Ploshchad Ilyicha () is a station on the

Moscow Metro The Moscow Metro) is a rapid transit system in the Moscow Oblast of Russia. It serves the capital city of Moscow and the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy, and Kotelniki. Opened in 1935 with one l ...

Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line The Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line (, ) (Line 8; Yellow Line) is a line of the Moscow Metro system in Moscow, Russia, currently consisting of two separate parts. It was opened as the eastwards Kalininskaya line in 1979, with the first stations of ...

. It was opened on 30 December 1979 as part of the line's first stage.https://wikimapia.org/18423001/Ploshchad-Ilyicha-Metro-Station

Name

It is named after the Ilyich Square (indirectly referring to either

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of ...

by his

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). The square has since been renamed to Rogozhskaya Zastava Square.

Building

The station is a deep-level pylon tri-vault design. The connotation of the location's former name, influenced the architectural theme of the station ''realisation of Lenin's ideas'' by architects L. Popov and V. Klokov and engineers Ye. Barsky and Yu. Murmotsev. The station walls are faced with white ''koelga'' marble, which are punctuated by metallic artworks depicting the hammer and sickle. Thick cubic shaped pylons are faced with dark red marble ''seliyeti'', "rest" on a laboradorite socle. The floor is covered with red and grey granite, whilst lightning elements are mounted into a metallic carcass that is fixed to top of the vaults, a straight one for the central hall, and a zig-zagged shaped for the platform. At the rear of the central hall is a large bas-relief of Vladimir Lenin created by the

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Nikolai Tomsky. The station's vestibule, designed by architect I.Petukhova, is connected directly to the central hall by a three-escalator ascend, and is located underground under the Rogozhskaya Zastava square. The square itself is a major intersection where the Sergey Radonezhsky Street becomes the Enthusiasts Highway an arterial road that will eventually become the M7 Motorway. Of the square come the Rogozhsky Val, Mezhdunarodnaya (International), Rabochaya and Shkolnaya Streets. In addition the station serves as a transfer point with the Railway station Serp i Molot of the Gorky direction. In 1995, the station Rimskaya of the Lyublinskaya Line was opened, and to achieve transfer a side staircase was added which directly connects by escalator to the end of new station's platform.

References

{{Moscow Metro Moscow Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 1979 Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line Railway stations located underground in Russia