Technologichesky Institute
Technologichesky Institute ( Russian Технологический институт ) is a metro station of the Saint Petersburg Metro , which is located in the southern city center of Saint Petersburg ( Russia ).
The underground station is a transfer hub between lines 1 and 2 . In contrast to other nodes of the Petersburg metro system, it is not two separate underground stations, but a single train station with two separate platforms and a shared entrance vestibule. The two platforms are served by trains from both lines, which enables rapid transfers when crossing between two lines without changing the direction of travel. The platform, usually called Technologichesky Institute-1 on the route plans, was put into operation on November 15, 1955 as part of the first construction phase of the Leningrad subway, the other platform, known accordingly as Technological Institute-2 , went into operation on April 11, 1961 in advance of the Line 2 opened.
Location and description
The name Technologitscheski Institut means "Technological Institute" and is due to the location of the underground station in the immediate vicinity of the campus of the State Technological Institute , a traditional technical university. The entire station, including its four tracks and two platforms, is about 60 meters below the surface, the access vestibule is located on the Moskovsky Prospect artery (Russian: Московский проспект ) at its intersection with Sagorodny Prospect ( Загородный проспект ), roughly in the middle between the Fontanka River and the Obvodny Canal . There are stops for inner-city bus, trolleybus and tram lines at the entrance vestibule .
The common vestibule is built into the three-storey administration building of the Saint Petersburg Metro on the east side of Moskovsky Prospect. Both the building and the ticket hall inside date from 1955. After passing the ticket barriers , you come to two escalator shafts , one of which leads to platform 1 and the second to platform 2. Passengers who want to change between the two platforms can do so via a separate transition tunnel, which can be reached via stairs in the middle of the two platforms that are parallel and at the same depth.
From the start-up of Technologitscheski Institut-1 on November 15, 1955 to the construction of Technologitscheski Institut-2 , trains on Line 1 stopped at the only first platform at the time. Since the second platform and the tracks leading to it were put into operation on April 11, 1961, trains on line 1 going south continue to stop at the first platform, while trains on the same line going north have stopped at the second. On April 29, 1961, the first section of line 2, which ended at the Technologitscheski Institut station at the time, was put into operation. Since then, trains stop line 2 towards South on the first platform and features the same line towards the north on the second, each opposite direction same train line 1. This constellation was at the underground station Tekhnologichesky Institut for the first time in the former Soviet Union a subway station with a Transition possibilities on the same platform between two lines created (comparable transfer nodes in the Moscow Metro such as Kitai-Gorod and Tretyakovskaya were only built in the 1970s and 1980s).
Passengers who also change direction when changing between the two lines use the transition tunnel between the platforms. Until the escalators from the second platform to the common ticket hall were put into operation in 1980, this transition tunnel also served as access to the second platform, because until then it could only be reached from the street using the escalators on the first platform.
architecture
Since the station's two platform halls were built at different times, they differ both in the type of construction and in the richness of the decor. The platform, built in 1955, is one of the seven subway stations of the first construction phase, where the influences of the splendid, “Stalinist” post-war architecture, such as was also practiced in the Moscow Metro of that time, are visible. The central platform is closed by a vault supported by two arcade-like rows of columns; the color scheme is dominated by the white marble of the arcades and the platform walls and the light gray granite of the floor. As an additional decorative element, a total of 24 bronze bas-relief medallions were attached directly above the pillars , alternating with plant ornaments and - based on the proximity of the train station to the Technological Institute, an important precise scientific cadre forge - portraits of prominent Russian scholars (including the botanist Mitschurin and the medical doctor Bechterew , the bacteriologist and Nobel laureate Metschnikow , the physiologist and Nobel laureate Pavlov , the space pioneer Tsiolkovsky , the chemist Mendeleev and the polymath Lomonosov ). From the intermediate hall in the middle of the platform, stairs lead to the transition tunnel to the second platform. This hall used to be decorated with medallions depicting Marx , Engels , Lenin and Stalin , but when the transition was built in the early 1960s, only the medallions of Marx and Lenin remained.
In the design of the second platform hall, opened in 1961, the influence of the restrained, “economical” style of the 1960s can be seen. The white and gray of the first hall have been retained for the color design, the vault manages without additional decorative elements and is supported by two rows of simple rectangular pylons . The lettering visible in the upper area of the pylons mark important milestones in Soviet science and research, starting with the extensive electrification of the country initiated at Lenin's behest in 1920 through to the development of the Ilyushin Il-86 wide-body passenger aircraft in 1979.
See also
literature
- ADErofeev, DSRatnikov: Peterburgskij metropoliten . Astrel-SPb, Saint Petersburg 2010, ISBN 978-5-17-070750-8
Web links
- Description on metro.vpeterburge.ru (Russian)
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Pushkinskaya ← Devyatkino |
line 1 |
Baltiyskaya prospectus Weteranow → |
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Sennaya Ploshchad ← Parnas |
Line 2 |
Frunzenskaya Kuptschino → |
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Coordinates: 59 ° 54 ′ 59.5 ″ N , 30 ° 19 ′ 6.5 ″ E