The Zamoskvoretskaya Line is the second officially numbered line of the Moscow Metro. What interesting things are hidden on the “green line”:
"Falcon"
One of two stations (the second is Pechatniki), through which new cars enter the metro. Near the station there is a connecting branch (the so-called gate) between the metro tracks and the Riga railway. Along this line, a diesel locomotive delivers cars from the Metrovagonmash plant, located in Mytishchi, near Moscow, to the “entrance” of the metro. In connection with the construction of the Alabyano-Baltic tunnel, the gate near the Sokol station was temporarily closed.
"Dynamo"
In 1940, a physics laboratory operated at the station at night. Cosmic radiation, which created interference in ground-based laboratories, did not penetrate to the 40-meter depth of the station. Thanks to experiments carried out by physicists G.N. Flerov and K.A. Petrzhak, the spontaneous fission of uranium nuclei was discovered.
"Paveletskaya" (Zamoskvoretskaya line)
The longest passage (length about 150 m) between Moscow metro stations connects Paveletskaya stations of the Zamoskvoretskaya and Circle lines
"Technopark"
The Technopark station was opened in 2015 on the existing section between the Avtozavodskaya and Kolomenskaya stations. Before this, trains ran here non-stop for 46 years. This is a record for the Moscow metro.
Also, much later than their “neighbors” on the line, the Tverskaya (41 years later), Spartak (39 years later) and Shabolovskaya (18 years later) stations opened.
"Kashirskaya" (Zamoskvoretskaya line)
Passengers at the Kashirskaya station, looking at the architectural design of the station, have the opportunity to immediately compare it with the appearance of the Mayakovskaya station. The fact is that on the track wall the decorative metal panel is decorated with a symbolic view of the city, with its above-ground and underground components:
And in the metro station shown on the panel, it is easy to recognize the Mayakovskaya station located on the same Zamoskvoretskaya line. It is difficult to confuse this characteristic corrugated structure of the columns and the shape of the ceiling niches with anything else.
This is a kind of greeting from “Mayakovskaya” from “Kashirskaya”.
"Tsaritsyno"
At the Moscow metro station "Tsaritsyno" the letters "I", "N" and "O" on the track wall stand out from the rest with their yellowish color. And here's why.
Until 1990, the station was called “Lenino” after the then name of the residential area. After the station was renamed “Tsaritsyno”, for the sake of economy, three letters from the old name were used: “I”, “N” and O. The letters “C”, “A”, “P” and “Y” had to be made new. Due to the change of name, the station, by the way, has the greatest contradictions between its royal name and revolutionary design:
"Alma-Ata"
Almaty is the furthest (and only non-European) city mentioned in the names of Moscow metro stations. Moscow and Alma-Ata are separated by more than three thousand km.
The next part of our series will talk about the Arbatsko-Pokrovsky line of the Moscow metro.
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The Zamoskvoretskaya line of the Moscow metro is highlighted in green on the map and marked with the number 2. The line consists of 22 stations, length is 39.9 km, travel time from end to end is 55.5 minutes.
The green metro line connects the center of Moscow with such areas in the southeast of the city as Kolomenskoye, Tsaritsyno, Orekhovo-Borisovo, Brateevo, as well as areas adjacent to the Leningradskoye Highway.
Almost along its entire length the line runs underground. The ground sections include the Technopark station, as well as the section on the Nagatinsky Bridge.
The first section of the Zamoskovretskaya metro line was put into operation in 1938. Trains ran from the Sokol station to the current Teatralnaya station (before the renaming - Sverdlov Square). The construction of the second stage of the branch began before the Great Patriotic War, and construction work stopped only in the period from the autumn of 1941 to the spring of 1942.
Over the years of the Zamoskvoretskaya line's existence, various accidents occurred quite often on it. In 1987, the tail section of one of the trains caught fire. Passengers were not injured then, only the duty officer at the Paveletskaya station, where passengers were evacuated, was admitted to the hospital with smoke inhalation. This incident accelerated the development of an automatic fire extinguishing system for carriages.
In 2003, on the stretch "Novokuznetskaya" - "Teatralnaya" the train's wheelset broke.
The tragedy that claimed human lives on this line occurred on February 6, 2004, when in the morning, on a train traveling along the stretch between Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya, a suicide bomber detonated a device with a capacity of 4 kg of TNT. The explosion killed 41 people and injured about 300 people. Currently, at the Avtozavodskaya station you can see a memorial plaque with the names of the victims.
