Opening date: 15.05.1935
The station was opened as a part of the first Moscow metro line section.
Station design: three-vaulted deep-level pylon-type station with cast-in-situ lining built to an individual project.
At the moment of construction this was the biggest deep-level station in the world.
Station architects: Yu.Revkovsky, N.Borov, G.Zamskiy
Vestibule architects: D.Chechulin, Yu.Revkovsky (east); Î.Stapran and L.Saveliev (west, in the Moskva Hotel, not extant)
Design engineer: N.Komarov
The station features massive pylons of white and grey marble. The track walls are lined with ceramic tiles and the floor is made of grey granite. Spherical lamps illuminate the hall. As the station used to be called Prospekt Marksa, it still contains a mosaic portrait of Karl Marx (E.Reichzaum, 1964).
In 1944 the station was connected to Teatralnaya of Zamoskvoretskaya line via new escalators in the centre of the platform. Another entrance to the station was opened at Manezhnaya ploshchad in 1959 and in Okhotny Ryad complex in 1997.
Exit to: Manezhnaya ploshchad, Okhotniy Ryad, Mokhovaya ulitsa, Bolshaya Dmitrovka ulitsa, Teatralnaya ploshchad.
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| Photo by Anatoliy Shestakov |
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