Krasnogvardeyskaya (Moscow Metro)

      Krasnogvardeyskaya
      Moscow Metro station
      Krasnogvard-mm.jpg
      Station statistics
      Coordinates 55°36′50″N 37°44′42″E / 55.61389°N 37.74500°E / 55.61389; 37.74500
      Lines  2  Zamoskvoretskaya Line
      Connections Bus: 37, 37e, 151, 263, 263e, 287, 291, 298, 608, 623, 694, 711, 719, 755, 768, 790, 825
      Trolleybus: 11
      Structure Shallow one-vault
      Depth 9 m (30 ft)
      Levels 1
      Platforms 1 island platform
      Tracks 2
      Parking No
      Bicycle facilities No
      Baggage check No
      Other information
      Opened 7 September 1985
      Code 020
      Owned by Moskovsky Metropoliten
      Services
      Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station
      Zamoskvoretskaya Line
      Terminus
      Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line
      Transfer at: Zyablikovo
      Terminus

      Krasnogvardeyskaya (Russian: Красногварде́йская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Zyablikovo District, Southern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line serving as a southern terminus of the line. The neighboring station is Domodedovskaya. Krasnogvardeyskaya opened on 7 September 1985.

      Krasnogvardeyskaya is a transfer station. The transfer to Zyablikovo station which belongs to Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line was opened on December 2, 2011. At the time of opening the transfer, both Krasnogvardeyskaya and Zyablikovo were the terminal stations on their respective lines.[1]

      Krasnogvardeyskaya was designed by architects I. Petukhova and N. Shumakov. It is a vault-type station with a coffered ceiling and walls faced with red marble, similar to the architecture of many of the stations on the Washington Metro in Washington, DC. The theme of the station's decorative elements, which include stained-glass panels by L. Berlin, is "The Red Guards of Moscow, 1917."

      References

      1. ^ "В Москве открылись три новых станции метро" (in Russian). РосБизнесКонсалтинг. December 2, 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2011. 
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