Transition from Kursk to the ring road. Metro paleontology: Kurskaya metro station. Description of the underground hall

In 2009, one of the most beautiful above-ground lobbies of the capital’s subway was opened - the entrance to the Kurskaya-Koltsevaya metro station. Now he looks almost the same as he did fifty-nine years ago. The Kurskaya-Koltsevaya station was opened as part of the Park Kultury - Kurskaya section on January 1, 1950. In the photographs you will see that the appearance of the station has indeed regained its original appearance, as it was when it opened in 1950. But first, a little background, as it was before the reconstruction.

On the facade of the lobby there are two dates “1945” and “1949”, but according to legend, I.V. Stalin himself moved the date to January 1, 1950, so that the first segment Circle line did not become part of the celebrations in honor of the leader’s 70th birthday.

The station received its name from the train station of the same name.

Architects: G.A.Zakharov, Z.S.Chernysheva.

Design engineers: L.I. Gorelik, P.S. Smetankin.

The central vault and the vaults of the side tunnels each rest on their own row of columns installed side by side. In the middle, where there is a transition to the station of the same name on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, the vault rests on pylons, which, together with the beginning of the transition, form a kind of “gazebo”. The design uses original lamps placed in the niches of the pylons framing the granite transition staircase. The pylons and columns of the central hall are covered with light Koelga marble. The relief details are made of gilded metal. Rich and expressive ornament decorative elements develops the theme of the dawn of our country. The floor is paved with red and gray granite.

The ground lobby is located in a building adjacent to the Kursky railway station. It contained a sculpture of J.V. Stalin (author N.V. Tomsky, not preserved). One level below the lobby is an underground circular antechamber, finished in dark red, golden pink, light gray and black marble. The center of the antechamber is decorated with an original flower column in which lamps are hidden. From it there is an entrance to the ground floor of the Kursky railway station building and to the underground passage to the boarding platforms. This room is also adjacent to the entrance hall of the Kurskaya station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.

In 1950, the station's architects were awarded the Stalin Prize.

In 1995, from the southern end of the station, a second exit was built into the common lobby with the Chkalovskaya station on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.

On the facade of the lobby there are two dates “1945” and “1949”, but according to legend, J.V. Stalin himself moved the date to January 1, 1950, so that the first section of the Circle Line would not become part of the celebrations in honor of the leader’s 70th birthday. The pavilion was built in an open place that was visible from all sides. Now it is leaning against the new building of the Kursk railway station. The station lobby is interesting because it has many similar features to temple buildings. Oriented by the entrance to the west and the inner altar part to the east, it reveals the meaning of the building - the Temple of Victory. Behind the entrance, after the rectangular antechamber, there is a central two-story room under a complex octagonal ribbed dome. The entrance to the hall is conventionally marked by two rectangular pylons up to the base of the dome. On their inner sides there is chasing in bronze: huge two-handed swords entwined with garlands. The dome rests on powerful beams laid on high round columns. On these beams there is an inscription with the text of the second verse of the USSR anthem:

Through the storms the sun of freedom shone for us,

And the great Lenin illuminated the path for us.

Stalin raised us to be loyal to the people

He inspired us to work and to deeds.

After the XXII Congress of the CPSU in 1961, the last two lines were removed, creating an asymmetry on the beams. The monument to Stalin in the apse (the work of sculptor Nikolai Tomsky) was also dismantled, and the coinage on the high relief of the medal “For the Defense of Stalingrad” was changed to Volgograd in connection with the renaming of the city. During the major renovation of the lobby in 2008-2009, it was decided to restore the lost parts along with the restoration of the building (except for the restoration of the monument). However, instead of restoring full quote of the second verse of the hymn, the lost part was restored in place of the first two lines, and the inscription was distributed symmetrically. And on the night of October 24, 2009 full text was recreated in the same place, which almost completely restored the architectural meaning of the hall as the “Sun of Victory”.

Photos after reconstruction and opening of the station:

Order of Victory on the U-shaped entrance portal.

Separately, I would like to note that the original line from the anthem, which was written at the opening of the station, was restored in the lobby: “Stalin raised us to be loyal to the people, to work, and inspired us to heroic deeds.”

It took more than a year to update the lobby, although the actual restoration work took only two months. Unfortunately, exclusive furniture Stalin's times and corresponding cash registers not installed - dull chipboard boxes are visible behind the wooden frames.

