Transition from Kursk to Chkalovskaya. Metro station. Which station is Kursky Station located at?
The Kurskaya metro station is located between the Ploshchad Revolyutsii and Baumanskaya stations of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. It is part of transfer 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
Kurskaya station was built according to standard project. 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 it, used today for official transportation and in case of emergency situations.
Lobbies and transfers
The station has connections to the Chkalovskaya station of the Lyublinskaya line and to the station of the same name Circle line. The Kurskaya metro station has a common lobby with the Ring Station, 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.
A long time ago, 10 years ago, on the night of November 24-25, I celebrated my 26th birthday. This was my first official shoot in a subway tunnel. This is a unique gift from the metro. In April 2013, I returned to this station to reshoot it, take panoramas, and look into the tunnel not from the edge, as it was then, but to fully see the local beauty. And they are there.
I only got around to posting this photo now. :) Let's see!
1. “Kurskaya” is a station on the Circle Line of the Moscow Metro. Located under the square of the Kursky railway station between the Komsomolskaya and Taganskaya stations.
2. The station opened on January 1, 1950 as part of the first section “Kurskaya” - “Park Kultury” of the Circle Line. Named after the Kursk railway station, near which it is located. It has transitions to the stations “Kurskaya” of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line and “Chkalovskaya” of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.
3. We will begin the inspection with the new lobby, opened in 1995 - this is a combined lobby from the Chkalovskaya station.
4. In my opinion, despite the airborne theme, the new lobby is very boring and dull.
5. B suspended ceilings installed light caissons that look like circles different diameters. The two largest caissons are located in front of the arches of the escalator tunnels, which are located along the opposite short walls of the hall. Light windows closed with tubular metal bars. The walls and columns are lined with gray and white marble.
6. Characteristic slope finish for the 80s and 90s.
7. And this is the old exit from Kurskaya, but with new escalators. From July 3, 2008 to May 14, 2009, work was carried out to replace the machines.
8. The design of the station is a deep, three-vaulted column structure. The design uses prefabricated cast iron lining.
9. I couldn’t find any mention in any textbook of how the transfer to the radial station was made. I can assume that the pylons are made of monolithic reinforced concrete, like the arch of this “chamber”.
10. If you look into the tunnels, you can see how the track tunnels come closer together in front of the station (at both ends). There is an assumption that initially the station should have been a pylon; according to the standard design, the transport tunnels had already been partially built at a greater distance from each other. A change in the project also required bringing the track tunnels closer together. The station itself was built according to unique project, which has not been used anywhere else.
11. And here is a scan of a page from Limanov’s book “Metropolitans”. You can download the full PDF of this wonderful book from me.
12. The entire column complex is in its glory. By the way, at one time, identification of the drawing of this station was carried out by the method of exclusion. Fortunately, the column stations individual project not so much.
14. The central hall resembles an ancient Roman hall of the basilica type. The pylons and columns of the Doric order are covered with light Koelga marble.
15. As far as I remember, four floor lamps were dismantled in the 90s and returned to their place after the modernization of the station’s lighting was completed in May 2009.
16. Original floor lamps were lost or misplaced. They returned a pitiful semblance, but, however, in an anti-vandal design, which is more important. The original floor lamps seem to have been made of crystal glass.
17. Panoramic view of the station.
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18. And a little brain drain :)
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19. The transition to the station "" of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line is located in the center of the hall. The transition begins with a staircase to the bridge across the platform from which trains depart towards Taganskaya. Then long corridor, from which you can get into a transition chamber with stairs to the descent (south) and to the ascent (north).
20. There is such a sign in the passage. On it, like on the façade of the lobby, the dates are indicated: “1945” and “1949”. But according to legend, Stalin himself moved the opening date of the station to January 1, 1950, so that the launch of the first section of the Circle Line would not become part of the celebrations in honor of the leader’s 70th birthday.
