Krasnopresnenskaya (russian: Краснопре́сненская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Presnensky District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Koltsevaya line, between Kiyevskaya and Belorusskaya stations. It was named for the street, Krasnaya Presnya, on which it is situated. Passengers may transfer to

Barrikadnaya Barrikadnaya (russian: Баррикадная) is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It is named after the events of the Revolution of 1905, when it was a site for barricades on Krasnaya Presnya street. The ...

station on the

Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya line The Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya line (, , formerly Zhdanovsko-Krasnopresnenskaya () (Line 7) is the busiest line of the Moscow Metro. Built in 1966–1975 and extended in 2013–15, it cuts Moscow on a northwest-southeast axis and contains 23 s ...

Design and Layout

It was designed by Victor Yegerev, M. Konstantinov,

Felix Novikov Felix Aronovich Novikov (russian: Феликс Аронович Новиков, 3 August 1927 – 18 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian architect. In 1991, he was awarded the honorary title of People's Architect of the USSR, becoming the last ...

, and I. Pokrovsky and opened on 14 March 1954. The station has red granite pylons with white marble

cornice In architecture, a cornice (from the Italian ''cornice'' meaning "ledge") is generally any horizontal decorative moulding that crowns a building or furniture element—for example, the cornice over a door or window, around the top edge of a ...

s and 14 bas-reliefs by N. Shcherbakov, Yu. Pommer, Yu. Ushakov, V. Fedorov, and G. Kolesnikov. As the Presnya area of Moscow was the site of the Moscow Uprising of 1905 during the

1905 Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution of 1905,. also known as the First Russian Revolution,. occurred on 22 January 1905, and was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. The mass unrest was directed again ...

, the station is decorated with artwork commemorating the events of the period. Eight of the bas-reliefs depict the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the other six show scenes from the Russian Revolution of 1917.KOL’TSEVAYA (CIRCLE) LINE / Krasnopresnenskaya / Moscow Metro
Statues of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin originally stood at the end of the platform, though these had been removed by the early 1960s. Later, the passage to

was built in the same location. The station's round vestibule is on the south side of Krasnaya Presnya street, between Druzhinnikovskaya and Konyushkovskaya streets. A sculpture by A. Zelinsky entitled "Combatant" is located in front.

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Коды станций московского метро

Московское метро — проект Студии Артемия Лебедева
{{Moscow Metro, line5=yes Moscow Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 1954 Koltsevaya Line Railway stations located underground in Russia