How to move from the theater to the hunting row. Transition "Revolution Square"

There are several transfer stations in the Moscow metro, where it is better to go completely different from where the signs suggest you go. This allows you to save time or make the transition more comfortable.

1. Turgenevskaya -> Chistye Prudy.

Alternative way: Escalator up at the end of the station (exit to the city).

We go up the escalator, go left and see the “No passage” sign.

If you don’t want to “disturb”, we pass to the right. Passage there is completely permitted. On the left we see an escalator, along which we go down to Chistye Prudy.

It takes a little longer, but most of that time is spent standing on the escalator rather than walking down a long walkway.
Plus, you don't have to climb the stairs. If you are carrying a heavy suitcase, this is very important.

2. Chistye Prudy -> Turgenevskaya.

Official way to go: down the escalator in the center of the station.

Alternative way: Escalator up at the end of the station with a sign “Exit to the city”.

We go up the escalator and go right.

We see a down escalator on the right (now there is a metal fence there - renovations are underway. The escalator is right behind it), we go down the escalator.

3. Library named after Lenin -> Arbatskaya.

Official way of crossing: stairs up in the center of the station.

Alternative way: stairs up without a sign at the end of the station.

In fact, passage through the end of the station is not prohibited and the left half of the passage is allocated for it, but there is no sign at the station, but as soon as you go up the stairs, which seem to be only for passengers going to the platform, on the left you will see signs for exits and passages. Move forward.

You will run into the same escalator, to which a long curved tunnel leads, through which you are asked to go in the official way. So much faster and shorter!

4. Lenin Library -> Alexander Garden.

Official way of crossing: the same stairs up in the center of the station.

Alternative way: the same stairs up without a sign at the end of the station.

Go up the stairs and go on the right side. There will be three passages on the right, above each of which there is a “no passage” sign. First one, then two more.

If you need a train to Mezhdunarodnaya, feel free to take the second passage to the right. If it’s before “Kuntsevskaya” - on the third one.

You will immediately find yourself on the right platforms.

If you follow the official path, you will have to climb several stairs and spend a lot of extra time. Even though in this case you will pass under a prohibitory sign, you will not disturb anyone - there are very few people coming from the platform.

5. Theater -> Revolution Square.

Official way of crossing: stairs up in the center of the station.

We go up an escalator and immediately go down another one and find ourselves at another station.
The alternative method is much faster and more comfortable (the official method involves traveling through a long tunnel).

6. Revolution Square -> Teatralnaya.

Official way of crossing: stairs up in the center of the station.

An alternative way: an escalator at the end with a sign “Exit to the city at Revolution Square.”

We go up an escalator and immediately go down another.

Surely there are more convenient ways to transfer at other stations. If you know about them, write in the comments.

upd.: Lifehacks from readers:

hige_san : The same story on Paveletskaya from the ring to the radial. The official transition is in the center of the hall, go down and stomp along the tunnel for a long time. Unofficially, go up and down the escalator at the end. On the contrary - a similar way, the main thing is not to confuse the ends. You don’t need to cross through the exit to Paveletsky Station.

On each platform you can see well-trodden light paths. The carriage doors stop right in front of them. The life hack loses its value at Pushkinskaya, where the stopping places of the carriage doors are already marked with markings on the floor.

Which car to sit in

On the Koltsevaya it is almost always freer in the first and last cars. On radial lines you need to choose the second cars: those who want to be the first at the escalator to exit are packed into the first and last ones.

How to ride beyond the end

After the train stops at the final metro station, the attendants must “run through” the train and check whether there are any passengers left in it. During rush hours, only 30 seconds are allocated for the check, so employees are usually in a hurry. At the moment when the carriage has already been inspected, but the doors have not yet closed, you can jump into the train and take a “turnaround” ride - get to a dead end, change direction and return to the station again.

Why not lean against doors?

Because it really is unsafe! There are malfunctions in which the doors begin to open and close by themselves, without the participation of the driver. This is rare, but it doesn’t hurt to be on the safe side: with such a breakdown while moving, you can easily fall out of the carriage.

How to reduce transitions

At some stations, experienced passengers use passages completely different from those indicated by the sign. Because there are faster and shorter ways. So, from Teatralnaya to Okhotny Ryad you can go through an escalator marked “Exit to the city to Okhotny Ryad”. The opposite escalator on Teatralnaya helps in the same way to shorten the path to Revolution Square. The transition from the Paveletskaya ring to the radial can be shortened using an escalator at the end of the hall. It leads to a circular lobby, where ten steps away is the second escalator. You can also go from Turgenevskaya to Chistye Prudy via an escalator indicating “Exit to the city.” When moving from Turgenevskaya, after the escalator you need to go left, from Chistye Prudy - to the right and take the escalator down.

