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Akcium

As a Russian I'm glad to hear this :)

What's funny is that we usually do not notice its beauty because we got used to it.

And I don't travel a lot so I cannot compare.

BUT

In the past years we indeed got wi-fi, air conditioning and stuff. Some of trains are colored in thematic things, like:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%...

Check it out, they look really great!

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That's really cool! Looking forward to seeing those stations and trains one day. Your link also prompted me to check the St. Petersburg metro stations:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sankt+petersburg+metro&tbm=i...

Equally pleasing! :)

But we also have problems, of course: big crowds, random rogues, some of trains are dirty and smelly etc

[New Yorker here doing the “Homer recedes into bush” meme]

I can tell you by experience that those problems are exactly the same in London, Paris, and New York, at the very least. Even in Japan, that utopic land of heavenly rail deployment, you get squeezed to an inch of your life at peak times (but at least the guy shoving you in, will wear impeccably-clean white gloves...)

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