Vorobyovy Gory
Vorobjowy Gory ( Russian Воробьёвы горы ) is a station on the Moscow Metro on the Sokolnicheskaya Line (also known as the "red line"). It is located in the immediate vicinity of the Sparrow Hills , from which (in Russian Vorobyovy Gory ) it also takes its name.
General
Vorobyovy Gory is the only station in the Moscow Metro system that is located directly on a bridge. The station occupies the entire lower level of a two-story bridge over the Moskva River , the upper level of which is reserved for car traffic. This lower level is completely glazed, so that the station has a closed construction, but is above ground and is illuminated with daylight.
Vorobjowy Gory station has two entry and exit areas with ticket halls at both ends of the platform. Due to the large distance between the two exits, due to the location directly above the river, the total length of the platform is 284 meters, which is unusually long by Moscow standards. The two exits are on two different sides of the river. While the southern exit is on the slope of the Sparrow Hills and leads to the green areas there and the river promenade, the northern exit on the opposite bank can be used to reach the Luschniki Olympic Stadium and adjacent sports facilities. Since the southern exit is much less used than the northern one, it is only open between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. At any time, however, pedestrians can cross the bridge using a side walkway.
During major events in the Luschniki Stadium, the station is temporarily closed for entry and exit in order to avoid overloading.
history
The station was originally put into operation on January 12, 1959 as part of the southern extension of the red line from Sportivnaya to Uniwersitet . At the same time, the new two-story bridge over the Moscow River was opened for car traffic. Initially, the station was called Leninskiye Gory , literally “ Lenin Mountains”, as the Sparrow Hills were called from 1935 to the early 1990s.
As inferior material was used to build the bridge for reasons of cost, the supporting structure began to wear out just a few years after its completion. At the beginning of the 1980s, the lower part of the bridge had deteriorated to such an extent that the station could no longer be operated and was finally shut down on October 20, 1983. Since the entire lower level of the bridge had to be demolished, two makeshift bridges had to be erected on both sides so that the trains could continue to pass the route, albeit without stopping. The necessary complete new construction of the station was delayed again and again in the next few years, not least because of the critical financial situation of the Moscow Metro during the economic decline of the late 1980s and 1990s in Russia. So it came about that the construction of the new metro bridge was not seriously tackled until 1999.
The newly built station finally opened on December 14, 2002, now under the name “Vorobjowy Gory” - “Sparrow Hills”. Today only the remains of the former escalator hall on the mountain slope remind of the old station. The new south exit was built a little apart from this; all entrance structures and platform systems as well as adjacent tunnel sections were also completely rebuilt.
See also
Web links
- Vorobyovy Gory on the official website of the Moscow Metro ( Memento of April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
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Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ′ 38 " N , 37 ° 33 ′ 34" E