Sokolniki (Metro)

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Sokolniki (Metro)

Sokolniki 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....
. It is located under Rusakovskaya street at the foot of Sokolnicheskaya Square and was part of the first Metro line. The station is named for the nearby Sokolniki Park of Culture and Leisure.

The northeastern end of the line, including Sokolniki, was built using the cut and cover method. The tunnels from Krasnoselskaya

Krasnoselskaya

Krasnoselskaya is a Moscow Metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line in Moscow, Russia. Part of the first Metro line, it is located under Krasnoprudnaya street, east of the intersection with Krasnoselskaya street....
to Sokolniki were under construction as early as the summer of 1933, but work did not begin on the station itself until March, 1934.

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Sokolniki 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

Krasnoselskaya

Concrete

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shell of the station was completed in just five months, and Sokolniki opened along with the rest of the line on May 15, 1935. The first test run of the Metro, in 1934, took place between this station and Komsomolskaya

Komsomolskaya-Radialnaya

Komsomolskaya , also called Komsomolskaya-Radialnaya to differentiate it from the station of the same name on the Koltsevaya Line) is a Moscow Metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line....
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The station was designed by architects Ivan Taranov and Nadezhda Bykova and features tiled walls and pillars faced with grey-blue Ufaley marble

Marble

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. A model of the station was awarded a Grand Prix at the 1937 Paris

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World's Fair

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Sokolniki was the northeastern terminus of the line for 30 years, until the 1965 extension to Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad

Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad

Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad "Transfiguration Square" is a Moscow Metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line. It is a pillar-trispan design, with green marble pillars and tiled walls, dating to the height of that style's popularity in 1965....
was completed. The reversal sidings are still used for maintenance and overnight storage of trains.

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