Smolenskaya (Filyovskaya Line)

Smolenskaya Moscow Metro station
Station statistics
Coordinates	55°44′55″N 37°34′58″E
Lines	Filyovskaya Line
Depth	8 metres (26 ft)
Levels	1
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Parking	No
Bicycle facilities	No
Baggage check	No
Other information
Opened	1935, 1958
Closed	1953
Code	056
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Traffic
Passengers (2002)	5,274,250
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Kiyevskaya toward Kuntsevskaya Filyovskaya Line Arbatskaya toward Aleksandrovsky Sad

Smolenskaya (Russian: Смоленская) is a station on the Filyovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in 1935 as part of the first Metro line. Designed by S.G. Andriyevsky and T.N. Makarychev, the station features gray marble pillars with flared bases and walls faced with white ceramic tile. Smolenskaya originally had two entrance vestibules, but one was demolished with the expansion of the Garden Ring avenue (at the time the station was closed and was not intended to be reopened). There are still two sets of exit stairs on the platform, but one leads to a dead end where the passage to the old vestibule (very similar to the one still in use at Chistye Prudy) used to be.

See also

• Smolenskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya) for another Moscow Metro station with the same name.
• Smolensky Metro Bridge over the Moskva River connecting the station to Kievskaya.

External links

• metro.ru
• mymetro.ru
• KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)