Gostiny Dvor (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Gostiny Dvor (Russian Гостиный двор ) is an underground metro station in the Russian capital Saint Petersburg. It lies on the line 3 metro Saint Petersburg and was taken simultaneously with the opening of this line, namely on 3 November 1967 in operation.
The scale 56 meters deep underground station is located directly under the Nevsky Prospect, the central shopping area of St.-Petersburg. The name derives from the station which was built in 1785 department store Gostiny Dvor is installed in the building of one of the two entrances to the subway stations. From Gostiny Dvor metro station is a direct transfer possibility to Nevsky Prospekt Metro Station, the second line which intersects the third line here for passengers by metro.
The same time opened with the station eastern entrance vestibule occupies part of the ground floor of the department store building, the entrance and exit doors are located in the corner of the department store right on the corner of Nevsky Prospect with the Sadowaja Street. Inside the vestibule there is a main hall with ticket barriers. In the area above the mouth of the escalator shaft the wall of the hall is decorated with a stained glass, which was itself created by the artist AL Korolev commemorating the 1917 exactly happened on this street corner bloody crackdown on a demonstration in advance of the October Revolution. The continuous escalators lead from here directly to the east end of the concourse of the station. The second access the subway station is also an access to the station Nevsky Prospekt. About this access leads through a corridor from the western end of the platform, and subsequently by escalator to the ground-level ticket hall, which is built in a Neoclassical building on the corner of Nevsky Prospect and the Griboyedov Canal bank. Was opened this second access some months before the opening of the subway station Gostiny Dvor, at that time, he served exclusively as access to Line 2 generally leads Gostiny Dvor on Nevsky Prospekt, or vice versa, both on the course at the western end of the platform Gostiny Dvor than also an additional pedestrian tunnel leading to the two down stairs in the middle of the platform Gostiny Dvor. Today, however, due to an otherwise expected major scrimmage of the way for former and alighting from line 2 to line 3 and the latter for passengers in the reverse Umsteigerichtung reserved ( see also the Nevsky Prospekt Section # features).
Like all other stations of the first phase of Line 3 was Gostiny Dvor as a so-called " closed type station " built and thus has a the other Petersburg metro stations of this type very similar, simple shape. The one-piece platform hall has partitions to the track area, in whose niches are automatic platform doors that are similar to an elevator door at the stop of the incoming train (whose doors are at standstill exactly at the height of platform screen doors ) open and close before it departs again. The walls of the hall and the platform door niches are covered with white marble, which is covered in many places of billboards. The cornice above the niches lights are housed, which throw light on the vault and thus the hall light. The floor is done in dark gray granite.