 as Jonathan Romesh Ranganathan and took an unusual route to stardom – via rapping and teaching.

After delivering his first ever stand-up set at the age of nine at a holiday camp talent competition, Ranganthan spent his teen years focused on becoming a hip hop artist with the moniker “Ranga”. Ultimately, he became a maths teacher and worked for many years at a school in Crawley, where he met his wife Leesa, who taught drama. They married in 2009 and around that time, Ranganathan found his way back to comedy by doing gigs in pubs as a hobby.

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Tour dates 2024

At 16 venues:

AO Arena, Manchester

£25–£40 / 0844 847 8000

Bournemouth International Centre

£30 / 0300 500 0595

Brighton Dome

£32.50 / 01273 709709

Cliffs Pavilion, Southend-on-Sea

£31.50 / 01702 351135

Congress Theatre, Eastbourne

£32 / 01323 412000

Connexin Live, Hull

Prices to be confirmed

The Edinburgh Playhouse

£35.65–£80.65 / 0844 871 3014

First Direct Arena, Leeds

£25–£40 / 0844 248 1585

indigo at The O2, London SE10

Prices to be confirmed / 0871 220 0260

Motorpoint Arena Nottingham

£25–£40 / 0843 373 3000

Music Hall, Aberdeen

£34 / 01224 641122

The O2 Arena, London SE10

Sold out / 0844 856 0202

Olympia Theatre, Dublin

Plymouth pavilions.

£30 / 03337 727727

Utilita Arena, Cardiff

Utilita arena, birmingham.

£30–£40 / 0871 945 6000

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Hustle 2024 tour.

• Date 24 May - 25 May 2024
• Venue The O2 arena
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Romesh Ranganathan is back with a brand-new show ‘Hustle’, which is coming to The O2 on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 May 2024.

After a sell-out tour in 2022, Romesh is back with a brand-new show examining the human condition. Are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we've made up to keep people working hard for no reason? Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more, while providing no real answers.

Romesh is best known for The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League of Their Own, Avoidance, Romantic Getaway, host of The Weakest Link and his own BBC Sounds and Radio 2 show For The Love of Hip Hop.

Join Romesh for The After Party ft. Special Guests at indigo at The O2 on Friday 24 May 2024 straight after the show at The O2 arena. More info and tickets  here .

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Romesh Ranganathan: Hustle

After a sell-out tour in 2022, Romesh is back with a brand-new show examining the human condition... are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we've made up to keep people working hard for no reason. Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more while providing no real answers. Best known for The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Avoidance, Romantic Getaway , host of Weakest Link and his own BBC Sounds and Radio 2 show For The Love Of Hip Hop .

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Romesh Ranganathan - Hustle

After a sell-out tour in 2022, Romesh is back with a brand-new show examining the human condition… are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we’ve made up to keep people working hard for no reason.

Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more while providing no real answers.

Best known for  The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Avoidance, Romantic Getaway,  host of  Weakest Link  and his own BBC Sounds and Radio 2 show  For The Love Of Hip Hop .

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After a sell-out tour in 2022, Romesh is back with a brand-new show examining the human condition… are people inherently good? Is charity always a positive thing? Is hustling the key to success? Or is all this a load of rubbish we’ve made up to keep people working hard for no reason.

Join Romesh as he examines all of these issues and more while providing no real answers.

Best known for The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, The Ranganation, Rob & Romesh Vs, A League Of Their Own, Avoidance, Romantic Getaway, host of Weakest Link and his own BBC Sounds and Radio 2 show For The Love Of Hip Hop.

Please note: Due to high demand, an extra date – Fri 22 Mar 2024 – has been added and is on sale now.

Presented by Bristol Beacon and Off The Kerb Productions

Format:  Reserved seating

Age: 14+ (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)

The performance on Fri 22 Mar will be BSL interpreted

Doors: 19.30 Start: 20.00 Interval:  20.45 – 21.05 Finish: 21.50

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“A masterclass in spinning life’s frustrations into comedy gold.” Evening Standard

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Inside Romesh Ranganathan’s life with incredibly private wife and three children

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Romesh Ranganathan has been a firm fixture of British comedy since the early 00s and often jokes about his family life with his wife and children.

Despite her husband’s celebrity status, wife Leesa Ranganathan steers clear from the spotlight and instead chooses to cheer him on from the sidelines.

Whether he’s starring in a new tv series or running in the London Marathon, Romesh has always thanked his wife for supporting his career.

The 46-year-old presenter is also set to head out on a sold out tour for the next two months, kicking off in Brighton and snaking across the UK and Ireland.

His tour, Hustle, hits cities like Birmingham , Belfast , Edinburgh , Cardiff , and London , before wrapping in Manchester in early June.

