Kuzminki (Moscow Metro)

Kuzminki Кузьминки
Moscow Metro station
General information
Location	Kuzminki District South-Eastern Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55.7056°N 37.7656°E / 55.7056; 37.7656
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	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 Tekstilshchiki towards Planernaya Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line Ryazansky Prospekt towards Kotelniki
Route map Planernoye yard Planernaya Skhodnenskaya Tushinskaya Spartak Moscow Canal Shchukinskaya Oktyabrskoye Pole Polezhayevskaya Begovaya to Krasnaya Presnya yard Ulitsa 1905 Goda Barrikadnaya Pushkinskaya Kuznetsky Most Kitay-gorod connection to Line 5 Taganskaya Proletarskaya Volgogradsky Prospekt  3502  Shosseynaya Street Tekstilshchiki Kuzminki Ryazansky Prospekt Vykhino Vykhino yard MKAD Moscow Ring Road connection to Line 15 Lermontovsky Prospekt Zhulebino Kotelniki
Location 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

It 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 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

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

External links

• Stations
• Kuzminki
• KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)