Have you ever wondered how many metro stations there are in the Russian capital Moscow? Of course, you can easily count, but, perhaps, in our case this is completely useless. We are interested in the metro station where Kursky Station is located, so we will talk only about it.
"Kurskaya" - where is it?
There is a metro station "Kurskaya". Kursky railway station is located here (the station was named after him).
Walking along the flight of stairs in the center of the hall from the Kurskaya station of the Circle Line, you can make the transition to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, and through the lobby at the southern exit to the Chkalovskaya station of the Ljubljana Line. The northern vestibule of this metro station leads on one side to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, and on the other to the Kursky Station.
A little history of the station
The construction of the Moscow Metro began in 1931 from Rusakovskaya Street in Sokolniki, with the digging of a mine using ordinary shovels. This, of course, significantly slowed down the pace of planned work. Initially, it was planned to build an elevated metro, and only in the center of the capital at a shallow depth they planned to build a small underground part of it.
There was a catastrophic shortage of workers. Native Muscovites were skeptical about this and did not come to work here. And only an appeal to young people helped to continue this grandiose construction project. The profession of a metro builder in those days became honorable and significant.
The first stage of the metro opened in 1935, and already in 1938 the Kurskaya metro station was opened in the second stage. Kursky Station, or rather its building, was built back in late XIX century. After that, it was reconstructed several times, so nowadays it looks quite solid and respectable.
Station design
The metro station at Kursky Station differs from all other Moscow ones not only in appearance, but also architectural style. Indeed, leading specialist Polyakov, together with experienced engineers Komarov and Kibardin, at one time created its special design - a deep three-vaulted pylon.
To this day, light gray marble clads the station’s pylons. The track walls are framed on top by white marble and below by black marble. Beautiful lamps are mounted on round ventilation holes, covered with gilded grilles. The vault of the main hall is illuminated by several huge chandeliers that resemble small suns.
How is the station connected to the train station?
A complex system of underground and above-ground buildings, which provides entrances and exits to transitions to other metro lines, connections with the large station and its interior give this station scale and majesty.
In a round underground hall - the center of this ensemble, from where they move to different sides three escalators of the E55T type, installed in 2009, there is a passage from the entrance hall of the Kursk Circle Line to the station waiting rooms, as well as to the underground ticket office pavilion connected to the ground premises of the station.
Description of the underground hall
The metro station (Kursky Station where it is located) - what is so remarkable about it? The center of the underground hall is crowned with a powerful round pillar (column). The base of the column is, as it were, recessed into the floor and a small granite side is made along its recess. Its surface is covered with stucco depicting rural motifs. The ceilings of the hall are supported by a pillar and two more rows of round and square columns. The first ones are also faced with wax-red marble, while the others are faced with light cream stone. The walls of the room are lined with yellow and pale pink marble from the Gazgan deposit.
The cash register pavilion, which is separated from the round one by a transition chamber, is decorated with four oval pylons and cylindrical columns supporting the ceiling. Along them there is a line of turnstiles. The entire room is decorated in dark, strict colors.
All walls with pylons and columns are covered with dark, almost black, interspersed with white marble, imported from the Davalu deposits. The floor is made of black gabbro and gray granite slabs. The three staircases leading to the ticket office pavilion are decorated with white marble, and the middle one, the widest, will lead you to the waiting room at the Kursky railway station.
The metro station (the diagram represents it very clearly) will seem confusing and complex at first glance, but after a short and careful study, its “labyrinths” will become accessible to anyone.
Ground pavilion
The metro station where Kursky Station is located also includes a ground pavilion, decorated with a four-column portico and unusual patterns on its facade. The design of the station lobby is somewhat reminiscent of temple buildings; it is located under an octagonal ribbed dome. The entrance is marked by rectangular high-rise pylons, on the inside of which huge swords with two handles entwined with a garland are minted in bronze. Powerful beams are laid on round columns, on which this dome rests. On the beams themselves in capital letters words from the USSR anthem are engraved.
How to get there?
Kursky Station is considered one of the largest in the capital, among the nine available. The station allows you to quickly find the necessary stations), where the station is located has the same name. The station is located at Zemlyanoy Val, 29. It is very close to the Garden Ring. It is from here that fast trains, as well as commuter trains in the Gorky and Kursk directions depart. Freight trains do not pass through this station. In addition, Kursky station is a transit station, and not a dead-end station, like most of them, except Savelovsky and Belorussky.
How to get to the airport?
