Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line
								Planernaya
								Skhodnenskaya
								Tushinskaya
								Stadion Spartak
								Shchukinskaya
								Oktyabrskoye Pole
								Polezhaevskaya
								Begovaya
								Ulitsa 1905 Goda
								Barrikadnaya
								Pushkinskaya
								Kuznetsky Most
								Kitay-Gorod
								Taganskaya
								Proletarskaya
								Volgogradsky Prospekt
								Tekstilshchiki
								Kuzminki
								Ryazanskiy Prospekt
								Vykhino
								Zhulebino
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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 Zhdanovskiy radius and is named after the Kuzminki District in southeastern Moscow where it is situated.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] External links

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