Narvskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Narvskaya Saint Petersburg Metro station
Station Hall
Station statistics
Lines	Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
Structure	Underground
Depth	≈52 m (171 ft)
Platforms	Island platform
Tracks	2
Other information
Opened	November 15, 1955
Owned by	Saint Petersburg Metro
Services
Preceding station   StPetersburg Metro   Following station Baltiyskaya toward Devyatkino Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line Kirovsky Zavod toward Prospekt Veteranov

Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line

Legend Depot 4 "Severnoye" Devyatkino Grazhdansky Prospekt Murinskiy Ruchei Akademicheskaya Politekhnicheskaya Ploschad Muzhestva Lesnaya Vyborgskaya Ploshchad Lenina Neva River Chernyshevskaya Ploshchad Vosstaniya  ↔  Mayakovskaya Vladimirskaya  ↔  Dostoevskaya Pushkinskaya  ↔  Zvenigorodskaya Tekhnologichesky Institut  ↔  Tekhnologichesky Institut Obvodny Kanal Baltiyskaya Narvskaya Kirovsky Zavod Avtovo Krasnenkaya River Depot 1 "Avtovo" Depot 2 "Dachnoye" Dachnoye Leninsky Prospekt Prospekt Veteranov

Narvskaya (Russian: Нарвская) is a subway station in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line between the stations Baltiyskaya and Kirovsky Zavod. The station opened on November, 15th, 1955 as part of the first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro from Avtovo to Ploschad Vosstania.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Concourse 3 Architectural appearance of underground hall 4 Facts and prospects 5 References 6 External links

Overview

While the station was being built, the station was called Ploshchad Stachek (Translated "Square of Strikes"); several years before its opening the station's name was "Stalinskaya". Shortly before the station opened in March 1953 Joseph Stalin died and the political structure had changed. The station is named Narvskaya in honour of the Narva Triumphal Gate, located opposite from the entrance to the station; this toponym is related to the road to Narva.^[1]

The station is issued by white marble, and has many inserts of yellow metal under bronze. The walls of the vestibule are painted in red, historically blind escalator balustrades are decorated by plastic under a red colour. In the underground hall on top of the walls there is a decorative strip of red stone, the center of the station platform is red granite.

Connections to public transport

Bus commercial routes	K-1, K-2, K-6, K-20, K-66, K-154, K-169, K-177, K-195, K-306, K-404
Bus routes	2, 6, 35, 35A, 66, 66A, 73
Trolleybus route	20

Concourse

The station has one сoncourse, located on Strikes Square, at the corner of Staro-Peterhofskiy prospekt and Ivan Chernyh street. The vestibule of station was designed by architects I. V. Vasilyev, D. S. Goldgor, S. B. Speransky and engineer O. V. Ivanova.

The irregular-shaped pavilion is built in the neoclassical style with a done at one end. The station contains the greatest number of details related to Stalin.

The wall of the vestibule was planned to be decorated with an engraving of the text:

Over the escalator run is a relief reading "Glory to Work!", built by the sculptors G. V. Kosov, A. G. Ovsyannikov, V. G. Stamov, and A. P. Timchenko. Gathered on Lenin square, a group of workers looks at the centre of the relief, where nobody is standing; most likely, an engraving of Stalin was originally planned to be located there. (see the image)

In recent years, the station has struggled with large volumes of passenger traffic. The three escalators have not been enough to carry passengers during the morning and afternoon rush hours. As the escalators were built in the 1950s, it is necessary to repair them periodically. In peak hours, the station works only in one direction: as an entrance or an exit.

In 2012, the station will be closed for a 14-month reconstruction, which will include removing the three outdated escalators and replacting them with four new ones.

Architectural appearance of underground hall

Tree lines of escalator run delivers passengers in underground hall which is on depth 52 metres. Blind escalator balustrades are decorated by plastic under a tree colour, the premise is shined with highly artistic fixtures - the columns topped with a metal crown. The most part of decorative metal parts is executed from yellow metal is most likely bronze (is parts of fixtures, ventilating lattices, lattices of loudspeakers). Power elements, such as protections the escalator machines, directing escalators are executed from a steel and aluminium.

Below escalator run it is located small down escalator hall, it is separated from underground station by a closing mechanism. It is shined by graceful which are located on walls by groups on three pieces.

