Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo II (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Alexander Nevsky Square -2 (Russian Площадь Александра Невского -2 ) is a metro station in St. Petersburg (Russia ) on the line 4 ( " Prawobereschnaja - line ") of the Metro St Petersburg. The subway station was put into operation on 30 December 1985 under the first phase of construction of Line 4.
General Description
The station served from the beginning as a transfer station for the same subway station in 1967, opened the third line. Since the 1990s, the station of Line 4 will be officially designated on line maps and signs as Alexander Nevsky Square -2, ie, in demarcation of 18 years earlier built subway station of line 3, which accordingly Alexander Nevsky Square -1. In automatic station announcements in subway trains, however, both underground stations are simply named Alexander Nevsky Square. The latter stands for " Alexander Nevsky Square " and points to the location of the subway station under the same space at the eastern end of the central St. Petersburg Nevsky Prospect.
Metro Station on Line 4 is built at a depth of 60 meters below the surface, and thus a few meters deeper than Alexander Nevsky Square -1. In addition to the transition to line 3, it has a separate entrance with walk-in counter area, which is incorporated in a five-story administrative building on the south side of the Nevsky Prospect. From this input, among other things, the eponymous for the place Alexander Nevsky Monastery can be reached in two to three minute walk away. Three escalators connect the main hall with an intermediate level of the short stairs to the platform to the right leads at its western end. The escalators at the other end of the platform lead to the transition tunnel to the line 3
During regular operation, the Zugangsvestibül of Alexander Nevsky Square -2 is only open on weekdays 7-20 clock, while at other times, due to the relatively low ridership on the vestibule of the line 3 must be dodged. Since the latter is since 2010 and is expected by spring 2011 closed for a complete renovation, the vestibule of the line 4 is currently, even on weekends, open all day until closing time after midnight.
Wall on one of the tracks with the station name lettering
A train before departure
Architecture
Similar to the station of Line 3 was also in the design of Alexander Nevsky Square - 2, the action of the national hero Alexander Nevsky, after which the square is named, thematic area; that the U -Bahn station was built in contrast to Alexander Nevsky Square -1 without platform screen doors, enlarged it in comparison to this the leeway. Thus, the composition of a wall mosaic in the entrance vestibule, the Battle on the Ice on the topic ( with the victory in this battle fought Alexander Nevsky of Novgorod prince as an attack of the Knights of the Teutonic Order from ). Their cladding semicircular, fish scale-like aluminum sheets reminiscent of a chain armor in the Russian Middle Ages, as well: In the station hall, which is designed as a central platform under one of white marble columns supported in two arcade -like rows of arches, especially the walls on the two track beds are conspicuous must have come in the battle on the Ice widely used. As a further tribute to the prince a statue of Alexander Nevsky was provided in the intermediate level to the exit. This project, most recently planned in the 1990s by the late sculptor Mikhail Anikuschin later, but was not implemented, so the set up for this sculpture wall niche still stands empty.