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How Do You Do a Cruise Control Servo Vacuum Test ?

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To cut to the chase, how do I perform a cruise control "servo vacuum test" for my 2000 TJ Sahara? As background, I started developing some classic symptoms of a vacuum leak. What would happen sometimes (especially when I had the cruise control on and the A/C on at the same time) is that the HVAC blend control doors would start acting up, and other times, the cruise control would stop controlling the set speed (or both). After getting a decent vacuum gauge for dynamic vacuum testing as well as a hand-pump style vacuum pump/gauge for static vacuum testing, I have completed the following tests: - Manifold vacuum ... good & steady at around 12 to 13 inches of Hg. - Visually checked all accessible vacuum lines & fittings ... everything looked good. - Isolated vacuum reservoir vacuum leak check ... held 15 inches of Hg for over 5 minutes with no leaks. - One-way vacuum valve ... tested good. - Isolated vacuum supply line going through firewall into backside of dash ... held 17 inches of Hg for over 5 minutes with no leaks. - Isolated cruise control servo and attempted to pull vacuum ... would not hold any vacuum & immediately bled down to zero (atmospheric pressure). I have a 2000 Jeep Wrangler Service Manual and all it says to do (if the rest of the vacuum system checks out), is to, "Do the servo vacuum test". The trouble is that no servo vacuum test is actually described in the "Speed Control System" section. My problem is this. As described above, when I pull a vacuum on the cruise control servo, it won't establish or hold any vacuum whatsoever. On the surface of it, this could well mean that the internal vacuum chamber or the diaphragm in the cruise control servo is shot and that the entire servo assembly needs to be replaced. However, without the actual servo vacuum testing steps, I don't know whether this vacuum issue is indicative of a failed servo, or whether the test requires the servo to be powered up and dynamically tested in some way, where a vacuum might be able to be achieved and maintained. In other words, I don't want to spend the money to get a new cruise control servo and after installing it, finding out that it is normal to not achieve & hold a vacuum when it is unpowered and in a static state. Can anyone help clarify this for me? I would sure appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Don  

DECJ said: To cut to the chase, how do I perform a cruise control "servo vacuum test" for my 2000 TJ Sahara? As background, I started developing some classic symptoms of a vacuum leak. What would happen sometimes (especially when I had the cruise control on and the A/C on at the same time) is that the HVAC blend control doors would start acting up, and other times, the cruise control would stop controlling the set speed (or both). After getting a decent vacuum gauge for dynamic vacuum testing as well as a hand-pump style vacuum pump/gauge for static vacuum testing, I have completed the following tests: - Manifold vacuum ... good & steady at around 12 to 13 inches of Hg. - Visually checked all accessible vacuum lines & fittings ... everything looked good. - Isolated vacuum reservoir vacuum leak check ... held 15 inches of Hg for over 5 minutes with no leaks. - One-way vacuum valve ... tested good. - Isolated vacuum supply line going through firewall into backside of dash ... held 17 inches of Hg for over 5 minutes with no leaks. - Isolated cruise control servo and attempted to pull vacuum ... would not hold any vacuum & immediately bled down to zero (atmospheric pressure). I have a 2000 Jeep Wrangler Service Manual and all it says to do (if the rest of the vacuum system checks out), is to, "Do the servo vacuum test". The trouble is that no servo vacuum test is actually described in the "Speed Control System" section. My problem is this. As described above, when I pull a vacuum on the cruise control servo, it won't establish or hold any vacuum whatsoever. On the surface of it, this could well mean that the internal vacuum chamber or the diaphragm in the cruise control servo is shot and that the entire servo assembly needs to be replaced. However, without the actual servo vacuum testing steps, I don't know whether this vacuum issue is indicative of a failed servo, or whether the test requires the servo to be powered up and dynamically tested in some way, where a vacuum might be able to be achieved and maintained. In other words, I don't want to spend the money to get a new cruise control servo and after installing it, finding out that it is normal to not achieve & hold a vacuum when it is unpowered and in a static state. Can anyone help clarify this for me? I would sure appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Don Click to expand...

