Sretensky Bulvar
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Stretensky Bulvar (Russian: Сретенский Бульвар) is a future station on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. The construction, which began in the late 1980s, has frequently stalled as a result of continuous breaks in finances. Only in 2004 did proper funding resumed that has allowed it to finally finish the station. It is due to open in October 2007.
The station opening is long awaited as it will simultaneously allow transfers to two other lines: Chistye Prudy of the Sokolnicheskaya Line and Tugenevskaya of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line. The projected passenger dynamics for the station are 10.8 thousand per hour on entry and 20.1 on exit. This will allow for a dramatic decrease on the Koltsevaya Line particularly the Komsomolskaya - Kurskaya path.
The station, designed by architect N.Shumakov and G.Moon, will feature a standard Lyublinskaya pylon-trivault design with the base set as a monolith concrete plate. White fibreglass will be used on the vaults of the central (9.5 metre diameter) and the platform halls (8.5) as well as the escalator and transfer corridor ceilings, which will also double for hydroisolation. Initially it was though that the station's main decorative feature would include a set of three metre high bronze and rock sculptures in the niches of all 30 pylons. Made by leading Russian sculptors, they would stand on granite pedestals with luminescent lamps lighting down on top of them. However recently it has emerged that this would be too costly and hence the pylon design was slightly altered. Coating with pylons will be done with marble, gabbro and copper. White marble will also cover the floors, whilst flooring will be done with granite.
There will be two escalator tunnels leading from both ends of the station, one directly to Chistye Prudy, and the other will be a combined transfer to Turgenevskaya as well as a diversion to a second escalator tunnel to the surface. The combined vestibule will be located underground the Turgenev square at the beginning of Alademika Sakharova avenue and next to the Sretensky boulevard for which the station is named. In an effort to conserve the spendings and time, the vestibule and the escalator tunnel to the surface will not open simultaneously with the station, but at a later date.
[edit] External links
- (Russian) Russos livejournal
- (Russian) Metrogiprotrans Arkitektura - Description of the future station and designs.
- (Russian) Moskovsky Metropoliten - Description on official website
- (Russian) Mymetro.ru - Description
- (Russian) Rosmetrostroy - Description and construction photographs
- Google maps - Satellite shot centred on the future location
