Metro "Sukharevskaya" - an important traffic intersection of a large city
Metro "Sukharevskaya", perhaps, is known to many,and both the Muscovites themselves and the guests of the capital. What is it exactly? For residents of the city - it is, first of all, a successful transport interchange, but for fans of books D. Glukhovsky - the opportunity at least for some time to feel like a hero of a favorite novel.
Today we will try to talk about this station in more detail.
The Sukharevskaya metro station. general description
Has access to the city streets - Prospect Mira,Bolshaya and Malaya Sukharevsky Square and Sretenka Street. The station belongs to the three-vaulted pylon structures of deep laying, which has a peculiar shape resembling wheat sheaves. The depth of the deposit is 43 meters, and the diameter of the central platform of the hall is 8.5 meters.
The walls of the plantation hall are lined with lightmarble "gasgan" and decorated with artistic chased works of artists SF. Kolyupanova and S.T. Kolyupanov. The platform is covered with granite slabs of various shades of gray. The continuous long strips of fixtures installed above the pylons illuminate the hall and platform of the station. Strips of rolled aluminum were used for the ceiling part of the escalator tunnel.
The Sukharevskaya metro station. History of the metro station
At the end of 1971, themetro from Mira Avenue to the "China Town", which connected the Kaluga and Riga lines. Thus, the Kaluga-Riga branch was formed. On this stretch of 3.2 kilometers were built two stations - "Turgenevskaya" and "Sukharevskaya", which until November 1990 was "Kolkhoz".
The station was commissioned in the beginningJanuary 1972. It consists of one straight platform of the island type. Its new name "Sukharevskaya" station was received in connection with the renaming of Kolkhoznaya Square in Bolshaya and Malaya Sukharevsky areas. Its former name was square before the revolution. Here stood the famous Sukharev Tower, which was demolished in the 30s. The architect of the typical project of the station was R.I. Pogrebnoy.
The Sukharevskaya metro station. Characteristics and ground infrastructure
There is no above-ground lobby on the "Sukharevskaya". The station has one underground lobby, which is connected to the landing hall by an inclined escalator tunnel. Entrance to it can only be made through an underground passage located on Bolshaya and Malaya Sukharevsky squares. Passengers can use the subway transport at the station from 5.40 am to 1 am.
Near the metro station are the famous theaters- the name of Vladimir Mayakovsky and the Moscow State Variety Theater. Nearby there are other sights of the capital: the House-Museum of the famous Russian artist A.M. Vasnetsova, the Museum of the History of the Moscow ATS, the Museum of Folk Graphics.
In the area of Art. Metro "Sukharevskaya" has a fairly well-developed infrastructure. Many school institutions and six operating universities, a music school and a sports club, shopping centers and cafes, youth entertainment facilities.