Problems with floaters arose on the line twice: in 2001 and 2003, and in 2006, the tunnel on the Voinovskaya - Sokol section was destroyed.
The oldest named train of the Moscow Metro, which appeared in 1988, runs on the Zamoskvoretskaya line. The composition is called "People's Militia". In 2006, the interiors of the train cars were decorated with photographs and historical posters telling about the militias who fought during the Second World War.
Soon the line will be extended from the River Station to two stations: Belomorskaya Street and Khovrino. In addition, there are plans to extend the line to Khimki.
Stations of the Zamoskvoretskaya Line
- River Station
- Water stadium
- Voikovskaya
- Falcon
- Airport
- Dynamo
- Belarusian
- Mayakovskaya
- Tverskaya
- Teatralnaya
- Novokuznetskaya
- Paveletskaya
- Avtozavodskaya
- Technopark
- Kolomenskaya
- Kashirskaya
- Kantemirovskaya
- Tsaritsyno
- Orekhovo
- Domodedovo
- Krasnogvardeyskaya
- Alma-Ata
The Rechnoy Vokzal station is located in the Northern Administrative District of Moscow, on the territory of the Leboverezhny District. Column three-span shallow station located at a depth of 6 meters.
The station opened on December 31, 1964, and was named after the Northern River Station, which is located nearby. The construction of this station coincided with the effect of the 1955 decree “On the elimination of excesses in design and construction.” The result of the resolution was the emergence of standard projects that were not particularly aesthetically pleasing, but were very budget-friendly. "Rechnoy Vokzal" is not the only standard station on the Zamoskvoretskaya line. They are all very similar to each other, and, despite the fact that the same noble marble and granite were used for decoration, the stations look rather boring - a platform with tetrahedral columns on both sides - that’s all the decor.
The Vodny Stadion station is located on the territory of the Golovinsky and Voykovsky districts of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow. The depth of the station is 6 meters. Type: shallow three-span column.
The Voykovskaya station is located on the territory of the Northern Administrative Okrug, in the Voykovsky district. Laying depth - 7 meters. Type: shallow three-span column.
The Sokol station is located in the Sokol and Airport districts in the Northern Administrative District of Moscow. The depth of the station is 10 meters. Type: shallow two-span column.
The Sokol station received its name from one of the historical landmarks of Moscow. The station was built according to an individual project and opened on September 11, 1938.
The design of this station is not similar to other Moscow metro stations. In the center of the hall there are columns, which diverge in opposite directions in symmetrical hemispheres, and also form arches among themselves. For finishing, materials such as onyx, gray and pink granite, and marble mosaic were used. The track walls are decorated with four white marble panels.
Airport station is located in the Northern Administrative District of Moscow. One exit from the station leads to the territory of the Airport district, and the second - to the territory of the Khoroshevsky district. Type: single-vaulted shallow (depth - 10 meters).
The station opened on September 11, 1938, and was named after the former Central Moscow Airfield, which was located on Khodynskoye Field. The appearance of the station also evokes associations with aviation. "Airport" is the first single-vaulted station of the Moscow Metro, which was built using open-pit construction. The vault of the hall is decorated with relief stripes that look like parachute lines. When decorating the station, marble-like limestone, marble of different colors, and diabase were used.
The Dynamo station is located under Leningradsky Prospekt. It is located in the Northern Administrative District of Moscow, in the Airport district. The depth of the station is 40 meters. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon.
The Dynamo station was opened on September 11, 1938, and received its name from the Dynamo stadium located nearby. The station's decor matches its name, and the creators chose Soviet sports as its theme.
The hall has marble benches with wooden seats. The walls of the pylons above the benches are decorated with a carpet pattern of onyx and marble. The upper horizontal stripe is made of onyx and illuminated from the inside. The Dynamo station was built in a closed manner, and facing slabs for decorating the pylons were lowered into the shaft only after the architect approved samples carefully selected in shade and pattern.
Granite slabs are laid on the floor; in the central hall these slabs are pink and gray. The walls of the station are decorated with 60 porcelain medallions. 21 medallions depict allegories of 21 sports in which competitions were held at the Spartakiads of the peoples of the USSR. Before the installation of hermetic seals, there were 24 such medallions. For some bas-reliefs, images of real athletes were used, for example, speed skating is represented by athlete Maria Isakova, and football by Grigory Fedotov.
