As of Monday, January 3, women train drivers began working in the Moscow Metro for the first time in Russia’s recent history. The head of the city’s Transport Department, Maxim Liksutov, made the announcement on Telegram, adding that the female drivers will be driving the trains on the subway’s Filevskaya Line.
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A woman wearing a face mask walks on a platform at a metro station in Moscow on October 15, 2020, amid the Covid-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus. - Russia has the fourth-highest virus caseload in the world with a total of 1,340,409 registered infections, and 23,205 deaths on October 14. (Photo by Dimitar DILKOFF / AFP)