Thanks for the offer Blaine ... I really appreciate it. However, I will be leaving early Monday morning to head up to Logan, Utah for Rock Slide Engineering to install a set of their electric Step Slider power steps on my TJ on Tuesday. I want to use the 700+ mile trip to further evaluate my pinging & vacuum system issues. As part of this, I also just installed a new set of plugs, new distributor cap/rotor, and rerouted my spark plug wires per the 5.2L/5.9L TSB to prevent/minimize potential cross-firing issues. Interestingly, during my work I found someone (either Rob or more likely Evan) had inappropriately coated the terminals on the old distributor cap as well as the coil terminal with silicone grease. While that is OK on the boots themselves, it is generally considered a no-no to actually put that stuff directly on the conductive metal terminals (and I mean someone really gooped a lot of the stuff on the terminals, not just a little). I don't know if that potentially contributed to the overall lack of power coming out of my 5.9 from an ignition perspective, but I can definitely say that it's starting up and running a lot peppier in the driveway (and without the annoying surging & RPM drift that was intermittently going on at idle from time to time). The upcoming trip will obviously tell much more about that. Anyway, let me go on the trip first and see what's better or otherwise continuing to not be so good, and I will then revisit the cruise control servo unit. And thanks again for the offer Blaine. Don  

DECJ said: Thanks for the offer Blaine ... I really appreciate it. However, I will be leaving early Monday morning to head up to Logan, Utah for Rock Slide Engineering to install a set of their electric Step Slider power steps on my TJ on Tuesday. I want to use the 700+ mile trip to further evaluate my pinging & vacuum system issues. As part of this, I also just installed a new set of plugs, new distributor cap/rotor, and rerouted my spark plug wires per the 5.2L/5.9L TSB to prevent/minimize potential cross-firing issues. Interestingly, during my work I found someone (either Rob or more likely Evan) had inappropriately coated the terminals on the old distributor cap as well as the coil terminal with silicone grease. While that is OK on the boots themselves, it is generally considered a no-no to actually put that stuff directly on the conductive metal terminals (and I mean someone really gooped a lot of the stuff on the terminals, not just a little). I don't know if that potentially contributed to the overall lack of power coming out of my 5.9 from an ignition perspective, but I can definitely say that it's starting up and running a lot peppier in the driveway (and without the annoying surging & RPM drift that was intermittently going on at idle from time to time). The upcoming trip will obviously tell much more about that. Anyway, let me go on the trip first and see what's better or otherwise continuing to not be so good, and I will then revisit the cruise control servo unit. And thanks again for the offer Blaine. Don Click to expand...

Take the Servo out, pump it up to 5 mm/hg with hand pump and wait to see if it holds pressure for about 5 minutes.  

OK, let me understand this. It sounds like what you are suggesting is a pressure hold test rather than a vacuum hold test - is that correct? Otherwise, with the 5mm of Hg you are suggesting, when I convert that, I only get 0.197 inches of Hg, which I probably couldn't even see on either my Lisle vacuum or Mac vacuum/pressure gauges.  

Base on the fact that everything else is holding good vacuum it sounds like the vacuum servo is the only thing left. Wouldn't matter if it was the vacuum diaphragm leaking or the electric servo, I think it would be safe to say it's either of those, and since neither are serviceable I would just go ahead and replace it. EDIT: Somewhere around page 1568 is the "Controls" section for the HVAC. I would go through there and vacuum test those components and make sure there aren't leaks at the vacuum actuators or other lines.  

freeskier93 said: Base on the fact that everything else is holding good vacuum it sounds like the vacuum servo is the only thing left. Wouldn't matter if it was the vacuum diaphragm leaking or the electric servo, I think it would be safe to say it's either of those, and since neither are serviceable I would just go ahead and replace it. Click to expand...

