Komsomolskaya Metro Station (Sokolnicheskaya Line) (Moscow)

Russia / Moscow / Moscow
 Neoclassical (architecture), draw only border, metro station, Art Deco (architecture), civil defense facility, underground facility, 1935_construction, Renaissance Revival (architecture)

Opened 15 May 1935.
Depth 8 metres (26 ft).

Due to Komsomolskaya's location under a major transit hub, the station was built with an unusual upper gallery above the platform to help handle rush crowds. The station has tall pillars faced with pinkish limestone and topped with bronze capitals displaying the emblem of the Komsomol league. The station was designed by Dmitry Chechulin, and a model of it was displayed at the 1937 Paris World's fair. The station's southern entrance vestibule is built into the Kazansky Rail Terminal. The northern vestibule is on the opposite side of the square, between the Leningradsky and Yaroslavsky rail terminals. The latter entrance did not survive in its original form, having been replaced with a massive structure serving both this station and the Koltsevaya line station in 1952.
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Coordinates:   55°46'31"N   37°39'19"E
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