MAIKOVSKAIA METRO STATION  

Located on the Zamoskvoretskaia line

The Maikovskaia Metro Station is in the Tverskoy District of the Central Administrative District and is named after Vladimir Maiakovsky. The station was opened on September 11, 1938, as part of the Sverdlova Square (now called Teatrlnaya ). It is a deep-level, three-vaulted column station with one island platform. The station was originally designed in the spirit of the Italian Renaissance, however, this project was unsuccessful, since it did not use the structural capabilities of steel columns (popular in New York Subway stations). In 1939, the station design won the Grand Prix at the New York World’s Fair. During the Great Patrioitic War, the station was used as a bomb shelter. Since the mid-2000s, Mayakovskaya has been undergoing reconstruction