Uralmash (Metro Yekaterinburg)

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The platform hall

The Uralmash station ( Russian Уралма́ш ) is a subway station of the metro in Yekaterinburg opened in April 1991 .

Entrance to the metro through a residential building
Detached entrance building

location

The station is between the stations Uralmash Maschinostroitelei and brochure Kosmonawtow and is in the midst of the eponymous district in the northern district Ordschonikidsewski at the intersection of Prospect Kosmonawtow with the roads uliza Maschinostroitelei and uliza Baumana . The Uralmash plant is located in the immediate vicinity of the station . However, the main entrance with its constructivist buildings is a good kilometer away. The surrounding area is more shaped by residential buildings of different architectural styles and years. The platform level has a vestibule each at its northern and southern end and this in turn has a total of three exits. One of them is not, as is usually the case with the Yekaterinburg Metro, in a free-standing entrance building, but in a residential building. There is a short escalator at the northern entrance building that is missing from the southern one. The station is only six to eight meters below the surface of the earth. The platform is 104 meters long.

history

Lettering at the entrance to the metro

The station is located in the middle of the first construction phase of the metro in Yekaterinburg, then still Sverdlovsk . The first preparatory work for the construction of the underground station began in January 1981 when various lines were relocated. In February 1983, the excavation of the 300 m long and 20 m wide construction pit for the station began. It was built using an open cut . In September 1984 a KM-34 tunnel boring machine was used to drive 50 m south in the left tunnel. The breakthrough in the first connecting tunnel to the Maschinostroitelei station in the south happened in April 1985. This was also the first connection between two stations of the Yekaterinburg Metro. The second south connecting tunnel was drilled to the end in April 1986. In February 1987 and July 1989 the breakthroughs were made in the left and right northern connecting tunnels. In June 1987 work began on lifting the reinforced concrete ceiling elements into the construction pit. Work on the interior fittings began in March 1988. On April 26, 1991, the grand opening of the new metro took place in the Maschinostroitelei station . The first regular train left one day later, on April 27, 1991. After commissioning, the second entrance hall was opened through a residential building (January 1997) and south of Maschinostroitelei Street (October 2001).

architecture

Bas-relief with various workers

The station with its central platform has a long, bright dome. Parallel diagonally running strips of light are arranged in the ceiling, reminiscent of the thread of a screw and architecturally creating the reference to the Uralmash industrial plant , which was one of the largest mechanical engineering works in the Soviet Union at the time the station was built. The light strips are filled with fluorescent tubes placed close together . Because of the dome made of reinforced concrete parts, which spans 18 m, the station does not need additional columns or supports on the platform. The side walls are clad with gray and gray-white marble from Nizhny Tagil . The floor is made of polished gray and brown granite slabs. On the front sides of the station hall above the entrances there are cast-iron bas - reliefs over almost the entire width , on which all professions that are represented in the Uralmash factory should be depicted.

Surname

During the planning period , the station was named Ordzhonikidsevskaya , based on the city district and the Soviet politician Grigory Ordzhonikidze . The names UTMS (Russian abbreviation of the plant) and Zavodskaya (derived from the Russian word for plant, factory) were also in discussion. The metro station got its current name, just like the city district, from the abbreviation of the Ural heavy engineering works - Uralmash, which was built in the north of Yekaterinburg from 1933. The letters of the names on the platform were designed by the Russian rock singer Vyacheslav Butusov .

Transport links

The station has connections for the tram and trolley and bus . The large prospekt Kosmonawtow street , under which the station is located, is also one of the main routes between the city center and the northern Ordzhonikidsewski district and an arterial road to the north.

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Coordinates: 56 ° 53 ′ 16 ″  N , 60 ° 36 ′ 49 ″  E