A 39-year-old Muscovite has given birth in one of the city`s metro stations, the Life.ru news website reported on Thursday.
The woman was nine months pregnant when she went into labor at the Altufyevo station in the north of the city.
She asked police officers at the station to call an ambulance, but she had given birth to a healthy boy before medical assistance arrived.
The Moscow metro is generally considered the world`s most beautiful. Intended by Stalin to act as "people`s palaces," the older stations are notable for their chandeliers, columns and intricate murals. Altufyevo was however opened in 1994 and lacks the elegance of earlier, Soviet-era parts of the network.
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