What are the voices saying?

Metro stops are announced by female and male voices. This is done specifically for blind passengers: a male announcer makes announcements when the train moves towards the center, a female announcer makes announcements from the center. On the Ring, the female voice is turned on when moving counterclockwise (women just want to speak out against it), the male voice is turned on clockwise.

How to “read” an escalator

The age-old question: Why do escalator handrails move faster or slower than the steps? The handrails are driven by a drive unit, which wears out due to friction. Therefore, initially the diameter of the blocks is made 2% larger than required, which is why the handrails “run” faster. That is, if the hand moves forward of the steps, the escalator is new. If backwards, the escalator is old and needs to replace the drive unit.

Reva Square - Teatralnaya, 3. Teatralnaya - Okhotny Ryad, 4. Chistye Prudy - Turgenevskaya. Even from BIL to Aleksandrovsky Sad, I do not walk through the passage in the middle of the station, but through the end towards the traffic. For hooligans, you can go from Tretyakovskaya to Novokuznetskaya if you came from the south of KRL, not through the passage, but along one of the switched off escalators at the end of the station.

One of the first projects, drawn up in 1931, provided that between the Dzerzhinsky Square and Okhotny Ryad stations there would be a Sverdlov Square station. Hermetic seals are installed at the ends of the station hall, as well as in the passages.

The northern lobby of Teatralnaya is shared with Okhotny Ryad station. This lobby was built according to the design of D.N. Chechulin and built into the old house. From this lobby there is a passage leading to the Teatralnaya escalator.

Wall sconces illuminate the transition. At the end, the tunnel is divided into two passages, between which there is a lattice with floral patterns. The passage from Revolution Square connects this station with the end of Teatralnaya, its architect is N. N. Andrikanis. It was opened on May 9, 1946, and its design is dedicated to the theme of Victory. In the bas-reliefs above the crossing arches there are images of banners and weapons. At the end of the passage from Okhotny Ryad there used to be a bust of Ya. M. Sverdlov by sculptor A. P. Shlykov, but now only a pedestal remains of it.

Travel time along the underground passage from Teatralnaya to Okhotny Ryad will be approximately 2.5 to 3 minutes. Another transfer method, not indicated on the signs, is through the ground concourse. The journey through the underground passage to the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station takes just over 3 minutes. Another way to transfer is to go up and down the escalator (exit to Revolution Square). In this case, the transition time is approximately 4.5 minutes.

On the bridge, upon arrival of the train, the crowd immediately begins, since the crossing is narrow, and this is the only official way of crossing. Few people know about the transition at the end, and it is easier and faster to transition there. I looked at the diagrams in the pMetro program, there is also a transition through the exit to the city between the Kursk nuclear submarines and the KL. But I’m not sure that the path there is faster, as in the case of an emergency - Turgenevskaya. I wrote by the color of the columns. So there is a passage in the center of both stations, along which a darkness of people rushes from White to Red.

Kursk nuclear submarine - Kursk ring road, but the crossing there takes longer, but you don’t have to push around in a narrow passage with stairs. If we talk about crossing the street, then during rush hours1. From Borovitskaya to Aleksandrovsky Garden it is faster to walk past the Library than to push through two crossings through BIL or Arbatskaya.2.

Revolution Square – Teatralnaya – Okhotny Ryad

Well, from Polyanka, of course, walking to Tretyakovskaya is a hundred times faster than going there through the center with a transfer first at Chekhovskaya. It is also more convenient than through the middle of the station. Ahead of me, I also wanted to write about this transition.

In 1931, a decision was made to build the Moscow Metro. The master plan for the reconstruction of Moscow in 1935 already provided that the Sverdlov Square station would open as part of the Gorky radius of the 2nd stage of the Moscow metro.

The design of the pylons on the side of the apron halls is the same as in the central hall. Alternating protrusions and depressions are formed on the marble track walls, corresponding to the pitch of the pylons. The liquid porcelain mass was poured into a plaster mold removed from the bas-relief and left until it hardened. The station is designed in white tones. This design helps reduce the feeling of the subway. The pylons are lined with Koelga marble of a warm shade.

