🏛 Ploshchad Revolyutsii metro station

Under the hall's arches are 76 bronze figures by Manizer: workers, soldiers, students, athletes and families of the Soviet era.

There were originally 80 figures, but in 1947 four were removed when a blast door was built; in all, the station has 20 different characters.
In 1941 the sculptures were evacuated to Central Asia and returned in pieces in 1944.
All the figures except the pioneers sit, kneel or lean over, otherwise they would not fit in the arches.
The prototype of the student was the USSR high-jump record holder Arkady Gidrat, who died in 1941.
Students rub the nose of the border guard's bronze dog before exams, which is why it shines.
The end of the hall was decorated with Manizer's bas-relief "Stalin and Lenin"; it was removed in 1947.

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