Editing Moscow Metro (section)

==Name==
The full legal name of the metro has been '''Moscow [[Order of Lenin]] and [[Order of the Red Banner of Labor]] [[Vladimir Lenin|V. I. Lenin]] Metro''' ({{lang|ru|Московский ордена Ленина и ордена Трудового Красного Знамени метрополитен имени В. И. Ленина}}) since 1955. This is usually shortened to '''V. I. Lenin Metro''' ({{lang|ru|Метрополитен им. В. И. Ленина}}). This shorter official name appears on many stations. Although there were proposals to remove Lenin from the official name, it still stands. During the 1990s and 2000s, Lenin's name was excluded from the signage on newly built and reconstructed stations. In 2016, a Metro representative stated that Lenin's name would remain on station name plates as it aligns with the official name of the company, unchanged since the Soviet era.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.m24.ru/articles/metro/18052016/105466 | title=Имя Ленина оставят в названиях станций московского метро Подробнее | publisher=MОСКВА24 | date=18 May 2016 | access-date=2 February 2023}}</ref>

The first official name of the metro was '''L. M. Kaganovich Metro''' ({{lang|ru|Метрополитен им. Л.М. Кагановича}}) after [[Lazar Kaganovich]]<ref name="Kaganovich name">Metro.ru Original order on naming the Metro after Kaganovich. [http://www.metro.ru/library/kak_my_stroili_metro/3.html Retrieved] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20010710190748/http://www.metro.ru/library/kak_my_stroili_metro/3.html |date=10 July 2001}} 19 October 2007</ref> (see ''History'' section). However, when the Metro was awarded the [[Order of Lenin]], it was officially renamed '''Moscow Order of Lenin L. M. Kaganovich Metro''' ({{lang|ru|Московский ордена Ленина Метрополитен им. Л. М. Кагановича}}) in 1947. When the metro was renamed in 1955, the [[Okhotny Ryad (Moscow Metro)|Okhotny Ryad]] station was renamed as "Imeni Kaganovicha" in honor of Lazar Kaganovich. In 1957, the original ''Okhotny Ryad'' name of the station was reinstated.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://vgudok.com/light/moskovskoe-metro-lazaryu-lazarevo-leninu-leninskoe-viktor-kozlovskiy-protiv-pereimenovaniya |title=Московское метро: Лазарю – Лазарево, Ленину – ленинское. |publisher=vgudok Light |date=1 June 2020 |access-date=2 February 2023 |author=Корябкин, Андрей}}</ref>