Prospekt Mira (Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line)

Prospekt Mira
Проспект Мира
Moscow Metro station
Location Meshchansky District,
Central Administrative Okrug,
Coordinates 55°46′52″N 37°37′54″E / 55.7812°N 37.6318°E / 55.7812; 37.6318Coordinates: 55°46′52″N 37°37′54″E / 55.7812°N 37.6318°E / 55.7812; 37.6318
Owned by Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)  6  Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Connections Trolleybus: 9, 48
Tram: 7
Construction
Structure type Pylon station
Depth 50 metres (160 ft)
Platform levels 1
Parking No
Other information
Station code 093
History
Opened 1 May 1958 (1958-05-01)
Previous names Botanichesky Sad (1958-1966)
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station
Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
toward  Medvedkovo
anticlockwise / outer
Koltsevaya Line
Transfer at: Prospekt Mira
clockwise / inner
Location
Prospekt Mira
Location within Central Moscow

Prospekt Mira (Russian: Проспект Мира) is a station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was designed by V. Lebedev and P. Shteller and opened on 1 May 1958. The station features flared pylons faced with white marble and trimmed with sharp-edged metal cornices. The walls are faced with off-white ceramic tile with horizontal black stripes.

Between 1958 and until 1971 the station was the southern terminus of the Rizhskaya Line.

The entrance to the station is located on the west side of Prospekt Mira (north of Protopopovsky Pereulok) in the ground floor of the Metro's central control building.

Transfers

From this station it is possible to transfer to Prospekt Mira on the Koltsevaya Line.

Platform of the station
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