Mendeleyevskaya

Mendelejewskaja (Russian Менделеевская (debate? / I)) is an underground metro station of the Moscow Metro on the Serpuchowsko - Timirjasewskaja - line (also known as gray line). He was put into operation on 31 December 1988 and was named after the chemist Dmitri Mendeleev.

The station is 48.5 feet below the earth's surface. It is located in the north of the Moscow Center at the Novoslobodskaya - road leading out of town towards Dmitrov. A little further north of the station entrance the widely infamous Butyrka prison, south adjacent to the Metro Station to the Metro station Novoslobodskaya the ring line. At this station consists of a direct transition from Mendelejewskaja, which is accessible via the stairs in the middle portion of the platform. The only input or output can be reached from the northern end of the platform via escalators. These lead into the main hall of the train station, from there you can reach the output via a pedestrian underpass under the Novoslobodskaya Street. Alternatively, you can leave the metro station via the station Novoslobodskaya, which has its own output.

Metro Station has a wide central platform, which is divided into three parts by two arcade -like rows of columns. The paneling of the walls and the columns is kept entirely in white. Strikingly, the candlestick series in the three arches of the platform: In reference to the namesake of the station their mounts look like stylized molecule compounds from. At the southern end of the platform can be found under the vault mosaic composition with a portrait of Mendeleyev.

The train station is also known by the monument erected in February 2007 for the stray dog ​​" Maltschik " who lived for several years near the station and was killed by a mentally ill young woman in late 2001. The small bronze sculpture, which should call the public to a more humane treatment of neglected pets, stands in the main hall of the Mendelejewskaja in the middle between the front doors and the platform screen doors.