Dobryninskaya

Dobryninskaya Добрынинская
Moscow Metro station
Coordinates	55°43′45″N 37°37′27″E / 55.7291°N 37.6243°E / 55.7291; 37.6243Coordinates: 55°43′45″N 37°37′27″E / 55.7291°N 37.6243°E / 55.7291; 37.6243
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	5  Koltsevaya Line
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Construction
Depth	35.5 metres (116 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	074
History
Opened	1 January 1950; 67 years ago (1950-01-01)
Previous names	Serpukhovskaya
Traffic
Passengers (2002)	12,702,000
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Paveletskaya anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya Line Oktyabrskaya clockwise / inner Polyanka toward  Altufyevo Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line Transfer at: Serpukhovskaya Tulskaya toward  Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo
Route map  9  Novoslobodskaya Prospekt Mira  6   2  Belorusskaya Komsomolskaya  1  to Krasnaya Presnya yard Kurskaya  3   10   7  Krasnopresnenskaya Taganskaya  7   8  Moskva River Moskva River  3   4  Kiyevskaya Vodootvodny Canal Moskva River Paveletskaya  2   1  Park Kultury Dobryninskaya  9  Moskva River Oktyabrskaya  6  This diagram:
Location
Dobryninskaya Location within Central Moscow

Dobryninskaya (Russian: Добры́нинская) is a station on the Koltsevaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Opened on 1 January 1950 it was part of the first segment of the fourth stage of the system. It was originally named Serpukhovskaya (Russian: Серпуховская), after the Serpukhovskaya Square.

The station has a pylon trivault built in the flamboyant architecture style of the late 1940s — early 1950s. Architect Leonid Popov (and co-authors M. Zelenin and M. Ilin) based their design on themes inspired by the city of Serpukhov, with the overall design referring to ancient Russian architecture and in particular the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, which is repeated in the design of the portals and the beige marble composition. Other innovations by Popov include the station walls on the platform halls where (above dark red marble) run white cylindrical marble plinths designed to reflect directly into the eyes of passengers. To keep the bright and light appearance of the station, the vaults of the station were left simply plastered and painted white, with lighting coming from a zigzag arrangement of horizontal fluorescent tubes. The floor is a dark grey granite, typical of older Orthodox Churches. Contrasting with the ancient connotations are 12 bas-reliefs on the pylons by Yelena Yason-Manizer depicting traditional labours (hunting, fishing, grape-picking etc.) of different nationalities of the Soviet Union. Yelena Yason-Manizer was also sculptor of the original bas-relief at the end of the station which featured a large profile of Joseph Stalin and Coat of Arms of the Soviet Union. This was removed in 1961 and in 1967 replaced with the present mosaic by the same artist, titled Morning of the Cosmic Era.