#132 Russia

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Mayakovskaya is a station on the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on November 3, 1967, and named after Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. The main surface vestibule is situated on Nevsky Prospekt. Mayakovskaya is connected to the station Ploshchad Vosstaniya of the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line via a transfer corridor and a set of escalators. The transfer corridor also links both stations to Moskovsky Rail Terminal. (source)

The simple and elegant Majakovskaja station, designed by Aleksej Dushkin in 1938. It is one of the world's best-known and most-photographed Metro stations and a symbol of the Moscow Metro system. (source)

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