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Interesting side note: The designer of the map Pasha Omelekhin seems to work mostly for the Russian agency Art. Lebedev where he was also involved in the official redesign of the new Moscow metro map [1]. They also have detailed process descriptions for most of their projects.

Among others the agency works for big Russian state owned corporations, like Gazprom.

[1] https://www.artlebedev.com/metro/map3/

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If Art. Lebedev doesn't ring a bell: They designed the Optimus Maximus keyboard.

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The principal of the firm runs a (now-outdated) Russian site about the Moscow Metro (metro.ru).