EDIT: Somewhere around page 1568 is the "Controls" section for the HVAC. I would go through there and vacuum test those components and make sure there aren't leaks at the vacuum actuators or other lines. Click to expand...

Interesting Update Ha! Not so fast Curley! I should have clarified earlier that my isolation of the cruise control servo for vacuum testing purposes was by way of disconnecting the beginning of a ~5 ft long small diameter plastic vacuum line where it came out of a tee on the passenger side of the intake manifold. That was the one that would not even begin to hold any vacuum, so the servo initially became the bad guy. (And Blaine, this is the vacuum line that you ran over the modified radiator shroud from the passenger side to the drivers side using a protective covering). Anyway, after standing on my head for half an hour with a liberal amount of cussing, I finally got the right angle vacuum fitting boot off the lower side of the cruise control servo. I then plugged in my vacuum pump and pulled 15 inches of Hg with one stroke on the servo. Over 5 minutes it went down to 13.5 inches of Hg, so that was not a big leak rate by any stretch. I then securely plugged the passenger end of the vacuum line and put my hand vacuum pump on the drivers side end and went to pull a vacuum. Even after several strokes, there was only a slight deflection of the pump gauge into the beginning of the vacuum range with it immediately falling back to zero at the end of each pump stroke. So, while I still don't know that pulling a static vacuum on the cruise control servo is the correct diagnostic procedure to use, I nevertheless found a totally non-integral vacuum line to the servo, so for the moment, I am going to say that the line is actually the culprit here and likely not the servo. I now need to get the entire vacuum line freed-up and out of the engine compartment so I can carefully trace down the hole or crack & repair that section and then reinstall it. I can then use my upcoming trip to dynamically evaluate the performance of my cruise control and A/C systems to see if this finally gets rid of the problems with both.  

Must be livin' right (for once) Whew! Done! I was hoping to just find one bad spot in the small diameter plastic vacuum line where I could cut it out and splice in a short piece of rubber vacuum hose I picked up last Friday at NAPA, but NO ... once I got the entire line out from the protective sheath, the whole center section was cooked and embrittled up the wazoo. How much small diameter rubber vacuum hose did I buy? 3 feet. How long was the bad section of the small diameter plastic vacuum line I needed to replace? 2 ft-9 inches! Sweet!! Re-vacuum tested the new 3-piece vacuum line to the cruise control servo and it passed with flying colors! So, other than being behind time tonight, I will be able to hit the road early tomorrow morning and fully test out the cruise control & A/C operation during my 350+ mile trip up to northern Utah.  

Post-Trip Report Well, after having put over 700 miles on my TJ on this past Monday & Tuesday, it's a good news/bad news situation. The good news ... the vacuum issues appear to have been remedied. I was able to run the A/C with the cruise control on several times and nothing acted up. The not so good news ... I had thought that curing the vacuum leak would stop my getting Check Engine Lights with the P0171 fault code ("System Tool Lean - Bank 1"), which can often be associated with a vacuum leak where the PCM picks up the leak as a lean running condition and compensates by running the system rich. Unfortunately, I got two more CEL's with the P0171 fault code during the trip. And although the temperatures were mild and fairly cool during most of the trip to/from Northern Utah, I did experience some pinging, which would have been even worse if it had been hotter out. So with going with a colder set of plugs, a new distributor cap/rotor, TSB rerouted spark plug wires, and the continued use of premium gas ... this result was obviously disappointing. Although I have been resisting it, it looks like I now need to swap out my custom-programmed PCM for the stock PCM I previously purchased from a salvage yard to see what that does if anything. Beyond that, I now have the necessary parts to pull cold intake air from the plenum area, but I probably won't be getting to that mod for a while. While the Dodge Magnum 5.2L & 5.9L V8 engines have had a history of pinging problems, I am still trying to get to the bottom of this frustrating issue for my swapped-in 5.9L. By the way, the installation of the Rock-Slide Engineering Step Sliders went well on Tuesday. If anyone's interested, here is the link to the installation write-up ... http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f9/r-se-step-slider-installation-1350319/#post13331402  

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Message DZAUTO, he has installed cruise on their 70 Vert, may be the same. Good Luck!!  

