Kievskaya (Kolzewaya Line)

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Kievskaya ( Russian Киевская ) is the name of an underground subway station of the Moscow Metro on the Kolzewaya Line (also known as the Ring Line or Line 5).

The station opened on March 14, 1954 as part of the last section of the line. It is architecturally very splendidly furnished and is therefore one of the representative examples of so-called socialist classicism in subway construction.

Location and general data

Kievskaya station

The name of the Kievskaya (literally " Kiev station") is the Kiev train station , one of the nine Moscow long-distance train stations, which is located above ground in the immediate vicinity of the station. The station is thus part of one of the largest transport hubs in the Russian capital. In addition to the long-distance train station and numerous stops for city and intercity buses, this also includes the transfer hub for the metro, which includes two stations of the same name in addition to the Kievskaya station on the Kolzewaya line. These are the station on line 3 , built in 1953, and the flat station on line 4 that went into operation in 1937 . Kiewskala-Kolzewaja is connected to the two by direct crossings.

The 53-meter-deep Kievskaya-Kolzewaya has two exits that open up the station square on both sides. The southern exit can be reached directly from the platform hall with escalators, the northern and the Filjovskaya line station can be reached from the platform hall via stairs and a corridor, then with escalators. There is also a separate transition from the northern end of the platform hall to the station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. This crossing was only built in 1971.

At the end of 2006, a large shopping center was built on the station square opposite the reception building of the Kiev train station. Since then, the northern exit of the Kievskaya and a pedestrian underpass have led directly to the shopping center building without having to go down the street.

architecture

Like the entire Kolzewaja line, the Kievskaya was at the time a prestige project of the “ late Stalinist ” architecture, which led to the station being one of the most architecturally complex in the Moscow metro system. Since the Kiewskaja was intended from the beginning to connect the Kiev train station, which in turn represents the starting point of the most important rail connection between Russia and Ukraine , Russian-Ukrainian relations were chosen as the main focus for the design of the station. The time when the station was built was fittingly on the 300th anniversary of the unification of Ukraine with Russia, sealed by the Treaty of Perejaslav .

The overall construction of the platform hall was designed in a similar way to other Moscow metro stations: It consists of a central platform , which in turn is divided into a central part and the two "actual" platforms on the tracks, each of which is separated from the central part by an arcade-like row of pylons are separated. On the white-painted vault of the central part of the platform hall hang several mighty gold-plated chandeliers that illuminate the hall.

The mosaics that adorn the walls of the central platform hall on each of the 18 pylons form the essential part of the architectural ensemble of the Kievskaya . All of these mosaics deal with the 300-year history of Russian-Ukrainian unity since the unification of the two countries. Both the signing of the Perejaslav Treaty and later significant events such as the 1709 victory of Peter the Great in the Battle of Poltava are discussed . Many of the paintings - typical of the Stalin era - are also ideologically influenced: scenes from the common revolutionary struggle of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples and the construction of the Dnepr hydroelectric power station are shown.

The Kievskaya-Kolzewaya was designed and designed by a group of architects and artists from the “Academy of Architecture” of the Ukrainian SSR . The north wall of the platform hall is adorned with a mosaic image of Lenin , which originally also depicted Stalin , but was "corrected" accordingly in the course of the so - called de - Stalinization of the late 1950s.

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