Kievsky Rail Terminal
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The Kiev Railway Station was built in Moscow between 1914 and 1917 as the Bryansk Rail Terminal. Designed by Ivan Rerberg and Vladimir Shukhov, it is considered an important landmark of architecture and engineering of the time.
The Kiev Rail Terminal is built in the style of Neoclassical Revival, with obvious eclectic influences and inevitable 51-meter-high clocktower. It is the only railway station in Moscow to have a frontage on the Moskva River. There are regular services to Kiev, Istanbul, Sofia, Athens, Budapest, Prague, Vienna, Rome. The terminal is served by the Kievskaya-Koltsevaya, Kievskaya (Filyovskaya) and Kievskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya) stations of Moscow Metro.
The station’s building is flanked by a gigantic landing platform which is distinguished by its simplicity and constructive boldness: the huge space over the platforms is covered by the big-span glassed arch structures (length 321 m, width 47,9 m, height 30 m, weight of structures is over 1250 ton) in the form of parabola. Open-work steel trusses are clearly visible, and they demonstrate the elegance of the grandiose building.
In 2003-2004 Shukhov's majestic steel-and-glass roof was restored according to his preserved project and using original technology.
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- The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture
- “Arkhitektura i mnimosti”: The origins of Soviet avant-garde rationalist architecture in the Russian mystical-philosophical and mathematical intellectual tradition”, Elizabeth Cooper English, a dissertation in architecture, 264 p., University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
- “Vladimir G. Suchov 1853-1939. Die Kunst der sparsamen Konstruktion.”, Rainer Graefe und andere, 192 S., Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart, 1990.
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