The metro station where Kursky Station is located, although it does not have a direct connection with, has a favorable location in the central part of the capital, thanks to which you can reach your destination from the station in just over an hour. It will only take a few minutes to move to another subway line. So, for example, to get to Domodedovo airport, it will be enough to drive from Kurskaya (circular) just two stops (five minutes) to Paveletskaya station and then transfer to the Aeroexpress, which runs there almost hourly. Travel time will be only 40-50 minutes.
Moving to other places will also not be too difficult for anyone. And we must not forget that Kursk Station! The metro station here is very well located, allowing you to get anywhere without difficulty. Thus, to the square of three famous train stations (Kazansky, Yaroslavsky and Leningradsky) you need to travel only one stop. This will be the Komsomolskaya station. Amazing, isn't it? If you get there by land, it may take at least an hour, given that it is easy to get into traffic jams.
Station sights
Many attractions surround Kursky Station. We now know which metro station is needed to get on the train departing from it. Let's go on a little trip around the Moscow Garden Ring to capture the beauty of the marvelous capital.
If you are a fan of theatrical creativity, then you should definitely visit the well-known Sovremennik or the Taganka Theater, located very close. There you will definitely take a break from the bustle of Moscow, people always rushing somewhere, and fully enjoy the beautiful and exciting game famous actors.
Lovers and connoisseurs of historical and cultural values free time can devote themselves to getting to know the Rublev Central Museum and visiting St. Basil's Cathedral. And very close to the Kursky railway station is the Atrium shopping and entertainment center. In addition to many shops where you can buy various souvenirs in memory of the capital, there is a cinema with comfortable rooms for watching films. Children will also not be left unattended. There is a special playroom for them, where they will be busy all this time and will definitely not get bored.
You also don’t have to worry about spending the night in this city. There are many hotels, hostels, and mini-hotels in the station area various levels“stardom”, so everyone can choose what they can afford.
Well, now you know what Kurskaya (metro station), Kursky Station is and how to get there. Welcome to the capital!
In 2009, one of the most beautiful above-ground lobbies of the capital’s subway was opened - the entrance to the Kurskaya-Koltsevaya metro station. Now he looks almost the same as he did fifty-nine years ago. The Kurskaya-Koltsevaya station was opened as part of the Park Kultury - Kurskaya section on January 1, 1950. In the photographs you will see that the appearance of the station has indeed regained its original appearance, as it was when it opened in 1950. But first, a little background, as it was before the reconstruction.
On the facade of the lobby there are two dates “1945” and “1949”, but according to legend, J.V. Stalin himself moved the date to January 1, 1950, so that the first section of the Circle Line would not become part of the celebrations in honor of the leader’s 70th birthday.
The station received its name from the train station of the same name.
Architects: G.A.Zakharov, Z.S.Chernysheva.
Design engineers: L.I. Gorelik, P.S. Smetankin.
The central vault and the vaults of the side tunnels each rest on their own row of columns installed side by side. In the middle, where there is a transition to the station of the same name on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, the vault rests on pylons, which, together with the beginning of the transition, form a kind of “gazebo”. The design uses original lamps placed in the niches of the pylons framing the granite transition staircase. The pylons and columns of the central hall are covered with light Koelga marble. The relief details are made of gilded metal. The rich and expressive pattern of decorative elements develops the theme of the dawn of our country. The floor is paved with red and gray granite.
The ground lobby is located in a building adjacent to the Kursky railway station. It contained a sculpture of J.V. Stalin (author N.V. Tomsky, not preserved). One level below the lobby is an underground circular antechamber, finished in dark red, golden pink, light gray and black marble. The center of the antechamber is decorated with an original flower column in which lamps are hidden. From it there is an entrance to the ground floor of the Kursky railway station building and to the underground passage to the boarding platforms. This room is also adjacent to the entrance hall of the Kurskaya station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.
In 1950, the station's architects were awarded the Stalin Prize.
In 1995, from the southern end of the station, a second exit was built into the common lobby with the Chkalovskaya station on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.
On the facade of the lobby there are two dates “1945” and “1949”, but according to legend, J.V. Stalin himself moved the date to January 1, 1950, so that the first section of the Circle Line would not become part of the celebrations in honor of the leader’s 70th birthday. The pavilion was built in an open place that was visible from all sides. Now it is leaning against the new building of the Kursk railway station. The station lobby is interesting because it has many similar features to temple buildings. Oriented by the entrance to the west and the inner altar part to the east, it reveals the meaning of the building - the Temple of Victory. Behind the entrance, after the rectangular antechamber, there is a central two-story room under a complex octagonal ribbed dome. The entrance to the hall is conventionally marked by two rectangular pylons up to the base of the dome. on their internal sides chasing on bronze: huge two-handed swords, entwined with garlands. The dome rests on powerful beams laid on high round columns. On these beams there is an inscription with the text of the second verse of the USSR anthem:
Through the storms the sun of freedom shone for us,
And the great Lenin illuminated the path for us.
