Sokolniki District

Sokolniki (Russian Сокольники, pronunciation? / I ) is a district in the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow, Russia. It is also the name of an undertaking in this neighborhood subway station of the Moscow Metro.

Sokolniki is mainly known through a large city forest park, the north adjoins the district and is a popular recreation destination. Further north go to the forest areas of the park in the National Park Losiny. Other well-known objects in Sokolniki are the fairgrounds, the Abrikossow factory as well as the sports palace Sokolniki.

Metro Station Sokolniki

Metro Station Sokolniki was opened on 15 May 1935 at the frame of the oldest phase of construction of the Moscow Metro. Until 1965, he served as the northeastern terminus of the "red" Sokolnicheskaya line, then the line has been extended for another station to Preobraschenskaja Ploshchad. It is also a metro bridge over the river Jausa was built on the eastern edge of Sokolniki. Today Sokolniki is widely regarded as the oldest of Moscow metro stations, as with the excavation of a first excavation in the vicinity in November 1931, the subway construction in Moscow.

The station has a single entry, which is installed in an arcuate Vestibülgebäude near the arterial road Russakowskaja uliza and Sokolniki Park. With the platform hall vestibule is connected by two stairways and one interposition of a transition to the ticket counter level. The train shed, which is applied very flat for Moscow standards with only nine meters below the surface, has a for stations of the first Moscow construction phase from 1935 typical, rather functional architecture: a central platform with ceramic tiled walls, separated by two rows of square and gray marble -clad columns. From this basic construction of the station structure is strongly reminiscent of the which was also opened on May 15, 1935 Arbatskaya Metro Station, which now belongs to Filjowskaja line.