| Taking place in Moscow Underground system |
'Komsomolskaya' is a station of Sokonicheskaya Line in Moscow Subway system situated between stations 'Krasnoselskaya' and 'Krasniye Vorota'.
| The date of station foundation and the name origin |
The station has been founded on May 15, 1935 as a part of the first district of Moscow subway system from 'Sokolniki' to 'Park Kultury' with a branch from 'Ohotnii Ryad' to 'Smolenskaya' and has been named according to the square of the same name. This square is also known as 'Ploshad Tryoh Vokzalov' (rus. Площадь Трёх Вокзалов, eng. Three Railway Terminals Square).
The station has two vestibules, both of them are ground-based. One of them is situated in the building of Kazansky Vokzal (rus. Казанский Вокзал, eng. Kazan Rail Terminal). The second one, combined with the vestibule of the same-called station of Koltsevaya Line, is situated on Komsomolskaya Ploshad (rus. Комсомольская Площадь, eng. Komsomol Square) between Yaroslavsky Vokzal (rus. Ярославский Вокзал, eng. Yaroslavl rail terminal) and Leningradsky Vokzal (rus. Ленинградский Вокзал, eng. Leningrad rail terminal).
| Number of passengers using the station |
Number of retiring passengers per day is 44,7 thousand, number of entering passengers per day is 41,2 thousand.
| The station characterization |
'Komsomolskaya' is a column trispan shallow station (the depth is 8 meters). The station has two lines of columns with 23 columns in each line. The distance begin two neighboring columns in the line is 7 meters. A big number of passengers was expected on the station, that's why along the entire hall there are balconies above both of the tracks. These balconies were established to produce the uniform distribution of the passengers across the station hall, and that's why the station construction is so unusual for Moscow.
| Decoration theme and materials of decoration |
The track walls are faced with light-yellow ceramic slab. The floor is faced with gray and red granite, and the floor of the balconies is covered with ceramic slab. The columns, square in their cross section, are faced with goldish marble. The caps of the columns are decorated with bronze emblems of the Komsomol youth league who helped to construct the first Metro line. The walls of the balconies and the columns situated on them are also faced with marble from different fields. Also we can see here some panels of majolica tiles representing heroic labor of the young people of Komsomol. This was the world's first application of majolica tiles in the subway constructing.
| Other stations of Sokolnicheskaya Line |
