Paveletskaya-Koltsevaya

Paveletskaya ( _ru. Павелецкая) is a station on the Koltsevaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Opened on 1 January, 1950 as part of the first segment of the fourth stage, the station is a pylon-trivault built in the style of the late 1940/early 1950s Stalinist Architecture to a design by architects Nikolay Kolli and I.Kasetl. The station's theme comes from the Paveletsky Rail Terminal from which trains depart towards the Volga Region. Thus agricultural influences are clearly seen, these include the square white koyelga marble columns decorated with red marble strips, flanked by marble columns with modern Ionic capitals. Bright bronze chandeliers provide lighting. The walls repeat the two tone marble, white on top, red on bottom, and the floor is laid with grey and white granite.

The station's vestibule is built into the corner of Sadovoye Koltso and Zemlyannoy Val, and occupies the ground floor of the building there. Inside above the escalator is a circular mosaic panel by Pavel Korin "Red Square" which depicts the Lenin's Mausoleum and the St Basil's Cathedral, frammed by a bas-relief with typical soviet banners and floral arrangements with names of Volga cities on the sides. The vestibule has another artwork by Iosif Rabinovich, which is a mosaic on the dome of the vestibule on the theme of the permanent end to drought in the Volga.

As the station was made to be a transfer point to Paveletskaya-Radialnaya the vestibule was built as an entrance to both stations, however as the radial station of the Zamoskvoretskaya Line was undergoing reconstruction the vestibule doubled as a transfer point. A direct corridor was opened only on 30th July 1955, which saw the addition of large staircases surrounded by marble ballustrades in the centre of the platform. The other major change was that initially in the end of the station was a large medallion with image of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, but during the 1961 de-Stalinization drive this was removed and instead replaced by the present artwork by Pavel Korin showing the Coat of Arms of the Soviet Union being held by a worker man and peasant woman amid floral backgrounds.

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*ru icon [http://www.mosmetro.ru/pages/page_6.php?id_page=214 Moskovsky Metropoliten] -Description and photographs
*ru icon [http://news.metro.ru/f54.html News.Metro.ru] -Description and photographs
*ru icon [http://www.metro.ru/stations/koltsevaya/paveletskaya/ Metro.ru] -Description and photographs
*ru icon [http://www.metrowalks.ru/moscow/station-5-4 Metrowalks.ru] -Photographs
*ru icon [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=5&c=03 Mymetro.ru] -Description and photographs
*en icon [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=Paveletskaya&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)