No doubt the show will be packed with jokes about his life with Leesa but thankfully she is unfazed by this as he once confessed: ‘She genuinely sees it all as just comedy, and therefore meaningless.’

Who is Romesh Ranganathan’s wife?

Leesa met Romesh when the pair worked together in 2009 at Hazelwick School in Crawley, before his stand-up career took off.

She was a member of the drama department while her future husband was a maths teacher.

Little is known about her except for what Romesh has shared about the pair, which includes details of their sex life — or lack thereof.

‘It was a pretty frank discussion of what Leesa and I were experiencing passion-wise,’ he revealed in his column for the Guardian in 2020.

He continued: ‘I have a vivid memory of seeing her face in the audience, looking completely calm, and then glancing across to our friends, who looked utterly horrified at the prospect of going out for dinner with a couple they now knew were definitely not having sex when they got home.’

Romesh went on to describe their intimate activities as ‘like making risotto’, something you ‘always enjoy’ but most of the time can’t be bothered to do.

How many children do Romesh and Leesa have?

Despite Romesh’s frank confessions of their less than steamy home life, the couple have three children together; Theo, Alex, and Charlie.

The doting dad even has two of his sons’ names tattooed on his arm — although not his youngest’s as he revealed in 2019.

He and Leesa had originally agreed to both get tattoos after the birth of their first son, but ‘she bottled it’, he wrote.

‘I got another done when my second son was born, but am yet to get a tattoo for our youngest,’ he said at the time.

‘The clock is ticking, because he is now learning to read, and will be upset when he discovers that, not only have I got his brothers’ names, but also Richard Pryor, Nas, the Roots and the Transformers’ Autobot logo before getting round to him.’

Is Romesh Ranganathan vegan?

Growing up Romesh was a vegetarian but decided to go vegan in 2013 and has been an advocate for a plant-based lifestyle ever since.

In 2019 he posted a video titled ‘The real reason people hate vegans’ which garnered a lot of traction as he simply said because they’re ‘saving the planet’.

‘People hate vegans,’ the comedian shared. ‘And the reason they hate vegans is because they think we’re humourless, and they think we think we’re better than non-vegans, and all of those things are true.

“Veganism has been shown to be, like, one of the two best things you can do to save the planet. So why are you annoyed at me?” @RomeshRanga asks, why do people hate vegans? 😂🥗 #TheRanganation pic.twitter.com/gCylmGA5Tr — BBC Two (@BBCTwo) May 16, 2019

‘In terms of my ethical decisions, I’m so much better than you. I’m better for the planet, I’m better than the animals, there’s nothing worse about me apart from I’m slightly irritating to have round for dinner.’

He added: ‘It’s sort of a sense of guilt, when you see a vegan. That vegan is a reflective surface showing you your own inadequacies and you can’t handle it.’

The star also shares recipes with his fans and has praised his mum’s vegan Sri Lanken curries in the past, although it’s not clear if she is also plant-based.

What is Romesh Ranganathan’s net worth – and did he once run a pub?

Thanks to his stints presenting The Weakest Link, appearing on panel shows, and of course touring his comedy, Romesh has an estimated net worth of £2.4million.

Part of this wealth came from inheriting a pub from his father, which formed the basis of his sitcom The Reluctant Landlord.

The Prince of Wales pub in East Grinstead was run by Romesh’s dad for at least 10 years before he passed away.

It has since been demolished as the comedian previously lamented to Metro.co.uk, he said: ‘We tried to run it for a bit and then gave up after a few months.

‘It was an absolute disaster and then I just contacted the brewery and said we can’t do this any more. The pub doesn’t exist any more.

‘They kept telling us it was a viable pub location and then we abandoned it and they knocked it down, which gives you an idea about how honest they were being about that! We weren’t great at it.

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‘What I do think is sad is that pubs are just dying all over the country, and that pub went that way so it’s unfortunate.’

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Romesh is a stand-up comedian, actor, and writer who is perhaps best known for appearing on comedy and panel shows such as A League of Their Own, The Ranganation , The Weakest Link, and more.

Prior to his career on television, Romesh studied mathematics at Birkbeck University and went on to teach the subject at a school in Crawley. He is also a big hip-hop fan, having performed freestyle rap under the name 'Ranga' and hosting his own podcast series,  Hip-Hop Changed My Life.

Who is Romesh Ranganathan married to?

Romesh and his wife Leesa crossed paths when they were both working at a secondary school in Crawley. While Romesh taught maths, Leesa worked in the drama department. After meeting in 2009, the pair tied the knot and have gone on to welcome three children. As Romesh's wife prefers to keep out of the spotlight,  little is known about her. 

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Romesh doesn't open up about his personal life in great detail, but he has referenced his wife and marriage in his stand-up material in a light-hearted and funny way. Romesh told the Guardian: "People often ask me if she minds me talking about her, but she genuinely sees it all as just comedy, and therefore meaningless."

