Novoslobodskaya Explained

Novoslobodskaya
Native Name:Новослободская
Native Name Lang:ru
Type:Moscow Metro station
Address:Novoslobodskaya Street
Tverskoy District

Moscow
Coordinates:55.7799°N 37.6028°W
Other:Trolleybus

3, 15, 47, 69
Tram: 19

Structure:Deep pylon tri-vault
Platform:1 island platform
Levels:1
Tracks:2
Parking:No
Code:068
Owned:Moskovsky Metropoliten
Map Type:Central Moscow
Alternativemap:Central Moscow grayscale.png
Map Overlay:Central Moscow metro lines.svg
Map State:collapsed

Novoslobodskaya (Russian: Новослобо́дская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Tverskoy District of the Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Koltsevaya Line, between Belorusskaya and Prospekt Mira stations. Novoslobodskaya was opened on 30 January 1952. From 21 November 2020 to 4 March 2022, the entrance of the station was closed for reconstruction.

Architecture and art

Alexey Dushkin, the station's architect, has long wished to utilise stained glass in decoration of a metro station, and the first drawings date to pre–World War II times. In 1948, with the aid of a young architect Alexander Strelkov, Dushkin came across the artist Pavel Korin, who agreed to compose the artworks for the panels. The rest of the station was designed around the glass panels.

It is best known for its 32 stained glass panels, which are the work of Latvian artists E. Veylandan, E. Krests, and M. Ryskin. Each panel, surrounded by an elaborate brass border, is set into one of the station's pylons and illuminated from within. Both the pylons and the pointed arches between them are faced with pinkish Ural marble and edged with brass molding. At the end of the platform is a mosaic by Pavel Korin entitled "Peace Throughout the World."

Transfers

From this station it is possible to transfer to Mendeleyevskaya station on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line.