In 1940, observations of the decay of uranium were carried out at the Dynamo station, since the greater depth made it possible to exclude the impact of cosmic radiation on the process. The experiments were carried out by physicists G.N. Flerov and K.A. Pietrzak. As a result, scientists discovered the spontaneous fission of uranium nuclei.
The Belorusskaya station is located in the Tersky district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The station was built under Tverskaya Zastava Square. The depth of the station is 34 meters. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon.
The station was opened on September 11, 1938, and was named after the Belorussky railway station. The only exit from the station is built into the station building. From the Belorusskaya station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line you can go to the station of the same name on the Circle Line.
During the Second World War, the Central Command Post was located in the fenced-off section of Belorusskaya. At night the station was used as a bomb shelter.
Three types of marble and different shades were used to decorate the hall. The pylons on the side of the central hall are lined with pink marble. The pylons have semicircular niches in which bronze floor lamps are installed. The upper part of the pylons and the vault of the central hall are decorated with stucco. Originally there was a patterned marble mosaic on the floor, but now the floor is paved with slabs of black granite and black diabase. At the southern end of the central hall there is a granite bust of V.I. Lenin.
The Mayakovskaya station is located in the Tver district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The depth of the station is 34 meters. Type: three-vaulted deep column.
The station was opened on September 11, 1938. "Mayakovskaya" was built according to the design of the architect Alexei Dushkin, although it was originally designed by the architects S.M. Kravets and engineer N.I. Ushakov. It was assumed that the design would be in the Renaissance style, but then the project was redone in a manner close to the decorative Art Deco style. In 1939, Dushkin's project received the Grand Prix at the World Exhibition in New York, and indeed, this is one of the most beautiful stations of the Moscow metro. "Mayakovskaya" has the status of a valuable cultural heritage site of regional significance. During construction, the station was called "Triumphal Square". However, the square was renamed in honor of Vladimir Mayakovsky, and after this the name of the station also changed.
In the 1950s, hermetic gates appeared on Mayakovskaya, and a bust of Mayakovsky was installed. From the mid-2000s to 2010, reconstruction was carried out at the station. After the renovation, a second exit appeared here, new escalators, in addition, many decorative elements were replaced with new ones.
Despite the fact that the width of the platform at Mayakovskaya is smaller than at other deep stations, it looks very spacious and light. If earlier columns were most often decorated with marble, then in this case both arches and columns are decorated with corrugated stainless steel. The corners of the columns to the height of a man were lined with Ural rhodonite, but now almost all rhodonite has been replaced with a cheap analogue. Along the edge of the steel trim of the arches are stripes of dark gray marble-like limestone. Between the columns in the central hall on the ceiling there are 34 oval niches with 16 sconces and ventilation grilles that look very decorative. In the center of the niches are mosaic panels made of smalt, made according to sketches by the famous artist Alexander Deineka. At first there were 35 such panels, but after hermetic seals were installed at the station, one mosaic was lost. In a hurry, these decorative elements may not be noticed - to look at the panel, you need to stand under the dome and tilt your head up.
Even the way stations at Mayakovskaya deserve attention. The upper part of the walls is decorated with blue-white marble, and the lower part with black-olive marble-like limestone. The plinths of the track walls are finished with gray-green diorite, and a stainless steel cornice runs along the very top.
The floor is laid with a geometric pattern of yellow, red and olive marble, and gray granite is laid along the edges of the platforms. The platform is illuminated by pendant lamps.
Tverskaya station is located in the Tverskoy district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The depth of the station is 42 meters. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon.
The station was opened on July 20, 1979, and was originally called "Gorkovskaya". The station has transfers at the Pushkinskaya station of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line and the Chekhovskaya station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line. The transition to Pushkinskaya is located in the center of the hall. The transition to Chekhovskaya is located at the southern end of the hall.
In the transition between Tverskaya and Chekhovskaya there is a monument to Gorky by V.M. Klykova.
The combined lobby of Tverskaya and Pushkinskaya is located under Pushkinskaya Square. Two spacious halls are connected by passages. From the ticket hall you can get to the Tverskoy Passage underground shopping complex.
The Teatralnaya station is located in the Tverskoy district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The depth of the station is 35 meters. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon. The station has the status of a newly identified cultural heritage site.
