Aleksandrovsky Sad (Moscow Metro)

Alexandrovski Sad (Russian Александровский сад pronunciation / i; literally translated: Alexander Garden ) is a metro station, Moscow Metro. It was opened on May 15, 1935, making it one of the oldest stations of the Moscow Metro system. Today he is one of the two terminal stations of the ( " light blue " ) Filjowskaja line.

Location and data

Metro Station Alexandrovski Sad is one of the most central Moscow metro stations: its eastern entrance is located directly in the Alexander Garden, after which it was named, only a few dozen meters from the wall of the Moscow Kremlin. The main entrance slightly further west is integrated into the building of the Russian State Library. Due to the location of the station right in the heart of Moscow is a number of other attractions within walking distance: adjacent to the Kremlin and the Alexander Garden and the Red Square, the old building of Moscow State University, Tverskaya Street and others.

The station itself is located seven meters below the earth's surface and thus belongs to the underground Metro stations located at the shallowest of Moscow. She is also part of the single consisting of four stations of the Moscow Metro Umsteigeknotens: From here you can transfer facilities to the stations Biblioteka imeni Lenina, line 1, Arbatskaya line 3 and line 9 Borovitskaya the latter is, however, not yet by a direct transition, but only accessible in each of the stations or Biblioteka imeni Lenina Arbatskaya.

In contrast to its original use as a through station Alexandrovski Sad is now the terminus of the Filjowskaja line. The trains go directly to the platform, as the tracks of the station east offer no turning opportunities.

Architecture and features

The most striking exclusive knowledge of Alexandrovski Sad is the fact that it is the only underground Moscow subway station with two side platforms rather than a broad central platform. This feature owes Alexandrovski Sad mainly to its location close to the Kremlin and surrounded by a variety of underground pipes and tunnels, which did not allow the construction of a normal middle platform in this area. This is also the reason why the station is located in a curve that is visible to the slight curvature of the two platforms. Otherwise, the station for Moscow standards is relatively simple in design; its probably most striking architectural feature is the slightly curved bridge in the central region, which connects the two platforms together. In addition, you can go from one platform to another via an underpass at the eastern end of the platform hall. From there and from the central area of the railway station from the outputs and transitions to other stations can be reached. The two staircases at the west end of the platforms had been built as a wholesale service for a possible further station output, but are not yet used.

The southern platform, which is the output and the transitions closest is basically served by trains, which (until Kuntsevskaya ) drive on the main line of Filjowskaja line, the " more remote " and therefore less crowded northern platform is primarily used for trains sailing in the far less intense undrawn branch of Kievskaya to Meschdunarodnaja in 15 -minute intervals. At -traffic times but also keep sporadically trains to Kuntsevskaya on the northern platform, while at very low passenger times the northern platform is entirely closed. 2005, mainly as the branch was taken after Meschdunarodnaja in operation, the northern platform of Alexandrovski Sad was served only on weekdays at peak hours.

The tunnel section east of Alexandrovski Sad is now used only for operational trips outside the opening times of the metro. There are sidings there to Sokolnicheskaya and to Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja line.

History

The station was opened on 15 May 1935 under the first phase of construction of the Moscow Metro. Originally, the station Ulitsa Kominterna was ( literally meaning " street of the Comintern ", as it was the official name of Wosdwischenka - street, under which the station is located, was ). At the opening of the first phase trains drove on the one hand, a part of today's Sokolnicheskaya line from Sokolniki to Park Kultury, moreover, also a branch of this line of Ochotny Ryad to Smolenskaja (later to Kievskaya ). Today's station Alexandrovski Sad was the first after Ochotny Ryad, which lay on this branch line.

1938, the lines of the Metro in the center of Moscow was modified: With the opening of the first section of today's Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja line drove trains that arrived from the west in Alexandrovski Sad, no more after Ochotny Ryad further, but on the new connecting track ( the exists today only as a business connection to Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja - line) to Ploshchad Revolyutsii and from there to the Kursk station. In the same year, a direct transition to the station Biblioteka imeni Lenina was established by Alexandrovski Sad out, which was not needed as branch during operation of the route.

1946 Alexandrovski Sad received a new entrance vestibule, which is integrated into the building of the Russian State Library and still exists today. In the same year the station in Kalininskaja was renamed in honor of the recently deceased statesman Mikhail Kalinin.

On April 5, 1953 with the commissioning of the sub- section of today's Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja line from Ploshchad Revolyutsii after Kievskaya, which duplicated the route of Alexandrovski Sad about Smolenskaja after Kievskaya, in essence, was the former line -1 - branch, and thus the taken out of service station Kalininskaja and used only technically over the next five years. Only on 7 November 1958, when the route reactivated and, now as Filjowskaja line until Kutusowskaja was extended, Kalininskaja was reopened and has since become the eastern terminus of the line.

Its current name owns the station Alexandrovski Sad November 5, 1990, when a plurality of the Moscow Metro stations, which contributed up to that ideologically motivated names were renamed at the same time.

Expansion plans

Long term, the establishment of a direct transition from Alexandrovski Sad to Borovitskaya is provided. For this purpose the today unused staircase could be used at the western end of the platform.