VDNKh (metro station)
VDNKh ( Russian ВДНХ ) is the name of a station on the Moscow Metro on the Kalushsko-Rishskaya Line . When the station opened on May 1, 1958, it was the northernmost station of the new “Rishskaya Line”, which ran from the “Prospekt Mira” station to the “VDNKh”.
In the first few months after its opening, the station was called WSChW, the abbreviation for the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (Russian Всесоюзная Сельскохозяйственная Выставка, ВСХВ). From 12 December 1959 she was after Vdnkh the USSR (VDNKh) (russ. Выставка достижений народного хозяйства СССР, ВДНХ) named, a show of the achievements of socialism , which as a demonstration of the power of the Soviet planned economy was intended. Between 1992 and 2014 this exhibition site was called the All-Russian Exhibition Center , but the metro station retained its name during this period: projects from 1991 and 1992 to rename the station to “Vystavochnaja” (Выставочная) or “Rostokino” (Ростокино) were not implemented.
At 53.5 m, the VDNKh is one of the deepest stations on the Moscow Metro. It was built according to a project by the architects I. Gocharai-Charmandarjan, J. Tscherepanow, Ivan Taranow and Nadezhda Bykowa . Originally it was planned to decorate the station with mosaics by Vladimir Faworsky along the inside of the arches, similar to other stations built in the 1950s . In the wake of Nikita Khrushchev's attack on the decorative "extras", the mosaics were roughly whitewashed with green paint. The station has pillars clad in white marble and round ventilation grilles. On September 29, 1978, the 8.1 km long extension to the north to "Medwedkowo" was handed over to its destination.
The original round entrance building is on the west side of "Prospekt Mira", in front of the Cosmonaut Museum . A second entrance was opened in 1997 at the southern end of the station.
With a daily passenger volume of 137,000 passengers, the VDNKh is one of the busiest stations on the Moscow Metro. It has a transition to the monorail Moscow monorail .
The station is the home of the protagonist in the novel Metro 2033 and the associated computer games.
See also
Web links
- VDNKh on the Moscow Metro Official Website (Russian)
- Artemi Lebedew - Metro.ru (Russian)
- KartaMetro.info —Location of the station and exits on the map of Moscow (English / Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ РИА Новости (February 6, 2008). Эксперты против переименования станции московского метро "ВДНХ" i-Stroy.ru строительный журнал (Russian)
- ↑ Станция метро ВДНХ on karta-metro.ru (Russian)
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Coordinates: 55 ° 49 ′ 20.3 " N , 37 ° 38 ′ 29.2" E