Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-2
Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-2 ( Russian Площадь Александра Невского-2 ) is a metro station in Saint Petersburg ( Russia ) on Line 4 ("Pravobereschnaja-Linie") of the Saint Petersburg Metro . The underground station was put into operation on December 30, 1985 as part of the first construction phase of line 4.
general description
From the beginning, the station served as a transfer station to the subway station of the same name on the third line, which opened in 1967 . Since the 1990s, the station on line 4 has been officially referred to as Ploschtschad Alexandra Newskowo-2 on route maps and signs , in contrast to the subway station on line 3, which was built 18 years earlier, which is accordingly called Ploschtschad Alexandra Newskowo-1 . In the case of automatic station announcements in the metro trains, however, both metro stations are simply called Ploshchad Alexandra Newskowo . The latter stands for " Alexander-Newski-Platz " and indicates the location of the subway station under the square of the same name at the eastern end of the central Petersburg boulevard Nevsky Prospect .
The underground station on line 4 is laid out at a depth of 60 meters below the surface of the earth, which is a few meters deeper than Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-1 . In addition to the transition to line 3, it has a separate entrance with a ground floor counter hall, which is built into a five-storey administration building on the south side of Nevsky Prospect. From this entrance, the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, which gives the square its name, can be reached in two to three minutes on foot. Three escalators connect the counter hall with an intermediate level, from which a short flight of stairs leads to the right to the platform at its western end. The escalators at the other end of the platform lead to the transition tunnel to line 3.
In normal operation, the access vestibule of Ploschtschad Alexandra Newskowo-2 is only open on weekdays from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., while at other times, due to the relatively low number of passengers, the vestibule of line 3 has to be used. Since the latter has been closed since 2010 and probably until spring 2011 due to a complete renovation, the vestibule of line 4 is currently open until the end of operations after midnight, even on weekends.
Entrance building of the underground station
Wall above one of the tracks with the station name lettering
One train before departure
architecture
Similar to the station on line 3, the work of the national hero Alexander Nevsky , after whom the square is named, was the thematic focus in the design of Ploschtschad Alexandra Newskowo-2 ; The fact that the subway station, in contrast to Ploschtschad Alexandra Nevskovo-1, was built without platform screen doors , increased the scope for design compared to this. For example, the composition of a wall mosaic in the entrance vestibule has the battle on Lake Peipus as its theme (with the victory in this battle, Alexander Nevsky, as prince of Novgorod, fended off an attack by the knights of the Teutonic Order ). In the platform hall, which is designed as a central platform under a vault supported in two arcade-like rows of white marble columns, the walls above the two track beds are particularly conspicuous: Their cladding made of semicircular, fish-scale aluminum sheets is reminiscent of chain armor in Russian Middle Ages, like them must also have been used many times in the battle on Lake Peipus. As a further dedication to the prince, a statue of Alexander Nevsky was planned on the intermediate level to the exit. This project, last planned in the 1990s by the later deceased sculptor Michail Anikuschin , was not realized, however, and the wall niche set up for this sculpture is therefore still empty today.
See also
Individual evidence
Web links
- Description with photo gallery on metro.vpeterburge.ru (Russian)
- Photos of the station (Russian) ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 25.1 ″ N , 30 ° 23 ′ 0 ″ E