Tom, Thank you! This helps a bunch! Yes, I got everything but the cable. Turn signal arm that's no good, wiring harness, transducer, servo, both pedal switches, both speedo cables, throttle cable bracket and lastly the vacuum hoses that need to be replaced. Only questions I have is, How is the vacuum connected? Does it connect to the manifold vacuum source?  

THAT IS FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!! Thank you so much Tom! Hopefully some one else wil get use out of this also. I only have a 2 terminal transducer, so no light. Yes, I did get the aluminum vacuum hose tee. I'll be running a Holley, so I guess I'll need a 4 port manifold fitting. 1 - A/C (C-60), 1 - Cowl Hood (ZL-2), 1 - for the Cruise (K30) and PB (J50), Did your transducer come with the rubber A/C condensor mount or did you add those? Mine was hard mounted to the bracket. Hopefully someone with a '72 will chime in and confirm my suspicions about the servo. Thanks again Tom, You Da Man!  

Jayhawk500 said: THAT IS FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!! I'll be running a Holley, so I guess I'll need a 4 port manifold fitting. 1 - A/C (C-60), 1 - Cowl Hood (ZL-2), 1 - for the Cruise (K30) and PB (J50), Click to expand...

No, mine came just the way it is mounted in the pictures.  

Thank You Tom, I knew you would have pictures and descriptions that would help!!  

DZAUTO said: The one I am most familiar with is the Rostra cruise unit. Several other people have installed the Rostra and have given excellent reviews. I ESPECIALLY like the speed sensor that is installed between the speedo fitting on the transmission and the speedo cable. Click to expand...

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I need some help guys. I recently replaced my lift pump. After climbing all over the top of the motor, as I was buttoning up the lift pump upgrade, I noticed a stiff plastic line that must have been knocked loose & come un-attached. I poked around trying to find out where it went, but didn't see any spot for it. The next day, I noticed my cruise control wasn't working (I use it a lot, and has always worked before). So, I'm thinking it was a vacuum line, possibly for the cruise control. Where does this line terminate? It appears it goes somewhere on the rear of the motor, or firewall. It comes from the front of the motor somewhere running along the driver side of the motor. Anybody have any idea?  

Look around by the wire harness on the firewall. IIRC there should be a line from the vacuum pump and a line from the CC running to multiple port fitting then a line running into the cab on the passenger side to control vent heat/ac vent functions.  

Thanks for the advice. I'll take a look at that in the morning. I'll update the thread if that is it. I didn't look where it came from, but I am betting it is the one coming from the vacuum pump, because it looked like it was coming from that area. Odds are you hit the nail on the head. T  

I have an ‘02. The cruise control servo is located between the drivers side headlamp and battery. Down lower. The vac hose runs from there to a T fitting on the firewall between the master cylinder and engine. I just recently replaced the entire hose. What a difference!  

Thanks guys. It was a vacuum line from the vacuum pump. It came loose at that T fitting on the firewall. Put it back there. Thanks again.  

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• Other Name : SERVO, Speed Control
• Replaced by : 53009315
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• Dodge | D350 | 1990-1993 | 6 Cyl 3.9L, 8 Cyl 5.2L, 8 Cyl 5.9L
• Dodge | Dakota | 1990-1991 | 6 Cyl 3.9L, 8 Cyl 5.2L
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• Dodge | W350 | 1990-1993 | 6 Cyl 3.9L, 8 Cyl 5.2L, 8 Cyl 5.9L