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Romesh and Leesa are the proud parents to three sons –  Theo, Alex, and Charlie – and the comedian even has a tattoo of his sons' names. He told the Guardian in 2019: "The clock is ticking, because he [my youngest son] is now learning to read, and will be upset when he discovers that, not only have I got his brothers’ names, but also Richard Pryor, Nas, the Roots, and the Transformers’ Autobot logo before getting round to him."

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Comedian Arj Barker’s interaction with a mother who brought a seven-month-old baby to his comedy show in Melbourne on Saturday night has sparked outrage, sympathy and debate about the woman’s decision to bring her infant to the gig and his decision to ask her to leave.

The account of the incident is contested, with the mother Trish Faranda saying the baby was just “gurgling” during the show and that she felt “humiliated” when asked by the comedian to leave the theatre in front of 700 people.

Another audience member, spoken to by the Guardian, said the baby was “crying” and disrupted the performance multiple times before Barker “politely” asked the woman to leave.

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The mother and baby, were sitting toward the front of the Athenaeum theatre watching Barker’s The Mind Field show, which is part of the Melbourne international comedy festival . Faranda clarified that she had not chosen the seats and that her group were sitting toward the end of the row so she could make a “quick exit” if the baby made a lot of noise.

Faranda told 3aw that during the show, the baby “gurgled a little bit, equivalent to someone coughing” and said that Barker heard and joked about the noises, saying “I speak baby and she said ‘take me outside’”.

Later in the show, the baby made more noise, which Faranda described as “she gurgled a little bit, she whinged, nothing super loud” and she said Barker came over and told her to leave the theatre.

Faranda said she was “humiliated” and packed up and left. “I was not comfortable to stay … people were out to have a good night, and that’s fine, if he was not coping with [the baby’s noises], I don’t want to impact other people.”

Faranda said that 10 or 12 others – all women who were mothers or grandmothers and could relate to her experience – as well as one “lovely gentleman” left the theatre with her in protest.

However, Steven Adlard, a Melbourne-based doctor, who was in attendance at the show said the noises were more disruptive than the mother had indicated.

“It wasn’t a little bit of gurgling, it was crying. I was on the second level up and I could hear it,” he said. “Arj got distracted, he was trying to tell a joke, he quite politely stopped and said ‘would you mind? Could you please leave?’ and she just sat there, and the baby settled down, and a few minutes later it started again.

“He was trying to perform and he couldn’t, he wasn’t rude to her, he just said ‘all these other people are here to hear the performance, and they can’t’.”

Adlard said the experience was uncomfortable for everyone – Faranda, Barker and audience members.

“Really I thought it was quite an upsetting thing for all people involved. He was uncomfortable; she was, I’m sure, upset.”

Barker said in a statement to ABC radio: “The show is strictly age 15-plus, as clearly stated on the ticket site. She had an infant with her, the baby was disrupting my performance. On behalf of the other 700 people who paid to see the gig, I politely told her the baby couldn’t stay. She thought I was kidding, which made the exchange a bit awkward. I felt bad about the whole situation and stated this on the night more than once. I offered her a refund. Theatre staff should not have seated a baby in my audience in the first place.”

The description of the show on Ticketmaster said: “This performance is suitable for ages 15+ All patrons must have a ticket, regardless of age.”

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Adding to the outrage online, is the claim by Faranda that at the time he asked her to leave the venue, she was breastfeeding her baby.

“I was actually breastfeeding when he came and stood in front of me and then he was basically telling me to leave,” she told 3AW, saying she found the interaction “intimidating”.

Barker clarified in a statement that his decision to ask Faranda to leave had nothing to do with her breastfeeding the baby, and given the bright lights in his face, he couldn’t see whether or not she was breastfeeding.

“For the record, I support public breastfeeding, as it’s perfectly natural,” he said in his statement.

The incident has sparked furious debate online, and taps into discussions around the exclusion of breastfeeding women and parents of young children from public places.

Ellen Sandell, the Greens state MP for Melbourne, wrote on X: “I am livid at hearing this. It’s hard enough for new mums to participate in society with all the barriers put in front of them – to be humiliated like this, for just trying to enjoy the comedy festival, is awful. Arj Barker should take a good look at himself and apologise.”

Adlard said that it took Barker a few minutes to regain his composure after the woman left the theatre and he made self-deprecating jokes about the incident afterwards, including that the gig was his last performance for the comedy festival “and probably my last in Melbourne”.

Trish told 3aw she would not go back to see Barker perform again. “No and the sad bit is, I’ve been to lots of his shows before children and you kind of lose yourself a bit when you have kids and I was just trying to get back to something I enjoyed before I had kids.”

Faranda and Barker were contacted for comment.

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Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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