Vorobyovy Gory
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Vorobyovy Gory (Russian: Воробьёвы го́ры, lit. Sparrow Hills) is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Built into the lower level of a bridge, it is unique in the city and in the world. At 270 m in length, the platform is the longest in the system as the station needed to be accessible from both sides of the river. It is also the highest station above ground level at 15 m, though this is less remarkable since all but a handful of Metro stations are underground. Apart from its dimensions, Vorobyovy Gory is also notable in being the only Metro station with windows.
The bridge, which is known as the Luzhniki Metro Bridge, or simply Metromost, and spans the Moskva River, was originally built in 1958. The architects for the project were M.P. Bubnov, A.S. Markelov, M.F. Markovsky, A.K. Ryzhkov, and B.I. Tkhor. However, by 1983 the bridge, plagued by corrosion, had fallen into disrepair and was deemed structurally unsound, so Vorobyovy Gory (at the time called Leninskiye Gory) was "temporarily" closed for repairs and trains were rerouted to temporary bridges alongside. Eighteen years later, January 14, 2002, the newly renovated and renamed station was opened to the public once again.
[edit] External links
- Description of the station on Metro.ru (in Russian)
- Description of the station on Mymetro.ru (in Russian)
