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3 unusual facts about Koltsevaya Line


Alexey Dushkin

This station on the Ring Line, 40 meters deep, was Moscow's first employment of stained glass, a technology previously associated with Roman Catholic church and thus deemed unacceptable in Soviet architecture.

Koltsevaya Line

Many restoration works are carried out to improve the old line, recently Novoslobodskaya had major restoration work carried out, including replacement of lighting and retouching on the stained glass masterpieces by Pavel Korin.

An urban legend suggests that Joseph Stalin himself suggested the line when he placed a coffee cup on the original development map (with no ring) and then lifting it and leaving a circular stain around the centre of the city and said "It's your main fault, it should be built".


Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line

In 1984 Solntsevo became part of Moscow, and as a result of the over-congested center, Burdakov published an article in Pravda where he proposed a set of lines that would bypass the city center and the Koltsevaya Line.

Strogino–Mitino extension

Owing to the disadvantages of the over-congested centre, initially in 1984 I.Burdakov published an article in Pravda where he proposed a set of chordial and semi-chordial lines that would bypass the city centre and the Koltsevaya Line, or at least have some of the transfers outside the ring, which applies to the latter group and the Lyublinskaya Line was a result of this.


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