The metro station "Ploshchad Ilicha".

The Moscow metro is the beauty and pride of our capital. This is sure to be confirmed by someone who has visited, for example, the English subway, where the same type of station with an unpretentious design solution is more like simple underground crossings across the road. The stations of our metro, especially those constructed in Soviet times, are more reminiscent of architectural monuments than stops for underground transport. Of the 188 Moscow metro stations, 44 are objects of cultural heritage.

Even the typical underground structures have some peculiarities that make them unique in their own way. For example, the metro station "Ploshchad Ilyicha", located on the Kalininskaya (yellow) line, is very interesting from the paleontological point of view. In its decoration is used red marble, in which there are fossils and other traces of inhabitants of the ancient seas. There are only nautilus (cephalopod mollusks) that lived millions of years ago, about thirty pieces. There are remnants of echinoderms, ammonites and other paleontological sparks. They existed an unthinkable number of years ago, now they decorate themselves with the Moscow metro.

"Ilyich's Square" was put into operation in 1979. This is a three-vaulted station of deep laying (depth 46 meters), built according to the standard design of architects VA. Klokova and LN Popova. Noble fenestration materials of walls and floors - everywhere marble and different types of stone. Massive pillars-pylons support the arch of this magnificent structure.

A bust of the Soviet leader, the work of sculptor N.V. Tomskoy on the wall of the station hall of the metro station "Ploshchad Ilicha" - a commemorative memory of Lenin. His role in the history of the country, although very ambiguous, but, undoubtedly, great. In the 90s the station was to be renamed Rogozhskaya or Rogozhskaya Gate, but they left the name unchanged.

Exits from the underground lobby of the station "Ploshchad Ilicha" to the city lead to the Rogozhskaya outpost, the streets of Sergei Radonezhsky, Zolotorozhsky and Rogozhsky ramparts, to the highway Enthusiasts. Nearby there is a railway platform of suburban trains of Gorky direction.

Near the station "Ploshchad Ilyicha" there are such sights as the Andrei Rublyov Museum of Old Russian Culture , the Archive Museum of Personal Meetings, the Museum of Retro-Cars, the Theater Theater, the School of Acting Mastery of the Royal Studio, the Theater School "Art Style".

There are many cafes, bars and restaurants. One of the popular holiday destinations is the restaurant "Sim-Sim", the interior of which is made in the oriental style of fairy tales "Thousand and One Nights". This is one of the establishments of the Sim-Sim restaurant network, offering a variety of dishes of Uzbek, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian and European cuisine at democratic prices.

In the menu a large selection of national fermented milk products - matzoni, ayran, homemade cheeses of brynza and suluguni. Here they prepare different dishes on coals and in a special oven - tandyr. Khachapuri, kutab, hash, kharcho, khinkali, saj-kebab, Uzbek pilau - from one "tasty" name, appetite can instantly develop. A place where you can relax with pleasure, eat, and if you wish and smoke a hookah - a restaurant "Sim Sim", "Ploshchad Ilicha", pl. Rogozhskaya Zastava, 1.