PAVILIONS, Entrance Halls

The ground pavilions of the Moscow Metro were specially or occasionally designed in such a way that look like Assyrian and Babylonian (Sportivnaya and Frunzenskaya till the 1980’s) or antique (Chistye Prudy and Novoslobodskaya) temples, triumphal arch (Semenovskaya, Krasnoselskaya, many stations of the Circle Line – Taganskaya, Belorusskaya, etc.) or simultaneously triumphal arch outside and Christian temple inside (Kurskaya of the Circle Line), classicism rotunda (Krasnopresnenskaya), mollusk shell (Krasnye Vorota) and park pavilion (Kropotkinskaya). The frequent occurrence of the triumphal arch among old Moscow ground pavilions of the metro is easily explained – these stations were built during World War II or in the first years after it finished.

Here you can find a few examples of the pavilions and entrance halls.


Oktyabrskaya, Circle Line Entrance Portal	Oktyabrskaya, Circle Line Escalator Hall

Kropotkinskaya Ground Pavilion	Kropotkinskaya Cash Hall

Krasnopresnenskaya Escalator Tunnel	Krasnopresnenskaya Ground Pavilion

By the book "Moscow Metro",
Publishing House "Vokrug Sveta", Moscow 2005