• Other Name : SERVO, Speed Control; Cruise Servo, Servo
• Replaces : 53008012
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• Dodge | Ramcharger | 1990-1993 | 6 Cyl 3.9L, 6 Cyl 5.9L Diesel, 8 Cyl 5.2L, 8 Cyl 5.9L

• Other Name : SERVO Speed Control; Actuator, Cruise Servo, Servo
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• Chrysler | Pacifica | 2004-2006 | 6 Cyl 3.5L, 6 Cyl 3.8L
• Dodge | Dakota | 2005-2007, 1997-1999 | 4 Cyl 2.5L, 6 Cyl 3.7L, 6 Cyl 3.9L, 8 Cyl 4.7L, 8 Cyl 5.2L, 8 Cyl 5.9L
• Dodge | Durango | 2004-2007, 1998-1999 | 6 Cyl 3.7L, 6 Cyl 3.9L, 8 Cyl 4.7L, 8 Cyl 5.2L, 8 Cyl 5.9L
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• Dodge | Ram 3500 | 2003-2004, 1997-1999 | 10 Cyl 8.0L, 6 Cyl 5.9L Diesel, 8 Cyl 5.9L
• Dodge | Ram Van | 1997-2003 | 6 Cyl 3.9L, 8 Cyl 5.2L, 8 Cyl 5.9L
• Dodge | Ram Wagon | 1997-2002 | 6 Cyl 3.9L, 8 Cyl 5.2L, 8 Cyl 5.9L

Mopar Servo

• Other Name : SERVO, Speed Control; Cruise Servo
• Chrysler | Cirrus | 1995-1996 | 4 Cyl 2.0L, 4 Cyl 2.4L, 6 Cyl 2.5L
• Chrysler | Concorde | 1993-1996 | 6 Cyl 3.3L, 6 Cyl 3.5L
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• Chrysler | Sebring | 1995-1996 | 4 Cyl 2.0L, 4 Cyl 2.4L, 6 Cyl 2.5L
• Chrysler | Town & Country | 1992-1996 | 6 Cyl 3.3L, 6 Cyl 3.8L
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• Dodge | Caravan | 1992-1996 | 4 Cyl 2.4L, 4 Cyl 2.5L, 6 Cyl 3.0L, 6 Cyl 3.3L, 6 Cyl 3.8L, Electric Motor

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Jun 06 2018.

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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21 Things to Know Before You Go to Moscow

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Apr 24 2017

City Street Guides by f.d. walker: A Street Photography Guide to Moscow, Russia

*A series of guides on shooting Street Photography in cities around the world. Find the best spots to shoot, things to capture, street walks, street tips, safety concerns, and more for cities around the world. I have personally researched, explored and shot Street Photography in every city that I create a guide for. So you can be ready to capture the streets as soon as you step outside with your camera!

At over 12 million people, Moscow is the largest city in Russia and second largest in Europe by population ( Istanbul is #1). An urban, cosmopolitan metropolis with more than enough glitz and glam to cater to the elite, but without losing its fair share of Soviet era roughness around the edges. It can be fast paced, brash, busy, and trendy like other big cities, but it has its blend of West meets Russia atmosphere and beauty that provides plenty of unique interest. The Red Square is as famous as it gets, but there’s so much more to this city, including the most beautiful subway system you’ve ever seen. It would take years to capture all of Moscow, but that means you have an endless amount of areas to discover.

So here’s a Street Photography guide so you can be ready to capture all that Moscow has to offer before you even arrive!

• Patriarch’s Pond
• Old Arbat Street
• Maroseyka Street
• Tverskoy Boulevard

Top 5 Street Spots:

1. red square.

The Red Square is the most famous square in not just Russia, but all of Eastern Europe. The name actually doesn’t come from the color of the bricks or communism, but from the name in Russian, Krásnaya, once meaning “beautiful” before its meaning changed to “red.” This large plaza is what you see on the cover of guide books and magazines for Moscow, with St. Basil’s Cathedral being the center piece next to Lenin’s Mausoleum surrounded by the Kremlin Wall. Of course, the Red Square attracts hordes of tourist due to the main attractions, but all that activity around an interesting atmosphere does provide street photo opportunities. It’s also the central square connecting to the city’s major streets, providing a good starting point to explore outward.

