Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
								Chelobit'yevo
								Medvedkovo
								Babushkinskaya
								Sviblovo
								Botanichesky Sad
								VDNKh
								Alexeyevskaya
								Rizhskaya
								Prospekt Mira
								Sukharevskaya
								Turgenevskaya
								Kitay-Gorod
								Tretyakovskaya
								Oktyabrskaya
								Shabolovskaya
								Leninsky Prospekt
								Akademicheskaya
								Profsoyuznaya
								Noviye Cheryomushki
								Kaluzhskaya (closed)
								Kaluzhskaya
								Belyayevo
								Konkovo
								Tyoplyi Stan
								Yasenevo
								Novoyasenevskaya
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VDNKh (Russian: ВДНХ) is a station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, named for the nearby All-Russia Exhibition Centre. When it opened, on May 1, 1958, it was the northernmost station on the newly completed Rizhskaja Line. The station features pylons faced with white marble and decorated with circular ventilation grilles. VDNKh was designed by Nadezhda Bykova, I.Gokhar-Kharmandaryan, Ivan Taranov, and Yu. Cherepanov. At a depth of 53.5 metres, it is one of the deepest Metro stations. It is also one of the busiest, serving approximately 119,000 passengers per day according to a 1999 study.

Originally, this station was planned to be richly decorated in the manner of the other stations built in the 1950s, with mosaics by V.A. Favorskoi along the insides of the arches between the pylons. However, in the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's attack on decorative "extras," the mosaics were crudely coated with incongruous thick green paint.

The original circular vestibule is on the west side of Prospekt Mira, in front of the Space Obelisk. A second entrance was added at the southern end of the station in 1997.

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Though not directly connected to VDNKh, Moscow Monorail station Vystavochny Tsentr is within a walking distance. This metro station was also featured in the 10th leg of The Amazing Race 13.

[edit] External links

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

Coordinates: 55°49′20.22″N 37°38′29.38″E / 55.8222833°N 37.6414944°E / 55.8222833; 37.6414944