Leninsky Prospekt (Moscow Metro)

Leninsky Prospekt (Russian: Ленинский проспект English: Lenin Avenue) is a station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was built in 1962 to a variant of the standard column tri-span design, which included a more vaulted central span. The pillars are faced with white marble with a strip of gray at the base and the outer walls are tiled. The original metal light fixtures still run the length of each platform span were replaced in 2004 with more utilitarian fluorescent fixtures. The architects of the station are A. Strelkov, Nina Alexandrovna Aleshin, Yuriy Vdovin, V. Polikarpov and A. Marova.

Leninsky Prospekt Ленинский проспект
Moscow Metro station
General information
Location	Gagarinsky District Donskoy District South-Western Administrative Okrug Southern Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55.7077°N 37.5861°E / 55.7077; 37.5861
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 111, 144, 144к, 196, 317, 553, м1 Trolleybus: 4, 7, м4 Tram: 14, 39
Construction
Depth	16 metres (52 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	100
History
Opened	13 October 1962 (1962-10-13)
Passengers
2002	22,484,000
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station Akademicheskaya towards Novoyasenevskaya Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line Shabolovskaya towards Medvedkovo Out-of-station interchange Krymskaya anticlockwise / outer Moscow Central Circle transfer at Ploshchad Gagarina Luzhniki clockwise / inner
Route map Medvedkovo Yauza River Babushkinskaya Sviblovo yard Sviblovo Botanichesky Sad VDNKh Alekseyevskaya Rizhskaya Prospekt Mira Sukharevskaya Turgenevskaya Kitay-gorod Moskva River Vodootvodny Canal Tretyakovskaya Oktyabrskaya Shabolovskaya () Leninsky Prospekt Akademicheskaya () Profsoyuznaya Novye Cheryomushki Kaluzhskaya (closed) Kaluzhskoye yard Kaluzhskaya Belyayevo Konkovo Tyoply Stan Yasenevo Novoyasenevskaya
Location
Leninsky Prospekt Location within Moscow Metro

Leninsky Prospekt has two entrances, interlinked with subways on the east side of the Leninsky Avenue after which it was named and with exists also to both sides of the Yuri Gagarin Square.

Currently the station serves 61,600 passengers daily. In the middle of a platform there is a staircase allowing transfer to Ploschad Gagarina station of the Moscow Central Circle. Since the station was built, and until recently, this staircase was a unique feature of the station, that led nowhere for years. The staircase was intended to be a part of this transfer since inception, but even though passenger service on the Moscow Little Ring Railway was in planning since 1960s, the preparatory works for that only began in the 21st century, and the transfer only opened for passengers on 10 September 2016, more than 50 years later.

Station platform of Leninsky Prospekt