Komsomolskaya (Koltsevaya line), Moscow Metro (1952)*

Artist/Designer: USSR .

Project Location: Moscow, Russia

Figure 1: USSR, Moscow Metro. Source: Unknown, Moscow - Interior. Digital Images. ( Source )

Figure 2: USSR, Moscow Metro. Source: Unknown, Moscow - Interior. Digital Images. ( Source | Accessed : April 8, 2014 )

Figure 3: USSR, Moscow Metro. Source: Unknown, Moscow - Interior. Digital Images. ( Source | Accessed : April 8, 2014 )

Style/Period(s):
Revival Styles

Primary Material(s):
Plaster, Stone

Function(s):
Transportation

Related Website(s):

The Telegraph. "Moscow Metro Russia." | Accessed : April 8, 2014

Significant Date(s):
20th Century

Additional Information:
Interior Architecture of the Moscow Metro since 1935.

Publications/Texts in Print-

Abakumov, Egor Trofimovich. The Moscow subway. Moscow: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1939.

Kivelson, Valerie A., and Joan Neuberger. 2008. Picturing Russia: explorations in visual culture. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2008.

Kuznetsov, Sergey, Alexander Zmeul, Erken Kagarov, Philipp Meuser, and Anna Martovitskaya. Hidden Urbanism: architecture and design of the Moscow metro, 1935-2015. Berlin: DOM Publishers, 2016.

Station Address:
near Komsomolskaya Square, Moscow, Russia

Supporting Designers/Staff
Designed by Alexey Shchusev 8 October [O.S. 26 September] 1873 – 24 May 1949)
Completed after Shchusev's death by Viktor Kokorin, A. Zabolotnaya, V. Varvarin, O. Velikoretsky and Pavel Korin, who also created mosaics inside

Significant Dates
Work began by Schusev in 1941
Continued by Kokorin, Zablotnaya, Varvarin, Velikoretsky, and Korin in 1949.
Opened officially on 30 January 1952

Tags
Transportation, Moscow Metro, Subway, Train Station, Subway Station, Revival Style, Moscow, Russia

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