Moscow metro logo is a capital letter 
Russian alphabet in red with serifs at the base. From 1979 to 2014, the logo had a blue outline in the form of a sectional tunnel. In 2014, it was decided [1] to create a uniform logo in the context of rebranding of all Moscow transport.
Content
- 1 History
- 2 Logo Images
- 3 notes
- 4 References
History
The first phase of the Moscow metro was opened in May 1935 . In the same year, his logo appeared - almost over all the vestibules of the stations of the first stage of the subway, the letters M were installed in conjunction with the inscription "METRO".
Initially, the task of creating a logo was set for ordinary Muscovites. They were asked to send their work to the competition, the winner was promised 2,000 rubles [2] . About 100 logos were sent to the competition, but not one was selected and the work on the logo was entrusted to the architects who designed the first subway stations.
There is no definite information about the author of the first logo. But most likely, the authors were metro architects - Ivan Georgievich Taranov and Samuel Mironovich Kravets .
Throughout the history of the metro, the logo has changed many times, primarily the changes concerned the proportions of the letter M itself . And in 1979, the logo included a blue semicircle, designating the subway tunnel [3] .
Several dozen images of the red letter M, which are used in the metro at the same time, have reached our time.
In September 2014, a standardized logo of the Moscow Metro was announced [4] . The logo was presented by Artemy Lebedev Studio as part of the new brand of all Moscow transport. The basis for a single emblem was the averaged form of logos that appeared at different times in the walls of the subway. The designer of the updated letter was Konstantin Konovalov, who a year before put up for public discussion the standardization of the metro symbol [5] .
With the announcement of the updated logo, a scandal erupted. Information surfaced on the Internet that the logo redrawing cost 232 million rubles. But a few days later, the Moscow Department of Transport denied this information, saying that the designers worked for a symbolic 1 ruble on their own enthusiasm [6] , and 232 million rubles should go to create new navigation and repair the vestibules in the Moscow subway.
In August 2016, the letter M in the “pin” was registered as a trademark of the Moscow Metro.
Logo Image
On the lobby of the Komintern station in 1935
On the memo of 1935
On tokens for travel
Moscow metro logo in 1979-2014
Sign at the entrance to the Kitay Gorod station
Sign at the entrance to the station " Buninskaya Alley "