The Soviet Metro Stations photography series by Christopher Herwig documents the most unusual details of the Soviet-era metro network built between the 1930s and 1980s.
Christopher Herwig has photographed stations including Nizhny Novgorod
Intended to give an insight into the "closest realisation of a Soviet utopia", the photography collection features stations in 15 cities across seven different countries in the former USSR ? the communist state that existed from 1922 to 1991.
Herwig's photos focus predominantly on the details that make each of these stations unique, which range from propaganda sculptures and artwork to elaborate mosaics and opulent lighting.
Tulskaya station in Moscow, is one of the Soviet-era stations featured in the book "I was first blown away by the metro's station on trips to Moscow, St Petersburg and Tashkent starting in the late 90s," Herwig told Dezeen.
"They are pretty amazing ? for me it became an event in itself to visit the stations and explore them, just like one would go to a museum or forest. I spent months."
The photo collection includes many opulent stations like Avtovo in St Petersburg
The photos are featured in Herwig's latest book Soviet Metro Stations, which has been published by FUEL. It is complete with an introductory text by Dezeen columnist and critic Owen Hatherly.
It follows his first book Soviet Bus Stops, which documented bus stops in Russia, Georgia and Ukraine.
Herwig photographed stations in ...