Narvskaya
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Narvskaya is a subway station in Saint Petersburg
, Russia
.
It is on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
between the stations Baltiyskaya and Kirovsky Zavod.
The station opened on November, 15th, 1955 as part of the first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro
from Avtovo
to Ploschad Vosstania.
"Square of Strikes"); several years before its opening the station's name was "Stalinskaya".
Shortly before the station opened in March 1953 Joseph Stalin
died and the political structure had changed.
The station is named Narvskaya in honour of the Narva Triumphal Gate
, located opposite from the entrance to the station; this toponym is related to the road to Narva
.
The station is issued by white marble
, and has many inserts of yellow metal under bronze
.
The walls of the vestibule are painted in red, historically blind escalator balustrades are decorated by plastic under a red colour.
In the underground hall on top of the walls there is a decorative strip of red stone, the center of the station platform is red granite
.
The vestibule of station was designed by architect
s I. V. Vasilyev, D. S. Goldgor, S. B. Speransky and engineer
O. V. Ivanova.
The irregular-shaped pavilion is built in the neoclassical style with a done at one end.
The station contains the greatest number of details related to Stalin
.
The wall of the vestibule was planned to be decorated with an engraving of the text:
Over the escalator run
is a relief reading "Glory to Work!", built by the sculptors G. V. Kosov, A. G. Ovsyannikov, V. G. Stamov, and A. P. Timchenko.
Gathered on Lenin square, a group of workers looks at the centre of the relief, where nobody is standing; most likely, an engraving of Stalin was originally planned to be located there. (see the image)
In recent years, the station has struggled with large volumes of passenger traffic. The three escalators have not been enough to carry passengers during the morning and afternoon rush hours. As the escalators were built in the 1950s, it is necessary to repair them periodically. In peak hours, the station works only in one direction: as an entrance or an exit.
In 2012, the station will be closed for a 14-month reconstruction, which will include removing the three outdated escalators and replacting them with four new ones.
Blind escalator balustrades are decorated by plastic under a tree colour, the premise is shined with highly artistic fixtures - the column
s topped with a metal crown
.
The most part of decorative metal parts is executed from yellow metal is most likely bronze
(is parts of fixture
s, ventilating lattices
, lattices of loudspeakers
). Power elements, such as protections the escalator machines, directing escalators are executed from a steel
and aluminium
.
Below escalator run it is located small down escalator hall, it is separated from underground station by a closing mechanism.
It is shined by graceful which are located on walls by groups on three pieces.
The underground hall of pylon
deep station is built under the project of architect
s Alexander Vasilev, David Goldgor, Sergey Speransky and engineer O. V. Ivanova.
The subjects of registration of station reflect "labour valour of the Soviet people", In architectural appearance many elements of station the soviet symbolics - a hammer and sickle
s, a red star
s, images of red banners
is used.
On walls opposite to platforms
decorative lattices with an inscription «1955» on a year of opening of station are established.
Illumination of the central hall is executed by the fluorescent lamps located consecutive arches on an arch of a ceiling, merging in the long term, they make impression of a continuous shone surface.
On a face wall of the central underground hall originally there was a big mosaic panel "Stalin on a tribune", works of president Soviet Union Academy of Arts Alexander Gerasimov
.
Originally on a colourful background should establish Stalin's bust.
In 1961 after XXII congress of CPSU, the panel is closed by a marble falsh-wall, but the panel image has been already placed in the book devoted to opening first stage.
In the fenced off space the boardroom which has occupied not only appendix, but also space to extreme steam of columns in underground hall took places.
Later this premise was used as linear point of machinists of depot "Avtovo" which is there till now.
The wall with a mosaic has been disassembled, and staff only premises have been expanded to the following pair of columns.
At the organisation of a museum of underground of this mosaic there it has not been exposed, its site and a condition is not known.
On those corners of pilons
which leave in the central underground hall the high reliefs representing people of different trades are established. 48 panels with 12 repeating plots are established.
is 2.5 kilometres long.
At opening the first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro
as much as possible fast terms of building have been established.
There could be a situation at which the first locomotive depot should be built on a working branch.
For service of trains tunnel
s behind station have been constructed.
For informing of passengers on platforms of stations information displays have been established: under a phrase "the train follows to station" one of two variants was highlighted: Avtovo
or Narvskaya.
Photos of such indexes have been printed in books about the underground.
The first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro
was laid practically on an existing branch of a tram.
To accustom passengers to use new transport, the tram line has been transferred on small streets, but at the metro station Narvskaya the tram ring has remained.
After these tunnels have ceased to be used for needs Line 1, they were used for night parking of Line 2 trains.
When in 1972 it has been constructed Depot 3 "Moskovskoye", all trains of Line 2 began to spend the night on the line.
