Novokuznetskaya
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Novokuznetskaya (Russian: Новокузнецкая) is a Moscow Metro's Zamoskvoretskaya Line. Construction of the station began shortly after the launch of the second stage in 1938 and was uninterrupted during World War II and opened in 1943. The station honors the Soviet fighting men with its heavy ornamentation. The architects, I.G. Taranov and N.A. Bykova, won a USSR State Prize for their design.
The decorations include seven hexagonal ceiling mosaics by V. Frolov on the theme of wartime industry and bas-reliefs running along the base of the ceiling (artists N.V. Tomsky, A.E. Zelensky, S.M. Rabinovich, and N.M. Shtamm) depicting the soldiers of the Red Army in combat. The pink and white marble pylons are also decorated with cast-bronze portraits of Russian war heroes like Mikhail Kutuzov and Alexander Nevsky. The ornate marble benches lining the platform were removed from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour before it was demolished. Floor lamps, long since replaced with more up-to-date lighting in other Metro stations, still give Novokuznetskaya an atmosphere of brooding shadow.
A new section of the station was built (in a more modern style than the rest of the station) in 1978 to lengthen the platform.
Novokuznetskaya's round entrance vestibule is located off Pyatnitskaya Ulitsa, north of the intersection with Klimentovsky Pereulok.
[edit] Transfers
From this station it is possible to transfer to Tret'yakovskaya, a cross-platform station serving both the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line and the Kalininskaya Line.
