Peasant Outpost: complete metro station description, sightseeing in the area

For the traveler, the Moscow metro is first of all a variety of stations with its history and peculiarities. Here we analyze one of them - "Peasant Gate".

Station characteristic

This station of the Lublin line (salad branch) -154th in a row in the Moscow metro. The neighbors of the Peasant Outpost are Dubrovka and Roman. Its opening took place on 28.12.1995, the name was given by the name of the area located next to it. The station is located on the territory of the Central Administrative District, Tagansky District of the city, on the Chkalovskaya - Volzhskaya section.

Depth of the "Peasant Outpost" - 47 m.It has one straight island-type platform, whose width is 19 m. The station opens daily at 5:40 and closes at 1:00. The average passenger traffic at the station is about 7.8 thousand people per day, interchange - about 120.3 thousand people daily.

Selects "Peasant Outpost" from all othersthat this is the first station built on a column-wall type. It became a prototype for the later built salad "Dostoevskoy", "Dubrovka", "Trubnaya". This type is characterized by a three-arched deep-laid construction, a support for columns and track walls — a reinforced concrete slab-monolith, the absence of sub-platform rooms.

Outputs and Transitions

From this Moscow Metro station, you cango through the underground vestibule to the purple station "Proletarian". The possibility of a transplant appeared one and a half years after the opening of the point - 07/23/1997.

The station without the track development "Peasant Outpost" has two exits:

• to stopping complexes of land transport;
• on the same square and 1st Dubrovskaya street.

Station decoration

Almost all Moscow metro stations have their ownrecognizable "face" and design style. The “Peasant Outpost” is no exception here - its appearance reflects all kinds of agricultural labor. Architects N. Shurygin, N. Shumakin, artists and sculptors Y. Shishkov, M. Andronov, designers L. Romadina, E. Barsky, M. Belova worked on the development of the project.

The walls and vaults of the "Peasant Outpost" are linedmarble of light tones, and the floor is lined with black and grayish granite. Its space is illuminated by fluorescent lamps looking out of niches. The columns of the station are works of art in the technique of Roman mosaic — abstract panels on which the viewer must unravel elements that are somehow connected with peasant labor.

Square "Peasant Outpost"

The area that gave the name of the metro station,gained its present name in the last century - in 1919. Before that, it was called Spasskaya Gate - because of the close location of the Novospassky Monastery. The word "outpost" was added from the Kamer-Kollezhsky Val customs office, also located in the neighborhood. The power of the Soviets renamed the square to the glory of the Soviet peasants.

Peasant outpost, with an area of ​​about 300 m², limit Vorontsovskaya and AbelmanovskayaStreet, 3rd Krutitsky Lane and Volgogradsky Avenue. It can be accessed directly from the streets of Marxist, 1st Dubrovskaya and Stroykovskaya. Geographically, the area is located in the South Administrative Okrug, Yuzhnoportovy and Tagansky districts of Moscow. It has metro stations Krestyanskaya Zasta and Proletarskaya.

sights

Going to the station, the heroine of our story, you can find a lot of interesting. For example:

• Крутицкое подворье (ул. Крутицкая, д.11/13) - a real corner of the Middle Ages, founded in the beginning of the XIII century, the former residence of the patriarchs. Visitors admire the ancient bell tower, paving stones, glazed tiles on the gate of the Krutitsky teremka, a small garden.
• Cinema "Victory" (st. Abelmanovskaya, d.17a) - a renovated building, fully conveying the atmosphere of the 50s of the last century. Visitors are amazed with large-scale murals, huge chandeliers, arches of the present Palace of Cinema.
• The Novospassky Monastery (10 Krestyanskaya Square) is a grandiose complex founded in 1490. Even people far from religion are impressed by the architectural integrity of its white-stone buildings.
• Moscow International House of Music(52/8 Kosmodamianskaya Embankment). Both the exterior and the interiors of this building and the musical evenings held here in several halls are beautiful.
• Aquamarine, circus of dancing fountains (st.Melnikov, 7). At least once in your life you should look at acrobats and dancing water jets. The circus also organizes performances for young viewers with animators and funny little animals.
• Музей ретроавто (ул. Рогожский вал, д. 9/2).It is a serious alternative to the famous museum of the Zadorozhny technique - here, not feeling time, you can easily spend 2-3 hours, viewing and photographing the best examples of the Soviet, European and American automotive industry of the past.
• Museum of Water (Sarinsky passage, 13/5). Free museum with many interesting exhibits on the history of the city's water utility.
• "Bunker-42 on Taganka" (5th Kotelnichesky Lane., d. 11). This underground bunker with a radio station, laboratory and the office of Stalin himself. In 2006, about 20 years after declassification, began to function as a museum.

Near the metro station "Peasant Gate"A lot of interesting and cognitive objects are concentrated, which are interesting both for guests of the city and for Muscovites. In addition, she herself is quite attractive to explore.