- Tsaritsyno (Metro)
Tsaritsyno ( _ru. Царицыно) is a station on the
Zamoskvoretskaya Line of theMoscow Metro . It is named after theTsaritsyno District and the nearbyTsaritsyno Park , which was once an estate belonging to Catherine the Great. Tsaritsyno was originally opened on December 30, 1984, but was closed on the next day until February 9, 1985 due to flooding. The station was known as Lenino until 1990. The entrance is located at the intersection of Proletarsky Prospekt and Kaspiyskaya Street.Design
The station has white
marble pillars and walls inlaid with patterns of red, brown, grey and yellow marble and mosaics depicting the achievements of Russian science. A mosaic by A.N. Kuznetsov above the entrance stairs depicts the Moscow skyline. The architects of the station wereV.A. Cheremin andA.L. Vigdorov .External links
* [http://www.metro.ru/stations/zamoskvoretskaya/tsaritsyno/ metro.ru]
* [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=2&c=05 mymetro.ru]
* [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=Tsaritsyno&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)
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