Chkalovskaya
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- For other uses, see Chkalovsky.
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Chkalovskya (Russian: Чка́ловская) is a station in on the Moscow Metro's Lyublinskaya Line. The station was opened on 28th December, 1995 as the first stage of the Lyublinskiy radius, built by a team of architectors, Nina Aleshina, Leonid Borzenkov, and Alexandr Vigdorov. Named after the famous Soviet aviator Valery Chkalov, the decorative theme is dedicated to avaition. The station is modified Pylon trivault at a depth of 51 metres. The pylons are reveted with grey and light blue wavy marble whilst the floor is covered with grey red and black granite. The hienged ceiling is covered in semi-circular lighting. The walls are done with combined marble tones.
An escalator leads from one end of the station's underground vestibule to Zemlyanoi Val street and Kurskiy Rail Terminal. The vestibule also acts as a transfer to Kurskaya-Koltsevaya. The other end of the hall is a direct transfer to Kurskaya-Radialnaya of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line which was opened on 28 March 1996.
Just behind the station is a service branch to the Koltsevaya Line which is used for cargo and train transfers between depots.
[edit] External links
- (Russian) Mymetro.ru
- (Russian) Mosmetro.ru
- (Russian) News.metro.ru
