The police deployment included crack anti-riot and special interior ministry units who were called up in anticipation of a street battle that was reportedly scheduled outside the Kievsky train station for 6:00 pm (1500 GMT).
"The checks resulted in the arrest of more than 100 people," news agencies quoted Moscow police spokesman Viktor Biryukov as saying.
"We have confiscated several air guns, knives and stun guns," Biryukov said.
He added that police patrols had been stepped up throughout the centre of the city.
Rumours of the Kievsky station standoff spread across the Russian Internet following a weekend riot outside the Kremlin involving some 5,000 football fansand elements of the far right.
Gangs of ethnic Muslims were reported to be planning a counter-rally at Kievsky and a major Russian nationalist movement called on its supporters to come armed to the site.
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