You’ll also find the popular pedestrian only Nikolskaya Street connecting the Red Square to Lubyanka Square. This line of expensive shops includes plenty of activity, while also leading you to another popular square. Filled with history rivaling any city, the Red Square and surrounding areas are the heart and soul of Russia.

2. Patriarch’s Ponds

Patriarch’s Ponds is one of the most exclusive neighborhoods in Moscow. Despite the name being plural, there’s only one large pond, but it’s worth a visit with your camera. It’s a popular spot for locals and expats to come relax or take a stroll around the pond. You get an interesting mix of young and old too, from young love to “babushkas” feeding pigeons. It’s a very peaceful park atmosphere in one of the nicer areas within the city center, while bringing enough activity for street photography. 

The pond is shallow and in the winter becomes a popular spot for ice-skating too. The area is also well-known for the location in the famous Russian novel, The Master and Margarita. 

3. Old Arbat (Stary Arbat)

Old Arbat is the most famous pedestrian street in Moscow, and dating back to the 15th century, also one of its oldest. Originally, it was an area of trade, but soon became the most prestigious residential area in Moscow. During the 18th century, Arbat started attracting the city’s scholars and artists, including Alexander Pushkin. Cafes lined the streets and impressive homes filled the neighborhood. Since then, New Arbat street was created as a highway in the area, while Old Arbat was paved for a 1km pedestrian only walkway.

Due to the historic buildings, famous artists that lived here, and the bohemian atmosphere, Old Arbat has become a big attraction for tourists today. Now, there’s a mix of cafes, restaurants, souvenir shops, street performers, street merchants and other attractions for visitors, and some locals, to come enjoy. It can get really busy here and there’s usually something interesting going on so it’s a good street to come walk with your camera for guaranteed life.

4. Gorky Park

One of the most famous places in Moscow is Gorky Park. The official name is Maxim Gorky’s Central Park of Culture & Leisure, which gives you an idea of what goes on here. When built, it was the first of its kind in the Soviet Union. Divided into two parts, it stretches along Moscow River. One end contains fair rides, foods stands, tennis courts, a sports club, a lake for boat rides, and more. This end brings more active life due to its number of attractions, while the other end is more relaxed, where you’ll find gardens, trees, older buildings, and an outdoor amphitheater.

Gorky Park attracts mostly locals so it’s a good spot to capture the non-tourist side of Moscow life. Muscovites come here to escape the city and unwind in a picturesque setting. The park remains alive outside of the warmer months too, especially when the lake turns into the city’s largest outdoor skating rink. I’d recommend taking the metro out here to spend at least half a day exploring the massive park’s life with your camera.

5. Maroseyka Street

Maroseyka Street is a popular area not too far from the Red Square. The long, winding street turns into Pokrovka and is lined with restaurants, cafes, bars and places to stay. It’s actually where I like to stay when I’m in Moscow due to its location and solid street photography opportunities itself. You have Kitay-gorod station near and if you keep walking southwest, you’ll get to the Red Square. But if you walk northwest, as it changes to Pokrovka, you can find a long street of activity for photography with its own interesting atmosphere.

6. Tverskoy Boulevard

Tverskoy Boulevard is the oldest and longest boulevard in Moscow, beginning at the end of Nikitsky Boulevard, and finishing at Pushkin Square, a spot to come for activity itself. The boulevard is made up of two avenues, with pedestrian walkways in-between. You’ll find grass, shrubbery, trees, benches and more walking it’s almost kilometer length. Many people come here to enjoy some relaxation, walk their dog, or just to use it to walk wherever they’re going. Its center location also provides a nice place to walk with your camera near plenty of other spots you’ll want to check out anyway.