Stalin raised us to be loyal to the people
He inspired us to work and to deeds.
After the XXII Congress of the CPSU in 1961, the last two lines were removed, creating an asymmetry on the beams. The monument to Stalin in the apse (the work of sculptor Nikolai Tomsky) was also dismantled, and the coinage on the high relief of the medal “For the Defense of Stalingrad” was changed to Volgograd in connection with the renaming of the city. At major renovation lobby in 2008-2009, it was decided to restore the lost parts along with the restoration of the building (except for the restoration of the monument). However, instead of restoring the full quotation of the second verse of the hymn, the lost part was restored to replace the first two lines, and the inscription was distributed symmetrically. And on the night of October 24, 2009 full text was recreated in the same place, which almost completely restored the architectural meaning of the hall as the “Sun of Victory”.
Photos after reconstruction and opening of the station:
Order of Victory on the U-shaped entrance portal.
Separately, I would like to note that the original line from the anthem, which was written at the opening of the station, was restored in the lobby: “Stalin raised us to be loyal to the people, to work, and inspired us to heroic deeds.”
It took more than a year to update the lobby, although the actual restoration work took only two months. Unfortunately, exclusive furniture Stalin's times and corresponding cash registers not installed - dull chipboard boxes are visible behind the wooden frames.
All small details have been recreated as they were. All embossing and stucco are in perfect condition.
Also on the swords the names of the city of Stalingrad and the inscription “For the Motherland For Stalin” have been restored. Initially, the letters were simply knocked down and instead they were made with overhead letters about Volgograd. Now the overhead letters are about Stalingrad.
In the restored lobby there is no sculpture of Joseph Stalin known to Muscovites from old photographs. Moscow Metro Dmitry Gaev says that it was lost back in the late 50s: “We considered the question of whether to erect another monument, but decided to leave just a light niche.”
Sculptures, lamps, floor lamps were restored, ornaments, floors and staircases were restored.
During the renovation, a complete reconstruction of the station's entrance hall was also carried out: the granite floor covering was replaced, the famous "Stone Flower" column was restored and restored.
The reconstruction cost 120 million rubles. But the metro is not going to stop there. Work will begin at the Belorusskaya station on the Circle Line, as well as on the transition from Belorusskaya-Koltsevaya to Belorusskaya-Radialnaya.
PySy: Question for Muscovites: after the restoration, was the name "preserved" in the name of the station?Kurskaya-Koltsevaya Moscow metro named after V.I. Lenin"?!
After all, the full name of the capital's metro is the State Unitary Enterprise of the City of Moscow "Moscow Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labor Metro named after V. I. Lenin."
There was already a scandal when the words “...named after V.I. Lenin” “suddenly” disappeared from the name of the Otradnoye metro station.
Citizens accused Moscow authorities of deliberately excluding the words “named after Lenin” from renovated subway stations. The head of the capital’s transport department, Maxim Liksutov, said that the mayor’s office has no goal of removing Lenin or the Order of the Red Banner from the name of the metro. — The letters that were there will be on the new Otradnoye sign and on all stations that are being reconstructed. The signs will be supplemented, the metro press service said. At all metro stations where reconstruction is taking place, signs with the names of the stations with the words “Metropolitan named after Lenin” will return.
PySy2: my friend responded to a request about what the name of the Kurskaya metro station is now, excellent knowledgeable about history Moscow echo_2013 . She found these photos on Yandex Photos:
Kurskaya-ring
Kursk-radial
And another fragment of the anthem in the Stalinist version:
Opening date of the Kurskaya station on the Circle Line: 01/01/1950.
Opened as part of the Park of Culture - Kursk section.
The design of the station is a deep three-vaulted column structure.
Constructed from prefabricated cast iron trim. The arch of the central tunnel and the vaults each rest on their own row of columns installed side by side. Each pair of adjacent columns is architecturally designed as one column.
Architects: G.A.Zakharov, Z.S.Chernysheva.
Design engineers: L.I. Gorelik, P.S. Smetankin.
The station received its name from the train station of the same name.
The central vault and the vaults of the side tunnels each rest on their own row of columns installed side by side. In the middle, where there is a transition to the station of the same name on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, the vault rests on pylons, which, together with the beginning of the transition, form a kind of “gazebo”. The design uses original lamps placed in the niches of the pylons framing the granite transition staircase. The pylons and columns of the central hall are covered with light Koelga marble. The relief details are made of gilded metal. The rich and expressive pattern of decorative elements develops the theme of the dawn of our country. The floor is paved with red and gray granite.
