Anniversary

Today, 15 May, is the 81st anniversary of the commissioning of the Moscow Metro in 1935.   Appropriate therefore to have one of the original stations, Chisty Prudy (meaning "clean ponds", after the nearby pond).

PS. A few interesting facts:
- The station was named Kirovskaya between 1935 and 1990 - after the assassinated Soviet leader, Sergey Kirov.
- The street running alongside it was named Kirov Street until renamed in 1990 to its pre-Revolutionary name of Myasnitskaya ("Butchers' Street", which it was in the 1700s).
- During WW II the station was closed, trains bypassed it, and its platforms were boarded up with plywood for use as the headquarters of the Joint Staff and Moscow Air Defence.
- In 1947, the station received the first floruescent lamps installed in a metro station.