Komsomolskaya (Kolzewaya Line)
Komsomolskaja ( Russian Комсомольская ) is the name of a station on the Moscow Metro on the ring line . This was put into operation on January 30, 1952 and is considered part of a major traffic junction, as it is in the immediate vicinity of three long-distance train stations.
location
The station is located in the eastern center of Moscow directly under Komsomolskaya Square , which, at the time, named in honor of the Soviet youth organization Komsomol , also gave the station its name. Three long-distance train stations - the Kazan , the Yaroslavl and the Leningrad train station - as well as the Kalantschowskaja train station, a regional train station, are adjacent to the square and thus to the metro station .
The Komsomolskaya station offers a transfer to the station of the same name on the Sokolnitscheskaja line . She also shares an entrance building with her on the north side of Komsomolskaya Square, directly between the Yaroslavl and Leningrad train stations. The Kazan railway station, which is located on the south side of the square, can be reached through the transition to the Sokolnicheskaya line or from the north side of the square through a pedestrian tunnel.
A corridor leads to the Sokolnicheskaya Line, which can be reached by escalators in the middle of the platform. Alternatively, it can also be reached via the common entrance building. An escalator at the northern end of the platform hall leads to this.
architecture
Komsomolskaya Station is 37 meters underground. It was opened as part of the commissioning of the second section of the Kolzewaya Line from Kurskaya to Belorusskaya .
The central element of the station is its 190 m long and 10 m wide central platform, which is spanned by an arched ceiling up to nine meters high, supported by 68 marble octagonal columns. With this construction, the Komsomolskaya, like most of the stations on the ring line built in the early 1950s, is one of the most architecturally magnificent structures on the Moscow subway. The platform hall was built according to a design by the renowned architect Alexei Shtusev , who did not live to see the opening of the station himself and was posthumously awarded the Stalin Prize for this project . Another award followed in 1958, the station received the Grand Prix ("Grand Prize") of the Expo 58 in Brussels.
In addition to several mighty chandeliers hanging over the central area of the platform hall, the mosaics on the ceiling of the hall are among the most striking features of the station. They were created by the artist Pawel Korin and are all dedicated to the Russian national heroes from various periods, including Prince Alexander Newski , Grand Duke Dmitri Donskoy and Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov . Originally, an image of Josef Stalin as the victor over Germany in World War II also adorned the platform hall. However, it was removed in 1963 as part of the so - called de - Stalinization and replaced by a motif with the revolutionary leader Lenin . In 1951 Korin also received the Stalin Prize for the mosaics of the Komsomolskaya.
Expansion planning
So far, the station has a single exit, which leads to the common entrance vestibule with the Komsomolskaya station on the Sokolnicheskaya line. However, there are long-term plans for a second exit to be built at the southern end of the platform hall.
See also
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Coordinates: 55 ° 46 ′ 35.4 " N , 37 ° 39 ′ 22.2" E