Russia’s leading search engine Yandex has announced that its now building its own maps courtesy of its purchase of mapping data provider GIS Technologies and associated licenses last year. The ...

You entertain 800,000 Muscovites with a world-record 25,500 square meter (275,000 sq. ft.) audio-visual projection show to celebrate Moscow City Day, of course.

But the new map “represents Moscow as it is in actual fact for the first time in half a century,” the news agency said. It did not say where or when the map would be made available to the public.

Moscow is really circle-based, so we have our own identity which we needed to preserve. The map took nearly four years to design! Why so long? Actually, it took us about a month to design it.

Actually, this is the only widely known scheme in Moscow. So now we may concentrate on redesigning Saint Petersburg subway map, which is just as ugly as its Moscow cousin. –Original story below– ...