Novoslobodskaya
Novoslobodskaya (Russian Новослободская; ? Pronunciation / i ) is an underground station of the Moscow Metro on the ring line ( Koltsevaya - line). He was put into operation on January 30, 1952 within the second of three phases of the line.
Description
The train station is located north of the historic Moscow city center on the eponymous street Novoslobodskaya Ulitsa, which continues north into the arterial road " Dmitrower road ". Along this road is located within walking distance of the subway station Novoslobodskaya also known Butyrka detention center. Further north lies the Savyolovsky station, for the made up to 1988 Opening of the metro station Savelovskaya Novoslobodskaya had been the closest subway station.
The train station is 40 meters below ground and has access to the Novoslobodskaya Ulitsa. This approach is integrated into a surface Vestibülgebäude which is designed similar to the other Moscow Metrovestibülen generous and is externally provided with a six -column portico. From the platform into the vestibule is accessed via escalators. 1988 stairs were built in the central area of the platform hall, by which you can reach via transition bridges over the railroad tracks to the then newly opened station Mendelejewskaja the Serpuchowsko - Timirjasewskaja line. Before the opening of this station set Novoslobodskaya is the last metro station Koltsevaya line, which still had no interchanges to other stations.
The escalator shaft to the output begins at the western end of the concourse, while the latter east ends in a dead end.
Architecture
Like most other metro stations on the circle line has Novoslobodskaya on a very magnificent shape and has a three-part platform hall on a central platform, the central region ( 9.5 m wide) is optically separated from the two track areas respectively by a weißmarmorne pylon row.
A special feature, which does not exist in other Moscow Metro stations that are the characteristic stained glass in arched surrounds with which the pylons are decorated. In total there is to see on the Novoslobodskaya 32 such mounts, the paintings are artificially illuminated from the inside, which gives them a particularly colorful and solemn figure. The concept of these paintings comes from renowned painter Pavel Korin, who had run the compilation in a workshop in Riga. Since the stained glass can slightly resemble the Bahnsteighalle a sacral building, which was considered inappropriate in the Soviet Union, Korin had for this project partially take criticism. In contrast, the paintings came with passengers of the Moscow Metro virtue of the substantial obscurity of this genre in Russia of the early Soviet period and the related exotic flair good. Even today applies Novoslobodskaya therefore as one of the most unusual architectural Moscow metro stations.