Komsomolskaya Square (Moscow)

Komsomolskaya Square, informally known as Three Station Square, is one of the busiest squares in Moscow, noted for its impressive blend of Tsarist and Stalinist architecture. Its popular name refers to three ornate rail termini situated there: Leningradsky, Yaroslavsky, and Kazansky.

Its origins lay with the construction of the Moscow-Saint Petersburg Railway in the 1840s, when the Kalanchovskoe Field outside the Garden Ring was selected to allocate the Nicholas Railway Station. In 1862 the Yaroslavl Railway Station, a terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway, was constructed nearby. On the opposite side of the field the Ryazan Railway Station was inaugurated two years later. Until 1909, a railway line traversed the square; it is now elevated so as not to interfere with street traffic.

The square was given its present name in 1932 to commemorate the Komsomol workers who built the Moscow Metro.