Kurskaya-Koltsevaya

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	Koltsevaya Line
								Park Kultury



								Oktyabrskaya



								Dobryninskaya



								Paveletskaya



								Taganskaya



								Kurskaya



								Komsomolskaya



								Prospekt Mira



								Novoslobodskaya



								Belorusskaya



								Krasnopresnenskaya



								Kiyevskaya


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Kurskaya (Russian: Курская) is a Moscow Metro station, located on the Koltsevaya (Ring) brown Line. It is underground, deep laying (40 metres or 131.2 feet below the ground), column trispan station.

Designed by G.A. Zakharov and Z.S. Chernsheva, it features white Koyelga marble columns that are reeded on the inner faces and smooth on the outer faces. A decorative metal frieze runs along the base of the ceiling on either side, just above where the pinkish marble cladding of the arches gives way to the plaster ceiling. At the midpoint of the platform is a vaulted, square chamber defined by four heavy pylons which houses the transfer stairs leading to the station of same name at Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. Niches in these four pylons originally housed floor lamps, though these have been removed and only the bases remain today. The station is illuminated by elegant conical chandeliers in the main tunnel and fixtures with vertical fluorescent tubes in the lateral tunnels. Kurskaya opened on January 1, 1950, and was briefly the terminus of the line before it was extended.

The entrance vestibule is located adjacent to the Kursky Rail Terminal.