Slavyansky Bulvar is a station on the
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya LineThe Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the second to open, now it connects the major Izmaylovo District on the east of Moscow, and the Strogino District on the west, with the city centre...
of the
Moscow MetroThe Moscow Metro , which spans almost the entire Russian capital, is the world's second most heavily used rapid-transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its stations, which contain outstanding examples of socialist realist art.-Description of the Metro:In...
. Built as part of the stretch that bypasses most of the surface stretch of the
Filyovskaya LineFilyovskaya Line , a line of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the sixth to open, it connects the major eastern districts of Dorogomilovo and Fili along with the Moscow City with the city centre...
, Slavyansky Bulvar serves the residents of southwestern districts situated between the Fruzensky and Filyovsky radii. The station was opened on September 7, 2008.
Originally the bypass
Park PobedyPark Pobedy , translated as "Victory Park", is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Metro. At 84 metres underground, it is the deepest station in Moscow. It also contains the longest escalators in Europe, each one is 126 metres long and has 740 steps...
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KuntsevskayaKuntsevskaya is a station of the Moscow Metro serving as a cross-platform transfer between the Filyovskaya and the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya lines of the Moscow Metro...
was to have two stations instead of one.
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Slavyansky Bulvar is a station on the
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya LineThe Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the second to open, now it connects the major Izmaylovo District on the east of Moscow, and the Strogino District on the west, with the city centre...
of the
Moscow MetroThe Moscow Metro , which spans almost the entire Russian capital, is the world's second most heavily used rapid-transit system. Opened in 1935, it is well known for the ornate design of many of its stations, which contain outstanding examples of socialist realist art.-Description of the Metro:In...
. Built as part of the stretch that bypasses most of the surface stretch of the
Filyovskaya LineFilyovskaya Line , a line of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the sixth to open, it connects the major eastern districts of Dorogomilovo and Fili along with the Moscow City with the city centre...
, Slavyansky Bulvar serves the residents of southwestern districts situated between the Fruzensky and Filyovsky radii. The station was opened on September 7, 2008.
Originally the bypass
Park PobedyPark Pobedy , translated as "Victory Park", is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Metro. At 84 metres underground, it is the deepest station in Moscow. It also contains the longest escalators in Europe, each one is 126 metres long and has 740 steps...
–
KuntsevskayaKuntsevskaya is a station of the Moscow Metro serving as a cross-platform transfer between the Filyovskaya and the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya lines of the Moscow Metro...
was to have two stations instead of one. The first one, Minskaya was to be located on the western side of Moscow's Victory Park near the intersection of Minskaya Street and
Kutuzovsky ProspektKutuzovsky Prospekt is a major radial avenue in Moscow, Russia, named after Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, leader of Russian field army during the French invasion of Russia...
. Whilst the second station, Slavyansky Bulvar, was to be located on the Southern side of the same Kutuzovsky prospect in the Fili-Davydkovo district, next to the Slavyansky Bouelevard (hence the name), construction of which began to a point where the future pit was ready for the tunnel boring shield. However the prioritisation of constructing a line to Strogino, and the importance of locking the bypass made the Moscow government change its original plan. The curvature of the bypass was reduced (and thus its length by 0.9 km), as was the amount of stations to save time. Originally the station Minskaya was more favoured, but under pressure of locals, the location of Minskaya would leave a provision for a station to be built in at a latter date (which could mean decades) and Slavyansky Bulvar was returned, however the change of the track path meant that the station would now be on the Northern side of the avenue, on the intersection with the Starorublyovskoye highway.
The station, designed by Architect S.Volovich, is to be a single-vault design of shallow depth. The vault would rest on horizontal walls, due to the favourable hydroisolation conditions that are present there. Internally the walls would be reveted with green Cuban marble "Verde Guatemala", topped with aluminium profile onto which lighting elements would be fixed. Grey granite "Aleksandorovsky" will cover the floor apart from platform edge which will have a darker "Gabbro". In addition the platform will have three beech benches.
The station has two underground vestibules and serves as a junction with surface urban traffic.
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