All small details have been recreated as they were. All embossing and stucco are in perfect condition.

Also on the swords the names of the city of Stalingrad and the inscription “For the Motherland For Stalin” have been restored. Initially, the letters were simply knocked down and instead they were made with overhead letters about Volgograd. Now the overhead letters are about Stalingrad.

In the restored lobby there is no sculpture of Joseph Stalin known to Muscovites from old photographs. Moscow Metro Dmitry Gaev says that it was lost back in the late 50s: “We considered the question of whether to erect another monument, but decided to leave just a light niche.”

Sculptures, lamps, floor lamps were restored, ornaments, floors and staircases were restored.

During the renovation, a complete reconstruction of the station's entrance hall was also carried out: the granite floor covering was replaced, and the famous "Stone Flower" column was restored and restored.

The reconstruction cost 120 million rubles. But the metro is not going to stop there. Work will begin at the Belorusskaya station on the Circle Line, as well as on the transition from Belorusskaya-Koltsevaya to Belorusskaya-Radialnaya.

PySy: Question for Muscovites: after the restoration, was the name "preserved" in the name of the station?Kurskaya-Koltsevaya Moscow metro named after V.I. Lenin"?!

After all, the full name of the capital's metro is the State Unitary Enterprise of the City of Moscow "Moscow Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner of Labor Metro named after V. I. Lenin."

There was already a scandal when the words “...named after V.I. Lenin” “suddenly” disappeared from the name of the Otradnoye metro station.

Citizens accused Moscow authorities of deliberately excluding the words “named after Lenin” from renovated subway stations. The head of the capital's transport department, Maxim Liksutov, said that the mayor's office has no goal of removing Lenin or the Order of the Red Banner from the name of the metro. — The letters that were there will be on the new Otradnoye sign and on all stations that are being reconstructed. The signs will be supplemented, the metro press service said. At all metro stations where reconstruction is taking place, signs with the names of the stations with the words “Metropolitan named after Lenin” will return.

PySy2: my friend responded to a request about what the name of the Kurskaya metro station is now, excellent knowledgeable about history Moscow echo_2013 . She found these photos on Yandex Photos:

Kurskaya-ring

Kursk-radial

And another fragment of the anthem in the Stalinist version:

July 12th, 2015

Another major transport hub on the Circle Line. Or rather, not even that... The largest transport hub on the Circle Line. According to data for 2011, 246 thousand people pass through the Kurskaya metro stations of the Circle and Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya lines, as well as the Chkalovskaya station every day. This is the highest figure in the Moscow metro. The station is equipped with a ground vestibule. After the construction of the station, they did not create a combined ground concourse, as was the case at the metro station. . The lobby itself, it seems to me, is the most interesting, beautiful, pompous part of the station. But let's go and have a look.

TTX station.

Archive photo. It is written that there is some kind of construction, but most likely they are just changing the rails.

A meeting to mark the opening of a new section and metro station "Kurskaya". The cult of personality gave everything.

The ground vestibule in its original form. Now this side part is adjacent to the station.

Suddenly there was some strange roof on the pavilion. It can only be seen from afar.

And here is the original view of the hall in the pavilion. The beautiful floor, laid out with small tiles, attracts attention.

And of course, in the currently empty niche stands the Father of Nations. The photo shows that the sculpture is very cool (regardless of Stalin’s personality). Really a work of art. Authorship - sculptor Tomsky. He mainly sculpted leaders, but not only. He is the author of the monument to Gogol, on Gogol Boulevard. Stalin and Kursk were removed after 1961 and eventually lost.

Beauty, no validators. Travel with tickets.

A bit of propaganda. It is interesting that now modern architects do not make conceptual projects at all and do not praise the “greatness of the freedom-loving Russian people.” Although ostentatious patriotism is now blooming wildly.

Station hall in the area of ​​​​the transition to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. What beautiful lamps. I understand that the original lamps have been lost!

Soviet people in the subway.

Looks like a staged photo again.

But this is cool. It's great that the subway THEN was first and foremost a work of art. Even in the chronicles the stations are called “underground palaces”

Here's an excellent color photo. Wonderful composition of type D at the station. Kurskaya.

1. So let's take a walk around the modern station. Let's start with the ground vestibule. The pavilion looks very pompous. At night, the space inside the peculiar portico is illuminated. It’s a pity that the pavilion itself is not illuminated.
2. During the day, the pavilion looks like this. In front of the pavilion on the square there is a beautiful granite mosaic laid out. They installed benches and lanterns - it became very cool.

