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26-491: The station is located under the busiest Moscow transport hub, Komsomolskaya Square , which serves Leningradsky , Yaroslavsky , and Kazansky railway terminals. Because of that, the station is one of the busiest in the whole system. It opened on 30 January 1952 as a part of the second stage of the line. Stations on the first southern segment of the Koltsevaya line were dedicated to the victory over Nazi Germany , while those on

52-511: A blend of revivalist Tsarist and Stalinist architecture . It is informally referred to as Three Station Square after the three rail termini situated there: Leningradsky , Yaroslavsky , and Kazansky . These stations connect Moscow with Saint Petersburg , northwestern Russia , the Volga region, and Siberia via the Trans-Siberian Railway . Its origins lay in the construction of

78-606: A railway line leading to Kursky Rail Terminal traversed the square; it is now elevated so as not to interfere with street traffic. During the Soviet period, four other structures were added. Between 1925 and 1926, Alexey Shchusev designed a Constructivist edifice—the Central Club of Railway Workers. The square received its present name, in the honour of the Komsomol (Communist Union of Youth) members, in 1932. A Stalinist skyscraper of

104-648: Is expressed in eight large ceiling mosaics by Pavel Korin. Korin said that the inspiration came from Joseph Stalin's speech at the Moscow Parade of 1941 , where he inspired the soldiers amid the catastrophic losses in the early period of World War II to remember the historical heroics of their Russian forefathers. The idea to design the art as a mosaic came from the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv , where Korin saw that such artforms could last for eternity. Chronologically

130-519: Is the oldest in the system. There are currently 27 stations open on the line. As of 2024 , the line is 47 kilometres (29 mi) long. As the line was the first formal one in the system, its history of development coincides with the history of the Moscow Metro's first stage altogether. In short it was to cut Moscow on a northeast-southwest axis beginning at the Sokolniki Park and continuing through

156-451: The Butovskaya line is planned after 2023. Planned extensions in the north are hampered by the position of Cherkizovskaya and Bulvar Rokossovskogo which were built so as to become a part of the projected second ring line that has been in planning since the 1960s. Cherkizovskaya's tunnels have provisions for a second perpendicular station, that would allow the line to continue eastwards to

182-652: The Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya Hotel and a Neoclassical vestibule of the Komsomolskaya-Koltsevaya metro station were completed in the early 1950s. The most recent addition is the Moskovsky department store on the eastern side of the square (1983). In 2003, at the behest of the Ministry of Transportation, a bronze statue of Pavel Melnikov (1804–1880) was erected on the square. Melnikov

208-653: The Moscow State University on the Sparrow Hills . This required crossing the Moskva river on a combined auto and Metro bridge including a station on it. However, due to the necessity of reconstruction in 1984, the station was closed, and not reopened until 2002. The Frunzensky radius was completed in 1964 upon the last extension into the new bedroom communities along the Vernadsky Avenue of southwestern Moscow. At

234-733: The Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway in the 1840s, when Kalanchyovskoye Field, outside the Garden Ring , was selected as location for the Nicholas Railway Station (later renamed Leningradsky). In 1862 the Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal, a terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway , was constructed nearby. On the opposite side of the field the Kazansky Rail Terminal was inaugurated two years later. Until 1909,

260-609: The Stalin Prize for their work on the station, and on 30 January 1952 the station was opened to the public as the first on the second stage of the Koltsevaya line. In 1958 the station was awarded the Grand Prix ("Grand Prize") title of Expo '58 in Brussels . Komsomolskaya Square (Moscow) Komsomolskaya Square , known as Kalanchyovskaya before 1932, is a square in Moscow , with

286-755: The Three railway terminals and then past the city centre's main traffic junctions: Red gate junction , Kirovskaya , the Lubyanka and the Manege Squares . From there, a separate branch carried off into the Arbat Street and later Kiyevsky railway station , before it became in 1938 the distinct Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line and, later, in 1958, the Filyovskaya line . The remaining part of the Frunzenskaya Branch went along

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312-647: The Troitskaya line in 2023 (later delayed to 2024). The city released initial station designs for Olkhovaya and Kommunarka in December 2017 and set an initial completion date in 2019. A transfer to the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line at Prospekt Vernadskogo opened on 7 December 2021 and a transfer to Sokolniki opened on 1 March 2023. The extension from Novomoskovskaya to Potapovo opened on 5 September 2024. An extension from Potapovo to Buninskaya Alleya to transfer to

338-546: The mosaics of Komsomolskaya. The early roots of the station's design can be traced to a 1944 draft by Shchusev implemented in pure Petrine baroque , a local adaptation of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age . However, after the end of World War II the drafts of 1944 were discarded and the stations of the Koltsevaya line were completed in the mainstream late Stalinist style of the period. Shchusev, who died in 1949, retained his baroque nonce order . Komsomolskaya remained Shchusev's first and only metro station design. The station

