Kaluzhskaya (russian: Калужская) is a station on the
Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of the
Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro) is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first ...
. It is named after the Russian town of
Kaluga. Kaluzhskaya opened on 12 August 1974, replacing a
temporary station of the same name (located in a service bay of the nearby Kaluzhskoe Depot) that had been operating since 1964. The new station was built to the column tri-span design with tapered octagonal
columns in place of the usual square ones. Also the step of the columns was extended from 4 metres to 6.5, and the height of the ceiling raised. The columns are faced with pink
Baikal
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marble
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, the walls are tiled with white ceramic and decorated with metallic artworks (works of A. Leonteva and M. Shmakova); the floor is laid with grey granite. The architects of the station were N. Demchinskiy and Yuliya Kolesnikova.
Passengers can transfer to
Vorontsovskaya station of the
Bolshaya Koltsevaya line
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.
The entrances to the station are spread out along
Profsoyuznaya Street north of
Obruchev street as well as onto the
Academicial Keldysh square. Its daily passenger traffic is 131,000.
References
Moscow Metro stations
Railway stations in Russia opened in 1974
Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
Railway stations located underground in Russia
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