Kropotkinskaya
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Kropotkinskaya () is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. One of the oldest Metro stations, it was designed by Alexey Dushkin and Yakov Lichtenberg and opened in 1935 as part of the original Metro line, named after Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin.
Key facts
- Station.tracks
- 2
- Station.parking
- No
- Station.bicycle
- No
- Station.code
- 012
- Station.name
- Kropotkinskaya
- Station.type
- Moscow Metro station
- Station.image
- Metro MSK Line1 Kropotkinskaya.jpg
- Station.address
- Khamovniki District
- Station.borough
- Moscow
- Station.country
- Russia
- Station.other
- Bus: 5, 015Trolleybus: 1, 2, 15, 16, 31, 31k, 33, 44
- Station.structure
- Shallow column station, tri-span
- Station.platform
- 1
- Station.levels
- 1
- Station.owned
- Moskovsky Metropoliten
- Station.former
- Dvorets Sovetov (1935-1957)
- Station.map_type
- Central Moscow
- Station.AlternativeMap
- Central Moscow grayscale.png
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- architectural landmark
- Named after
- Peter Kropotkin
- Official name
- Кропоткинская
- Award
- Stalin Prize
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Located in
- Moscow
- Image
- Moscow Kropotkinskaya vestibule 07-2016.jpg
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- connecting line
- Sokolnicheskaya line
- Commons category
- Kropotkinskaya
- architect
- Yakov Likhtenberg
- native label
- Кропоткинская
- inception
- 1935-05-15
- date of official opening
- 1935-05-15
- station code
- 012
- number of platform tracks
- 2
- vertical depth
- 13
- interchange station
- Volkhonka
- adjacent station
- Park Kultury
- transport network
- Moscow Metro
- directions
- площадь Пречистенские Ворота
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Kropotkinskaya () is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. One of the oldest Metro stations, it was designed by Alexey Dushkin and Yakov Lichtenberg and opened in 1935 as part of the original Metro line, named after Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin.
The station was originally planned to serve the enormous Palace of the Soviets (Dvorets Sovetov), which was to rise nearby on the former site of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Kropotkinskaya was therefore designed to be the largest and grandest station on the first line. However, the Palace project was cancelled by Nikita Khrushchev in 1953, leaving the Metro station as the only part of the complex that was actually built.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kropotkinskaya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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