Novoslobodskaya

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Novoslobodskaya platform hall

Novoslobodskaja ( Russian: Новослобо́дская ; pronunciation ? / I ) is a subway station of the Moscow Metro on the ring line ( Kolzewaja line ). It was put into operation on January 30, 1952 within the second of a total of three construction phases of the line. Audio file / audio sample

description

The station is located north of the historical Moscow city ​​center on the eponymous street Novoslobodskaja uliza, which merges further north into the arterial road " Dmitrover Chaussee". The well-known Butyrka remand prison is located on this street, within walking distance of the Novoslobodskaya subway station . Even further north is the Zavyolovo train station , for which the metro station Zavyolovskaya Novoslobodskaya was the nearest underground station until the opening in 1988 .

The station is 40 m underground and has an entrance on Novoslobodskaya ulitsa. This entrance is integrated into an above-ground vestibule building, which, similar to the other Moscow metro vestibules, is generously designed and provided with a six-column portico on the outside . Escalators are used to get from the platform to the vestibule . In 1988, stairs were built in the middle area of ​​the platform hall, via which one can get to the then newly opened Mendeleevskaya station on the Serpukhovsko-Timirjasewskaya line via transition bridges . Before the opening of this station, Novoslobodskaya was the last subway station on the Kolzewaya line, which had no transfer options to other stations.

The escalator shaft to the exit begins at the western end of the platform hall, while the latter ends in a dead end to the east.

architecture

The entrance building

Like most of the other subway stations on the ring line, Novoslobodskaya has an extremely splendid shape and has a three-part platform hall on a central platform, the central area (9.5 m wide) of which is optically separated from the two track areas by a row of white marble pylons .

A special feature that does not exist at other Moscow metro stations are the characteristic glass paintings in arched frames with which the pylons are decorated. A total of 32 such frames can be seen on Novoslobodskaya, with the paintings being artificially illuminated from the inside, which gives them a particularly colorful and solemn appearance. The concept of these paintings comes from the well-known painter Pawel Korin , who had them put together in a workshop in Riga . Since the stained glass makes the platform hall slightly resemble a sacred building, which seemed inappropriate in the Soviet Union, Korin had to take some criticism for this project. On the other hand, the paintings were well received by passengers on the Moscow Metro due to the fact that this genre was largely unknown in Russia in the early Soviet period and the associated exotic flair. Even today, Novoslobodskaya is one of the most architecturally unusual Moscow underground stations.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Московскому метро 70 лет (70 years of the Moscow Metro) , World Art Museum special issue 14/2005, ISSN  1726-3050 ; P. 101

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