The Kuzminki metro station is located between Tekstilshchiki and Ryazansky Prospekt, two other stations of the Moscow Metro, in the homonymous district of the Russian capital. It belongs to the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, one of the busiest lines in Moscow. Its opening took place in 1966, it was named after the area in which it is located. Since then, the metro station has been honestly and diligently fulfilling its function almost all the time - transportation of Muscovites and guests of the city.
Station summary
The station itself has only two underground vestibules leading to underground passages, which are located under the large Volgogradsky prospect. If you are interested in where you can go thanks to this, then you should know: through the lobby number 1 you can go to the prospect and Zelenodolskaya street, through number 2 - to the streets of Marshal Chuikov and Zhigulevskaya, as well as the same avenue. Metro stationKuzminki is a columned, three-span shallow platform.
It's only eight meters deep. It so happened that it is the busiest station in the Moscow metro. Now that the metro extension beyond Vykhino has been built, nothing has changed. For partial unloading of Kuzminok, especially during peak hours - in the mornings, completely empty trains are specially sent here, which do not stop at Vykhino and Ryazansky Prospekt.
The beauty of appearance
“Kuzminki”, the metro station, like all Moscow stations, has a magnificent view: 80 reinforced concrete columns, which are arranged in rows on the platform and lined with white marble. The floor is covered with gray and red granite. Cast bas-reliefs depicting various forest animals (fish, squirrels, martens, ducks, hares and tits on mountain ash) are placed on the walls (artist - Derviz G. G.). The architect of the station is Shagurin L. A., co-author - Korneev M. N., Shmitov N. A. was a design engineer.
From the beginning of construction, the track walls were covered with glazed ceramic tiles, the former cream color, top and bottom with brown-red stripes. In 2008, they were re-clad with enamelled aluminum color scheme. The floor was redone at the same time.
Some technical data
The station was built according to a standard project from reinforced concrete, prefabricated unified structures. The ceiling height is four meters, the distance between the tracks is 12.9 meters, the widthplatforms - ten meters, the pitch of the columns - four meters, the width of the column - five hundred meters, the distance between the axes - 5.9 meters. In the very center of the platform, as well as on many others, there is a descent to the service premises.
“Kuzminki” in the month of March
Recently, it is impossible to ride the Moscow metro in winter. Especially where the frost is felt well. Winter clothes do not protect from the cold, it is impossible to hide from drafts. The Kuzminki metro station is no exception. People are forced to pull scarves out of their clothes and cover their ears and neck, although this does not help much.
Passengers wait for their train, enter it, hoping to warm up, but in vain. In March 2015, it was impossible to escape. Even if it gets a little warmer outside, it’s still cold in the subway. So the passengers have to freeze. The question of warming, unfortunately, is not thought out.
Tips for using Kuzminok
All Muscovites and many guests of the city are well aware that in the morning, from eight to ten o'clock, driving from this station is like a murder. Not only is it difficult to get into any carriage, it is even more likely that you will make your clothes and shoes unusable and lose your property. Therefore, it is very dangerous for one person to travel at this time. It is not worth occupying the first row without certain skills, you can find yourself right in front of the train.
Therefore, if you are an inexperienced local resident or a visitor to the city, take the train in the opposite direction and go there,where is faster. Do not expect that the Kuzminki metro station will provide you with the opportunity to come in and sit down and sleep by inviting you to an empty train. You will most likely run out of space. In principle, if possible, at this time try to go in a different way. The opening of the subway outside Vykhino specifically eased the fate of this station, but, unfortunately, it did not get any easier in Kuzminki.
What good is there
We need to thank the city authorities for building Kuzminki. The metro station of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line has been fulfilling its main function for many years. After all, no one foresaw that so many people would live in the sleeping areas of the capital. This problem is observed in almost every major city in the world. Existing problems are trying to solve as far as possible. Some succeed, some fail.
There is a bus station near the metro station, from which suburban buses run to Lytkarino, Dzerzhinsky, Kotelniki, Zhukovsky and Lyubertsy. Subway lobbies are open from 5.30 am to 1 am. The infrastructure is available here, you can drink in the summer in the heat and eat nearby in several cafes, restaurants and even in one pizzeria. There are several shops near the station. If you look in different directions, you can see several clothing stores, both in shopping centers and separately. Still, it is felt that Moscow is in front of us. The Kuzminki metro station in the capital is different from the metro in many other cities.
Other infrastructure near metro
Near this metro station there isseveral hotels that are located at a distance of up to one kilometer from Kuzminki: the hotel on Okskaya, the Brigantina hotel, the Len Inn hostel, the Taganka hostel, the Vega hostel and many others. If you wish, you can even visit a beauty salon, there are several of them. There is also a dental clinic, several pharmacies. There are state institutions, for example, Rospotrebnadzor and the medical branch of the Center for Epidemiology and Hygiene.
That is, "Kuzminki", a metro station, is a highly developed region with good infrastructure. There are only nine shopping centers here: "Mirage", "Budapest", "For the whole family", "AREAL", "Moscow", "Three boars", "Ryazansky", "Joule", "Chameleon". There is an exhibition center near the subway.
Kuzminki (metro station): photo
Tourists visit this object, of course, especially often. For those who arrived in Moscow for a few days, it makes no sense (and even time) to go here, but if you arrived in the city for a long time, then in the afternoon, on a day off, you can just visit this place. And if there is nothing special to do at the station itself, then, having briefly examined it, you can go on foot to the park located on the river bank. In the summer, when a boat with tourists sails there, it is worth taking some time to this beautiful place, look at cultural monuments, all four ponds.
Here just calm down, relax and unwind. “Kuzminki” (metro station) - which branch is it? We already know this, Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, one of the busiest in Moscow.