The underground hall of pylon deep station is built under the project of architects Alexander Vasilev, David Goldgor, Sergey Speransky and engineer O. V. Ivanova. The subjects of registration of station reflect "labour valour of the Soviet people", In architectural appearance many elements of station the soviet symbolics - a hammer and sickles, a red stars, images of red banners is used. On walls opposite to platforms decorative lattices with an inscription «1955» on a year of opening of station are established. Illumination of the central hall is executed by the fluorescent lamps located consecutive arches on an arch of a ceiling, merging in the long term, they make impression of a continuous shone surface.^[2]

On a face wall of the central underground hall originally there was a big mosaic panel "Stalin on a tribune", works of president Soviet Union Academy of Arts Alexander Gerasimov. Originally on a colourful background should establish Stalin's bust. In 1961 after XXII congress of CPSU, the panel is closed by a marble falsh-wall, but the panel image has been already placed in the book devoted to opening first stage.

In the fenced off space the boardroom which has occupied not only appendix, but also space to extreme steam of columns in underground hall took places. Later this premise was used as linear point of machinists of depot "Avtovo" which is there till now. The wall with a mosaic has been disassembled, and staff only premises have been expanded to the following pair of columns. At the organisation of a museum of underground of this mosaic there it has not been exposed, its site and a condition is not known.

On those corners of pilons which leave in the central underground hall the high reliefs representing people of different trades are established. 48 panels with 12 repeating plots are established.

High reliefs of Narvskaya

Professions	Sculptor	In Russian
Peoples of art	Maria Litovchenko	Мария Тимофеевна Литовченко
Collective farmers	Mikhail Anikushin	Михаил Константинович Аникушин
Naval architects	Mikhail Gabe	Михаил Руфимович Габе
Scholars	Elena Chelpanova	Елена Георгиевна Челпанова
Plant selection breeders	Valentina Rybalko	Валентина Лаврентьевна Рыбалко
Tube builders	Alexander Ignatiev	Александр Михайлович Игнатьев
Textilemen	Lubov Hohlina	Любовь Михайловна Холина
Founders	P. Kulikov	П. А. Куликов
Seamen	V. Sichev	В. И. Сычёв
Doctors	N. Slobodinskiy	Н. К. Слободинский
Red soldiers	V. Pirozhkov	В. О. Пирожков
Builders	Alexander Chernitsky	Александр Николаевич Черницкий

Facts and prospects

Stage between stations Narvskaya and the Kirovsky zavod is the longest on the first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro is 2.5 kilometres long.^[1]

At opening the first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro as much as possible fast terms of building have been established. There could be a situation at which the first locomotive depot should be built on a working branch. For service of trains tunnels behind station have been constructed. For informing of passengers on platforms of stations information displays have been established: under a phrase "the train follows to station" one of two variants was highlighted: Avtovo or Narvskaya. Photos of such indexes have been printed in books about the underground.

The first stage of Saint Petersburg Metro was laid practically on an existing branch of a tram. To accustom passengers to use new transport, the tram line has been transferred on small streets, but at the metro station Narvskaya the tram ring has remained.^[3]

After these tunnels have ceased to be used for needs Line 1, they were used for night parking of Line 2 trains. When in 1972 it has been constructed Depot 3 "Moskovskoye", all trains of Line 2 began to spend the night on the line. It is planned to construct on the basis of these tunnels connecting branch with new Line 6.

In the beginning 21st century the station constantly works with a maximum load: wishing to take advantage of underground more than the station can accept. In the mornings week-days the input on station is limited. Since 2007 administration of the underground declares plans of full closing of station for repair and replacement of escalators.^[4] In July 2007 have been named the first terms is the end 2008 or the beginning 2009.^[5] Terms of the beginning of works are constantly transferred, they are connected with station Gorkovskaya opening.

In 2008 the tender for manufacture and delivery of four escalators has won factory Universalmash. Escalators have height of lifting of 40.8 metres and at length of 81.6 metres, the contract sum has made 208 million roubles.^[6]

The information that the design-budget documentation on object takes place state expert appraisal has appeared in the summer of 2009. Plans have been specified is date has been specified second half-year 2010.^[7] After Narvskaya it is planned to close station Grazhdansky Prospekt, and then station Tekhnologichesky Institut.^[8]

References

External links

Media related to Narvskaya at Wikimedia Commons

"Narvskaya" (in ru). metro.vpeterburge.ru. http://metro.vpeterburge.ru/stations/1/narvskaya/. Retrieved 2009-09-09. 

Closing of escalators of Saint Peterburg Metro on major repairs

Preceded by Gostiny dvor (Aug 2008 - Aug 2009) Gorkovskaya (Oct 2008 - end of 2009 /planned/)

Major repair with full closed end of 2009-2011/planned/

Succeeded by Grazhdansky Prospekt (2011-…/planned/)

Placename toponym Narva Outpost in St. Petersburg · Narva Triumphal Gate · Subway station · Square