Dmitrovskaya () is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the

Moscow Metro The Moscow Metro) is a rapid transit system in the Moscow Oblast of Russia. It serves the capital city of Moscow and the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy, and Kotelniki. Opened in 1935 with one l ...

. It was opened in 1991, and is named for the highway leading to the town of

Dmitrov Dmitrov () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Oblast, Dmitrovsky District in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located to the north of Moscow on the Yakhroma River and the Mosc ...

Description

The station was designed by and in a pylon-trivault style. The white pylons are coated with red marble, while the side walls are decorated with its pink variety and plinth with brown. The floor is layered out with pink-grey

granite Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...

and red marble. The back wall, as well as the arch above the escalator, feature metal bas-reliefies dedicated to the 1941

Battle of Moscow The Battle of Moscow was a military campaign that consisted of two periods of strategically significant fighting on a sector of the Eastern Front during World War II, between October 1941 and January 1942. The Soviet defensive effort frustrated H ...

, both sculpted by . The station has one entrance, accessible from both sides of the . It is adjacent to the Dmitrovskaya railway station which serves the

Rizhsky suburban railway line The Rizhsky suburban railway line () is one of eleven suburban railway lines used for connections between Moscow, Russia, and surrounding areas, mostly in Moscow Oblast. The Rizhsky suburban railway line connects Moscow with the station in the no ...

and Line D2 of Moscow Central Diameters.

Gallery

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References

{{Moscow Metro Moscow Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 1991 Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line Railway stations located underground in Russia