Crystal bowl lamps in bronze frames are suspended from the vaults. The southern lobby of Teatralnaya is shared with the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station; its architect is A. N. Dushkin. Initially, it was assumed that this lobby would be built into the building of the Academic Cinema in the future. Therefore, the architect was faced with the task of making a lobby such that it could be built into a large building and so that it could exist independently.

Maybe somewhere the topic of alternative transitions from station to station was discussed. They are part of the same interchange complex (there is no direct transfer from Okhotny Ryad to Revolution Square and back). It is a fairly busy stopover in the Moscow metro. If from points 1 - 3 I can understand: official crossings are much longer and more inconvenient, then why the rest?

On May 15, 1935, the first line opened from the station Sokolniki to the station "Park of Culture", with a branch to "Smolenskaya".

During this time, the main transport system, the daily passenger flow of which approaches 10 million, and the annual passenger flow approaches 2.5 billion, has managed to acquire not only more than a dozen lines, but also a huge number of secrets, mysteries, myths and legends. The last three “entities” will still be left to the guides and tour guides, who will tell naive tourists about the huge monsters that live in metro tunnels, ghost stations, the mythical Metro-2 for the government and the president, and much, much more.

We want to tell AiF.ru readers about the secrets of the Moscow metro, which are not mythical, but more practical. This knowledge can not only be applied in practice, but it can actually make the daily life of Muscovites and guests of the capital easier and more enjoyable.

Where will the carriage doors stop?

One of the most obvious “secrets” for those who travel by metro every day is also one of the main secrets of the universe for those who go underground from time to time - as needed. At some point, the metro management even decided to accommodate passengers by placing signs on the floor of some stations where the doors will arrive. But this idea was not developed and most stations were left without their labels.

In fact, it is very easy to determine exactly where on the platform you should wait for the car doors in order to get inside as quickly and comfortably as possible. You just need to take a closer look at the floor at the edge of the platform. Despite the fact that the metro service constantly cleans its premises perfectly, some part of the edge of the platform will be a little dirtier, and some places will be not just clean, but wiped almost to a shine. They were made like this by the feet of passengers leaving the carriage and entering it. It is in the places of these abrasions that the doors of the carriage will stop.

At the edge of the platform. Taganskaya station Photo: www.russianlook.com

How to save on travel?

But there is a way to reduce the price of one trip to 30 rubles. Considering that when purchasing a card it costs 50 rubles, the benefit is not so small. You just need to buy yourself a card called “Troika”. Or rather, not even buy it, but take it for your own use. You just need to pay 80 rubles at the cash register. For this money you can get a card with 30 rubles in your account, which is enough for one trip. You can then return the card to the metro ticket office at any time and receive a 50 ruble deposit back. The secret is that you can put any amount of money on this card, even 30 rubles, even 3000 rubles. But in any case, the cost of the trip when using it will be 30 rubles. Now, instead of buying a one-time card at the cash desk, you can simply put 30 rubles on a Troika card, saving 20 rubles each time.

Troika card. Photo: RIA Novosti / Mikhail Voskresensky

How to get to the escalator faster?

The essence of the next secret of the metro would be difficult to rationally explain. And its application in practice, as, in principle, the description in this article, can cause negativity on the part of metro users. But, you must admit, sometimes a situation arises when it is necessary to squeeze through to the escalator as quickly as possible, but it is almost impossible to do this through the flow of people.

We, of course, will not tell you how to teleport onto an escalator, or how to soar into the air above the crowd, flying to the coveted self-propelled steps, but we will at least advise you on how you can get to the beginning of the escalator as quickly as possible.

The secret is to stay to the left of the escalator queue. For some reason, she is moving noticeably faster than the right side of the line. Although, it would seem that those who walk from the right stand directly in the right row on the step and, at best, every other time they let in the “leftists” who are trying to enter the escalator “without the queue”. But it just so happens that the rebellious left is moving faster than the ethical right.

Escalator in the metro Photo: www.russianlook.com

How to board an empty train?

The next secret is generally the dream of any person who moves around Moscow using the metro. It turns out that even at rush hour, at some stations, not the final ones, there is a real opportunity to board an... empty train. For many, this comes as a real surprise. However, if you look closely, at such stations you can notice a certain number of cunning people who deliberately let full trains pass, waiting for the arrival of an empty train - they know that it will arrive soon.

And they know this for sure for one reason - trains arrive at this station either from the depot or from a return dead-end, which serves to send the train in the opposite direction if, according to the schedule, it does not go to the final station, which often happens.