3. Interesting, at the top there is an inscription with the name of the station, there are also two dates, the date of start and end of construction 1945-1949. The station itself was opened in 1950. There is an opinion that Stalin himself moved the opening date so that the supposed holiday from the opening of a new section of the metro would not coincide with the 70th anniversary of the leader himself. Who knows how true this is, but the dates on the Kursk pavilion indicate that the station was ready in 1949.

4. On one side the pavilion is adjacent to the station building, on the other it is fenced off.

5. On the left is an extension. A sign above the door “Hall of Official Delegations.” This extension is rather Russian Railways. The balcony is fun. There must be a “beautiful” view from there.

6. Let's move on. In front of the entrance group. The pavilion looks very neat because it was restored in 2008-2009.

7. The inside of the pavilion is very cool. And it represents the Temple of Victory. Many stations built after the Great Patriotic War are decorated on the theme of Victory.

8. But first we find ourselves in the ticket hall. There are identical portals with doors on three sides, but I understand that these ones to the right of the main entrance are not used. Almost everything is richly decorated, there is not a single element left unattended. The chandeliers are the same as on the metro station. .

9. The ground lobby was closed and reconstructed between 2008 and 2009, the escalators were also replaced and the lower entrance hall was restored.

10. And then there is an interesting room with a dome that rests on 12 columns. Above the eight central ones there are sculptures with laurel wreaths. On the circular beam, which rests on the columns, there are two verses from the Soviet anthem.

Through the storms the sun of freedom shone for us,
And the great Lenin illuminated the path for us.
Stalin raised us to be loyal to the people,
Inspired us to work and to deeds!

The last two lines were lost and appeared only after reconstruction.

11. Very cool, reminiscent of some ancient pagan temple.

12. Behind the octagonal hall there is an altar with the supreme deity, a niche in which stood a sculpture of Stalin. Naturally, the sculpture was lost and even after reconstruction it was not restored, although there is an opinion that if the sculpture had not been lost, it would have been put in its original place. Considering that the restored line from the anthem has caused much controversy, this decision is quite reasonable.

13. Almost antique sculptures. Soviet "goddesses".

14. Very beautiful. We go down the stairs.

15. Below is another pompous hall with columns lined with black stone. Rich. In the distance there are validators - naturally, they are already modern. And in the archival photo above we saw a sign hanging above this place about presenting tickets.

16. From here you can get to the “lime” and “blue” branches. There are always a lot of people in this room.

17. The hall is illuminated by the coolest chandeliers. Look.

18. Escalator hall. The room is round in plan with beautiful stone columns along the perimeter and a huge, richly decorated one in the middle. The main decoration of this room. By the way, it seems that the column grows out of the floor and in reality it rests somewhere deep below, probably this was done so that it does not seem strangely short.

19. Simply wonderful. When you see all this, you understand that no matter how hard modern Russian architects try, they try to match the architectural masterpieces of the past, to surpass in beauty, pomp and solemnity such examples as St.M. "Kurskaya" is unlikely to be within their capabilities.

20. Beautiful.

21.

22. The decoration of the column is dedicated to abundance. Girls with fruits, floral ornament, at the top vine with bunches of grapes.

23. Escalator descent. Another niche in the background. I wonder if there was any sculpture there or not. There are also lamps here, similar to those we saw in archival photos of the platform hall in the area of ​​​​the transition to the “blue” line.

24. Let's go down. There is a hermetic seal in front of the station entrance.

25. Column station, deep.

26. Columns are oblong in plan. The stone decoration takes us back to ancient temples.

27. The metal plates on the track wall are gilded. There are also floral ornaments here. The inscription “Kursk Big Ring” is interesting; it’s not just a ring, but a BIG ring.

28. Above the arches between the columns there is also a golden floral ornament.

29. In the middle of the platform there is a small hall with stairs to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.

30. Floor navigation, which is now being implemented at many stations, it seems to me, is an excellent innovation. They help people find their way faster, including for visitors, who sometimes stand in the middle of the station, blocking the road, and stand looking at the signs at the top.

31. Unfortunately, the lamps here are not authentic. Not even stylized. Some kind of cheap fake. It’s strange, because you can make a replica of the lamp, especially since the originals are not lost, but are located upstairs in the escalator hall.

