Vorobyovy Gory (Moscow Metro)

Vorobyovy Gory (Russian Воробьёвы горы pronunciation? / I ) is a station of the Moscow Metro on the Sokolnicheskaya line (also called " red line " called ). It is located very close to the Sparrow Hills, one of which ( in Russian Vorobyovy Gory ) it has its name.

General

Vorobyovy Gory is the only station on the Moscow subway system, which is located directly on a bridge. The station occupies the entire lower level of a two storey bridge over the Moskva River, whose upper level is the traffic reserved. This lower level is fully glazed so that the station has a closed design, however, however, is above ground and is illuminated with natural light.

The station Vorobyovy Gory has two input or output areas with ticket halls on both platforms. Because of the location right on the river caused greater distance between the two outputs, the total length of the platform is 284 meters, which is also for Moscow standards unusually long. The two outputs are on two different sides of the river. The southern exit is on the slopes of the Sparrow Hills and into the local green spaces as well as on the riverside promenade, is reached via the north exit on the opposite bank, among others, the Luzhniki Stadium and the surrounding sports facilities. Since the southern exit is much less used than the northern, it is open only 7-22 clock. At any time there is for pedestrians, however, the possibility of crossing the bridge over a side bar.

For major events in the Luzhniki Stadium, the station is temporarily closed for the input or output to avoid overloading.

History

Originally, the station on January 12, 1959, taken as part of the southern extension of the red line of Sportivnaya after Uniwersitet in operation. At the same time, the new two-storey bridge over the Moscow River was opened to traffic. Initially called the station Leninskiye Gory, literally " Lenin Hills ", as of 1935 the name of the Sparrow Hills was until the early 1990s.

Since inferior material was used in the construction of the bridge for cost reasons, it already came a few years after its completion, to wear on the supporting structures. Beginning of the 1980s was the lower part of the bridge already so far decayed, that the station could not be continued and was finally decommissioned on 20 October 1983. Since the entire lower level of the bridge was to demolish, had on both sides of a makeshift two temporary bridges are set up so that the trains could pass the path continues, albeit without stopping. The required complete construction of the new station, however, was delayed in the years again and again, not least because of the critical financial situation of the Moscow metro during the economic decline of the late 1980s and the 1990s in Russia. So it was that the construction of the Metro bridge was taken only from 1999 in earnest.

On 14 December 2002 finally opened the newly built station, now under the name " Vorobyovy Gory " - " Sparrow Hills ". At the old station now remember only the extant remains of the former escalator hall on the mountainside. The new south exit was a little off built thereof; all entrance buildings and platform installations as well as adjacent tunnel sections were also built from scratch.