Kurskaya (Moscow Metro)

Kurskaja (Russian Курская, pronunciation? / I ) is an underground station of the Moscow Metro. It lies on the Koltsevaya - line (also called the ring line ) and is part of an important node of the Moscow public transport.

The metro station was opened on 1 January 1950 and belonged to the first section of the ring line.

General Description

Metro Station Kurskaja located to the east of Moscow center in the immediate vicinity of the Garden ring on its outer side. Directly above the subway station subterranean are the tracks, platforms and Empfangsbauten the Kursk railway station, one of the main railway stations of the Russian capital. This station is eponymous for the metro station however as for the Metro Station Kurskaja the Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja - line, which is in this area crossed by the ring line. There is a direct transfer possibility between the two stations. In 1995, the Metro station Chkalovskaya was put into operation in the immediate vicinity of the Kursk railway station as well, whereby the underground junction at Kursk station became one of three nodes. Aboveground consist of Kurskaja from interchanges to several bus or catenary bus, the tram (which here is a final stop with turning loop has ) and the handled at the Kursk station trains ( including the heavily used by commuters Vorortbahnen direction Podolsk, Serpukhov, Balaschicha, Reutov and others). For this reason Kurskaja / Chkalovskaya is one of the most undrawn transfer hubs in Moscow metro system.

The station on the circle line has two separate entrances. The northern access, which is installed in an above-ground Vestibülgebäude, created in 1950 during the construction of the station. The Vestibülgebäude closes immediately north of to the reception building of the Kursk railway station; from the intermediate plane, it is also a direct access to the basement of the reception building and in an underpass to the individual tracks. In addition, results of this intermediate level an escalator shaft to the platform of the subway station of Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja - line and short escalators to another access, which is installed in a residential building on the Garden Ring. At the southern entrance to Kurskaja - Koltsevaya is a common access to Kurskaja - Koltsevaya and Chkalovskaya. This access was established in 1995 with the construction of the latter. The intermediate level serves simultaneously as Umsteigeweg between the two stations, with the surface it is connected by underpasses with steps and ramp access. The southern access Kurskaja located in the immediate vicinity of the station building, however, has in contrast to the northern exit no direct (weather protected ) Transfer to the station building. He is, however, much closer to the tram terminal loop as the northern access.

While you can get from Kurskaja - Koltsevaya to Chkalovskaya only through the intermediate level of Südzugangs, exist between the two homonymous stations two transfer distances: First, there are direct connecting passage, which can be reached from the center of the platform hall of Kurskaja - Koltsevaya from, on the other hand one can similarly use the intermediate level of the northern access to the station change.

Architecture

The Vestibülgebäude the northern access, adjacent to the Empfangsgsgebäude the Kursk railway station, has the shape of a double triumphal arch, which should symbolize the construction of the ring line for the strength of the Soviet Union during and after the Second World War. The distribution level and the main hall are located a few meters below the aboveground vestibule, from there you can reach via escalators to the platform of Kurskaja. The latter has made ​​a typical for the Moscow Metro tripartite division, the middle part is delimited by the two track areas by a weißmarmorne row of columns. At the arched vault of the central hall circular chandeliers are appropriate to donate the hall light. The floor covering is made of black gabbro and gray and light red granite and Labradoritplatten, which together form a geometric pattern. The outer walls above the tracks are designed with white and dark gray marble, covered as an additional decorative element where the bronze plates with plant ornaments and Soviet symbolism.

Controversy about the Stalin - verse

Until 1956 there was inside the vestibule of the aboveground Kurskaja a monument to the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. In addition, the cornice adorned with the rounded dome of the vestibule lettering with the Lenin and Stalin paying homage to quote from the former version of the Soviet national anthem ( "The terror seemed to us the sun of freedom, And Lenin the Great enlightened us the way. We raised Stalin - to be faithful to the people, to work and heroic deeds he suggested us! "). As part of the so-called de-Stalinization, however, disappeared from the Moscow metro any Tribute to Stalin, as well as the monument was removed from the vestibule and airbrushed the last two stanzas of the hymns quote. 2008-2009 the vestibule and the northern ticket hall, together with the escalator shaft was overhauled, so the northern entrance of the Kurskaja remained closed for over a year. In this renovation, although the original monument to Stalin was not restored, but probably the verse appears in the name of Stalin, put back in the cornice of the Vestibülinneren. This procedure, which was defended by the Metro line with the heritage protection -related need for a faithful restoration, met with several civil rights organizations to sharp criticism. So argued the board of the Liberal party " Right Cause " in August 2009 for a punishment of those responsible for the restoration of the writing which, and I quote, " a disgrace to our city and an insult to the memory of millions of victims of the dictatorship " constitute.