Elektrozavodskaya (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line)
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Elektrozavodskaya (
Vladimir Gelfreich, along with participation of his student Igor Rozhin
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The station serves the Basmanny district and is located on the Bolshaya Semyonovskaya Street, next to the
Kazan direction
is also located nearby. In May 2007, the station was closed for a year during which the escalators were completely replaced, along with the floor panels. Most of the details and finishes including Motovilov's bas-reliefs were refurbished. The station was reopened on 28 November 2008.
By 2022, the station will be open to go to the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line named Elektrozavodskaya.
Station Design
Named after the electric
light bulb factory nearby, the preliminary layout included Schuko's idea of making the ceiling covered with six rows of circular incandescent inset lamps (of which there were 318 in total). However, the outbreak of World War II halted all works until 1943 when construction resumed. Gelfreich and Rozhin finished the design by adding an addition theme to the station the struggle of the home front during the war, which is highlighted by the 12 marble bas-reliefs on the pylons done by Georgiy Motovilov. The rest of the station's interior features most of the 1930s plans including powder-ballada marble on the rectangular pylons (the outside faces have sconces and decorative gilded grilles depicting the hammer and sickle
), red salietti marble on the station walls, a dark olive duvalu marble on the socle and a chessboard layout on the main platform floor of granite and labradorite.
The station's hexagonal shaped vestibule, features a domed structure on a low drum, on the corner niches of which are six medallions with bas-reliefs of main pioneers in electricity and electrical engineering:
Alexander Popov along with their pioneering apparatus. The interior of the vestibule is further punctuated by the same bright red salietti marble. Outside the vestibule in the archway there is a sculpture to the metro-builders by Matvey Manizer
.
The station's legacy was that it serves as a bridge between the pre-war
Koltsevaya Line. Both Gelfreich and Rozhin were awarded the Stalin Prize
in 1946 for their work.
Gallery
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Station platform -
Station platform with a Rusich train (81-740/741) -
Wall artwork on the platform -
Central hall just after the 2007/2008 renovation -
Escalators -
This station has 7 accesses from the central hall to platform -
After reconstruction -
Stamp of the soviet union in 1947 -
Station platform with a Rusich train (81-740/741)
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