Oktyabrskaya-Koltsevaya
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Oktyabrskaya (Октябрьская) is a station on the Koltsevaya Line of the Moscow Metro. The architect, L.M. Polyakov, won a USSR State Prize for the design, which celebrates Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War. Formally known as Kaluzhskaya, the station features square pylons faced with white marble and decorated with ventilation grilles and anodized aluminum light fixtures meant to resemble torches. The ceiling is adorned with bas-reliefs commemorating Soviet victory, as is the interior of the vestibule. The walls are faced with cream-colored ceramic tile.
Oktyabrskaya's vestibule, located on the west side of Leninskiy Prospekt just south of the Sadovoye Koltso on Kaluzhskaya Square (hence the original name) was originally a free-standing structure until the late 1980s when a new building, the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, was built around it. The facade of the vestibule is decorated with reliefs of two figures with trumpets, a soldier and a civilian, heralding the Soviet victory in the war. Oktyabrskaya opened on January 1, 1950.
Transfers
From this station, it is possible to transfer to Oktyabrskaya on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line.External links
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