Sukharevskaya, Moscow Metro station
Sukharevskaya is a metro station in Moscow on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, running underground beneath Sretenka Street, south of the Garden Ring. The platform is lined with white marble walls and flanked by rows of yellow marble pillars that run along its full length.
The station opened in 1972 under the name Kolkhoznaya, a reference to Soviet collective farms that shaped the original design of the platform. It was renamed Sukharevskaya in 1990 to recall the Sukharev Tower and the square that bore the same name, both of which were demolished in the 1930s.
The station takes its name from Sukharev Square, once one of the busiest market areas in Moscow. The yellow marble pillars inside were designed to look like sheaves of wheat, a reference that was central to the original Soviet concept for this stop.
The entrances sit along Sretenka Street and are easy to spot from street level, with escalators taking you down to the platform. The station gets very busy during morning and evening rush hours, so visiting outside those times makes moving around much easier.
Although the Sukharev Tower was torn down in the 1930s, the station's 1990 renaming brought it back into daily life for millions of commuters who pass through without knowing much about the lost landmark. The tower was once one of the most recognizable structures in Moscow, described by some as a ship sailing above the city rooftops.
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