Park Kultury-Koltsevaya

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								Park Kultury



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Park Kultury (Russian: Парк культу́ры) is a station on the Koltsevaya (Circle) Line of the Moscow Metro. It is sometimes called Park Kultury-Koltsevaya to distinguish it from the station of the same name on the Sokolnicheskaya Line. The first section of the Koltsevaya Line was opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held at this station on January 1, 1950. Park Kultury is decorated with 26 circular bas-reliefs by S.M. Rabinovich depicting leisure activities of the Soviet youth such as sports, games, music, and dancing. The station's pylons are faced with gray marble and are flanked by pilasters on their inward faces. The architect was I.Ye. Rozhin.

The entrance vestibule is an imposing, copper-domed building located at the southwest corner of Komsomolsky Prospekt and the Sadovoye Koltso, just west of the Moskva River.

[edit] Transfers

From this station, passengers can transfer to Park Kultury on the Sokolnicheskaya Line. The transfer, however, is done in an uneasy form as it passes straight through the vestibule. Plans are to create a bypass thus relieving the vestibule of heavy passenger traffic.