21. Bridge over the tracks.
22. Kurskaya station is one of the two largest stations of the Moscow metro (together with Komsomolskaya).
23. The cast figured gilded lattice on the track wall has the inscription “Kurskaya of the Big Ring 1945-1949”, reminiscent of the metro development project of 1947, according to which it was planned to create a small ring metro line approximately within the Boulevard Ring, by closing the twice intersecting Dzerzhinsko- Serpukhov and Kaluga-Timiryazevsky diameters
24. The architectural decor of the station is deeply symbolic.
25. All three parts - the central hall, the transitional round antechamber "Renaissance" with a giant column-capital and the pavilion - personify the idea of the sun and the glory of the Victory and the divinity of its achievement.
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26. The floor is laid out geometric pattern made of black gabbro, labradorite and crimson Tokovsky granite. The chandeliers are reminiscent of ancient Roman lamps, which look like suns from below.
27. Many thanks to the press service of the Moscow Metro and the Tunnel Structures Service for their assistance in organizing this shooting.
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”. Used in the design 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. Rich and expressive ornament 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. It has an entrance to ground floor building of the Kursk railway station and into 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 a lot similar traits with 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 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. 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 from 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.”
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 of Culture - 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 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 from 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.”
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 - for wooden frames dull chipboard boxes are visible.
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 State unitary enterprise of the city of Moscow "Moscow Order of Lenin and the 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 removing 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, who knows the history of Moscow very well, responded to a request about the name of the Kurskaya metro station today. echo_2013 . She found these photos on Yandex Photos:
Kurskaya-ring
Kursk-radial
And another fragment of the anthem in the Stalinist version:
July 12th, 2015
Another major transport hub on the Circle Line. Or rather, not even that... The largest transport hub on the Circle Line. According to data for 2011, 246 thousand people pass through the Kurskaya metro stations of the Circle and Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya lines, as well as the Chkalovskaya station every day. This is the most high rate in the Moscow metro. The station is equipped with a ground vestibule. After the construction of the station, they did not create a combined ground vestibule, as was the case at the metro station. . The lobby itself, it seems to me, is the most interesting, beautiful, pompous part of the station. But let's go and have a look.
TTX station.
Archive photo. It is written that there is some kind of construction, but most likely they are just changing the rails.
A meeting to mark the opening of a new section and metro station "Kurskaya". The cult of personality gave everything.
The ground vestibule in its original form. Now this side part is adjacent to the station.
Suddenly there was some strange roof on the pavilion. It can only be seen from afar.
And here is the original view of the hall in the pavilion. The beautiful floor, laid out with small tiles, attracts attention.
And of course, in the currently empty niche stands the Father of Nations. The photo shows that the sculpture is very cool (regardless of Stalin’s personality). Really a work of art. Authorship - sculptor Tomsky. He mainly sculpted leaders, but not only. He is the author of the monument to Gogol, on Gogol Boulevard. Stalin and Kursk were removed after 1961 and eventually lost.
Beauty, no validators. Travel with tickets.
A bit of propaganda. It is interesting that now modern architects do not make conceptual projects at all and do not praise the “greatness of the freedom-loving Russian people.” Although ostentatious patriotism is now blooming wildly.
Station hall in the area of the transition to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. Which beautiful lamps. I understand that the original lamps have been lost!
Soviet people in the subway.
Looks like a staged photo again.
But this is cool. It's great that the subway THEN was first and foremost a work of art. Even in the chronicles the stations are called “underground palaces”
Here's an excellent color photo. Wonderful composition of type D at the station. Kurskaya.
1. So let's take a walk around the modern station. Let's start with the ground vestibule. The pavilion looks very pompous. At night, the space inside the peculiar portico is illuminated. It's a pity that the pavilion itself is not illuminated.
2. During the day, the pavilion looks like this. In front of the pavilion on the square there is a beautiful granite mosaic laid out. They installed benches and lanterns - it became very cool.
3. Interesting, at the top there is an inscription with the name of the station, there are also two dates, the date of start and end of construction 1945-1949. The station itself was opened in 1950. There is an opinion that Stalin himself moved the opening date so that the supposed holiday from the opening of a new section of the metro would not coincide with the 70th anniversary of the leader himself. Who knows how true this is, but the dates on the Kursk pavilion indicate that the station was ready in 1949.
