Gostiny Dvor (Metro Saint Petersburg)
Gostiny Dvor ( Russian Гостиный двор ) is an underground metro station in the Russian metropolis of Saint Petersburg . It is located on line 3 of the Saint Petersburg metro and was put into operation simultaneously with the opening of this line, namely on November 3, 1967.
The underground station, which is 56 meters deep, is located directly under Nevsky Prospect , the central shopping street in Saint Petersburg. The station is named after the Gostiny Dwor department store , built in 1785 , in whose building one of the two entrances to the underground station is built. From the Gostiny Dvor metro station, metro passengers have a direct transfer option to the Nevsky Prospekt metro station on the second line , which crosses the third line here.
The eastern entrance vestibule, which opened at the same time as the station, occupies part of the ground floor of the department store building; the entrance and exit doors are in the corner area of the department store directly on the corner of Nevsky Prospect with Sadowaja Street . Inside the vestibule there is a ticket hall with ticket barriers . In the area above the mouth of the escalator shaft , the wall of the hall is adorned with a glass painting created by the artist AL Koroljow to commemorate the bloody suppression of a demonstration in the run-up to the October Revolution that took place on this street corner in 1917 . The continuous escalators lead from here directly to the eastern end of the platform hall of the station. The second entrance to the subway station is also an entrance to the Nevsky Prospect station . This entrance leads through a corridor from the western end of the platform and then by escalator to the ground-level counter hall, which is built into a late classicist house on the corner of Nevsky Prospect and the banks of the Griboyedov Canal . This second account was opened a few months before the opening of the subway station Gostiny Dvor, at that time he served exclusively as access to the line 2. In general, to get from Gostiny Dvor on Nevsky Prospekt, or vice versa, both on the course at the western end of the platform of Gostiny Dvor as also via an additional pedestrian tunnel, to which two downstairs in the middle of the platform of Gostiny Dwor lead. Nowadays, however, due to the otherwise expected larger crowd, the former route is reserved for those changing from Line 2 to Line 3 and the latter for passengers in the opposite direction (see also the section on Nevsky Prospect # Special Features ).
Like all other stations of the first construction phase of Line 3, Gostiny Dwor was built as a so-called "closed type station" and thus has a simple shape very similar to the other St. Petersburg subway stations of this type. The one-piece platform hall has partition walls to the track area, in the niches of which there are automatic platform screen doors that, similar to an elevator door, open when the arriving train stops (the doors of which are exactly at the height of the platform screen doors when the train stops) and close again before it departs. The walls of the hall and the platform door niches are clad with white marble , which is covered in many places by advertising posters. In the cornice above the niches there are lights that cast light on the vault and thus illuminate the hall. The floor is made of dark gray granite .
See also
Web links
- http://metro.vpeterburge.ru/stations/3/gost/ (Russian)
- Pictures of the station (Russian) ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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Coordinates: 59 ° 56 ′ 2 ″ N , 30 ° 20 ′ 3 ″ E