Kosmonavtlar | |||||||||||
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Tashkent Metro | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 41°18′18″N 69°15′55″E / 41.305022°N 69.265344°E | ||||||||||
Platforms | island platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 8 December 1984 | ||||||||||
Previous names | Kosmonavtlar Prospekti | ||||||||||
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Kosmonavtlar ("Cosmonauts", formerly known as Проспект Космонавтов, Prospekt Kosmonavtov) is a space-programme-themed station of the Tashkent Metro. [1] It honors Soviet cosmonauts such as Yuri Gagarin and Valentina Tereshkova, the first man and woman in space. [2] The station was opened on 8 December 1984 as part of the inaugural section of the line, between Alisher Navoiy and Toshkent. [3]
Until 2018 it was illegal to photograph the Tashkent metro, because it also worked as a nuclear bomb shelter. [4] [5]
The architectural decoration of the station is on the theme of space. The metro stop is decorated in bright-colored anodized aluminium. The interior is decorated with blue ceramic medallions with images of Ulugbek, Icarus, Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gagarin, Vyacheslav Volkov and Vladimir Dzhanibekov and a mural runs the full length of the loading platform, depicting major space-related events and icons such as Galileo, Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin. [6] The ceiling resembles the Milky Way, which shows glass stars. [7] The project of the metro station was developed by Sergo Sutyagin. [8] [9] [10]