Sample Street Walk:

For a full day of Street Photography, covering some of the best spots, you can follow this sample street walk for Moscow:

• Start your morning walking around the Red Square (1), while exploring the surrounding area, including Nikolskaya Street
• Then walk northwest to Patriarch’s Ponds (2) and slowly walk the pond and surrounding area with your camera
• Next, walk east to the Pushkin Monument and stroll down Tverskoy Boulevard (6)
• Once Tverskoy Boulevard (6) ends, it will turn into Nikitsky Boulevard. Follow this down until you get to the start of Old Arbat Street (3), across from Arbatskaya station
• After you’re done walking down Old Arbat Street (3) for more street photography, spend some time checking out Moscow’s beautiful metro stations
• To finish off the day with more street photography, get off the metro near Red Square (1) again, Maroseyka Street (5) or wherever you’re staying for the night.

3 Things I’ll Remember about Shooting in Moscow:

1. museum metro.

The Moscow metro system was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union and today includes 203 stations across 340km of routes. The elaborate system has some of the deepest stations in the world too, with escalators that seem to go on forever. None of this is what makes it so special, though. Many of its stations feel like stepping inside a museum, making it without a doubt the most interesting and beautiful metro system I’ve been in.

When built, Stalin wanted to make the metro stations “palaces for the people” with marble, chandeliers, and grand architecture. The best part is the variety of architecture and styles used, making many of the stations a completely different experience visually. You could easily spend a whole day traveling the stations and there are even tours available for people who wish to do just that. My advice, though, would be just to buy a ticket and hop on and off at different stations, while exploring different lines. The museum-like surrounding mixed with the crowds of characters can make for a great photography experience.

Since there are so many stations, here are some of my favorites to check out:

• Novoslobodskaya
• Mayakovskaya
• Elektrozavodskaya
• Komsomolskaya
• Ploschad Revolyutsii
• Dostoyevskaya
• Prospekt Mira

2. Moscow is Big

It’s no secret that Moscow is a big city, but it can feel even bigger with how spread out much of it is. This is especially true if you compare it to cities outside of Asia. If I compared it to cities in Europe, I’d probably say only Istanbul would warrant more time to really discover the depths of this city. Most only explore around the Red Square and surrounding area, but that is such a small part of the city. Although, that central area does give you plenty to see on its own.

Fortunately, I had a good friend living in the city to show me around, but it opened up my eyes even more to how much there is to discover in Moscow. It’s a big city with a variety of atmosphere that can take you from “east” to “west” and trendy to rugged depending on where you go. I’d imagine you’d have to live here a while to really know the city.

3. Cosmopolitan Mix of East meets West

Modern skyscrapers mixed with amazing architecture, a world-class metro system with museum-like beauty, trendy fashion and chic clubs, Moscow is a rich mix of Russian culture and history in a more western cosmopolitan package. There is a push to keep the Russian culture, while also pushing forward with a modern metropolis the whole world will envy. This comes with an impressive skyline, that continues to grow, and endless modernities, but with soviet nostalgia and atmosphere mixed in for good measure.

Mixed in with this grand western cosmopolitan atmosphere, is a strong national pride in Russia. This includes their famous leader, Vladimir Putin. Maybe no other place will you see a country’s leader more often. All over, from the pricey tourist shops to the underground walkway stalls, you’ll find goods with Putin’s likeness covering them. From t-shirts to magnets to Matryoshka dolls. There’s a strong national pride that can be seen around the city, which also extends to their leader. Moscow is many things. It’s East meets West, modernizations meets Soviet era, and a whole lot more.

What To Do For a Street Photography Break?:

Eat at a stolovaya.

Stolovayas are Russian cafeterias that became popular in the Soviet days. You grab a tray and walk down the line of freshly prepared local dishes, and select whatever you want from the chefs. They’re usually inexpensive and a much better value than restaurants, while giving you the opportunity to try from a wide selection of everyday Russian food. They’re also very tasty. I always include some borsch on my tray and go from there. The places themselves are all over Moscow and usually come with Soviet-era aesthetics to complete the experience.

