Oktyabrskaya-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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Oktyabrskaya (Октябрьская ~ October Station) is a station on the Koltsevaya Line of the Moscow Metro. The architect Leonid Polyakov was awarded a Stalin Prize for the design, which celebrates Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War. Oktyabrskaya opened on January 1, 1950, and was known as Kaluzhskaya until 1961. The station features square pylons faced with white marble and decorated with ventilation grilles and anodized aluminum light fixtures meant to resemble torches. The ceiling is adorned with bas-reliefs commemorating Soviet victory, as is the interior of the vestibule. The walls are faced with cream-colored ceramic tile.

Oktyabrskaya's vestibule, located on the west side of Leninsky Prospekt just south of the Garden Ring on Kaluzhskaya Square (hence the original name) was originally a free-standing structure until the late 1980s when a new building, the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, was built around it. The facade of the vestibule is decorated with reliefs of two figures with trumpets, a soldier and a civilian, heralding the Soviet victory in the war.