Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya metro line. From east to north-west

Arbat-Pokrovskaya metro line took the firstpassengers in the spring of 1938. At that time it was the second line of the Moscow metro. The history of its construction is very difficult due to the fact that the project has been subjected to changes and changes many times already in the process of work. Sometimes it was politically motivated and determined by the aesthetic preferences of the Soviet rulers.

Arbat-Pokrovskaya metro line

To date, this is the longest lineMoscow Metro. It stretched from the east to the north-west of Moscow and the first went beyond it. To say that the metro stations of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line are very different from one to the other, is to put it very gently. On one line of the underground there are both unconditional architectural masterpieces of their era, such as "Revolution Square", "Arbatskaya", "Kievskaya", and simple functional platforms for boarding and boarding passengers. In this sense, the stations on the eastern and western parts of the line, which were built during the period of struggle against architectural excesses, were unlucky. First of all it concerns such stations as "Kuntsevskaya" and "Izmaylovskaya", where the fight against excess was so successful that they did not have any architecture at all.

But, of course, in all its splendorThe Arbat-Pokrovskaya metro line appears in its central part. But the history of the construction of this branch was corrected by the war. In the autumn of 1941, a German bomb struck the ceiling and exploded in a tunnel of shallow ground between the Arbatskaya and Smolenskaya stations. This fact forced the country's top political leadership to abandon the construction of small-scale lines, unable to perform the functions of bomb shelters in wartime. From the station "Revolution Square" in the direction of "Kiev" was laid parallel tunnel of deep occurrence. Thus, the Arbat-Pokrovskaya metro line in this place went deep. And the site of shallow deposition was frozen and againIt was commissioned only in 1958 as part of another already - the Filevskaya line. So in Moscow appeared the same station - "Arbat" and "Smolensk" - on different metro lines. But to this day two are still unbuilt two in the eastern direction of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line - the Ilyinsky Gates and the Pokrovsky Gates. Under these stations, the corresponding reserves have been left under the ground, and in order to complete them, it is necessary, in addition to financial means, to decide the political leadership.

Legends of the Moscow metro. Arbat-Pokrovskaya line

There is a stable version that the change inscheme Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line and its departure to the depth was caused by the need to lay a secret metro tunnel from the "Kiev" to Stalin's dacha in Kuntsevo. Thus, he allegedly intended to get to the Kremlin. But to verify the reliability of this information is not possible. However, the inadequately large dimensions of the Arbatskaya station make it possible to recognize the likely version of the possibility of using it as an underground bunker of the General Staff located on Arbat Square, directly above the station's lobby.