Volokolamskaya (Moscow Metro)
Wolokolamskaja (Russian Волоколамская; ? Pronunciation / i ) is an underground station of the Moscow Metro on the Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja - line (also called line 3 ).
Description
Wolokolamskaja is located in the extreme west of Moscow, in Stadtrajon Mitino that belongs to the North-Western Administrative District of the city, about one kilometer outside the ring road MKAD.
The subway station was put into operation on 26 December 2009. The construction had begun in the 1990s, but had to be interrupted for economic reasons, until it was resumed in January 2008 at the time. Simultaneously with Wolokolamskaja the two stations Mjakinino and Mitino were opened, and between Mjakinino and Wolokolamskaja a new metro bridge over the Moskva River was built.
The scale underground metro station has two additions to Mitinskaja Street and near the main road Volokolamsk highway, according to the Metro Station was named. Also near the subway station run the tracks of the railway highway Moscow -Riga. There are long term plans to build there in the area of underground station Wolokolamskaja a breakpoint on local trains to create interchanges between the metro and suburban services.
Architecture
The two entrances to the station are each incorporated into a surface Vestibülgebäude where the counter areas with access barriers are. From there, up and down escalators lead to the current platform. The walls of the main hall and the two escalator wells are covered with black marble, as are arranged at a distance of nine meters pillars of reinforced concrete that visually separate the central platform into three parts. The pillars forming two arcade -like rows, between which above 8.1 meters unusually high vault of the entire platform area provides a very spacious " cathedral-like " impression. The hall is illuminated by round in large niches along the vault hidden lights. The floor liner is held in gray granite.
Others
Wolokolamskaja long time was also the project name of another Moscow Metro station. This was built during the construction of the north-western branch of the Tagansko - Krasnopresnenskaja - line between the Schtschukinskaja and Tushinskaya metro stations in the shell to prevent a planned residential area. Later the plans were rejected, so that the station until today remains a ghost station. Meanwhile, there are plans, but still finish this subway station, but under the name Spartak Stadium, since 2012, in its domain, a new football stadium to be built for the club Spartak Moscow.