Everything is clear about the depot - it is located in front of such stations as "Kashirskaya", "Sokol", "Chertanovskaya", "Vladykino", "Partizanskaya", "Novye Cheryomushki", "Krasnopresnenskaya" and "Belorusskaya" ring stations, "Pechatniki" . It’s more difficult with reversible dead ends - on the metro map, at least accessible to ordinary citizens, they are not marked, so you have to guess where there are and where they are not. The most famous reversible dead end is the branch of the metro line near the station "Prazhskaya". It is here that during peak hours you can see whole crowds of passengers passing trains in the hope of an empty train. With stations "Chkalovskaya" and "Kurskaya", by the way, a similar story.

An empty carriage at the Belorusskaya metro station Photo: www.russianlook.com

Which carriage is safer?

Our next secret is for inveterate paranoids who, apparently, have watched all the films from the “Final Destination” series and now cannot sleep, otherwise they dream of a disaster in the subway. Such people simply dream of knowing where the safest car in the metro is located.

So, it is believed that the safest car in the subway is the penultimate car in the direction of the train. The fact is that when a train collides with the train in front, or with a wall, which is what overly restless passengers most often fear, the further you are from the lead car, the less will be the inertial force with which you will hit the passenger in front, or the a wall, or against a door... But such passengers are also not recommended to sit in the last carriage, because theoretically a train coming from behind could enter it. Therefore, it will be safest to be in the penultimate carriage.

We, of course, understand that the situations described above are excluded, but to completely calm your subconscious, if it still plays pranks, we recommend choosing the second car from the end.

How to move from station to station faster and more pleasantly?

The following secrets are the most interesting. It turns out that in addition to the official crossings, indicated by arrows and all kinds of signs, in the Moscow metro at many stations there are “secret” crossings into which people are not directed for fear of a crush. But experienced metro passengers know about them and often use them either for speed of movement or for convenience.

The most popular such place is the station "Theatrical" To get from it either to "Okhotny Ryad", or on "Revolution Square" Officially, you need to use the stairs in the center of the hall, leading into long corridors to the required station. But you can simply use the escalators at both ends of the station. One of them will lead to a common pavilion with Revolution Square, from where you can go down the same escalator to the corresponding station, the second to Okhotny Ryad - the same way. If this can gain time, it won't be much. But this path will definitely save you from walking and dragging up stairs.

The lobby of the Ploshchad Sverdlova (now Teatralnaya) station. On the left is the transition to the Prospekt Marksa station (now Okhotny Ryad). 1979 Photo: RIA Novosti / Boris Babanov The same applies to two "Paveletsky" stations, ring and radial. This secret, by the way, will be especially relevant for them, because many in the area of ​​Paveletsky Station go down to the metro with heavy suitcases, bags, and boxes. In this case, of course, it would be more pleasant to use the escalator.

The same, if you believe the comments of Moscow metro passengers, also applies to two "Kursk" stations. You can also often see people there with suitcases, so it would be easier for them to go up and down the escalator.

Another station with a similar transition system and a hidden passage at the end of the station through a common pavilion - between stations "Turgenevskaya" And "Chistye Prudy". In this case, by the way, it turns out to go not much faster than along the official path.

Interesting transition between stations "Krasnogvardeyskaya" and "Zyablikovo"" It is much faster to leave one station and enter another across the street than to use the official crossing. But this option is suitable only for those who use a travel card, or a social card, or travel with the card for 90 minutes, so that they do not have to pay extra for entry.

Passengers at the Zyablikovo metro station Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexey Kudenko An interesting option with transitions concerns "Tretyakovsky" and "Novokuznetskaya" stations. Many people find the long and ornate transition from the Tretyakovskaya station of the Orange Line to Novokuznetskaya inconvenient. Everything became easier after the opening of the Tretyakovskaya station on the yellow line. Now you can simply and conveniently move first from the “old” Tretyakovskaya to the “new” one, and then from there along a short escalator almost to the very center of the platform at Novokuznetskaya.

Cross-platform stations

The latest “life hack” concerns cross-platform stations - those where trains arrive on one platform from two different lines. On them, in order to get to another branch, you often just need to overcome two branches and a short, very short passage over the tracks. But you can also cheat. If you go one station further than the one you need, and then change to an oncoming train, then you arrive on the other side of such a cross-platform station. This applies to stations such as "Tretyakovskaya", "China-Gorod" and "Kashirskaya".

This will not make life easier for an ordinary passenger, but when you don’t want to go up the stairs with baby strollers, and even more so when you are a wheelchair user, this secret can come in very handy.