Mayakovskaya (Moscow Metro)

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	Zamoskvoretskaya Line
								Rechnoy Vokzal

								Vodny Stadion

								Voykovskaya

								Sokol

								Aeroport

								Dinamo

								Belorusskaya



								Mayakovskaya

								Tverskaya



								Teatralnaya



								Novokuznetskaya



								Paveletskaya



								Avtozavodskaya

								Tekhnopark

								Kolomenskaya

								Kashirskaya



								Kantemirovskaya

								Tsaritsyno

								Orekhovo

								Domodedovskaya

								Krasnogvardeyskaya



								Brateyevo
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Central Hall

Mayakovskaya (Russian: Маяковская), is a famous station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Considered to be one of the most beautiful in the system, it is one of the finest examples of pre-World War II Stalinist Architecture making it one of the most famous Metro stations in the world.

The station was built as part of the second stage of the Moscow Metro expansion, and was opened on September 11, 1938. If the first stage was more focused on the building the system itself, both architecturally and engineeringly the stations appear modest in comparison to those that the second stage brought to the system. For the first time in the world, instead of having the traditional three-neath pylon station layout, the engineers were able to overlap the vault space and support it with two sets of colonnades on each side. This gave birth to a new column type design and Mayakovskaya was the first station to show this.

If the triumph in engineering was not enough, then Alexey Dushkin's brilliant Art Deco decoration design was truly amazing. Based on Soviet future as envisioned by the famous poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, for whom the station was named after, the station feature graceful columns faced with stainless steel and pink rhodonite, white Ufaley and grey Diorite marble walls, a brilliant flooring pattern of white and pink marble, and of course, most of all are the niches of each of the 35 niches of each vault. Surrounded by filament lights there are a total of 34 brilliant ceiling mosaics by Alexander Deyneka with the theme "24-Hour Soviet Sky." A passenger has but to look up and see the bright Soviet future in the heavens above him.

Located 33 meters beneath the surface, the station became famous during World War II when an air raid shelter was located in the station. On the anniversary of the October Revolution, on November 7, 1941 Stalin personally addressed a mass assembly of party leaders and ordinary Muscovites in the central hall of the station.

In 2005 a new second exit was built along with a new vestibule in a unique way. Passengers leaving the station must first descend on a short escalator ride into an underground vestibule and only then climb on the long one to the surface. The new exit also allowed access to the 25th mosaic, which was previously hidden behind the service section. The bust of the poet was moved to the new surface vestibule whose ceiling was also decorated with a mosaic composition from the poet's poem "Moscow Sky".