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Metro
VVDNKh
(Russian:
ВДНХ)
is
a
Moscow
Metro
station
in
Ostankinsky
District,
North-Eastern
Administrative
Okrug,
Moscow,
Russia.
It
is
located
on
the
Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya
Line,
between
Alekseyevskaya
and
Botanichesky
Sad
stations.
VDNKh
was
opened
on
1
May
1958.
The
name
stands
for
Exhibition
of
Achievements
of
the
National
Economy
Vystavka
Dostizheniy
Narodnovo
Khozyaystva
(abbreviated
VDNKh).
The
station
features
pylons
faced
with
white
marble
and
decorated
with
circular
ventilation
grilles.
VDNKh
was
designed
by
Nadezhda
Bykova,
I.
Gokhar-Kharmandaryan,
Ivan
Taranov,
and
Yu.
Cherepanov.
VDNKh
is
one
of
the
deepest
Metro
stations
being
situated
53.5
metres
(176
ft)
below
ground.
It
is
also
one
of
the
busiest
stations,
serving
107,377
passengers
a
day
in
2009.[1]
Originally,
this
station
was
planned
to
be
opulently
decorated
in
the
manner
of
the
other
stations
built
in
the
1950s,
with
mosaics
by
venerable
artist
Vladimir
Favorsky
along
the
insides
of
the
arches
between
the
pylons.
However,
in
the
wake
of
Nikita
Khrushchev's
attack
on
decorative
"excessions",
the
place
for
mosaics,
including
existing
mosaics
as
well,
were
crudely
coated
with
incongruous
thick
green
paint.
The
original
circular
vestibule
is
located
on
the
west
side
of
Prospekt
Mira,
in
front
of
the
Space
Obelisk.
In
1996,
the
station
got
an
additional
pavilion
for
entrance-exit
needs
at
the
southern
side
of
the
station.
It
was
the
deepest
station
in
Moscow
Metro
from
1958
until
1979.dnkh