364-600: The neo-classical atmosphere of the mid-1930s. It is also true that the overall construction of these early stations allowed the palaces of the 1940s and 1950s to evolve from them. Most of these stations are now officially listed as architectural heritage. Further development was seen in the latter half of the 1950s during the construction of the Frunzensky radius. The line extended into the Khamovniki District in 1957 coming up to Luzhniki Stadium and then in 1959 reached

390-742: The Kremlin's western wall past the Russian State Library to the future site of the Palace of the Soviets on the bank of the Moskva River and terminated near the Gorky Park . Although Moscow Metro prides itself on the best Stalinist architecture and the earlier Art Deco attempts, the stations of the first stage are very far from those. Instead they have a very classical taste to them, which blends nicely with

416-590: The centre of the red granite covered platform are two passageways, surrounded by marble balustrades with escalators that descend into a lobby with a main escalator tunnel upwards to the Sokolnicheskaya line 's Komsomolskaya station. On the wall opposite the escalator is a large fluorescent mosaic, also of Pavel Korin, depicting the Order of Victory surrounded by red and green banners and Georgian colours. In 1951 both Pavel Korin and Alexey Schusev were posthumously awarded

442-520: The district of Golyanovo and meet the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line at Shchyolkovskaya . Such an extension, however, is not scheduled in the current official development program. The stations of a possible extension to Shchyolkovskaya and Vostochny would be Amurskaya, Shchyolkovskaya , Krasnoyarskaya and Vostochnaya. On 20 June 2019, the line was extended along the territory of New Moscow from Salaryevo to Novomoskovskaya . On 5 September 2024,

468-466: The former of the two train stations, the building features a large octagonal dome topped by a cupola , and a spire crowned by a large star and imposing full-height portico with stylised Corinthian columns . Inside amid the Baroque -style ornaments, rich torchères and chandelier lights, two escalators descend, one leading to the old 1935 Komsomolskaya-Radialnaya station, and the second to this one. On

494-523: The line was extended from Novomoskovskaya to Potapovo . Two depots are assigned to the line, the TCh-1 Severnoye and the TCh-13 Cherkizovo. Starting in 1997 both depots have been upgrading to the new 81-717.5M/714.5M trains (all factory fresh). Currently all carriages of the old Ezh, Ezh-1, Em-508 and Em-509 have been retired. When the line opened in 1935, trainsets included only four cars. By

520-571: The mosaics are as following: In between each of the main mosaics there are smaller ones made of gilded smalt depicting various weaponry and armour. One set is focused on ancient Russian equipment, a second on the Napoleonic era, and the third on World War II. At the end of the platform is a bust of Vladimir Lenin under an arch decorated with gilt floral designs and the Coat of arms of the Soviet Union . In

546-474: The northern segment ( Belorusskaya-Koltsevaya to Komsomolskaya) were dedicated to the theme of post-war labour. Komsomolskaya was designed by Alexey Shchusev as an illustration of a historical speech given by Joseph Stalin November 7, 1941. In the speech, Stalin evoked the memories of Alexander Nevsky , Dmitry Donskoy and other military leaders of the past, and all these historical figures eventually appeared on

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572-570: The opposite end, there were two extensions: one in 1965 across the Yauza River (also via an open bridge) to Preobrazhenskaya Square, and another in 1990 into the Bogorodskoye District . Presently the line has the oldest structures in operation, and thus several renovations have been carried out systematically. Recent changes include a second entrance to Kropotkinskaya in 1998, major lighting enhancements to Okhotny Ryad and Kropotkinskaya. In

598-488: The platform level, there is a Baroque ceiling, with accompanying friezes, painted yellow. Supporting the enlarged barrel vault are 68 octagonal columns faced with white marble, and topped with baroque pilasters. The platform is lit up by chandeliers and additional concealed elements in the niches of both the central and platform halls. The theme of the design, the Historical Russian fight for freedom and independence,

624-534: The south, Metro completed an extension of the line from Yugo-Zapadnaya in 2016, adding Troparyovo in December 2014, Rumyantsevo in January 2016, and Salaryevo in February 2016. Metro is an 11.6 km extension to the town of Kommunarka on June 20, 2019, with the construction of four stations: Filatov Lug , Prokshino , Olkhovaya , and Kommunarka (later renamed Novomoskovskaya ). Novomoskovskaya will allow transfers to

650-425: Was initially planned as a traditional deep pylon type . Later, Shchusev replaced the heavy concrete pylons with narrow octagonal steel columns, riveted with marble tiles, creating the larger open space. After Shchusev's death, the station was completed by Viktor Kokorin, A. Zabolotnaya, V. Varvarin and O. Velikoretsky and Pavel Korin , the creator of the mosaics. Beginning with the large vestibule located among

676-552: Was the Russian minister of transportation who oversaw the construction of the first railways in Russia. Sokolnicheskaya line The Sokolnicheskaya line ( Russian : Соко́льническая ли́ния , IPA: [sɐˈkolʲnʲitɕɪskəjə ˈlʲinʲɪjə] , formerly Kirovsko-Frunzenskaya ( Ки́ровско-Фру́нзенская ) ( Line 1; Red Line ) is a line of the Moscow Metro . It opened in 1935 and

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