Sukonnaya Sloboda (Kazan Metro)

Sukonnaya Sloboda (Russian: Суконная Слобода) is a station on the Kazan Metro.

Designed by architects A. Mustafin, T. Ksenofontova and N. Muravyova, the station's theme features on Kazan's history as part of Tsardom of Russia, with three-tone colour gamma (white, beige and brown respectively Bottichino marble, and Krutinsky and Dzhiltau-Nadezhda granites) and carefully selected decorations, complete with its setting under the historic cotton merchant row (Sloboda), on the path of the old Nogay track to the Golden Horde.

The Baroque influences of the 17th century are seen on the walls of the station where the three-tone marble is filled with two sets of pilasters, one in shape of a set of windows (with dark meshes and white frames) and the other in shape of an epaulet.

The platform floor is laid with polished granite of different tones arranged in a geometrical ornament artwork.

The ceiling is a monolithic concrete, with deep cessons that are covered with matted white glass which forms the main lighting of the station.