Chistye Prudy metro station, Metro station in Basmanny District, Moscow, Russia
Chistye Prudy is a metro station in the Basmanny District of Moscow, running beneath Myasnitskaya Street. The platforms are lined with dark grey Ufalei marble, and white Koelga marble is used for the decorative details along the walls.
The station opened on May 15, 1935, as part of the first line ever built in the Moscow Metro. During World War II, it was temporarily used as a military command post.
The station takes its name from the ponds that give the nearby boulevard its character, and both are still part of the same neighborhood today. The original entrance pavilion on Chistoprudny Boulevard shows the rounded, restrained design typical of early Soviet public architecture.
The main entrance is on Chistoprudny Boulevard, which makes it easy to get your bearings when you arrive. A direct passage connects this station to Turgenevskaya on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, so you can change lines without going back outside.
Between 1935 and 1938, this was the deepest station in the entire Moscow Metro before newer ones went further underground. The teams who built it had little prior experience with tunneling at that depth beneath a major city.
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