St. Petersburg Metro is an interesting system of underground railways and stations, utility structures and surface exits. It combines the metropolis into a single whole. The subway network consists of 5 lines with 7 transfer stations. These are the metro stations "Vladimirskaya".
Leningrad subway
On November 15, 1955, a significant event took place in the city on the Neva - the Leningrad Metro opened. This was very important for a developing city, recovering from a fierce war and blockade bombing. The idea of building an underground railway in St. Petersburg originated in the late 19th century.
But almost half a century passed before it began to be realized in 1932. The war, of course, brought its plans to construction - all the mines were flooded, and the work of metro builders consisted in the construction of utility structures. After the war, work to restore construction began in 1951. Among the first stations that began their work only 4 years later was the Vladimirskaya metro station.
Station out of plan
The original plan of the Leningrad Metro did not provide for the construction of a stopping place between Pushkinskaya and Uprising Square. But since the city center is always crowded with transport and people, it was decided to build another station, named after the nearby square - Vladimirskaya.
Since the station was as if unplanned, it was built where there was a place, and the platform turned out to be shorter than that of the nearby metro stations. Only the construction of Dostoevskaya allowed to extend the platform and make the interchange station from the Kirov-Vyborg line through the transition to the Dostoevskaya station of the Right Bank line. Reconstruction took place in 1991. This metro train stop is located between the Pushkinskaya and Ploshchad Vosstaniya stops. And interestingly, the line between Vladimirskaya and Uprising Square is the shortest in the St. Petersburg subway, it is only 720 meters.
The lobby of the Vladimirskaya metro station is located in the building of the Lenmetrogiprotrans design institute, which affected its size - it is the smallest in area among all the subway stations in St. Petersburg. The inclined part of the station - the descent into the ground - consists of three moving stairs - escalators. In depth, this part of the subway drops to 55 meters, which is considered deep laying.
The underground structure itself refers to the type of pylon, that is, consisting of three separate parts - pylons - interconnected by aisles. Side pylons - halls for tunnels of trains, the middle part - the central hall for passengers. By the way, it was during the construction of this station that such a design was first applied. Moreover, the average pylon was somewhat shorter than the pylons for tunnels.
Then this “highlight” of the Vladimirskaya metro station was eliminated during the construction of the transition to the Dostoevskaya station. The pylon method of arranging underground metro structures was characteristic during the construction of the subway during the years of the Soviet Union.
The beauty of the Vladimirskaya station
One of the very first Leningrad metro stations is Vladimirskaya. Photos of this building tell about an interesting design. Since the Forge Market is located not far from the Lenmetrogiprotrans Institute building, where the lobby is located, the interior of the station itself is designed in the Abundance theme, which, against the background of a large number of architectural nuances dedicated to I.V. Stalin, looked somewhat unusual.
The mosaic panel "Abundance", the work of artists A. L. Korolev, A. A. Mylnikov and V. I. Snopov, adorns the escalator passage. Soviet symbols in the form of five-pointed stars, laurel branches, ears, a sickle and a hammer, as well as spears with faceted tips are present in the decorative decoration of lamps, decorative panels and on doors on platforms and corridors in the passages of the Vladimirskaya metro station.
When remaking the station to go to another line, some utility rooms were used to lengthen the central pylon. The additional space did not receive identical decoration of marble and granite, but this did not make the station less beautiful. An additional exit from the station to Kuznechny Lane is decorated with oak doors, similar to those installed at the entrance to the lobby from Bolshaya Moskovskaya Street.
It is interesting that, as for the vast majority of metro stations built during the Soviet Union, natural materials from different parts of the vast country were chosen for the decoration of walls, floors and arches. So, the walls of the lobby of Vladimirskaya are lined with light yellow, cool tones, Koelga marble, mined at the Fominskoye deposit in the Urals, and the floors are laid with granite slabs - the central hall is a chessboard of black and gray fragments, and the side halls are with reddish-gray tiles.
