Zarechnaya is a station on the Avtozavodskaya line 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:...

, opened on 20 November 1985, together with the first metro route in the city.

Location

The station is located in the Leninsky district

Leninsky District

Leninsky District may refer to:*Leninsky District, Russia, name of several districts and city districts in Russia*Leninsky District, Bishkek, a city district of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan*Leninski District, a city district of Minsk, Belarus...

 under the intersection of the Leninsky Prospekt (Lenin Avenue) and Zaretsyny Bulvar (Forest Avenue).

Structure

The lobby walls are decorated with unusual embossed tile

Tile

A tile is a manufactured piece of hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, or even glass. Tiles are generally used for covering roofs, floors, walls, showers, or other objects such as tabletops...

s, blue and hexagonal shape, imitating wave

Wave

In physics, a wave is a disturbance that travels through space and time, accompanied by the transfer of energy.Waves travel and the wave motion transfers energy from one point to another, often with no permanent displacement of the particles of the medium—that is, with little or no associated mass...

s. The station is shallow and has round 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...

 columns. The floor is paved with light-brown 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...

, symbolising river sand

Sand

Sand is a naturally occurring granular material composed of finely divided rock and mineral particles.The composition of sand is highly variable, depending on the local rock sources and conditions, but the most common constituent of sand in inland continental settings and non-tropical coastal...

, and white marble. The walls are decorated with panels with pictures of the underwater world and of Nizhny Novgorod history.