Chekhovskaya

Chekhovskaya (Russian Чеховская (debate? / I ), scientific transliteration Čechovskaja ) is an underground station of the Moscow Metro in Moscow's city center. It was opened on 31 December 1987 as part of the extension of the four years before put into operation Serpuchowsko - Timirjasewskaja - line (or " line 9" or " gray line " ) and was until further extension of the line, exactly one year later took place, its northern terminus.

The name of the subway station was chosen in honor of the famous author Anton Chekhov, as near the station also named after Chekhov Street, where he was temporarily residing ran, ( 1990, however, this road was given its historical name Malaya Dmitrovka ( russ. Малая Дмитровка ) back ).

General Description

Due to its central location and the transit traffic to two more subway stations Chekhovskaya is one of the main metro stations in central Moscow, although the station has only a single input or output itself. This is located on the Boulevard ring near its junction with the Tverskaya Street. The entrance vestibule of the train station converted into a pedestrian underpass with two outputs on both sides of the boulevard ring; over the northern one reaches the Pushkin Square ( Пушкинская площадь ), the southern exit of the underpass is built into the editorial offices of the newspaper Moskowskije Novosti. In two to three minute walk from the southern underpass access is located on Tverskaya Street, almost at its junction with the Boulevard Ring, the deli Jelissejew, you go further in the direction of the town center can be reached in about five minutes, the Tverskaya Square ( Тверская площадь ) with the monument to Grand Prince Yuri Dolgoruky, opposite the old town house.

The underground station is part of a Umsteigeknotens a total of three stations: Here the Serpuchowsko - Timirjasewskaja - line crosses with the Samoskworezkaja and the Tagansko - Krasnopresnenskaja line with the two subway stations Tverskaya ( opened in 1979 ) and Pushkinskaya ( opened in 1975 ). From the platform hall of Chekhovskaya leads to the Pushkinskaya station via transition, leading to the stairs in the middle of the hall. Escalators lead to transition to Tverskaya at the southern end of the platform, while it ( and then again on escalators) goes to the output via a staircase at the north end of the concourse.

The station Chekhovskaya is located 62 meters deep below the earth's surface and thus one of the most deeply -scale metro stations of Moscow. A special feature is that the platform area is isolated from the output by three successive escalator runs (including a few meters short, which connects the switch level with the underpass under the Boulevard Ring ).

Architecture

The concourse has a the other subway stations in central Moscow on similar basic design, consisting of a wide central platform, which is separated by two parallel rows pylon into three parts. The pylons have a weißmarmorne paneling, the floor is made of light gray granite slabs. Designed the most interesting are the walls above the tracks: Here were applied to polychrome marble panels at regular intervals of 16 mosaic pattern of different colored minerals, which - following the station name - all represent motifs from the famous works of Chekhov.