Soviet Metro Stations

Following his bestselling quest for Soviet Bus Stops, Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and chandelier opulence to brutal futuristic minimalist glory, Soviet Metro Stations documents this wealth of diverse architecture.

Christopher Herwig is a Canadian born photographer and videographer. Currently based in Jordan, his previous homes have included Liberia and Kazakhstan. Owen Hatherley is a British writer and journalist. He is the author of Landscapes of Communism, a history of communism in Europe told through the built environments of former socialist states.

Essay by Owen Hatherley - Soivet Metro station photographs from: Moscow - St Petersburg - Tashkent - Kiev - Baku - Tbilisi - Minsk - Yerevan - Novosibirsk - Yekaterinburg - Samara - Nizhny Novgorod - Kryvyi Rih - Dnipro - Kharkiv