Oktyabrskoe Pole
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Oktyabrskoe Pole (Russian: ) "October Field" is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Named after the nearby Khodynka airfield, the first airport in Moscow. The station was opened on December 30, 1972, as part of the Krasnopresnenskiy radius and for exactly three years it was the original termius of the Krasnopresnenskaya Line. Designed by Nina Aleshina and Zaitseva, the station features a typical pillar-trispan "Novaya Sorokonozhka" design, with polygonial aluminium coated polygonial pillars and the walls with bright-grey coloured marble decorated with anodized aluminium artworks (artists Bodniek and Rysin). The floor is coated white marble except for the area around the pillars where it gives way to black granite. The two vestibules are interlinked with subways that allow access to Narodnogo Opolcheniya Street (Russian: ) and Marshala Biryuzova Street (Russian: ).
The station has a daily passenger flow of 75910 people.
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