🏛 Komsomolskaya metro station (Circle line)

A 1952 metro station with Baroque-style vaults, chandeliers and mosaics on the ceiling.

The station was built to a design by Alexey Shchusev; in 1952 he was posthumously awarded the Stalin Prize for it, together with the artist Pavel Korin.
The central nave, 11 m wide and 9 m high, is the largest of any column station in the Moscow metro.
Korin's eight ceiling mosaics show Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Minin and Pozharsky, Suvorov, Kutuzov and soldiers at the Reichstag.
Korin himself redid the two panels with Stalin in 1963: they now show Lenin before the Red Guards and the Motherland statue by the Spasskaya Tower.
In 2021 the transport department named Komsomolskaya the busiest metro station, with 29.1 million passengers a year.
In 1991–1992 it was proposed to rename the station Kalanchevskaya or Three Stations.

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