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Kuzminki (Moscow Metro)

Coordinates: 55°42′20″N 37°45′56″E / 55.7056°N 37.7656°E / 55.7056; 37.7656
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Kuzminki

Кузьминки
Moscow Metro station
General information
LocationKuzminki District
South-Eastern Administrative Okrug
Moscow
Russia
Coordinates55°42′20″N 37°45′56″E / 55.7056°N 37.7656°E / 55.7056; 37.7656
Owned byMoskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)#7 Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus: Вк, Вч, 89, 99, 143, 159, 169, 169к, 655, 658, 955
Trolleybus: 74,75
Construction
Platform levels1
ParkingNo
Other information
Station code112
History
Opened31 December 1966; 57 years ago (1966-12-31)
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station
Tekstilshchiki
towards Planernaya
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line Ryazansky Prospekt
towards Kotelniki
Location
Kuzminki is located in Moscow Metro
Kuzminki
Kuzminki
Location within Moscow Metro

Kuzminki (Russian: Кузьминки) is a station on Moscow Metro's Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line. The station was opened on 31 December 1966 as part of the Zhdanovsky radius.

Name

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It is named after the Kuzminki District in southeastern Moscow where it is situated.

Overview

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The station has two underground vestibules interlinked with subways under the Volgogradskiy avenue with access to Zelenodolskaya, Marshala Chuikova and Zhigulevskaya streets with light glazed pavilions on the surface. Up to Kuzminki, the Line follows Volgogradsky Avenue to the southeast. However, afterwards the line turns perpendicular and adjoins the parallel Ryazanskiy Avenue and then follows it. As a result, the station has high passenger traffic due to public transport arriving from the southeastern suburban towns which in March 2002 totalled 116,100 passengers daily.

Design

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The station is a typical pillar-trispan design of the 1960s with a modest theme (architects L.A. Shagurina and M.N.Korneeva) of white marbled pillars and creme and red coloured ceramic tiles on the walls, which are also decorated with cast bas reliefs that contain images of forest animals (artist G.G. Derviz). The floor is covered with grey and red granite.

Platform view
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