Kuznetsky Most (Metro)

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	Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line
								Planernaya
								Skhodnenskaya
								Tushinskaya
								Volokolamskaya
								Shchukinskaya
								Oktyabrskoe Pole
								Polezhaevskaya
								Begovaya
								Ulitsa 1905 Goda
								Barrikadnaya
								Pushkinskaya
								Kuznetsky Most
								Kitay-Gorod
								Taganskaya
								Proletarskaya
								Volgogradskiy Prospekt
								Tekstilshchiki
								Kuzminki
								Ryazanskiy Prospekt
								Vykhino
								Zhulebino
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Kuznetsky Most (Russian: Кузнецкий Мост) is a station on Metro'sTagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line. Designed by Nina Aleshina and N.A. Smailova the station became the first collumn type since the 1950's. Opened in the 1975 as part of the linking segment between the Zhdanovskaya and Krasnopresnenskaya Line. Decoratively the station is a column trivault. The columns are faced with "gazgan" marble archways (reminding a viaduct). Floor is covered with polarised black granite. The snow-white marble of the walls are decorated with decorative artworks done by M.N. Alekseev. The vestibule of the station is located in the courtyard of house №6 on the Rozhdestvenka street. In the opposite end of the station is a transfer to the Lubyanka station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line.

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