"Teatralnaya" opened on September 11, 1938. The original name was "Sverdlov Square". Today it is a major transfer hub. From Teatralnaya you can go to the Okhotny Ryad station on the Sokolnicheskaya line and Ploshchad Revolyutsii on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. There is no direct transfer between these stations. In addition, the ground lobbies of the Teatralnaya station are combined with the lobbies of Okhotny Ryad and Ploshchad Revolyutsii.
Transitions are located in the center of the hall. Each station can be reached in two ways: through underground passages or through ground vestibules.
The Teatralnaya station project was the last work of the famous architect I.A. Fomina. Although the original name of the station had nothing to do with the theater, the architect decided to make it the antechamber of the theater, which was located in the immediate vicinity.
In the design of the central hall, the architect used elements of the Doric order. The vault rests on marble fluted semi-columns. At the top, between the columns and the cornice, there are bronze slab capitals. Marble benches are installed between the semi-columns along the walls of the pylons. The track walls at the plinth level are finished with green diorite.
The vault of the central hall is decorated with diamond-shaped caissons (recesses). In the lowest row of caissons, sculptural porcelain inserts alternate: human figures about a meter high and fruit wreaths. The figurines depict women and men dancing or playing musical instruments in the national costumes of the republics of the USSR. Today you can see figures of representatives of 7 republics: Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Ukraine. The sculptures were made at the Leningrad Porcelain Factory using new experimental technology. Sketches for the sculptures were created by sculptor N.Ya. Danko. All bas-reliefs are white with light gilding, the vault itself is also white.
The pylons are lined with light marble of a warm shade. The niches are lined with marble of a cooler tone. Both the central and side halls are illuminated by crystal lamps in bronze frames. Above each bench there are sconce lamps with two spherical shades - they were not included in the original project and appeared later. The floor of the central hall also differs from the original one. At first it was lined with black and yellow marble slabs, and now with black, light and dark gray granite.
The Novokuznetskaya station is located in the Zamoskvorechye district, in the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The depth of the station is 37.5 meters. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon.
"Novokuznetskaya" was opened on November 20, 1943. It was initially assumed that the station would be called "Klimentovsky Lane", but in the end it was given the name after Novokuznetskaya Street, located in the area where the station is located.
The station's only lobby was built according to the design of architects V. Gelfreich, I. Rozhin and G. Tosunov. Inside, the lobby area is lined with smoky gray marble; on the walls you can see bas-reliefs and a mosaic painting “Parade of Athletes.”
The station itself was built according to the design of architects I. Taranov and N. Bykov. The station was put into operation during the Second World War, and its design is dedicated to the theme of military and logistical actions. The ceiling and walls of the station are lined with light marble, and marble ornaments of contrasting colors are laid out on the floor. The ceiling frieze is decorated with bas-relief depicting various moments of military operations. On the vaults you can see six mosaic paintings depicting home front workers. The mosaics are illuminated by bronze floor lamps. There is conflicting information about the Novokuznetskaya mosaics; even Wikipedia states that their author is “the artist A.A. Deineka, who died in besieged Leningrad.” In fact, Deineka died in 1969 and was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery. He developed the sketches, and the mosaics themselves were made by mosaic artist V. Frolov, who actually died of hunger in Leningrad in 1942. In 1943, mosaic paintings were taken from Leningrad to Moscow along the “Road of Life”. In 2013, a memorial plaque was unveiled at the Novokuznetskaya station with the inscription: “At this station there are mosaics made in besieged Leningrad in the mosaic workshop of the All-Russian Academy of Arts under the direction of Professor Vladimir Aleksandrovich Frolov.” By the way, initially these mosaics were intended for the Paveletskaya station, but then it was decided to decorate the Novokuznetskaya station with them. They also say that the marble benches used to be in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The benches are more like sofas with high backs and shaped armrests; they were proposed to be installed by the famous architect and artist I.V. Zhovtovsky. In front of each bench, marble “mats” are laid out on the floor, and on top, above the backs, there are metal shields framed by banners. Words of glorification of the defenders of Soviet cities are written on the shields. On the side halls there are similar shields with images of famous Russian commanders: Alexander Nevsky, Dmitry Donskoy, Minin and Pozharsky, Suvorov, Kutuzov.
