Krasnoselskaya
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Krasnoselskaya (Russian: Красносе́льская) is a Metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line in Moscow, Russia. Part of the first Metro line, it is located under Krasnoprudnaya street, east of the intersection with Krasnoselskaya street.
The section of the Sokolnicheskaya Line between Sokolniki and Komsomolskaya was built under Krasnoprudnaya street, using the cut and cover method. Construction work on Krasnoselskaya began in spring, 1933, and the station opened along with the rest of the line on May 15, 1935.
The projected passenger volume at Krasnoselskaya was relatively low, so the station was built with a narrower platform than the other stations on the first line. The station has one row of ten-sided columns, which are faced with red and yellow Crimean marble. The walls are finished with yellow and red ceramic tile and punctuated at regular intervals by concrete pilasters. The architects of the station were B.S. Vilenskiy and V.A. Yershov.
Krasnoselskaya was originally planned to have a vestibule at either end, but only the western one, located on the northeast corner of Krasnoprudnaya street and Upper Krasnoselskaya street, was built. In 2005 the vestibule's original tile floor was replaced with similarly-coloured marble.
[edit] External links
- Description of the station on Metro.ru (in Russian)
- Description of the station on Mymetro.ru (in Russian)
- Description of the station on Metro.molot.ru (in Russian)
