characteristic feature of this small city, it is huge, large, deep, the largest in eurasia, the korkinsky section, the section is where coal, brown coal is mined, so i was born at the depth of this section, 500 m from the surface of the earth, well, it happened, and the most interesting thing is, i was born there and... and some time passed, quite a bit, just a little, from the year seventy-seven i sank back underground, began to design to this day, began to design the metro. good evening, good evening, nikolai ivanovich, it’s hard to call you an exclusive architect, because your the creation is known to a million people, this is the picturesque bridge, vnukovo airport, and the moscow metro, so tell me, when you walk or drive past your creations, what do you think about? i’m really not an exclusive architect, i’m a people’s architect, that is, a person who, a people’s architect is not someone who cross-stitches or stitches or paints dolls or some kind of cutting boards, a people’s architect is that architect. who designs just for the people, all my objects for all the years of active prac