The ground lobby is located in a building adjacent to the Kursky railway station. It contained a sculpture of J.V. Stalin (author N.V. Tomsky, not preserved). One level below the lobby is an underground circular antechamber, finished in dark red, golden pink, light gray and black marble. The center of the antechamber is decorated with an original flower column in which lamps are hidden. From it there is an entrance to the ground floor of the Kursky railway station building and to the underground passage to the boarding platforms. This room is also adjacent to the entrance hall of the Kurskaya station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.
In 1950, the station's architects were awarded the Stalin Prize.
In 1995, from the southern end of the station, a second exit was built into the common lobby with the Chkalovskaya station on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.
On the facade of the lobby there are two dates “1945” and “1949”, but according to legend, J.V. Stalin himself moved the date to January 1, 1950, so that the first section of the Circle Line would not become part of the celebrations in honor of the leader’s 70th birthday. The pavilion was built in an open place that was visible from all sides. Now it is leaning against the new building of the Kursk railway station. The station lobby is interesting because it has many similar features to temple buildings. Oriented by the entrance to the west and the inner altar part to the east, it reveals the meaning of the building - the Temple of Victory. Behind the entrance, after the rectangular antechamber, there is a central two-story room under a complex octagonal ribbed dome. The entrance to the hall is conventionally marked by two rectangular pylons up to the base of the dome. On their inner sides there is chasing in bronze: huge two-handed swords entwined with garlands. The dome rests on powerful beams laid on high round columns. On these beams there is an inscription with the text of the second verse of the USSR anthem:
Through the storms the sun of freedom shone for us,
And the great Lenin illuminated the path for us.
Stalin raised us to be loyal to the people
He inspired us to work and to deeds.
After the XXII Congress of the CPSU in 1961, the last two lines were removed, creating an asymmetry on the beams. The monument to Stalin in the apse (the work of sculptor Nikolai Tomsky) was also dismantled, and the coinage on the high relief of the medal “For the Defense of Stalingrad” was changed to Volgograd in connection with the renaming of the city. During the major renovation of the lobby in 2008-2009, it was decided to restore the lost parts along with the restoration of the building (except for the restoration of the monument). However, instead of restoring the full quotation of the second verse of the hymn, the lost part was restored to replace the first two lines, and the inscription was distributed symmetrically. And on the night of October 24, 2009, the full text was recreated in its original place, which almost completely restored the architectural meaning of the hall as the “Sun of Victory.”
The Kurskaya metro station is located between the Ploshchad Revolyutsii and Baumanskaya stations of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. It is part of an interchange hub consisting of three stations.
Station history
History of the name
The station got its name thanks to the Kursk railway station, located nearby.
Description of the station
The station design is dedicated agriculture. The track walls are lined with white ceramic tiles and black marble. The floor is covered with granite in gray, black and red colors. The pylons are finished in white marble with gray veins. The station arch is decorated with relief ornaments. Two types of lamps illuminate the station. There are flat round chandeliers on the ceiling. In the central hall, the lamps are placed in decorative grilles depicting ears of corn and located on pylons.
Specifications
The Kurskaya station was built according to a standard design. This is a pylon, three-vaulted deep station located at a depth of 40 meters. The dimensions of the vaults are also standard: the central hall has a diameter of 9.5 meters, the side halls - 8.5 meters. Since the Kurskaya station was the final station until 1944, a posherstny exit has been preserved outside its boundaries, used today for official transportation and in case of emergency situations.
Lobbies and transfers
The station has connections to the Chkalovskaya station of the Lyublin Line and to the station of the same name on the Circle Line. The Kurskaya metro station has a common connection with Circle station a vestibule from which there are two exits. One of them leads to the platforms of the Kursk station, the second - to the street. Zemlyanoy Val and Nizhny Susalny Lane. You can go to the Circle Line station using the stairs located in the center of the hall. This crossing was opened in 1950. The transition to the Lublin Line was opened in 1996. It was built at the western end of the station. To get to the Lublin Line, you need to use escalators.
Ground infrastructure
The most famous part of the station's infrastructure is Kursky Station. Train directions: Kursk, Gorkovskoe, Smolensk and Tallinn. Near the station there is the Atrium shopping and entertainment complex, which has a beauty salon, bowling alley, cinema, shops, pizzeria, restaurants and cafes. In the immediate vicinity of the station there are banks and ATMs, pharmacies, a hospital and a center for spiritual revival using oriental medicine methods.