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      🏛 Mayakovskaya metro station

      A light columned hall of 1938 with arches and pink rhodonite; a ceremonial meeting was held here in November 1941.

      Mayakovskaya metro station
      © Sergey A. Demidov · CC BY 4.0
      • In 1939 the station's design won the Grand Prix at the New York World's Fair.
      • The stainless-steel strips for finishing the columns and arches were made at the Dirizhablestroy plant in Dolgoprudny.
      • The mosaics in the ceiling niches, from sketches by Alexander Deineka, form the theme "A Day of the Soviet Sky"; of the 35 panels, one is lost.
      • The station was to be called Triumfalnaya Ploshchad, and then Ploshchad Mayakovskogo.
      • On the night of 17 to 18 July 2017 the first episode of season seven of Game of Thrones was shown at the station.
      • Since 2021, wedding ceremonies have been held on the platform at night.

      Part of these routes

      • The metro as a museum
      • All day indoors: Moscow in the rain
      • All day: Soviet Moscow
      • Patriarch’s Ponds at night: Bulgakov and dinner by the pond
      • The skyscraper, Narkomfin and Mayakovskaya

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