Komsomolskaya (Koltsevaya Line)

Komsomolskaya Комсомольская
Moscow Metro station
station hall
Location	Komsomolskaya Square Krasnoselsky District Central Administrative Okrug Moscow
Coordinates	55°46′29″N 37°39′18″E / 55.7748°N 37.6549°E / 55.7748; 37.6549Coordinates: 55°46′29″N 37°39′18″E / 55.7748°N 37.6549°E / 55.7748; 37.6549
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	5  Koltsevaya Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Leningradsky Rail Terminal Yaroslavsky Rail Terminal Kazansky Rail Terminal Bus: 40, 122 Trolleybus: 14, 41 Tram: 7, 37, 50
Construction
Structure type	Deep column tri-vault
Depth	37 metres (121 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	070
History
Opened	30 January 1952; 65 years ago (1952-01-30)
Traffic
Passengers (2009)	54,469,315
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Prospekt Mira anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya Line Kurskaya clockwise / inner Krasnye Vorota toward  Salaryevo Sokolnicheskaya Line Transfer at: Komsomolskaya Krasnoselskaya toward  Bulvar Rokossovskogo
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
Komsomolskaya Location within Central Moscow

Komsomolskaya (Russian: Комсомо́льская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Krasnoselsky District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Koltsevaya Line, between Prospekt Mira and Kurskaya stations.

The station is noted for its being located under the busiest Moscow transport hub, Komsomolskaya Square, which serves Leningradsky, Yaroslavsky and Kazansky railway terminals. Because of that the station is one of the busiest in the whole system and is the most loaded one on the line. It opened on 30 January 1952 as a part of the second stage of the line.

While the first southern segment of the Koltsevaya Line were dedicated to the victory over Nazi Germany, the northern segment (Belorusskaya-Koltsevaya to Komsomolskaya) was dedicated to the theme of post-war labour. Komsomolskaya, however, is a clear exception: lead designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an illustration of a historical speech given by Joseph Stalin November 7, 1941. In this speech, Stalin evoked the memories of Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy and other military leaders of the past, and all these historical figures eventually appeared on the mosaics of Komsomolskaya.

Early roots of the station's design can be traced to a 1944 draft by Shchusev implemented in pure Petrine baroque, a local adaptation of the 17th century Dutch Golden Age. However, after the end of World War II the drafts of 1944 were discarded and the stations of the Koltsevaya Line were completed in the mainstream late stalinist style of the period. Shchusev however, who died in 1949, retained his baroque nonce order.