It is planned to construct on the basis of these tunnels connecting branch with new Line 6.
In the beginning 21st century the station constantly works with a maximum load: wishing to take advantage of underground more than the station can accept.
In the mornings week-days the input on station is limited.
Since 2007 administration of the underground declares plans of full closing of station for repair and replacement of escalator
s.
In July 2007 have been named the first terms is the end 2008 or the beginning 2009.
Terms of the beginning of works are constantly transferred, they are connected with station Gorkovskaya
opening.
In 2008 the tender for manufacture and delivery of four escalators has won factory Universalmash.
Escalators have height of lifting of 40.8 metres and at length of 81.6 metres, the contract sum has made 208 million roubles.
The information that the design-budget documentation on object takes place state expert appraisal has appeared in the summer of 2009.
Plans have been specified is date has been specified second half-year 2010.
After Narvskaya it is planned to close station Grazhdansky Prospekt, and then station Tekhnologichesky Institut
.
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
.
It is on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line is the oldest line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, opened in 1955. The original stations are very beautiful and elaborately decorated, especially Avtovo and Narvskaya. The line connects four out of five Saint Petersburg's main railway stations...
between the stations Baltiyskaya and Kirovsky Zavod.
The station opened on November, 15th, 1955 as part of the first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro
Saint Petersburg Metro
The Saint Petersburg Metro is the underground railway system in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It has been open since November 15, 1955.Formerly known as the V.I...
from Avtovo
Avtovo (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Avtovo is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It was designed by architect Ye.A. Levinson and opened as part of the first Metro line on November 15, 1955....
to Ploschad Vosstania.
Overview
While the station was being built, the station was called Ploshchad Stachek (TranslatedTranslation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
"Square of Strikes"); several years before its opening the station's name was "Stalinskaya".
Shortly before the station opened in March 1953 Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
died and the political structure had changed.
The station is named Narvskaya in honour of the Narva Triumphal Gate
Narva Triumphal Gate
The Narva Triumphal Arch was erected in the vast Narva Square , Saint Petersburg, in 1814 to commemorate the Russian victory over Napoleon. The wooden structure was constructed on the Narva highway with the purpose of greeting the soldiers who were returning from abroad after their victory over...
, located opposite from the entrance to the station; this toponym is related to the road to Narva
Narva
Narva is the third largest city in Estonia. It is located at the eastern extreme point of Estonia, by the Russian border, on the Narva River which drains Lake Peipus.-Early history:...
.
The station is issued by white marble
Marble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
, and has many inserts of yellow metal under bronze
Bronze
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...
.
The walls of the vestibule are painted in red, historically blind escalator balustrades are decorated by plastic under a red colour.
In the underground hall on top of the walls there is a decorative strip of red stone, the center of the station platform is red granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
.
| Bus commercial routes | K-1, K-2, K-6, K-20, K-66, K-154, K-169, K-177, K-195, K-306, K-404 |
|---|---|
| Bus routes | 2, 6, 35, 35A, 66, 66A, 73 |
| Trolleybus route | 20 |
Concourse
The station has one сoncourse, located on Strikes Square, at the corner of Staro-Peterhofskiy prospekt and Ivan Chernyh street.The vestibule of station was designed by architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
s I. V. Vasilyev, D. S. Goldgor, S. B. Speransky and engineer
Engineer
An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems. Engineers design materials, structures, machines and systems while considering the limitations imposed by practicality,...
O. V. Ivanova.
The irregular-shaped pavilion is built in the neoclassical style with a done at one end.
The station contains the greatest number of details related to Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
.
The wall of the vestibule was planned to be decorated with an engraving of the text:
Over the escalator run
Escalator
An escalator is a moving staircase – a conveyor transport device for carrying people between floors of a building. The device consists of a motor-driven chain of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, allowing the step treads to remain horizontal.Escalators are used around the...
is a relief reading "Glory to Work!", built by the sculptors G. V. Kosov, A. G. Ovsyannikov, V. G. Stamov, and A. P. Timchenko.
Gathered on Lenin square, a group of workers looks at the centre of the relief, where nobody is standing; most likely, an engraving of Stalin was originally planned to be located there. (see the image)
In recent years, the station has struggled with large volumes of passenger traffic. The three escalators have not been enough to carry passengers during the morning and afternoon rush hours. As the escalators were built in the 1950s, it is necessary to repair them periodically. In peak hours, the station works only in one direction: as an entrance or an exit.
In 2012, the station will be closed for a 14-month reconstruction, which will include removing the three outdated escalators and replacting them with four new ones.