In 1946, the Novokuznetskaya station project received the Stalin Prize, 1st degree.
From Novokuznetskaya you can go to the Tretyakovskaya station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line.
Paveletskaya station is located in the Central Administrative District of Moscow, in the Zamoskvorechye district. The depth of the station is 40 meters. There is a transition to the station of the same name on the Circle Line. Type: three-vaulted deep column.
The station was opened on November 20, 1943. "Paveletskaya" has the status of an architectural monument, and deserves a more detailed story. Construction began before the war, in 1938. After the outbreak of the Second World War, construction was suspended and continued in 1942. The design project was chosen on a competitive basis, and the winners of the competition were the brothers V.A. and A.A. Vesnina. The architects decided that the design theme of “Paveletskaya” would be Donbass, and in their project it was listed as “Donbass”. It was planned that in its design this station would be similar to Mayakovskaya, i.e. it was designed as a columnar three-vaulted structure. The Vesnins wanted to use mosaic paintings to decorate the station. The mosaic was supposed to be placed directly on the vault, without any niches or recesses, so that people could better see the decor. Sketches of the mosaics were created by the artist A.A. Deineka, their theme was the work of miners and steelworkers of Donbass - these are exactly the mosaics that now decorate the Novokuznetskaya station. They were manufactured by V.A. Frolov, who remained in besieged Leningrad and did not live to see the end of the war.
In 1942, mosaics were delivered from Leningrad to Moscow along the “Road of Life” on Lake Ladoga, but it was not possible to install them - the station itself could not be completed, since the necessary metal structures were in occupied Dnepropetrovsk. To complete the construction, it was decided to change the design and build a double-vaulted station without a central hall with a pylon section in front of the escalator. The design of the station was developed by architects N.S. in just a few days. Knyazev and A.N. Dushkin, and it was decided to use the mosaics for the Novokuznetskaya station, which was built on the same line. If the mosaics were removed from Leningrad, the escalators for this station remained under blockade, and the order for their production was transferred to Moscow factories. Only in the summer, when the escalators were ready, could the final stage of construction begin.
After the end of the war, peaceful life began to improve in the city, and the question arose about finalizing the station in accordance with the original project. Architects S.V. Lyashchenko and E.S. Demchenko developed a project close to the one that was originally chosen.
The vault of the central hall is formed by a series of domes, which are supported on both sides by thin columns. In the center of each dome there is a caisson - a recess in which lamps are installed. The columns and track walls are lined with white marble. At the top, in the place where the columns seem to diverge, forming an arch, there are metal medallions in the form of heraldic shields with the image of a hammer and sickle in the center. The shields are surrounded by laurel wreaths. The floor of the central hall and the lower part of the track walls are lined with gray-pink granite.
In 1953, a northern escalator tunnel was opened at Paveletskaya, leading to a common lobby with the Circle Line station of the same name. In July 1955, another crossing was built to the Paveletskaya station of the Circle Line. It is located closer to the center of the hall. This crossing is the longest in the Moscow metro. The transition corridor is illuminated by lamps installed in arches similar to windows, and between the arches there are inconspicuous steel boxes - these are devices that disinfect the air using UV rays.
The station has two ground-based lobbies facing different sides of Paveletsky Station. After the reconstruction that took place at the station in the 1980s, the southern lobby of Paveletskaya was partially demolished, and part of the facade was built into the Paveletsky station building. You can now get from the metro to the station lobby through the left arch of the built-in facade.
The Avtozavodskaya station is located in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow, in the Danilovsky district. The depth of the station is 11 meters. Type: shallow three-span column. The Avtozavodskaya station is a cultural object of local significance - this status is assigned to the platform hall and the southern vestibule.
"Paveletskaya" was opened on January 1, 1943, and until 1956 bore the name "Plant named after Stalin" after the nearby "Plant named after Stalin" (ZIS, which then became ZIL).
Construction of the station was planned in 1937. At first, the authorities decided to hold a design competition. Since the theme of the “leader” was both very important and, if successful, very prestigious, 54 works were submitted to the competition. Architect A.N. Dushkin presented 11 options to the jury, but in the end they decided to build according to V.M.’s design. Taushkanova. The work of this architect was very unusual. It was proposed to build the supports of the platform hall in the form of “baskets” or “gramophone pipes”, similar to Shukhov’s hyperboloid towers. Only the supports, in the form of towers, had to expand upward and end with support rings with a diameter of 5 meters. Below, in the voids of the supports, it was planned to place spotlights that would provide a sheaf of light upward. The columns were to be decorated with cast inserts, and at the bottom - figured slots.
