Ulitsa 1905 Goda
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Ulitsa Tyasyacha Devyatsot Pyatogo Goda (Russian: Улица Тысяча Девятьсот Пятого Года) "1905 Street" is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Named after the nearby street, which in turn is named to commemorate the Russian revolution of 1905 the station was opened on December 30, 1972, as part of the Krasnopresnenskiy radius.
The station is considered to be the first in Moscow of the modified pillar-trispan "Sorokonozhka" design which signifies that the era where funcionallty dominated metro architecture has ceased. The amount of pillars was lowered from 40 to 26, and the interpillar distance raised from 4 to 6.5 metres. The architect, Robert Pogrebnoi, applied a decoration of pink marble to the pillars of varying shades. The walls are also for the first decoreated with marble, instead of ceramic tiles. The grey marble shade is punctuated with frisian and metallic artworks showing the numbers 1905 and torches (works of Yuriy Korolev). Grey granite covers the floor.
The western vestibule is underground with exit to the 1905 year street, whilst the eastern vestibule is a surface rotunda building (very unusual for a shallow station) and is situated in the middle of Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava square, and is internally decorated by mosaic frisian on the events of 1905.
The station carries a total of 74410 people daily.
[edit] External links
- Moscow metro official site
- metro.ru
- mymetro.ru
- KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)
