Leninsky Prospekt (Moscow metro)
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Leninsky Prospekt (Russian: Ленинский проспект ~ Lenin Avenue) is a station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was built in 1962 to a variant of the standard pillar-trispan design, which included a more vaulted central span. The pillars are faced with white marble with a strip of gray at the base and the outer walls are tiled. The original metal light fixtures still run the length of each platform span were replaced in 2004 with more utilitarian fluorescent fixtures. The architects of the station were A. Strelkov, Nina Aleshina, Yuriy Vdovin, V. Polikarpov, A. Marova.
Leninsky Prospekt has two entrance vestibules, interlinked with subways on the east side of the avenue for which it was named and with exists also to both sides of the Yuri Gagarin Square.
A unique feature of the station is that in the middle of a platform is a ladder going into nowhere. In fact the ladder was indended for a transfer to the Moscow circular railway station Ploschad Gagarina. A carcass for which exists. Recently it has emerged that the railway will be integrated into the urban transport and it is expected that the transfer point will be finished in the forecoming decade. Currently the station serves 61,600 passengers daily.