There would be a very large load on the columns. They were supposed to serve as a support not only for the station structures, but also for the railway tracks running along the surface to the factory warehouses. However, the manufacturer stated that it was very difficult to turn and install columns for such a project, and as a result, the project was rejected. The foundations of the supports were dismantled, and it was decided to implement a simpler version of the architect A.N. Dushkin, who proposed a standard design of two rows of reinforced concrete columns. The project was approved by the famous architect A.V. Shchusev. In 1946, for the development of this project, Dushkin was awarded the Stalin Prize, II degree.
The Avtozavodskaya station turned out to be very “easy”. The height of the central hall is 7 meters. Thin columns of square section, slightly widening at the top, are installed along the hall. Black diabase, warm-colored marble, hematite and granite were used to decorate the station. The track walls are decorated with smalt mosaic paintings “The Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War.” Sketches for the mosaics were created by artists V.F. Borodichenko, B.V. Pokrovsky and F.K. Lekht with the participation of academician of painting E.E. Lansere. The mosaics were made by V.A. Frolov in besieged Leningrad, and then, together with mosaics for other Moscow metro stations, they were transported across Lake Ladoga to the capital.
During the finishing work, the builders faced a number of difficulties. For example, there was a shortage of “oroktoy” marble, which was used to cover the columns, and some of the columns had to first be simply plastered and painted to resemble marble. Later this defect was eliminated. For the lamps, the architects went to Gus-Khrustalny to select suitable glass parts - remember, at that time there was a war, and the choice was not particularly large. From what we managed to find, we assembled conical lamps that did not really fit into the overall style. The chandeliers included in the project were made in 1943, but they have not survived to this day. Now “Avtozavodskaya” is illuminated by ordinary fluorescent lamps, which significantly “simplify” the impression of the design. Instead of emphasizing the relief of the vaults and giving the ceiling an interesting configuration, they, on the contrary, make it flat.
The Technopark station is located in the Danilovsky district of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow.
The Kolomenskaya station is located in the Southern administrative district of Moscow on the border of the Nagatinsky district and the Nagatino-Sadovniki district. Laying depth - 9 meters. Type: shallow three-span column.
"Kolomenskaya" was opened on August 11, 1969, and received its name from the museum-reserve located nearby. The track walls are lined with yellow ceramic tiles. The octagonal columns are finished in gray marble. The floor is paved with granite slabs in a carpet pattern with a red center and gray stripes around the edges. The decor of the Kolomenskaya station is quite modest - these are chased copper inserts “Where the Motherland Begins”, depicting a lion, a mermaid, a firebird and roosters, the work of the sculptor E.M. Ladygina.
The Kashirskaya station is located in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow, in the Moskvorechye-Saburovo and Nagatino-Sadovniki districts. Laying depth - 7 meters. Type: shallow multi-span column.
The station was opened on August 11, 1969, and received its name from the Kashirskoye Highway, laid along the surface.
"Kashirskaya" is a cross-platform interchange hub of the Zamoskvoretskaya and Kakhovskaya metro lines - the first in Moscow. The station consists of two halls, "eastern" and "western".
Trains of the Zamoskvoretskaya line arrive on one track of the "eastern" hall, heading towards the "Rechnoy Vokzal" station. Trains of the Kakhovskaya line arrive on the second track, traveling to the Kakhovskaya station.
From one track in the "western" hall, trains of the Zamoskvoretskaya line depart towards Alma-Ata, and from the second - trains of the Kakhovskaya line to the Kakhovskaya station. The design of the station is unremarkable - it is a standard “centipede” without “decorative excesses”.
The Kantemirovskaya station is located in the Tsaritsyno district of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow. Laying depth - 8 meters. Type: single-vaulted shallow.
The station was opened on December 30, 1984. The design of the station uses military-historical themes. The track walls are lined with brown marble with small ornamental inserts on a military-historical theme. The floor is laid out with black, gray and red granite in the form of an ornament. Lamps and station signs are installed along the axis of the hall.
The Tsaritsyno station is located in the Tsaritsyno district of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow. Laying depth - 8 meters. Type: shallow three-span column.
