Kuznetskiy Most (Metro)
Kuznetskiy Most () is a station on
Metro'sTagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line. Designed by Nina Aleshina and N.A. Smailova the station became the first collumn type since the 1950's. Opened in the 1975 as part of the linking segment between the Zhdanovskaya and Krasnopresnenskaya Line, Kuznetskiy Most features one of the early station that began to decoratively devite from the functionality mandate of the 1960's. The columns are faced with "gazgan" marble archways (reminding a viaduct). Floor is covered with polarised black granite. The snow-white marble of the walls are decorated with decorative artworks done by M.N. Alekseev. The vestibule of the station is located in the courtyard of house № 6 on the Rozhdestvenka street. In the opposite end of the station is a transfer to the Lubyanka.
From this station it is possible to transfer to
Lubyanka on the
Sokolnicheskaya Line.
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