Architectural appearance of underground hall
Tree lines of escalator run delivers passengers in underground hall which is on depth 52 metres.Blind escalator balustrades are decorated by plastic under a tree colour, the premise is shined with highly artistic fixtures - the column
Column
A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a vertical structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. For the purpose of wind or earthquake engineering, columns may be designed to resist lateral forces...
s topped with a metal crown
Crown (headgear)
A crown is the traditional symbolic form of headgear worn by a monarch or by a deity, for whom the crown traditionally represents power, legitimacy, immortality, righteousness, victory, triumph, resurrection, honour and glory of life after death. In art, the crown may be shown being offered to...
.
The most part of decorative metal parts is executed from yellow metal is most likely bronze
Bronze
Bronze is a metal alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and brittle, and it was particularly significant in antiquity, so much so that the Bronze Age was named after the metal...
(is parts of fixture
Light fixture
A light fixture, light fitting, or luminaire is an electrical device used to create artificial light and/or illumination, by use of an electric lamp...
s, ventilating lattices
Ventilation (architecture)
Ventilating is the process of "changing" or replacing air in any space to provide high indoor air quality...
, lattices of loudspeakers
Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker is an electroacoustic transducer that produces sound in response to an electrical audio signal input. Non-electrical loudspeakers were developed as accessories to telephone systems, but electronic amplification by vacuum tube made loudspeakers more generally useful...
). Power elements, such as protections the escalator machines, directing escalators are executed from a steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
and aluminium
Aluminium
Aluminium or aluminum is a silvery white member of the boron group of chemical elements. It has the symbol Al, and its atomic number is 13. It is not soluble in water under normal circumstances....
.
Below escalator run it is located small down escalator hall, it is separated from underground station by a closing mechanism.
It is shined by graceful which are located on walls by groups on three pieces.
The underground hall of pylon
Pylon station
The pylon station is a type of deep underground subway station. The basic distinguishing characteristic of the pylon station is the manner of division of the central hall from the station tunnels...
deep station is built under the project of architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
s Alexander Vasilev, David Goldgor, Sergey Speransky and engineer O. V. Ivanova.
The subjects of registration of station reflect "labour valour of the Soviet people", In architectural appearance many elements of station the soviet symbolics - a hammer and sickle
Hammer and sickle
The hammer and sickle is a part of communist symbolism and its usage indicates an association with Communism, a Communist party, or a Communist state. It features a hammer and a sickle overlapping each other. The two tools are symbols of the industrial proletariat and the peasantry; placing them...
s, a red star
Red star
A red star, five-pointed and filled, is an important ideological and religious symbol which has been used for various purposes, such as: state emblems, flags, monuments, ornaments, and logos.- Symbol of communism :...
s, images of red banners
Red Banner
Red Banner was a symbol of the USSR associated with the Soviet state flag.Military units, institutions and organizations awarded with the Order of the Red Banner are referred to with the honorific title "of the Red Banner" Red Banner was a symbol of the USSR associated with the Soviet state...
is used.
On walls opposite to platforms
Railway platform
A railway platform is a section of pathway, alongside rail tracks at a train station, metro station or tram stop, at which passengers may board or alight from trains or trams. Almost all stations for rail transport have some form of platforms, with larger stations having multiple platforms...
decorative lattices with an inscription «1955» on a year of opening of station are established.
Illumination of the central hall is executed by the fluorescent lamps located consecutive arches on an arch of a ceiling, merging in the long term, they make impression of a continuous shone surface.
On a face wall of the central underground hall originally there was a big mosaic panel "Stalin on a tribune", works of president Soviet Union Academy of Arts Alexander Gerasimov
Alexander Gerasimov
Alexander Mikhaylovich Gerasimov was a leading proponent of Socialist Realism in the visual arts, and painted Joseph Stalin and other Soviet leaders....
.
Originally on a colourful background should establish Stalin's bust.
In 1961 after XXII congress of CPSU, the panel is closed by a marble falsh-wall, but the panel image has been already placed in the book devoted to opening first stage.
In the fenced off space the boardroom which has occupied not only appendix, but also space to extreme steam of columns in underground hall took places.
Later this premise was used as linear point of machinists of depot "Avtovo" which is there till now.
The wall with a mosaic has been disassembled, and staff only premises have been expanded to the following pair of columns.
At the organisation of a museum of underground of this mosaic there it has not been exposed, its site and a condition is not known.
