Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-1
Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-1 ( Russian Площадь Александра Невского-1 ) is a metro station of the Saint Petersburg Metro on line 3 that opened on November 3, 1967 .
The name Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo literally means " Alexander Nevsky Square" and refers to the location of the station, which is 54 meters below the Alexander Nevsky Square at the eastern end of the Nevsky Prospect and in the immediate vicinity of the Alexander Nevsky Monastery was created. The subway station on line 3 is usually called Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-1 on route maps and signposts in order to distinguish it from the underground station of the same name on line 4 , which was built in 1985 and is accordingly known as Ploschtschad Alexandra Nevskovo-2 . There is a direct transfer option to this underground station, which is also under Alexander-Newski-Platz, but six meters lower. You can get from line 3 to line 4 via a staircase at the eastern end of the platform, then through a corridor to the right and via downward escalators directly to the platform of Ploschtschad Alexandra Newskowo-2 .
The own exit of Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-1 begins at the other end of the station's platform and leads over long escalators to the ground-level counter hall on the north side of Nevsky Prospect or the west side of Alexander Nevsky Square (the entrance building is in contrast to this from Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-2 on the south side of Nevsky Prospect). The counter hall is built into the building of the Hotel Moskva . In 2008, a direct walkway was built between the hall and the Moskva shopping center in the hotel building . In 2010, the entire vestibule of Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-1 was closed for a general overhaul, including the replacement of the escalators. The reopening is scheduled for 2011, until then the subway station can only be reached via Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-2 and the transition tunnel .
Analogous to all other underground stations on Line 3, which opened in 1967, Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskovo-1 is a so-called closed-type station, in which the platform and the track area are structurally separated from each other. The niches in the two partition walls are closed by opaque platform screen doors, which open automatically when the train arrives and close again before it departs. The only architectural peculiarity of the subway station is the relief composition executed in copper with a stylized motif from the life of the canonized Russian national hero Alexander Nevsky , after whom the square above the subway station and the monastery nearby are named. In the equestrian portrait the prince can be seen along with four other riders from his entourage, although curiously only four horses (out of a total of five riders) can be guessed on the composition. The relief can be seen today on the wall of the transition tunnel to line 4; before the construction of the same in 1985 it adorned the wall at the eastern end of the platform.
See also
Web links
- Description on metro.vpeterburge.net (Russian, photos)
- Photos of the station (Russian) ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 27.7 ″ N , 30 ° 23 ′ 6 ″ E