What did the first stations of the Moscow metro look like in the year of their opening

The first line of the Kaganovich Moscow Metro opened on May 15, 1935. Trains ran from the Sokolniki station to the Park of Culture, as well as along the branch from Okhotny Ryad to Smolenskaya. There are a total of 13 stations. We offer you a look at how the main entrances and internal lobbies looked at that time.

"Sokolniki".

"Krasnoselskaya" (the project name is "Gavrikova Street").

"Komsomolskaya" (the project name is "Kalanchevskaya Square").

"Red Gate" (the project name is "Krasnovorotskaya").

"Kirovskaya" (project names — "Myasnitskaya", "Myasnitsky gate"), since 1990 — "Chistye Prudy".

"Dzerzhinskaya" (project name — "Dzerzhinsky Square"), since 1990 — "Lubyanka".

"Okhotny Ryad" (the project name is "Okhotnoryadskaya").

"Lenin Library" (the project name is "Lenin Library").

"Palace of Soviets" (project name — "Kropotkin Gate"), since 1957 — "Kropotkinskaya".

Gorky Park of Culture (project names — "Crimean", "Crimean Square"), since 1960 — "Park of Culture".

"Comintern Street", since 1990 — "Alexander Garden".

"Arbatskaya" (the project name is "Arbatskaya Square").

"Smolenskaya" (the project name is "Smolenskaya Square").