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Kolomenskaya (Metro)
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Kolomenskaya is an underground metro station
on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line
of the Moscow Metro
in Moscow, Russia.
Although named after the UNESCO
World Heritage Site
Kolomenskoye
Museum-Park next to it, the station is very spartan. Designed by architects L.Shagurina and V.Cheremin in the typical pillar-trispan "sorokonozhka" (centipede) design that was typical of the late 1960s-early 1970s, the station has a bright appearance with two rows of forty octagonal-shaped concrete pillars faced with white marble
, and a floor laid with grey granite
of various shades and asphalt
on the platform edges. The main concession to decoration is a series of several rather small copper plaques on the yellow ceramic tiled walls. Created by sculptor E. Ladygin, these show images from popular historical Russian bogatyr
myth With what motherland began.
on the Nagatinsky Metro Bridge which was opened simultaneously with the new segment. Plans for a new station, Tekhnopark
(alternative name, Prospekt Andropova) to be added in the future remains unfulfilled.
Metro station
A metro station or subway station is a railway station for a rapid transit system, often known by names such as "metro", "underground" and "subway". It is often underground or elevated. At crossings of metro lines, they are multi-level....
on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line
Zamoskvoretskaya Line
Zamoskvoretskaya Line , formerly Gorkovsko-Zamoskvoretskaya , is a line of the Moscow Metro. Opened in 1938, chronologically it became the third line. There are twenty stations on the Zamoskvoretskaya line, and it spans , roughly crossing Moscow in a north-south direction. A normal trip along the...
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...
in Moscow, Russia.
History
Kolomenskaya Station was opened on 11 August 1969 as a part of the southern line extension of the Moscow Metro system.Decoration
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Site
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the UNESCO as of special cultural or physical significance...
Kolomenskoye
Kolomenskoye
Kolomenskoye is a former royal estate situated several kilometers to the south-east of the city-centre of Moscow, Russia, on the ancient road leading to the town of Kolomna...
Museum-Park next to it, the station is very spartan. Designed by architects L.Shagurina and V.Cheremin in the typical pillar-trispan "sorokonozhka" (centipede) design that was typical of the late 1960s-early 1970s, the station has a bright appearance with two rows of forty octagonal-shaped concrete pillars 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...
, and a floor laid with grey granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
of various shades and asphalt
Asphalt
Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...
on the platform edges. The main concession to decoration is a series of several rather small copper plaques on the yellow ceramic tiled walls. Created by sculptor E. Ladygin, these show images from popular historical Russian bogatyr
Bogatyr
The bogatyr was a medieval heroic warrior of Kievan Rus' and the Novgorodian Republic, akin to a Western European knight errant.- Kievan Rus' :...
myth With what motherland began.
Exits
The station has two underground vestibules, located on the intersection between the Andropova avenue and the Nagatinskaya/Novinki street. Both vestibules are interlinked with underpasses that offer exits to the surface level which covered glazed pavilions.Surrounding Area
The construction of the station is a typical example of Soviet urban development, as the apartment blocks that were built around it are contemporary with the station. The region that the is located in, Nagatino became part of Moscow only a few years prior to the construction of the station. Part of the track from Avtozavodskaya is above ground, and it passes over the Moskva RiverMoskva River
The Moskva River is a river that flows through the Moscow and Smolensk Oblasts in Russia, and is a tributary of the Oka River.-Etymology:...
on the Nagatinsky Metro Bridge which was opened simultaneously with the new segment. Plans for a new station, Tekhnopark
Tekhnopark
Technopark is a proposed station on the Moscow Metro's Zamoskvoretskaya Line, between Avtozavodskaya and Kolomenskaya stations.The grade-level station is primarily supposed to serve the Nagatino i-Land technopark....
(alternative name, Prospekt Andropova) to be added in the future remains unfulfilled.