Kaluzhskaya () is a station on the

Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line The Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line (, ) (Line 6; Orange Line) is a line of the Moscow Metro, that originally existed as two separate radial lines, Rizhskaya and Kaluzhskaya opened in 1958 and 1962, respectively. Only in 1971 were they united into a si ...

of the

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. It is named after the Russian town of

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. Kaluzhskaya opened on 12 August 1974, replacing a temporary station of the same name (located in a service bay of the nearby Kaluzhskoe Depot) that had been operating since 1964. The new station was built to the column tri-span design with tapered octagonal

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s in place of the usual square ones. Also the step of the columns was extended from 4 metres to 6.5, and the height of the ceiling raised. The columns are faced with pink

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, the walls are tiled with white ceramic and decorated with metallic artworks (works of A. Leonteva and M. Shmakova); the floor is laid with grey granite. The architects of the station were N. Demchinskiy and Yuliya Kolesnikova. Passengers can transfer to Vorontsovskaya station of the

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. The entrances to the station are spread out along Profsoyuznaya Street north of Obruchev street as well as onto the Academicial Keldysh square. Its daily passenger traffic is 131,000.

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Moscow Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 1974 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line Railway stations located underground in Russia {{Moscow-metro-stub