32. Ceiling.

33. In the central hall the lamps are round, but in the side halls they are of unusual shape.

34. Extremely unusual chandelier shape. Very original.

35. There are always a lot of people at the station. Someone is in a hurry to the station, someone to the crossing.

36. Another view of the central hall.

37. By the way, the new trains match perfectly in color with the design of the station. That's it, let's get on the train and move on.

P.S.
All archival photos were found on a wonderful website

The Kurskaya and Chkalovskaya metro stations in Moscow are located approximately 2.5 kilometers east of the city center (Kremlin and), next to the Kursky railway station. There are Kurskaya metro stations on two lines of the Moscow metro, on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line (line 3, blue line), and on the Circle Line (line 5, brown line). The Chkalovskaya metro station is located on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line (line 10, light green line) of the Moscow metro. The stations are connected by passages, allowing you to transfer between three metro lines.

Kurskaya metro station (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line)

The Kurskaya metro station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro is located between the stations and.
The station was opened on March 13, 1938. The station's boarding hall is located under Zemlyanoy Val Street. The exit from the station (escalators) is located at the eastern end of the hall.

The station has transfers to the station of the same name on the Circle Line and to the Chkalovskaya station of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line. The transition to the Circle Line is located in the center of the hall. The transition to the Lublin Line is located at the western end of the hall.

Exit from the station is through a round underground hall, next to which there are ticket offices. Through the same hall you can go to the Circle Line metro station. From the station you can go to the waiting room of the Kursky railway station, to the ground lobby (located on the first floor of a residential building on the square of the Kursky railway station) and through a pedestrian crossing under the railway tracks to Nizhniy Susalny Lane.

Kurskaya metro station (Circle line)

Metro station “Kurskaya” of the Circle Line of the Moscow Metro is located under the square of the Kursky Station between stations and.
The station was opened on January 1, 1950.

The station has two vestibules. The northern lobby is shared with the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line station. The lobby is located in the northern part of the Kursky Station square and has exits to the station building and the square. The southern lobby is located in the southern part of the Kursky Station square and is used in conjunction with the Chkalovskaya station.

The transition to the Kurskaya station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line is located in the center of the station boarding hall (stairs above the platform, then along the corridor). The transition to the Chkalovskaya station is made through a common lobby for the two stations.

Chkalovskaya metro station

The Chkalovskaya metro station is located on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro, between stations and. The station was opened on December 28, 1995. From the station you can go to the Kurskaya station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya and Circle lines.

The transition to the Kurskaya station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line is located at the northern end of the central hall. The transition to the Kurskaya station of the Circle Line is located at the southern end of the hall. Exit to the city and transfer to the Circle Line is made through the ground vestibule. The lobby is common to two metro stations and is located in the southern part of the Kursky Station square.

The design is dedicated to the famous pilot Valery Chkalov (1904-1938). When designing the station, Zemlyanoy Val Street was called Chkalova Street. This explains the choice of the station name. In 1992, the street's historical name was returned.

Near the Kurskaya metro station and Kursky railway station in Moscow there are:

• Kursk station.
• Atrium shopping center.

Hotels near Kurskaya and Chkalovskaya metro stations and Kursky railway station

There are several hotels near the Kurskaya and Chkalovskaya metro stations and the Kursky railway station in Moscow. If for some reason you are not satisfied with these hotels, you can certainly find a suitable hotel or apartment nearby at an affordable price using any online hotel search and booking service.

• Hotel "Energetik". Inexpensive hotel not far from the Kurskaya metro station and from the Kursky railway station. Address: Durasovsky lane, 5, Moscow, Russia.
• Hostel Prival. A place where you can spend the night inexpensively near the Kursky railway station. Address: Zemlyanoy Val Street 23/1, Moscow, Russia.

There is a northern underground lobby, combined with the station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. The exit from the northern vestibule is located in the building adjacent to the Kursk station; in addition, there are exits to the ground floor of the Kursk station and its platforms. From the southern underground lobby, common with the Chkalovskaya station, you can exit to the Garden Ring (Zemlyanoy Val St.) and 1st Syromyatnichesky Lane.

The station has transfers to the station of the same name on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line (via the stairs in the center of the hall) and the Chkalovskaya station on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line (via a combined vestibule, the exit to which is at the southern end of the station).