Street Safety Score: 7

*As always, no place is completely safe! So when I talk about safety, I’m speaking in general comparison to other places. Always take precaution, be smart, observe your surroundings and trust your instincts anywhere you go!

Being the 2nd largest city in Europe with over 12 million people, you’re going to have your dangerous areas, but for the most part, it feels safe walking around. Russia is statistically higher in crime compared to most of Europe, but this generally doesn’t apply to tourists and visitors. Around the Red Square and surrounding city center, you should feel completely safe walking around. Pick pocketing can happen, but no more than other touristic places. I always explore Moscow freely without coming across too much to worry about. It’s a spread out city, though, so of course it matters where you are. Just use basic street smarts, know where you are and Moscow shouldn’t give you a problem. 

People’s Reaction Score: 7

Moscow is fast paced, big city life, which usually means people aren’t too concerned with you, or your camera. I don’t find people notice or pay much attention to me when I’m out taking photos in Moscow. For the most part, people just go about their day. You shouldn’t get too many looks or concern. But it can depend on the area you are in. The more you stick out, the more you might get noticed with suspicions. I’ve never had any problems in Moscow, or Russia, but just be careful who you’re taking a photo of if you get out of the city center. Other than that, it’s about average for reactions. 

Street Tips:

Learn the alphabet .

Much of Moscow, including the metro system, doesn’t use english. The Russian alphabet uses letters from the Cyrillic script, which if you aren’t familiar with it and don’t know the sounds, can be hard to decipher the words. This is most important for street names and metro stops when trying to get around. It can save confusion and make it easier getting around if you learn the basic alphabet. At the very least then, you can sound out the words to see which are similar in the english conversion, which can help matching them to maps. When out shooting street photography, getting around is as important as anything. So save yourself some time and frustration by learning the Russian Alphabet.

Use the metro

While Saint-Petersburg feels very walkable for a city its size, Moscow can feel very spread out, even for its bigger size. Outside of the Red Square area, you can have plenty of walking before getting anywhere very interesting, so you’ll need to take the metro a lot if you really want to explore the city. Maps are deceiving here too, it will always be further than it looks.

Another reason it’s less walkable than Saint-Petersburg is its completely different set-up. Moscow’s streets are mostly contstructed in rings with narrow, winding streets in-between. This is common with medieval city cities that used to be confined by walls, but you usually don’t have it in a city this massive. Saint-Petersburg has a more grid-like pattern that also uses the canals to help you know your way around. When it comes to navigating on foot in Moscow, it can be more difficult, so bring a map and take the metro when needed. It’s why Moscow’s metro carries more passengers per day than the London and Paris subways combined.

Explore other areas if you have time

Moscow is really big. While most people stay around the Red Square within the Boulevard Ring, there’s so much more to the city. I covered some other spots outside of this circle, but if you really want to see the city, you’ll need time. If you do have time, some other areas I’d check out first are Zamoskvarechye, along some of the south and western Moscow.

Inspiration:

For some more inspiration, you can look through the Street Photography of Moscow photographer Artem Zhitenev  and check out 33 of my photos taken in Moscow .

Conclusion:

Moscow’s name brings a certain mystique, but once you’re there it might bring a different atmosphere than you expect. It’s big and sprawling, but beautiful in many ways. It can feel like a European capital on a grand scale, but you can definitely find its Russian side in there.

The urban sprawl of Moscow can be intimidating, but give it enough time and you’ll be rewarded with plenty to discover. All with the world’s best metro system to take you around.

I hope this guide can help you start to experience some of what Moscow contains. So grab your camera and capture all that Moscow has to offer for Street Photography!

If you still have any questions about shooting in Moscow, feel free to comment below or email me!

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