4. On one side the pavilion is adjacent to the station building, on the other it is fenced off.
5. On the left is an extension. A sign above the door “Hall of Official Delegations.” This extension is rather Russian Railways. The balcony is fun. There must be a “beautiful” view from there.
6. Let's move on. Before entrance group. The pavilion looks very neat because it was restored in 2008-2009.
7. The inside of the pavilion is very cool. And it represents the Temple of Victory. Many stations built after the Great Patriotic War are decorated on the theme of Victory.
8. But first we find ourselves in the ticket hall. There are identical portals with doors on three sides, but I understand that these ones to the right of the main entrance are not used. Almost everything is richly decorated, there is not a single element left unattended. The chandeliers are the same as on the metro station. .
9. The ground lobby was closed and reconstructed between 2008 and 2009, the escalators were also replaced and the lower entrance hall was restored.
10. And then interesting room with a dome supported by 12 columns. Above the eight central ones there are sculptures with laurel wreaths. On the circular beam, which rests on the columns, there are two verses from the Soviet 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,
Inspired us to work and to deeds!
The last two lines were lost and appeared only after reconstruction.
11. Very cool, reminiscent of some ancient pagan temple.
12. Behind the octagonal hall there is an altar with the supreme deity, a niche in which stood a sculpture of Stalin. Naturally, the sculpture was lost and even after reconstruction it was not restored, although there is an opinion that if the sculpture had not been lost, it would have been put in its original place. Considering that the restored line from the anthem has caused much controversy, this decision is quite reasonable.
13. Almost antique sculptures. Soviet "goddesses".
14. Very beautiful. We go down the stairs.
15. Below is another pompous hall with columns lined with black stone. Rich. In the distance there are validators - naturally, they are already modern. And in the archival photo above we saw a sign hanging above this place about presenting tickets.
16. From here you can get to the “lime” and “blue” branches. There are always a lot of people in this room.
17. The hall is illuminated by the coolest chandeliers. Look.
18. Escalator hall. The room is round in plan with beautiful stone columns along the perimeter and a huge, richly decorated one in the middle. The main decoration of this room. By the way, it seems that the column grows out of the floor and in reality it rests somewhere deep below, probably this was done so that it does not seem strangely short.
19. Simply wonderful. When you see all this, you understand that no matter how hard modern Russian architects try, they try to match the architectural masterpieces of the past, to surpass in beauty, pomp and solemnity such examples as St.M. "Kurskaya" is unlikely to be within their capabilities.
20. Beautiful.
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22. The decoration of the column is dedicated to abundance. Girls with fruits, floral ornament, at the top there is a grapevine with bunches of grapes.
23. Escalator descent. Another niche in the background. I wonder if there was any sculpture there or not. There are also lamps here, similar to those we saw in archival photos of the platform hall in the area of the transition to the “blue” line.
24. Let's go down. There is a hermetic seal in front of the station entrance.
25. Column station, deep.
26. Columns are oblong in plan. The stone decoration takes us back to ancient temples.
27. The metal plates on the track wall are gilded. There are also floral ornaments here. The inscription “Kursk” is interesting big ring"not just a ring, but a BIG ring.
28. Above the arches between the columns there is also a golden floral ornament.
29. In the middle of the platform there is a small hall with stairs to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.
30. Floor navigation, which is now being implemented at many stations, it seems to me, is an excellent innovation. They help people find their way faster, including for visitors, who sometimes stand in the middle of the station, blocking the road, and stand looking at the signs at the top.
31. Unfortunately, the lamps here are not authentic. Not even stylized. Some kind of cheap fake. It’s strange, because it’s possible to make a replica of the lamp, especially since the originals are not lost, but are located upstairs in the escalator hall.
32. Ceiling.
33. In the central hall the lamps are round, but in the side halls they are unusual shape.
34. Extremely unusual chandelier shape. Very original.
35. There are always a lot of people at the station. Someone is in a hurry to the station, someone to the crossing.
36. Another view of the central hall.
37. By the way, the new trains match perfectly in color with the design of the station. That's it, let's get on the train and move on.
P.S.
All archival photos were found on a wonderful website