The design of the station is a columnar three-vault with a deep (40 m) layout. The design uses prefabricated cast iron lining. The central vault and the vaults of the side tunnels each rest on their own row of columns installed side by side. In the central part of the station, near the staircase passage to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, the columns have been replaced with pylons. Kurskaya station is one of the two largest stations of the Moscow metro (together with Komsomolskaya of the Circle Line).
Architects G.A. Zakharov and Z.S. Chernysheva.
Design engineers L.I. Gorelik and P.S. Smetankin.

The architectural decor of the station is deeply symbolic. All three parts - the Central Hall, the Transitional round antechamber of the "Renaissance" with a giant column-capital and the pavilion - have the idea of ​​the sun and the glory of victory and the divinity of its achievement. The central hall resembles an ancient Roman hall of the basilica type. The pylons and columns of the Doric order are covered with light Koelga marble. The chandeliers are reminiscent of ancient Roman chandeliers, which resemble suns from below. The full symbolic concept also includes gilded sun-rays emanating from the temple-like half-hall (in the center of the hall) from which there is a transition to the Kursk Arbat-Pokrovskaya line. The flooring is red revival and gray granite. The underground entrance hall is decorated with red, pink, black and gray marble. The authors of the station project are architects G.A. Zakharov and Z.S. Chernyshev were awarded the Stalin Prize. The middle hall-antechamber “revival” has a deep meaning. The hall itself has a round shape, in the center, as if there is a column-capital emerging from the ground.

Identified cultural heritage site.

Behind the station, between the main tracks, there is a train maintenance point, from which a connecting branch to the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line departs. This branch is used for service transportation and for the transfer of trains from one line to another.

Previous station on the Komsomolskaya line.
The next station on the line is "Taganskaya".

Station information.

"Kurskaya" is a station on the Circle Line of the Moscow Metro. Located under the square of the Kursky railway station between the Komsomolskaya and Taganskaya stations. Located in the Basmanny district of Central administrative district Moscow. The station opened on January 1, 1950 as part of the Kurskaya - Park Kultury section. Named after the Kursk railway station, near which it is located. It has transitions to the stations “Kurskaya” of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line and “Chkalovskaya” of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.

The first metro station near the Kursky railway station was the Kurskaya station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, opened in 1938 as part of the second stage of the metro. The original plans for the Moscow Metro did not include the Circle Line. Instead, it was planned to build “diametrical” lines with transfers in the city center. The first project of the Circle Line appeared in 1934. Then it was planned to build this line under the Garden Ring with 17 stations. According to the 1938 project, it was planned to build the line much further from the center than was subsequently built. The planned stations were “Usachevskaya”, “Kaluzhskaya Zastava”, “Serpukhovskaya Zastava”, “Stalin Plant”, “Ostapovo”, “Sickle and Hammer Plant”, “Lefortovo”, “Spartakovskaya”, “Krasnoselskaya”, “Rzhevsky Station”, “Savelovsky Station”, “Dynamo”, “Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava”, “Kyiv”. In 1941, the Circle Line project was changed. Now they planned to build it closer to the center. In 1943, a decision was made on the extraordinary construction of the Circle Line along the current route in order to relieve congestion at the interchange hub " Okhotny Ryad" - "Sverdlov Square" - "Revolution Square". The Circle Line became the fourth phase of construction. In 1947, it was planned to commission the line in four sections: “Central Park of Culture and Leisure” - “Kurskaya”, “Kurskaya” - “Komsomolskaya”, “Komsomolskaya” - “Belorusskaya” (then merged with the second section) and “Belorusskaya” - “ Central Park of Culture and Leisure." The first section, "Park Kultury" - "Kurskaya", was opened on January 1, 1950, the second, "Kurskaya" - "Belorusskaya", - on January 30, 1952, and the third, "Belorusskaya" - "Park Kultury", closing the line in ring, - March 14, 1954. "Kurskaya" was opened with one ground vestibule and a transition to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, although it was originally planned to open a station with two vestibules. In 1995, a second exit was built from the southern end of the station into a common lobby with the Chkalovskaya station. From July 3, 2008 to October 24, 2009, the ground lobby was closed for renovations.

Architecture and decoration

Lobbies

The station has two vestibules: the northern (underground) - combined with the Kurskaya Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, and the southern (underground), combined with the Chkalovskaya line. Along with the station, it was built complex system underground and above-ground premises providing entrances and exits to the interchange hub, its connection with the internal premises of the Kursky railway station and transitions between metro stations. The center of this ensemble is a round underground hall, in…