Polyanka – Line 9

Moscow Metro – Polyanka – Line 9

Polyanka (Russian: Полянка) is a Moscow Metro station in the Yakimanka District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. It is on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line. It was opened in 1986. The station is a column-trivault, with a large sculpture presenting a couple with a child, inside a circle, at the end.

Polyanka – Russia stamp -2019

What caused this station to be included in this section is the colourful sculpture at one end of the platform. Created in the late ‘Socialist’ period (i.e., Revisionist) it is very different from what would be considered ‘Socialist realism’ but included here for the reference it makes to earlier work in some of the older stations, with symbols of peace, an olive branch and doves. Unfortunately, to date, I have no information of the artist but assume that the sculpture dates from 1986 when the station was opened.