On those corners of pilons
Pylon (architecture)
Pylon is the Greek term for a monumental gateway of an Egyptian temple It consists of two tapering towers, each surmounted by a cornice, joined by a less elevated section which enclosed the entrance between them. The entrance was generally about half the height of the towers...
which leave in the central underground hall the high reliefs representing people of different trades are established. 48 panels with 12 repeating plots are established.
| Professions | Sculptor | | In Russian Russian language Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics... |
|---|---|---|
| Peoples of art | Maria Litovchenko | Мария Тимофеевна Литовченко |
| Collective farmers | Mikhail Anikushin Mikhail Anikushin Mikhail Konstantinovitch Anikushin a famous Soviet Russian sculptor. Among his most famous works are a monument to Alexander Pushkin at Pushkinskaya Station of the Saint Petersburg Metro , a monument to Alexander Pushkin at Arts Square in Saint Petersburg , a monument to Vladimir Lenin at... |
Михаил Константинович Аникушин |
| Naval architects | Mikhail Gabe | Михаил Руфимович Габе |
| Scholars | Elena Chelpanova | Елена Георгиевна Челпанова |
| Plant selection breeders | Valentina Rybalko | Валентина Лаврентьевна Рыбалко |
| Tube builders | Alexander Ignatiev | Александр Михайлович Игнатьев |
| Textilemen | Lubov Hohlina | Любовь Михайловна Холина |
| Founders | P. Kulikov | П. А. Куликов |
| Seamen | V. Sichev | В. И. Сычёв |
| Doctors | N. Slobodinskiy | Н. К. Слободинский |
| Red soldiers | V. Pirozhkov | В. О. Пирожков |
| Builders | Alexander Chernitsky | Александр Николаевич Черницкий |
Facts and prospects
Stage between stations Narvskaya and the Kirovsky zavod is the longest on the first stage of Saint Petersburg MetroSaint Petersburg Metro
The Saint Petersburg Metro is the underground railway system in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It has been open since November 15, 1955.Formerly known as the V.I...
is 2.5 kilometres long.
At opening the first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro
Saint Petersburg Metro
The Saint Petersburg Metro is the underground railway system in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It has been open since November 15, 1955.Formerly known as the V.I...
as much as possible fast terms of building have been established.
There could be a situation at which the first locomotive depot should be built on a working branch.
For service of trains tunnel
Tunnel
A tunnel is an underground passageway, completely enclosed except for openings for egress, commonly at each end.A tunnel may be for foot or vehicular road traffic, for rail traffic, or for a canal. Some tunnels are aqueducts to supply water for consumption or for hydroelectric stations or are sewers...
s behind station have been constructed.
For informing of passengers on platforms of stations information displays have been established: under a phrase "the train follows to station" one of two variants was highlighted: Avtovo
Avtovo
Avtovo is a station on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It was designed by architect Ye.A. Levinson and opened as part of the first Metro line on November 15, 1955....
or Narvskaya.
Photos of such indexes have been printed in books about the underground.
The first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro
Saint Petersburg Metro
The Saint Petersburg Metro is the underground railway system in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It has been open since November 15, 1955.Formerly known as the V.I...
was laid practically on an existing branch of a tram.
To accustom passengers to use new transport, the tram line has been transferred on small streets, but at the metro station Narvskaya the tram ring has remained.
After these tunnels have ceased to be used for needs Line 1, they were used for night parking of Line 2 trains.
When in 1972 it has been constructed Depot 3 "Moskovskoye", all trains of Line 2 began to spend the night on the line.
It is planned to construct on the basis of these tunnels connecting branch with new Line 6.
In the beginning 21st century the station constantly works with a maximum load: wishing to take advantage of underground more than the station can accept.
In the mornings week-days the input on station is limited.
Since 2007 administration of the underground declares plans of full closing of station for repair and replacement of escalator
Escalator
An escalator is a moving staircase – a conveyor transport device for carrying people between floors of a building. The device consists of a motor-driven chain of individual, linked steps that move up or down on tracks, allowing the step treads to remain horizontal.Escalators are used around the...
s.
In July 2007 have been named the first terms is the end 2008 or the beginning 2009.
Terms of the beginning of works are constantly transferred, they are connected with station Gorkovskaya
Gorkovskaya
Gorkovskaya is a station on the Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It was designed by A.S. Getskin, V.P. Shuvalova, S.L.Mihaylov, H.I. Bashnin, S.I. Evdokimov, A.P. Izoitko and E.I. Travnikov. It opened on July 1, 1963. The station's name was derived from Maxim Gorky Avenue...
opening.
In 2008 the tender for manufacture and delivery of four escalators has won factory Universalmash.
Escalators have height of lifting of 40.8 metres and at length of 81.6 metres, the contract sum has made 208 million roubles.
The information that the design-budget documentation on object takes place state expert appraisal has appeared in the summer of 2009.
Plans have been specified is date has been specified second half-year 2010.
After Narvskaya it is planned to close station Grazhdansky Prospekt, and then station Tekhnologichesky Institut
Tekhnologichesky Institut
Tekhnologichesky Institut is a cross-platform interchange station of the Saint Petersburg Metro. The stations consists of two halls, with both serving located on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line and Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line trains...
.