Krasniye Vorota

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Krasniye Vorota

Krasniye Vorota (literally Red Gates, named after the square where the famous monumental archway Red Gates once stood) is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line

Sokolnicheskaya Line

The Sokolnicheskaya Line , formerly Kirovsko-Frunzenskaya , is the first line of the Moscow Metro, dating back to 1935 when the system opened....
of the Moscow Metro

Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro , which spans almost the entire Moscow, is the world's Metro systems by annual passenger rides rapid-transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its metro station, which contain outstanding examples of socialist realism art....
.

Designed by architects Ivan Fomin

Ivan Fomin

Ivan Aleksandrovich Fomin was a Russian architect and educator. He began his career in 1899 in Moscow, working in the Art Nouveau style. After relocating to Saint Petersburg in 1905, he became an established master of the Neoclassicism movement....
and N.N. Andrikanis, it opened as part of the original Metro line in 1935.

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Krasniye Vorota (literally Red Gates, named after the square where the famous monumental archway Red Gates once stood) is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line

Sokolnicheskaya Line

The Sokolnicheskaya Line , formerly Kirovsko-Frunzenskaya , is the first line of the Moscow Metro, dating back to 1935 when the system opened....
of the Moscow Metro

Moscow Metro

Ivan Fomin

Marble

Marble is a nonfoliated metamorphic rock resulting from the metamorphism of limestone, composed mostly of calcite . It is extensively used for Marble sculpture, as a architecture material, and in many other applications....
from Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a transcontinental country in the Caucasus region, located at the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It is bordered by the Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the east, Armenia to the south, and Turkey to the southwest....
. A model of the station was exhibited at the 1938 World's Fair

World's Fair

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in Paris

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, where it was awarded a Grand Prix.

Krasniye Vorota was one of Moscow's first four deep-level stations, and one of the first two to employ a three-arched design with three parallel, circular tunnels. In this type of station, the outer tubes (which house the tracks and platforms) are separated from the larger central hall by heavy pylons. This design was planned to be used for the first time on the four central-city stations on the first Metro line, Krasniye Vorota, Chistiye Prudy

Chistiye Prudy

Chistye Prudy , or "Clean Ponds," is a Moscow Metro station located on the Sokolnicheskaya Line. It opened on 15 May 1935 as part of the first segment of the Metro....
, Lubyanka

Lubyanka (Metro)

Lubyanka is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, located under Lubyanka Square. It opened in 1935 as part of the first stage of the Metro....
, and Okhotnyi Ryad. However, due to construction difficulties a simpler two-arched design was implemented at Lubyanka or Chistiye Prudy.

Work began on Krasniye Vorota in the spring of 1932 and proceeded smoothly despite fears that the untested three-arch design would collapse under the weight of the soil. The station opened on schedule on May 15, 1935.

Krasniye Vorota's original vestibule is a distinctive, shell-like building designed by Nikolai Ladovsky

Nikolai Ladovsky

Nikolai Alexandrovich Ladovsky was a Russian avant-garde architect and educator, leader of the Rationalism movement in 1920s architecture, an approach emphasizing human perception of space and shape....
which stands on the south side of the Sadovoye Koltso. A second vestibule, built into the ground floor of the Red Gate Square

Seven Sisters (Moscow)

The Seven Sisters is the English name given to a group of Moscow Skyscrapers designed in the Stalinist architecture. However, Muscovites never use the name "Seven Sisters" and call these buildings "Vysotki" or Stalinskie Vysotki , which means " Tall buildings"....
skyscraper

Skyscraper

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(architect Alexey Dushkin

Alexey Dushkin

Alexey Nikolayevich Dushkin was a Soviet architect, best known for his 1930s designs of Kropotkinskaya and Mayakovskaya stations of Moscow Metro....
), was completed in 1953.

In 1952 the first turnstile

Turnstile

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in the Moscow Metro system was installed at this station. Between 1962 and 1986 the station was renamed Lermontovskaya in honour of the Russian author Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Lermontov

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov , , a Russian language Romanticism writer and poet, sometimes called "the poet of the Caucasus", was the most important Russian poet after Alexander Pushkin's death....
. There is still a bust of Lermontov at the end of the platform.

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— Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)