Frounzenskaïa (subway of Moscow)

Frounzenskaïa (in Russian, Фру́нзенская ) is a station of the Ligne Sokolnitcheskaïa of the Métro of Moscow. It was open on May 1st 1957, like the first stage of the extension towards the south of the Frounzenski ray. This ray skirting the course of the Moskova, the whole segment had to be built with an important depth and Frounzenskaïa is thus located 42 meters under ground.

The station is also symbolic system in that which it was one of the last with Moscow with being entirely built in the Stalinist style which dominated the architecture of the Muscovite stations since the medium of the Années 1940. The architects Robert Pogrebnoï and Iouri Zenkivitch conferred to him a design with the vaults and the tops of marbled pylons cream-coloured color, decorated with metal shields containing a star with five branches. The base of the pylons consists of thicker red marble. massive glosses with eight lanterns are suspended on the ceiling. The ground is covered with Granite black and red and the walls of white ceramics squares. At the end of the station, facing a red marble half-circle, throne a bust of Mikhaïl Frounze (of the sculptor Evgueni Viktorovitch Vutchetitch), famous directing military lasting the Russian Civil war, and whose station bears the name. The massive hall of entry of the station, of which the architects were Nadia Bykova, Ivan Taranov, I.G. Tcherepanov, I.G. Gokhar-Kharmandarian, N.I. Demtchinski and T.A. Ilina, are located at the angle of the Komsomolski avenue and the Kholzounov lane. It partially was demolished and rebuilt in the Palate of the Youth of Moscow in 1984. Its daily traffic is of 47.410 passengers.

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Description of the station on Metro.ru
Description of the station on Mymetro.ru
Description of the station on news.metro.ru
Description of the station on mosmetro.ru
KartaMetro.info Situation of the exits of the station on a plan of Moscow

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