Sokolniki
Sokolniki ( Russian Соко́льники , ) is a district in the eastern administrative district of the Russian capital Moscow . It is also the name of a subway station of the Moscow Metro located in this part of the city .
Sokolniki is best known for a large urban forest-like park, which connects to the north of the district and is a popular local recreation destination. Further north, the forest areas of the park merge into the Lossiny Ostrow National Park . Other well-known objects in Sokolniki are the exhibition center , the Abrikossow factory and the Sokolniki Sports Palace .
Sokolniki Metro Station
Sokolniki Metro Station opened on May 15, 1935 as part of the oldest construction phase of the Moscow Metro. Until 1965 it served as the north-eastern terminus of the "red" Sokolnitscheskaya line , then the line was extended by another station to Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad . An underground bridge was also built over the Jausa River on the eastern edge of Sokolniki. Today Sokolniki is widely considered to be the oldest of all Moscow metro stations, as the construction of the metro began in Moscow in November 1931 with the excavation of the first excavation near it.
The station has a single entrance, which is built into an arched vestibule building near the Russakovskaya Street and Sokolniki Park. The vestibule is connected to the platform hall by two flights of stairs and an intermediate corridor on the ticket counter level. The platform hall, which is only nine meters below the surface of the earth, is very flat by Moscow standards, has a rather functional architecture typical of stations in the first Moscow construction phase from 1935: a central platform with ceramic-tiled walls, separated by two rows of square and gray ones Marble clad columns. From this basic shape, the structure of the station is strongly reminiscent of the Arbatskaya underground station , which was also opened on May 15, 1935 and which today belongs to the Filjovskaya line .
literature
- V. Swerev: Metro Moskovskoye . Algoritm, Moscow 2008, ISBN 978-5-9265-0580-8
Web links
- Official website of the district administration
- mvkmessen.de: Information on the exhibition grounds
- Description of the metro station on mosmetro.ru
See also
| Previous station | Moscow Metro | Next station | ||
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Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad ← Ulitsa Podbelskowo |
Sokolnicheskaya Line |
Krasnoselskaya Yugo-Sapadnaya → |
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Coordinates: 55 ° 47 ′ 41 ″ N , 37 ° 40 ′ 35 ″ E