Kosmonavtlar (Tashkent Metro)

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.

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.