Oktyabrskaya-Koltsevaya

Oktyabrskaya ( _ru. Октябрьская) is a station on the Koltsevaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Opened on 1 January 1950, Oktyabrskaya was part of the first segment of the fourth stage. Designed by Leonid Polyakov who took the mid-19th century Neoclassical triumphal Empire style as the basis, and incorporated the themes of the 1812 Victory over Napoleon to match the 1945 Soviet victory in the Great Patriotic War, applying to the standard pylon tri-vault design.

Both the central and platform vaults are devided by arches which have large bas-reliefs which contain medalions of Soviet Army soldiers surrounded by ornaments. The pylons, contain a bas-relief centred ventilation grilles which are flanked by two anodized aluminium torches that give the overall golden glow to the bright grey marble that faces them. The station walls are ceramic tiles and are decorated with relif images of gilded wreths and stars. The end of a central hall contains a miniture triumphal arch with a metallic gate that walls of a blue lit room, symoblising the time of peaceful life. The floor of the station is laid with grey and red granite, and the perimeter of the central hall is also bordered out by a pattern of bright and dark marble.

The station has a large vestibule on the Kaluzhskaya square on the Garden Ring (named after the city of Kaluga) and hence the station's original name Kaluzhskaya (Калужская), renamed on 6th June 1961 to its present name (though the square's historic name was reverted in 1992). The vestibule on exterior contains large bas-reliefs of trumpeters that are lit by lamps concealled as columns underneath. Inside the ticket and escalator halls are decorated with casts and bas-reliefs containing battle banners, weapons figures of the Soviet Army and women symbolizing glory (work by G.Motovilov). In 1989 the stand-alone structure was built into the Moscow Institute for Steel and Alloy.

In 1962, a set of staircases were added to the central hall for a transfer to the newly opened Oktyabrskaya-Radialnaya of the Kaluzhskaya Line.

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*ru icon [http://www.mosmetro.ru/pages/page_6.php?id_page=212 Moskovsky Metropoliten] -Description and photographs
*ru icon [http://news.metro.ru/f52.html News.Metro.ru] -Description and photographs
*ru icon [http://www.metro.ru/stations/koltsevaya/oktyabrskaya/ Metro.ru] -Description and photographs
*ru icon [http://www.metrowalks.ru/moscow/station-5-2 Metrowalks.ru] -Photographs
*ru icon [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=05&c=02 Mymetro.ru] -Description and photographs
*en icon [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=Oktyabrskaya&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)