The station was opened on December 30, 1984. The track walls are decorated with yellow and red marble, and decorated with mosaic panels on the theme of the achievements of Soviet science and technology. The station's columns are lined with white marble. The floor is laid with gray granite. Above the flights of stairs there are panels from Florentine mosaics dedicated to Moscow - silhouettes of factory workshops and pipes, Kremlin towers, Shukhov Tower.
Orekhovo station is located in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow, in the Orekhovo-Borisovo district. Laying depth - 9 meters. Type: shallow three-span column.
The station was opened on December 30, 1984. The columns and track walls of the station are covered with white marble. Along the top of the walls there is a cornice made of dark gray marble. The ceiling above the central hall is located slightly lower than above the platforms. It is dark in color, in the center there are large round caissons, in the center of which large rectangular lamp structures are fixed. In the station lobby you can see cast sculptures on the theme “Nature Conservation”.
The Domodedovskaya station is located in the Southern Administrative District of Moscow, in the Orekhovo-Borisovo Yuzhnoye district. Exits from the station also lead to the Orekhovo-Borisovo Northern area. Laying depth - 9.5 meters. This is a shallow, three-span column station.
The station was opened on September 7, 1985. The design theme of the station is civil aviation. The columns and track walls of "Domodedovo" are lined with gray-striped marble. Also on the track walls there are four large panels depicting flying aircraft. The floor is decorated with a geometric pattern of black and gray granite in the form of ticks of different sizes. Along the columns from the central and side halls, lighting structures are fixed in a row, similar to peculiar “gills”.
The Krasnogvardeyskaya station is located in the Zyablikovo district of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow. Laying depth - 9 meters. Type: single-vaulted shallow.
The station was opened on September 7, 1985. In 2011, a transition bridge was built through which passengers can get to the Zyablikovo station of the Liblinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.
"Krasnogvardeyskaya" became the first station where the name was placed not on the track walls, but in the center of the hall. In addition, it was here that benches were first placed around lamps located in the center of the hall. The design theme of the station is the October Revolution. The red marble walls and bas-reliefs located at the ends of the hall are reminiscent of this. The architect Nikolai Shumakov, who created the project for this station, turned to the Parisian style, which can be seen in the cellular decoration of the vault - it is all covered with rows of deep rectangular caissons with rounded corners.
Station "Alma-Atinskaya" is currently the final station of the southern radius of the Zamoskvoretskaya line. The station is located in the Southern Administrative District, in the Brateevo district. Type: single-vaulted shallow (depth - 10 meters).
"Alma-Ata" was opened on December 24, 2012. The station project was developed by a group of architects from the Metrogiprotrans Institute under the leadership of Nikolai Shumakov. The same team worked on projects for many other new Moscow metro stations. The hall is covered with a gentle elliptical vault. The track walls are lined with gray granite. The floor is decorated with a geometric pattern of dark and gray granite, arranged in a checkerboard pattern. For safety reasons, the edges of the platforms are marked not only with a contrasting granite line, but also with LED strips. The design of the station is very laconic, but memorable. The only decorative elements are fan-shaped structures that act as lamps. According to the architects, they symbolize the Kazakh yurt.
- - - - - :) and proceed to sequential display of all remaining lines. Last time there was, today there will be a second one - Zamoskvoretskaya.
So, Zamoskvoretskaya (formerly Gorkovsko-Zamoskvoretskaya) line. The second line is the Moscow Metro line, the first stations of which were opened in 1938 (Sokol - Teatralnaya section), and the last ones in 1985 (Orekhovo - Krasnogvardeyskaya section). Interesting facts from the history of the line's formation: Tverskaya station was built and opened in 1979 on an existing section without stopping traffic; The Kashirskaya - Kakhovskaya section of the Zamoskvoretskaya line has been transformed into an independent Kakhovskaya line since 1995.
Currently, this is one of the longest and busiest lines of the Moscow metro. The length of the line is 37 km (4th place after the nuclear submarine, STL, KRL), the number of stations is 20. The line has stations of unique designs of the 1930s, deep pylon stations of “Stalinist” architecture, standard “centipedes” and single-vaulted stations more later years (there are no ground or elevated stations).
