- Yugo-Zapadnaya
Yugo-Zapadnaya ( _ru. Юго-Западная), or "Southwestern," is indeed the southwestern terminus of the
Sokolnicheskaya Line of theMoscow Metro . Like dozens of other Metro stations dating to the 1960s (1963, in this case), the station was built according to the standard pillar-trispan or "centipede" design. The architect wasYa.V. Tatarzhinskaya . Visually nondescript, the station's color scheme is mainly white. Yugo-Zapadnaya has four entrances, all grouped around the intersection of Prospekt Vernadskogo and Pokryshkina Street.Yugo-Zapadnaya is one of the most heavily used stations in the system, averaging 141,000 passengers per day according to a study conducted in 1999.
External links
* [http://www.metro.ru/stations/sokolnicheskaya/jugo_zapadnaya/ Description of the station on Metro.ru] (in Russian)
* [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=1&c=19 Description of the station on Mymetro.ru] (in Russian)
* [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=YugoZapadnaya&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)
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