Komsomolskaya (Sokolnicheskaya Line)

Komsomolskaya (Russian Комсомольская pronunciation? / I ) is the name of a station of the Moscow Metro on the Sokolnicheskaya line (also called " Line 1 " or " Red Line " called ). It was opened on May 15, 1935, and is among the 13 oldest stations of the Moscow metro network.

Location

The station is located below the eponymous for them Komsomolskaya Square on the northeast end of the Moscow center. Immediately at this place and so close to the metro station are the three main train stations Yaroslavl, Kazan and Leningrad, as well as the regional station Kalantschowskaja.

The Komsomolskaya station has two inputs or outputs. About the southern exit leads directly into the reception building of the Kazan railway station, while the northern exit leads to the opposite side of the square, where are the other three stations. In the area of ​​northern output is also to transfer to the same station of the metro ring line. With this station, there is also a common entrance building, which is located exactly between the reception buildings of Yaroslavl and Leningrad railway station. This building was built in 1952 during the construction of the station Koltsevaya line.

Architecture

Even if the Komsomolskaya of the architectural resources, to not having the extremely ornate stations on the circle line ( including the interchange station of the same name ) is to be compared, it has some special features. A striking feature of the 155 meters long and 16.8 m wide platform area are mainly the two galleries extending just above the tracks along them. About these galleries can be reached, for example, from the northern to the southern exit and vice versa, resulting in a considerable relief for the platform this potentially very strong passenger station.

When the platform is, as is typical for the Moscow Metro, a central platform. The walls on the two tracks are kept with their ceramic cladding in a very simple style of the stations of the first phase of the Moscow Metro. The ceiling is supported by four square columns of yellow- brown marble, which share the platform evenly in three rows.

Komsomolskaya was designed by the then relatively young architects Dmitry Chechulin, a graduate of the School of Art Vkhutemas, who saw himself as a pupil of the renowned architect Alexei Shchusev ( which, inter alia, the neighboring Komsomolskaya Koltsevaya built ). Overall, the construction of the station lasted almost to the day exactly two years, and at times enormous geological difficulties had to be overcome. Unlike, for example, the same built Arbatskaya station Komsomolskaya was built in an open design, which, given the high traffic- load on the Komsomolskaya Square (which is commonly known as the " Square of the Three Stations " ) presented a particular logistical challenge.

In the transition region to the Komsomolskaya Koltsevaya can be found on the walls of mosaics designed by the famous painter Yevgeny Lansere. You can see there motives for building the Metro station, especially the heroic use of this busy volunteers is expressed. As the entire first phase of construction of the Moscow Metro, the station Komsomolskaya was built mainly with the use of unskilled laborers, most of them young Komsomol members who were involved on a voluntary basis and saw use at the construction site of the Metro itself as an extraordinary honor.