Leninsky Prospekt (Moscow Metro)
Leninsky Prospekt (Russian: Ленинский проспект) is a station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was built in 1962 to a variant of the standard column tri-span 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 Leninsky Avenue after which it was named and with exists also to both sides of the Yuri Gagarin Square.
Currently the station serves 61,600 passengers daily. 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 intended to be a part of the transfer to the Moscow Little Ring Railway station Ploschad Gagarina. Passenger service on the railway was in planning since 1960s, however the preparatory works for that began only recently and it is expected that the transfer will be finished in the forecoming decade.
