Opening date: 15.05.1935
The station was opened as a part of the first Moscow metro line section.
Station design: three-vaulted shallow cast-in-situ station with pylons built to a special project.
Station architects: À.Dushkin, Ya.Likhtenberg
Vestibule architect (west): S.Kraevets
Vestibule architect (east): À.Ryzhkov (1961)
Design engineer: N.Kabanov
The station features two rows of ten-sided columns faced with off-white marble. The station is illuminated by lamps concealed in the tops of the columns. The track walls are lined with white Koyelga and Ufaley marble and the floor is grey and pink granite.
The model of the station won two Grand Prix awards at expositions in Paris (1937) and Brussels (1958). In 1941 the designers and engineers were also awarded the Stalin prize of the USSR for architecture and construction.
Exit to: Gogolevsky Bulvar, ploshchad Prechistenskie Vorota, Gagarinsky Pereulok, Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Vsekhsvyatsky pereulok and ulitsa Volkhonka.
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