Partisanskaya (Moscow Metro)
Partisanskaja ( Russian Партизанская , ) is an underground subway station of the Moscow Metro opened in 1944 on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line (also called "Line 3").
general description
Partizanskaya Metro Station is located in the east of Moscow . Until 2005 the station was called Izmailovsky Park ( Измайловский парк ) after the Izmailovsky Park in the vicinity . The so-called Kremlin in Izmailovo as well as an intercity bus station and several large hotels are also within walking distance of the station . So far, the station has had a single exit via a vestibule building, to which two flights of stairs lead from the platform hall.
Partisanskaya Station is one of seven Moscow metro stations that were completed during World War II . In addition, it has been renamed twice in the course of its history. When it opened on January 18, 1944, the station was called Izmailovskaya , in 1963 it was renamed Izmailovsky Park , whereby the following station to the east, which had been in operation two years earlier, was given the name Izmailovskaya , which it still bears today. Finally, the metro station was on 3 May 2005 on the occasion of the celebrations for Victory Day and as a tribute to the Soviet partisans of the Second World War in Partizanskaya renamed.
When the station was built, it was originally intended to cope with a particularly high number of passengers, as the construction of a large stadium a little east of the station entrance was planned in the 1940s . The stadium was in honor of the former Soviet head of state the name Stalin stadium wear; accordingly the project name was the Partisanskaja Stadion imeni Stalina ( Стадион имени Сталина ). However, these blueprints were discarded a few years later. To this day, however, they are reminiscent of the construction of the platform hall and the access systems, which are extremely spacious, even by the standards of the Moscow Metro. The Partisanskaya also received three tracks and two central platforms. Today only the two outer tracks are used regularly, while the middle track, which runs between the two platforms, is used exclusively by trains that end at Partisanskaya from the west or Moscow center and continue via the service ramp to the nearby Izmailovo vehicle depot run.
architecture
In addition to its generous structure, the Partisanskaja is also known for its sumptuous furnishings typical of Moscow metro stations of the 1940s and 1950s. The platform hall was built under the direction of the architects Boris Solomonowitsch Wilenski and Lyubow Alexandrowna Shagurina . When planning, they used the fact that the station is relatively flat underground, as the access ramp to the train depot is further east. Since the pressure from the surface is less strong than usual, the support columns are arranged at relatively large distances from one another, which also creates the impression of more space than usual. Since the stairs lead directly from the platforms into the entrance building, daylight penetrates the platform hall through the vestibule.
The pillars and the upper areas of the walls of the platform hall are clad in white and yellow-pink marble, while the walls in the lower area are clad in brown ceramic. Similar to the other Moscow underground stations of the Stalin era, the Partisanskaya was decorated with relief works and sculptures, whereby the heroic deeds of the Soviet partisans formed the thematic focus from the beginning. The two pillars of the two platforms closest to the exit stairs are complemented by sculptures made by the sculptor Matwei Maniser of the partisans Matwei Kuzmin and Soja Kosmodemjanskaja , who were revered as heroes at the time , and the platform walls are also adorned with several bas-reliefs with popular motifs on the partisan war.
See also
literature
- Московскому метро 70 лет (70 years of the Moscow Metro) , World Art Museum special issue 14/2005, ISSN 1726-3050 .
- V.Zverev: Metro Moskovskoe . Algoritm, Moscow 2008, ISBN 978-5-9265-0580-8 .
Web links
- Information about Partisanskaya on the official website of the Moscow Metro (Russian, English )
- Brief description with photos on metro.ru (Russian)
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Coordinates: 55 ° 47 ′ 18.4 " N , 37 ° 44 ′ 58.6" E