Leninsky Prospekt (Moscow metro)
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Leninsky Prospekt is a station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
of the Moscow Metro
. It was built in 1962 to a variant of the standard pillar-trispan design, which included a more vaulted central span. The pillars are faced with white marble
with a strip of gray at the base and the outer walls are tiled. The original metal light fixtures still run the length of each platform span were replaced in 2004 with more utilitarian fluorescent fixtures. The architects of the station are A. Strelkov, Nina Aleshina, Yuriy Vdovin, V. Polikarpov and A. Marova.
Leninsky Prospekt has two entrances, interlinked with subways on the east side of the avenue for which it was named and with exists also to both sides of the Yuri Gagarin
Square.
A unique feature of the station is that in the middle of a platform there is a staircase leading nowhere. In fact the staircase was indended to be a part of the transfer to the Moscow ring railway station Ploschad Gagarina. Information has recently surfaced that the railway will be integrated into the urban transport and it is expected that the transfer subway will be constructed in the forecoming decade. Currently the station serves 61,600 passengers daily.
Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
The Kaluzhsko–Rizhskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro, that originally existed as two separate radial lines, Rizhskaya and Kaluzhskaya opened in 1958 and 1962, respectively. Only in 1971 were they united into a single line as the central section connecting the stations Oktyabrskaya to Prospekt...
of the Moscow Metro
Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system serving Moscow and the neighbouring town of Krasnogorsk. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. As of 2011, the Moscow Metro has 182 stations and its route length is . The system is...
. It was built in 1962 to a variant of the standard pillar-trispan design, which included a more vaulted central span. The pillars are faced with white marble
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
with a strip of gray at the base and the outer walls are tiled. The original metal light fixtures still run the length of each platform span were replaced in 2004 with more utilitarian fluorescent fixtures. The architects of the station are A. Strelkov, Nina Aleshina, Yuriy Vdovin, V. Polikarpov and A. Marova.
Leninsky Prospekt has two entrances, interlinked with subways on the east side of the avenue for which it was named and with exists also to both sides of the Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961....
Square.
A unique feature of the station is that in the middle of a platform there is a staircase leading nowhere. In fact the staircase was indended to be a part of the transfer to the Moscow ring railway station Ploschad Gagarina. Information has recently surfaced that the railway will be integrated into the urban transport and it is expected that the transfer subway will be constructed in the forecoming decade. Currently the station serves 61,600 passengers daily.