| Leninsky Prospekt Moscow Metro station |
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| Lines | Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line | ||||||||||
| Connections | Bus: 111, 196 Trolleybus: 4, 7, 33, 62, 84 Tram: 14, 39 |
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| Depth | 16 metres (52 ft) | ||||||||||
| Levels | 1 | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Parking | No | ||||||||||
| Bicycle facilities | No | ||||||||||
| Baggage check | No | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 13 October 1962 | ||||||||||
| Code | 100 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Moskovsky Metropoliten | ||||||||||
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| Passengers (2002) | 22,484,000 | ||||||||||
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Leninsky Prospekt (Russian: Ленинский проспект, English: 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 are A. Strelkov, Nina Aleshina, Yuriy Vdovin, V. Polikarpov and A. Marova.
Leninsky Prospekt has two entrances, 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 there is a staircase leading nowhere. In fact the staircase was indended to be a part of the transfer to the Moscow ring railway station Ploschad Gagarina. Information has recently surfaced that the railway will be integrated into the urban transport and it is expected that the transfer subway will be constructed in the forecoming decade. Currently the station serves 61,600 passengers daily.