Chekhovskaya
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Chekhovskaya ( Russian Че́ховская ( ), scientific transliteration Čechovskaja ) is a subway station of the Moscow Metro in Moscow city center. It was opened on December 31, 1987 as part of the extension of the Serpukhovsko-Timirjasewskaja line (also "Line 9" or "gray line"), which had been in operation four years earlier , and was up to the further extension of the line, which was exactly one year later took place, its northern terminus.
The name of the subway station was chosen in honor of the famous author Anton Chekhov , as there was a street named after Chekhov in the vicinity of the station, on which Chekhov lived for a while (in 1990, however, this street received its historical name Malaja Dmitrowka (russ . Малая Дмитровка ) back).
general description
Due to its central location and the possibility of transferring to two other underground stations, Chekhovskaya is one of the most important metro stations in central Moscow, although the station itself has only one entrance or exit. This is located on the boulevard ring near its intersection with Tverskaya Street . The entrance vestibule of the station leads into a pedestrian underpass with two exits on both sides of the boulevard ring; The northern exit leads to Pushkin Square ( Пушкинская площадь ), while the southern exit of the underpass is built into the editorial building of the Moskovsky Novosti newspaper . A two to three minute walk from the southern underpass access is on Tverskaya Street, almost at its intersection with the Boulevard Ring, the delicatessen store Yelissejew , continue towards the city center , after about five minutes you will reach Tverskaya Square ( Тверская площадь ) with the monument to Grand Duke Yuri Dolgoruki opposite the old town house.
The subway station is part of a transfer hub made up of a total of three stations: Here the Serpukhovsko-Timirjasewskaya line crosses with the Samoskvorezkaya and the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line with the two subway stations Tverskaya (opened in 1979) and Pushkinskaya (opened in 1975) . From the Chekhovskaya platform hall you can get to the Pushkinskaya station via a transition, which is accessed by stairs in the middle of the hall. Escalators at the southern end of the platform lead to the transition to Tverskaya , while the exit is via stairs at the northern end of the platform hall (and then again via escalators).
Chekhovskaya station is located 62 meters below the surface, making it one of the deepest underground stations in Moscow. Another special feature is that the platform hall is separated from the exit by three successive escalator runs (one of which is only a few meters short, which connects the counter level with the underpass under the boulevard ring).
architecture
The platform hall has a basic construction similar to the other underground stations in the center of Moscow, consisting of a wide central platform that is separated into three parts by two parallel rows of pylons . The pylons are clad in white marble , the floor is made of light gray granite slabs . The most interestingly designed are the walls above the tracks: Here, 16 mosaic patterns of different colored minerals were applied at regular intervals to colorful marble slabs , all of which - based on the station name - depict motifs from Chekhov 's most famous works .
See also
literature
- V.Zverev: Metro Moskovskoe . Algoritm, Moscow 2008, ISBN 978-5-9265-0580-8
Web links
- Information about Chekhovskaya on the official website of the Moscow Metro (Russian, English )
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Tsvetnoi Bulwar ← Altufyevo |
Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line |
Borowitskaja Bulwar Dmitrija Donskowo → |
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Coordinates: 55 ° 45 ′ 56.7 " N , 37 ° 36 ′ 29.9" E