Leninsky Prospekt (Moscow Metro)

Leninsky Prospekt Ленинский проспект
Moscow Metro station
Coordinates	55°42′28″N 37°35′10″E / 55.7077°N 37.5861°ECoordinates: 55°42′28″N 37°35′10″E / 55.7077°N 37.5861°E
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	6  Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 111, 196 Trolleybus: 4, 7, 33, 62, 84 Tram: 14, 39
Construction
Depth	16 metres (52 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	100
History
Opened	13 October 1962
Traffic
Passengers (2002)	22,484,000
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Akademicheskaya toward  Novoyasenevskaya Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line Shabolovskaya toward  Medvedkovo
Route map Legend Medvedkovo Yauza River Babushkinskaya Sviblovo yard Sviblovo Botanichesky Sad VDNKh  13  Alekseyevskaya Rizhskaya Prospekt Mira  5  Sukharevskaya Turgenevskaya  1   10  Kitay-gorod  7  Moskva River Vodootvodny Canal Tretyakovskaya  2   8  Oktyabrskaya  5  Shabolovskaya Leninsky Prospekt Akademicheskaya Profsoyuznaya Novye Cheryomushki Kaluzhskaya (closed) Kaluzhskoye yard Kaluzhskaya Belyayevo Konkovo Tyoply Stan Yasenevo Novoyasenevskaya  12
Location
Leninsky Prospekt Location within Moscow Ring Road

Leninsky Prospekt (Russian: Ленинский проспект) 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 Aleshina, Yuriy Vdovin, V. Polikarpov and A. Marova.

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. A unique feature of the station is that in the middle of a platform there is a staircase leading nowhere. In fact the staircase was intended to be a part of the transfer to the Moscow Little Ring Railway station Ploschad Gagarina. Passenger service on the railway was in planning since 1960s; however, the preparatory works for that only began in the 21st century, and the transfer is expected to be completed in the coming decade.

Station platform of Leninsky Prospekt