Novokuznetskaya

Novokuznetskaya (Russian: Новокузнецкая) is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. The station was opened on 20 November 1943.

Novokuznetskaya
Moscow Metro station
General information
LocationZamoskvorechye District
Central Administrative Okrug
Moscow
Russia
Coordinates55.7415°N 37.6295°E / 55.7415; 37.6295
Owned byMoskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)#2 Zamoskvoretskaya line Zamoskvoretskaya line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
ConnectionsBus: м90, н8 (night route)
Tram: A, 3, 39
Construction
Depth37.5 metres (123 ft)
Platform levels1
ParkingNo
Other information
Station code031
History
Opened20 November 1943 (1943-11-20)
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station
Teatralnaya
towards Khovrino
Zamoskvoretskaya line Paveletskaya
Oktyabrskaya Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line
transfer at Tretyakovskaya
Kitay-gorod
towards Medvedkovo
Terminus Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line
(Kalininsky radius)
transfer at Tretyakovskaya
Marksistskaya
towards Novokosino
Location
Novokuznetskaya is located in Central Moscow
Novokuznetskaya
Novokuznetskaya
Location within Central Moscow

History

Construction of the station began shortly after the launch of the second stage in 1938. Despite World War II the station was opened on time. Later in 1978 the platform was lengthened. This part is in a more modern style than the rest of the station.

Design

The station honors the Soviet fighting men with its heavy ornamentation. The architects, I. Taranov and N. Bykova, won a USSR State Prize for their design.

The decorations include seven octagonal ceiling mosaics by Vladimir Frolov on the theme of wartime industry and bas-reliefs running along the base of the ceiling (by artists N.V. Tomsky, A.E. Zelensky, S.M. Rabinovich, and N.M. Shtamm) depicting the soldiers of the Red Army in combat. The pink and white marble pylons are also decorated with cast-bronze portraits of Russian war heroes like Mikhail Kutuzov and Alexander Nevsky. Floor lamps, long since replaced with more up-to-date lighting in other Metro stations, still give Novokuznetskaya an atmosphere of brooding shadow.

There is an urban legend that the station's ornate benches were made of Carrara marble taken from the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour just before it was demolished (in 1931), but it is not true, and the marble was from Ural, not Italy.[1]

Station platform with leaving train. Note the upper pass connects with Tretyakovskaya station, served by the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line and the Kalininskaya Line

Exits

Novokuznetskaya vestibule

Novokuznetskaya's round entrance vestibule is located off Pyatnitskaya Street, north of the intersection with Klimentovsky lane.

Transfers

From this station it is possible to transfer to Tretyakovskaya, a cross-platform station serving both the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line and the Kalininskaya Line.

References

  1. Kusy I.A. et al. (2005), 1935-2005. Moscow Metro, Vokrug Sveta Publishing House, Yaroslavl, ISBN 5-98652-032-7, p. 74.
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