Kursky railway station
The Kursk Station (Russian Курский вокзал / Kurski Vokzal ) is one of the largest train stations in the Russian capital Moscow. It was opened in its present form in 1896.
General
The station is located in the east of Moscow city center on the Garden Ring. A special feature of the station is that it is the starting point of two main rail lines, namely the Southern Russia and Ukraine, as well as a stretch of the Trans-Siberian railway via Nizhny Novgorod and Perm. Therefore, start from here trains both to the South, such as to Baku, to the Crimea, in the east of Ukraine, to Kursk, Volgograd and in the Russian Caucasus, as well as in the Volga regions. There are also the Kursk railway station commuter train service ( so-called Elektritschki ) in many cities of the Moscow Oblast ( including, for example Schelesnodoroschny, Serpukhov, Chekhov, Orechowo - Zuyevo, Balaschicha ) as well as in the area major cities of Tula and Vladimir.
The Kursk station is connected to the Moscow metro network with three lines: The station Kurskaja the Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja and the same station of Koltsevaya - line and the station Chkalovskaya the Ljublinskaja line located under the station and have outputs in the immediate vicinity of the platforms and the check-in areas.
History
A central station, which was the starting point of the railway link between Moscow and Kursk and Nizhny Novgorod, was in Moscow for the first time the early 1860s. At that time he was called Nizhny Novgorod train station ( Нижегородский вокзал ) and consisted only of a small makeshift Abfertigungsbau of wood. In addition, he was a few hundred meters away from the present location.
Even with the completion of the railway line to the south in 1866, the Moscow initially linked with Serpukhov and was further continued a little later to Tula, Orel and Kursk, the number of passengers the station grew so strong that he had to be extended temporarily by two annexes. As the operating company for years with the city council could not agree on a new site for the station - the old site did not come in the long term due to the relatively unfavorable situation into account - it took but still around 30 years until a new station could be built.
Only after the Russian state had bought the previously private railway lines - in the case of railway lines to Kursk and Nizhny Novgorod this happened in 1894 - was for the site to find a solution: It was decided for both railway lines a common central railway station near the Garden Ring to build leave. Finally, on June 14 Opened in 1896, the new Kursk station, which originally consisted of a reception building, which is used Novgorod direction for the handling of the trains of the Nizhny today.
A comprehensive reconstruction of the station has undergone in the 1930s. After a few decades later, the capacity of the old station building no longer have the ridership justice, the Kursk station in 1972 received a new lobby for trains Kursk direction. This 15 meter high functional building, which faces with its embossed steel and glass facade constructions to the garden ring back, determined to this day the image of the station. It can accommodate up to 11,000 people at a time.
Train services
Long-distance connections in the passenger from Kursk station currently exist for:
- Eagle
- Belgorod
- Kharkiv
- Dnipropetrovsk
- Donetsk
- Izhevsk
- Kerch
- Kislovodsk
- Kursk
- Krivoy Rog ( Krivoy Rog )
- Lgow - Kijewski
- Mariupol
- Mykolaiv ( Nikolayev )
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Novy Urengoy
- Oryol
- Perm
- Poltava
- Samara
- Saint Petersburg
- Sevastopol
- Simferopol
- Chern
- Tula
- Waluiki
- Vladimir
- Volgograd
Others
The most prominent mention of the Kursk railway station in the literature is the opening scene of the book Journey to Petuschki (1970 ) by Venedikt Erofeev. There, the plot is based on a ride on the suburban train to Petuschki near Vladimir. All breakpoints between Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod to Petuschki there are also enumerated authentic.