Kuzminki (Moscow Metro)

For other uses, see Kuzminki (disambiguation).
Kuzminki
Кузьминки
Moscow Metro station
Location Kuzminki District
South-Eastern Administrative Okrug
Coordinates 55°42′20″N 37°45′56″E / 55.7056°N 37.7656°E / 55.7056; 37.7656Coordinates: 55°42′20″N 37°45′56″E / 55.7056°N 37.7656°E / 55.7056; 37.7656
Owned by Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)  7  Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Connections Bus: Вк, Вч, 89, 99, 143, 159, 169, 169к, 655, 658, 955
Trolleybus: 74,75
Construction
Platform levels 1
Parking No
Other information
Station code 112
History
Opened 31 December 1966 (1966-12-31)
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station
toward  Planernaya
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line
toward  Kotelniki
Location
Kuzminki
Location within Moscow Ring Road

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

Overview

The station has two underground vestibules interlinked with subways under the Vologradskiy avenue with access to Zelenodolskaya, Marshala Chuikova and Zhigulevskaya streets with light glazed pavilions on the surface. Up to Kuzminki the Line has followed the Volgogradskiy 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 quite a high passenger traffic due to lots of public transport arriving from the southeastern suburban towns which in March 2002 totalled 116,100 passengers daily.

In the very distant future it is likely that the track between Ryazanskiy Prospekt and Kuzminki will be closed and the Taganskiy radius will continue along the Volgogradskiy avenue into the adjacent Moscow towns of Lyubertsy and even as far as the Bykovo airport.

Design

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 bariliefs 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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