Mendeleyevskaya (, ) is a

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 ...

station on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line. It is located in the

Tverskoy District Tverskoy District ( rus, Тверской район, p=tvʲɪrˈskoj, a=Ru-Тверской.ogg) is a administrative divisions of Moscow, district of Central Administrative Okrug of the federal cities of Russia, federal city of Moscow, Russia. P ...

of central Moscow. It was opened on 31 December 1988. The station was designed by

Nina Aleshina Nina Aleksandrovna Aleshina (, ; July 17, 1924 – November 17, 2012) was a Russian architect and head of the design department ' for the Moscow Metro for a decade. Nineteen stations of the subway system were projects she participated in or led. S ...

and Natalya Samoilova keeping to the theme of

Dmitri Mendeleev Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev ( ; ) was a Russian chemist known for formulating the periodic law and creating a version of the periodic table of elements. He used the periodic law not only to correct the then-accepted properties of some known ele ...

and his works. Its depth is . The transfer to the

Novoslobodskaya Novoslobodskaya () is a Moscow Metro station in the Tverskoy District of the Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Koltsevaya Line, between Belorusskaya and Prospekt Mira stations. The station was opened on 30 January 1952 as part ...

station of the Koltsevaya Line is available.

History

The station was opened on 31 December 1988 as part of the

Chekhovskaya Chekhovskaya () is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened on December 31, 1987, and served as the northern terminus of the line for the following year. Its depth is . The vestibule is located in Pu ...

— Savelovskaya section, after which it became the 138th operational station in the Moscow Metro. The initial proposal was to name the station Novoslobodskaya, as well as the current station on the Ring Line. Upon opening, it was named after the namesake of the nearby

D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia D. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (MUCTR) () is a public research university in Moscow, and is the largest Russian center for education and research in the field of chemical engineering. The history of MUCTR can be trac ...

Description

The station hall is coated with white marble, and the floor is lined with gray and black granite. The track walls are decorated with inserts featuring stylized images of the deformation

electron density Electron density or electronic density is the measure of the probability of an electron being present at an infinitesimal element of space surrounding any given point. It is a scalar quantity depending upon three spatial variables and is typical ...

of various binary molecules. The idea of inserts was proposed by the staff of D. I. Mendeleev Russian University of Chemical Technology, who took an active part in the development of the station's design. Moreover, the station lamps are designed in way to resemble the structure of

crystal lattice In crystallography, crystal structure is a description of ordered arrangement of atoms, ions, or molecules in a crystal, crystalline material. Ordered structures occur from intrinsic nature of constituent particles to form symmetric patterns that ...

. From the center of the hall, stairways lead to the koltsevaya line station "

". The arches of the station halls are supported by columns through shaped wedge-shaped lintels. A stray dog named Malchik lived at the station, and after he was killed in 2001 as a result of a conflict with a local resident walking a purebred dog, a monument ''Compassion'' () was erected in the station.

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