Uralskaya

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The platform hall

The Uralskaya station ( Russian Ура́льская ) is a subway station of the Yekaterinburg Metro that opened in December 1992 . It is the deepest underground station in the city and was completed as the fourth station.

Entrance building

location

The Uralskaya station is located between the Dinamo and Maschinostroitelei stations and is in the immediate vicinity of the main railway station of the city of Yekaterinburg-Passaschirski . The platform level has a staircase with four escalators at its northern end . The station's platform is 104 meters long and 42 meters underground, making it the deepest underground station on the Yekaterinburg Metro. There were plans to build direct access to the station building, but its implementation is unclear.

history

Signature above the entrance

On August 22, 1980 , construction work for the Yekaterinburg Metro began with a symbolic first excavation at the station. Nevertheless, it was only inaugurated as the fourth station on December 22, 1992 over twelve years later . One day later, the metro began to run passengers to the three northern stations. The tunnel to the Maschinostroitelei station is 2.5 km long. This is the largest distance between two subway stations on the Ekaterinburg Metro. In the event of a fire, there is an emergency exit in the middle of this tunnel section.

Two years later, on December 22, 1994, the southern connection to Dinamo station was opened.

architecture

Cladding with brown marble on the outer walls

The architect of the metro station was Spartak Uzbekowitsch Siganschin , who also designed the three northern stations. The station was built as a pillar-supported metro station as a closed construction. This construction is typical for underground metro stations. For this purpose, three parallel tunnels were dug. The actual platforms are located in the two outer tunnels, each 8½ meters in diameter, next to one track. They were dug first. Then the middle tunnel was completed, which is larger and offers space for the central part of the middle platform . This is separated from the track tunnels on both sides by arcade-like rows of pylons . The original rock in which the underground station was dug is located in the pylons. The Uralskaya station is the only metro station of this type in Yekaterinburg.

The interior design of the station is based strongly on the mining and smelting tradition of the Ural region . The walls on the outside of the tracks are clad with brown-gray marble from Nizhny Tagil . The pylons are covered with white marble from Kojelga ( Chelyabinsk Oblast ), which was also used in the Moscow White House , the metro and the Cathedral of Christ the Savior . The platform floor is covered with polished gray granite . The arches in the openings are decorated with serpentine . The black candlesticks in the central hall were made of wrought iron in the electro-mechanical factory in Yekaterinburg.

Surname

The station name was changed several times during the planning and construction. In the 1970s, the station was named Voksalnaja in all plans because of the nearby train station ( Russian вокза́л / woksal ) . The station was renamed Sverdlovskaya even before construction began . The new name was justified by the fact that, due to the proximity to the train station, guests of the city arrived here and the station should be the representative flagship of the entire city, which was called Sverdlovsk until September 1991 . In the course of renaming the city, the metro station could of course not keep the old name of the Soviet revolutionary . Shortly before it opened, the station was renamed today's Uralskaya . In the last phase of renaming, there should also have been signs to the station with the inscription Yekaterinburgskaya .

Transport links

In addition to the main train station of the city of Yekaterinburg-Passaschirski , from which there is a connection to suburban and long-distance trains in all directions, you can switch to various tram lines , trolleybuses , city ​​buses and marshrutki .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Station "Uralskaya" (Russian) . mirmetro.net. June 4, 2015. Retrieved September 25, 2015.

Web links

Coordinates: 56 ° 51 '29.4 "  N , 60 ° 36' 2.2"  E