Mayakovskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Majakovskaya (Russian Маяковская ) is an underground station of the Metro St Petersburg on the line 3 and also an interchange station to Ploshchad Vosstania Metro Station on line 1 Metro station was part of the first section of the line on November 3, 1967 put into operation.
Majakovskaya is, as usual for Metro stations Saint-Petersburg, created deep underground, the platform located in 51 meters depth below the Nevsky Prospekt immediately to the west of the square of the uprising and the main traffic Moscow railway station. With the latter, the metro station Majakovskaya is connected by direct access, through the eastern entrance vestibule, which also serves as an input or output Metro Station Ploshchad Vosstania. In addition there is a separate entrance to the west. From the platform of the Majakovskaya Coming leads to this output on a continuous escalator from the platform to the ground floor banking hall, which was in turn incorporated in the construction of the subway station in an existing building on the south side of the Nevsky Prospect. The building is a five-story house built in 1848, which since 2006 houses the upmarket shopping center Nevsky Atrium.
The name of the subway station is primarily the Mayakovsky Street (Russian Улица Маяковского ) borrowed, which branches off from the Nevsky Prospekt towards the Western Zugangsvestibül the station. Since this road was, however, named in 1936 after the early Soviet Futuristendichter Vladimir Mayakovsky, the life and work of the artist was taken to the topic in the architectural design of the subway stations. In particular, falls in the main hall of the western vestibule a relief composition on the support pylon, which includes a portrait of Mayakovsky and famous quotes from his poems.
The platform area is more functional in design, like all other stations of the Newsko - Vasileostrovskaya line of the first phase is also Majakovskaya a station " closed type " with automatic platform doors that separate the waiting area from the track area and open only for the duration of Zughaltes. However, the hall is distinguished by a unique in the St. Petersburg metro wall covering that is executed in dark red tiles on the type of mosaic blocks. In escalator nearby can be found at both ends of the platform two symbolic images of Mayakovsky on the wall, which are composed of similar tiles white and black color.