Paveletskaya (Koltsevaya line)

Paveletskaya Павелецкая
Pylon station
Depth	40 metres (130 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	073
History
Opened	1 January 1950; 74 years ago (1950-01-01)
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station Taganskaya anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya line Dobryninskaya clockwise / inner Novokuznetskaya towards Khovrino Zamoskvoretskaya line transfer at Paveletskaya Avtozavodskaya towards Alma-Atinskaya
Route map Legend Belorusskaya Krasnaya Presnya yard Krasnopresnenskaya Moskva River Kiyevskaya Moskva River Park Kultury Moskva River Oktyabrskaya Dobryninskaya Paveletskaya Vodootvodny Canal Moskva River Taganskaya Kurskaya Komsomolskaya Prospekt Mira Suvorovskaya Novoslobodskaya This diagram: view talk edit
Location
Paveletskaya Location within Central Moscow

Paveletskaya (

. Bright bronze chandeliers provide lighting. The walls repeat the two tone marble, white on top, red on bottom, and the floor is laid with grey and white granite.

The station's vestibule is built into the corner of the Garden Ring and Zemlyannoy Val, and occupies the ground floor of the building there. Inside above the escalator is a circular mosaic panel by Pavel Korin Red Square which depicts the Lenin's Mausoleum and the Saint Basil's Cathedral, framed by a bas-relief with typical soviet banners and floral arrangements with names of Volga cities on the sides. The vestibule has another artwork by Iosif Rabinovich, which is a mosaic on the dome of the vestibule on the theme of the permanent end to drought in the Volga.

As the station was made to be a transfer point to

being held by a worker man and peasant woman amid floral backgrounds.

Gallery

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  Image on a 1950 stamp
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  Station platform
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  Station platform with

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References