NEW MOSCOW METRO---Trubnaya Station

The Moscow subway will have a new addition next week, with the long-awaited opening of Trubnaya Station scheduled for Aug. 30, just in time for City Day celebrations. Over 10 years in the making, Trubnaya will mark the first time in 20 years that Moscow has seen a new subway station inside the Garden Ring.

With just the finishing touches left before the public sees the new station, architects say it will resemble the stations of old, with the kind of elaborate design characteristic of vestibules and platforms built during the 1950s. And this is no accident, since Trubnaya is situated in the heart of Moscow's historic city center, at the intersection of Tsvetnoi, Petrovsky and Rozhdestvensky Boulevards. Exits from the platform will lead passengers to both sides of Tsvetnoi Boulevard. Trubnaya Station will have a transfer Tsvetnoi Boulvard Station on Serpukhovskaya, or gray line.

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