Aeroport (Moscow Metro)

Aeroport
Moscow Metro station
Coordinates	55°48′01″N 37°31′58″E / 55.8003°N 37.5329°E / 55.8003; 37.5329Coordinates: 55°48′01″N 37°31′58″E / 55.8003°N 37.5329°E / 55.8003; 37.5329
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	2  Zamoskvoretskaya Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 105 Trolleybus: 6, 12, 43, 65, 70, 82, 86
Construction
Depth	8.6 metres (28 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	037
History
Opened	11 September 1938; 78 years ago (1938-09-11)
Traffic
Passengers (2002)	23,980,500
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Sokol toward  Rechnoy Vokzal Zamoskvoretskaya Line Dinamo toward  Alma-Atinskaya
Route map Khovrino (2016) Rechnoy Vokzal Vodny Stadion Voykovskaya  14  (OSI) Sokol yard Sokol Aeroport Dinamo Belorusskaya  5  Mayakovskaya Tverskaya  7   9  Teatralnaya  1   3  Moskva River Vodootvodny Canal Novokuznetskaya  6   8  Paveletskaya  5  Moskva River Avtozavodskaya  14  (OSI) Tekhnopark Nagatinsky Bridge Moskva River Kolomenskaya Kashirskaya  11A  to Zamoskvoretskoye yard Kantemirovskaya Tsaritsyno Orekhovo Domodedovskaya  (shuttle bus for ) Krasnogvardeyskaya  10  Brateyevo yard Alma-Atinskaya This diagram:
Location
Aeroport Location within Moscow Ring Road

Aeroport (Russian: Аэропо́рт, Airport, IPA: [aɪrɐˈport]) is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. Its name, literally meaning airport, owes to the nearby Khodynka Aerodrome, Moscow's first airport, no longer in operation. Now, there is a bus terminal (Goraerovokzal, Гораэровокзал) which has regular service to Moscow's principal airports. Opened as part of the second stage in 1938, the station features a single-vault design. It was built using a cut-and cover method. Concrete segments of the vault were pre-cast and then lowered into the station.

Architects B. Vilensky and V. Yershov applied the aviation theme to this big open station, in what is seen as some of the best examples of Soviet Art Deco architecture. The most noticeable design feature is the network of intersecting ribs that fan out across the vaulted ceiling. These ribs originate from fan-shaped limestone panels spaced at regular intervals along the walls, which are red marble with shell-shaped brown marble insets. The floor is reveted with grey granite. Lighting comes from pyramidal objects which house luminescent lamps, although originally the station had chandeliers with normal tungsten bulbs.

The vestibule to the station is located on the north side of Leningradsky Avenue near the Viktorenko Street, and receives a daily passenger traffic of 59,800.