Krasnopresnenskaya

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Krasnopresnenskaya (Russian: Краснопресненская) is a station on the Koltsevaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was designed by V.S. Yegerev, M.P. Konstantinov, Felix A. Novikov, and I.A. Pokrovsky and opened on March 14, 1954. The station has red granite pylons with white marble cornices and 14 bas-reliefs by N.A. Shcherbakov, Yu.P. Pommer, Yu.G. Ushakov, V.A. Fedorov, and G.N. Kolesnikov. Eight of the bas-reliefs depict the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the other six show scenes from the Russian Revolution of 1917. Statues of Lenin and Stalin originally stood at the end of the platform, though these had been removed by the early 1960s. Later, the passage to Barrikadnaya was built in the same location.

The station's round vestibule is located on the south side of Krasnaya Presnya Ulitsa, between Druzhinnikovskaya Ulitsa and Konyushkovskaya Ulitsa. A sculpture by A.E. Zelinsky entitled "Combatant" is located in front.