Machine shop (Metro Yekaterinburg)

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The platform hall

The station Maschinostroitelei ( Russian Машиностроителей ) is a Opened in April 1991 subway station of Metro in Yekaterinburg .

One of the entrance buildings
Lettering of the station name on the platform

location

The Maschinostroitelei station is located between the Uralskaya and Uralmash stations and is located in the northern Ordzhonikidsevsky district . Although the name suggests otherwise, the station is not on the street of the same name prospekt Maschinostroitelei , which is further north at the Uralmash station, but under the prospekt Kosmonawtow leading to the north . In the immediate vicinity of the station there is the State Pedagogical University of the Urals and the premises of the Urals plant for heavy engineering , Uralmash. Otherwise the area is more of a commercial area. The platform level has an exit at its northern and southern ends. In the north, a sloping tunnel leads directly from the entrance to the platform. In the south, the sloping tunnel leads indirectly to the platform via a gallery . At both exits there are two short escalators on the sides and a normal staircase in the middle. The station's platform is 104 meters long and is only six to eight meters below the surface.

history

Gallery at the southern entrance

The station was the southernmost in the first section of the new metro in Yekaterinburg, then still Sverdlovsk , which began in the north at the Prospekt Kosmonavtow station . The first preparatory work for the construction of the underground station began in January 1981 when various lines and transport routes, especially the tram tracks, were relocated. In July 1982, drilling work on the longest tunnel of the Yekaterinburg Metro began at the Uralskaya station to the south, which had already started earlier. Work on excavating the pit for the station began in July 1983. It was built using the cut-and-cover method . The breakthrough in the first connecting tunnel to the Uralmash station in the north occurred in April 1985, the second in April 1986. In February 1986, the interior of the station began. On April 26, 1991, the grand opening of the new metro took place in the Maschinostroitelei station . The first regular train to the north left a day later. On December 22, 1992 the train service with the southern station Uralskaya was started.

architecture

Bas-relief with a worker scene

The inside of the station is clad with two types of stone from the Urals - dark green serpentinite from an open pit mine in Shabrovsky , on the southern edge of Yekaterinburg, and white marble from Kojelga ( Chelyabinsk Oblast ), which is also in the Moscow White House , the Moscow Metro and the Christ the Savior Cathedral was built. The central platform is free along its entire length and is divided lengthways to the right and left by square white columns at a distance of 4.5 meters from one another. Behind it are the track tunnels to the right and left. There are cast bas-reliefs on the walls to the side of the platform . Modern flat chandeliers made of shiny metal, reminiscent of spiders, hang from the ceiling. The luminaires are made of frosted glass. The candlesticks and the benches were built in the nearby Kalinin machine building, which still produces armaments today. The candlesticks were designed there too.

Surname

During the planning period, the station was called Kalininskaja for a long time , based on the nearby Kalinin machine building plant ( Машиностроительный завод имени Калинина , today belongs to Almas-Antei ), which in turn got its name from the Soviet politician Mikhail Kalinin .

Transport links

The station has connections for the tram and trolley and bus . The large prospekt Kosmonavtow street , under which the station is located, is also one of the main routes between the city center and the northern Ordzhonikidsevsky district .

Web links

Coordinates: 56 ° 52 ′ 40 ″  N , 60 ° 36 ′ 42 ″  E