Tekhnologichesky Institut (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Technologitscheski Institute (Russian Технологический институт ) is an underground station of the Saint Petersburg Metro, which is located in the southern city center of Saint Petersburg ( Russia).

The metro station is a change junctions between lines 1 and 2 dar. Unlike other transfer hubs of the St. Petersburg metro system, is not two separate metro stations, but a train station, the two separate platforms, however, a common Zugangsvestibül features. The two platforms are each served by trains on both lines, which without changing direction allows a rapid transfer at the transition between two lines. Said on line plans usually Technologitscheski Institute -1 platform was put into operation on November 15, 1955 as part of the first phase of the Leningrad Metro, the other, according as Technologitscheski Institute -2 platform was known on 11 April 1961, prior to the opening of line 2 in operation.

Location and description

The name Technologitscheski Institute means " Technological Institute " and is the location of the subway station, due in the immediate vicinity of the campus of the State Technological Institute, a long-established technical university. The entire station, including its four tracks and two platforms is around 60 meters below the earth's surface and has only a single Zugangsvestibül, located on the exit road Moskovsky Prospekt (Russian Московский проспект ) at its intersection with Zagorodny Prospect ( Загородный проспект ), approximately in the middle between the Fontanka River and the Obwodny channel is located. On Zugangsvestibül There are links to inner-city bus, trolleybus and tram lines.

The common vestibule is built into the three-storey administrative building of the Metro St Petersburg on the east side of Moskovsky Prospect. Both the building as well as the main hall inside date from the year 1955. After passing through the ticket barriers leads to two escalator shafts, of which the one to the platform 1 and the second leads to the platform 2. Passengers who want to switch between the two platforms may do so through a separate tunnel transition, which can be reached via up- stairs in the middle region of the two parallel and located at the same depth platforms.

From the start of Technologitscheski Institute -1 on 15 November 1955 to the construction of Technologitscheski Institute held two trains on Line 1 at that time the only first platform. Since then, the second platform as well as leading to him track facilities were put into operation on 11 April 1961 find trains, line 1, continue south on the first platform, trains on the same line to the north, however, on the second. On 29 April 1961, the time at the Institute Technologitscheski station ending first section of Line 2 was put into operation. Since then trains the line hold 2 towards the south on the first platform and the trains of the same line towards the north on the second, each opposite direction same trains on line 1 This constellation was at the underground station Technologitscheski Institute for the first time in the former Soviet Union Metro Station created with a platform same transition between two different lines ( comparable transfer hubs in the Moscow Metro as Kitai -Gorod and va Tretyakovskaya were only built in the 1970s or 1980s ).

Passengers who change the direction of travel when switching between the two lines, use the tunnel transition between the platforms. Prior to commissioning of the escalators from the second platform to the common switch hall in 1980, this transitional tunnel also served as access to the second platform, because this was until then to reach from the road only on the escalators of the first platform.

Architecture

Since the two platform halls of the station were built at different times, they differ both in the type of construction and in the richness of the decoration. In 1955 built platform is one of the seven metro stations of the first phase, which influences the magnificent, " Stalinist " post-war architecture, as practiced for example in the Moscow metro that time, are visible. The central platform is completed by one of two arcade -like rows of columns based vault, in the color scheme is dominated by the white marble of the arcades and the platform walls and the light gray granite of the floor. As an additional decorative element total of 24 bronze bas-relief medallions were mounted directly above the columns that alternate plant ornaments and - based on the proximity of the station to the Technological Institute, an important exactly scientific elite - Portrait pictures of prominent Russian scholar ( including the botanist Mitschurin, the physician spondylitis, the bacteriologist and Nobel laureate Metchnikoff, the physiologist and Nobel Prize winner Pavlov, the space pioneer Tsiolkovsky, the chemist Mendeleev and the polymath Lomonosov ) include. From the intermediate hall in the middle of the platform stairs lead to the transition tunnel to the second platform. This hall adorned earlier medallions with images of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, but the construction of the transition beginning of the 1960s remained only the medallions of Marx and Lenin.

In the design of the second, in 1961, opened Bahnsteighalle the influence of restrained, " economical " style of the 1960s is more likely to recognize. For the color design white and gray of the first hall was retained, the vault comes without additional decorative elements and is supported by two rows of plain rectangular pylons. The visible at the top of the pylons lettering mark important milestones of Soviet science and research - starting with the action taken at Lenin's behest in 1920 nationwide electrification of the country, to the development of large-capacity passenger aircraft Ilyushin Il -86 in 1979.