Burevestnik is a station of the Nizhny Novgorod Metro

Nizhny Novgorod Metro

The Nizhny Novgorod Metro , formerly known as Gorky Metro is a rapid-transit system that serves the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Opened in 1985, it consists of 13 stations and is 15.3 kilometres long.-History:...

 which was opened on 9 September 2002. It is the western terminus station on the Sormovskaya line.

Location

The station is located under the Sormovskoye Shosse (Sormovo Road) in the Moskovsky District. In the planning phase, the station was called Kalininskaya, after the Soviet politician Mikhail Kalinin

Mikhail Kalinin

Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin , known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych," was a Bolshevik revolutionary and the nominal head of state of Russia and later of the Soviet Union, from 1919 to 1946...

. The station is located half underground in the basement of a building of the subway company.

Architecture

It is the only subway station in Nizhny Novgorod that has two platforms on the outside of the tracks. Between the tracks there is a row of columns, above which the name of the station is mounted. The platforms and walls are covered with dark gray and white marble

Marble

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, and the ceiling is decorated with metal

Metal

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 and plastic

Plastic

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. The station hall is located above the tracks and is connected to the street by stairs.

Connections

The station has connections to many tram

Tram

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 and bus

Bus

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lines to the north west of Nizhny Novgorod, a part of the city not served by the metro.