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1. River station. Opening date - December 31, 1964 (as part of the Sokol - Rechnoy Vokzal section). Type - three-span shallow column (standard design, made of precast reinforced concrete with column spacing of 4 m - classic “centipede”). The columns are decorated with brown marble, the track walls are lined with light blue and white tiles. The station looks like the twin brother of the neighboring station - Vodny Stadion (the finishing pattern is the same, the color shade is slightly different). Exit to the city on Festivalnaya Street.
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2. Water stadium. 12/31/1964. Typical classic "centipede". The columns are decorated with gray marble, the track walls are lined with blue and white tiles. The station looks like the twin brother of the neighboring station - River Station (the finishing pattern is the same, the color shade is slightly different). The floor of the platform is noteworthy: it is lined with granite slabs of irregular shape. Exit to the city to Golovinskoye Highway, Kronstadt Boulevard and Admiral Makarov Street.
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3. Voikovskaya. 12/31/1964. Typical classic "centipede". The columns are decorated with white marble, the track walls are lined with blue and black tiles. Exit to the city to the Leningradskoye Highway, Ganetsky Square, Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyansky Street.
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4. Falcon. Opening date: 09/11/1938 (as part of the second phase of construction of the Moscow Metro). Type of station: two-span columnar (one row of columns), shallow, individual project. Exit to the city on Leningradsky Prospekt.
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9. Tverskaya. Opening date: 07/20/1979. Until November 5, 1990, the station bore the name Gorkovskaya. Type - deep three-vaulted pylon (individual project). The station is unique in that it was built in 1979 on a stretch that had been in operation since 1938 without stopping traffic (this was facilitated by the specific soil conditions at the site where the station was built). Transitions to the Pushkinskaya station of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line and the Chekhovskaya station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line (the so-called “junction of three writers”). Exit to the city on Tverskaya Street, Pushkinskaya Square, Strastnoy and Tverskaya Boulevards.
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10. Theater. 09/11/1938. Until November 5, 1990, the station was called Sverdlov Square. Three-vaulted deep pylon (standard design). Transfer to Okhotny Ryad station and Ploshchad Revolyutsii station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. Exit to the city on the streets Okhotny Ryad, Bolshaya Dmitrovka, Teatralny Proezd, to Manezhnaya Square, Revolution Square, Nikolskaya Street.
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11. Novokuznetskaya. 11/20/1943. The original name was Novo-Kuznetskaya. Three-vaulted deep pylon (standard design). Thanks to its luxurious decoration, in 1946 the station was awarded the Stalin Prize, 1st degree. Transfer to Tretyakovskie station and lines. Exit to the city on Pyatnitskaya Street.
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12. Paveletskaya. 11/20/1943. Type of station - columnar three-vaulted deep (individual project). [very long] Transfer to Paveletskaya station. Exit to the city to the Paveletsky railway station, to Paveletskaya Square, Zatsepa and Dubininskaya streets, to the Garden Ring and to Novokuznetskaya Street.
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13. Avtozavodskaya. 01/01/1943. The former name was the Stalin Plant (until 07/05/1956). Type of station - three-span shallow column (individual project, made of monolithic concrete). Exit to the city on Avtozavodskaya street, Kozhukhovskie streets, Avtozavodsky passage and Masterkova street.
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14. Kolomenskaya. 08/11/1969. Type - three-span shallow column (standard design, made of precast reinforced concrete with column spacing of 4 m - classic “centipede”). The track walls are lined with yellow ceramic tiles; the octagonal columns are lined with gray marble. Exit to the city on Andropov Avenue and Nagatinskaya Street.
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15. Kashirskaya. 08/11/1969. The station was built according to an individual project as a single structure of two standard columned three-bay shallow halls made of precast reinforced concrete (“centipedes”), separated by a thin wall. The station was built as a combined interchange station of the Zamoskvoretsky radius and the Big Circle Line, part of which previously operated as part of the Zamoskvoretskaya Line, and was later separated into the independent Kakhovskaya Line. Exit to the city on Kashirskoye Highway.
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18. Tsaritsyno. 12/30/1984. Until 05.11.1990 the station was called Lenino. Type - shallow three-span column (standard design made of precast reinforced concrete with two rows of 26 columns with a pitch of 6 m). Unlike the earlier "centipedes", this station is decorated more richly: the track walls are lined with red and yellow marble with mosaic inserts, the columns are lined with white marble. Exit to the city on Luganskaya and Kaspiiskaya streets.
