Petersburg Metro is one of the oldest in Russia. Its structure covers even remote corners of the city, and soon this process will also affect the suburbs - the construction of branches towards Pushkin and to the Borovaya and Shushary railway stations is in full swing. True, these nearest suburbs are no longer considered as such - they have entered the boundaries of the modern metropolis, but does that change anything for the Petersburgers? The main thing is that a trend is looming.
Historical places
The Zvenigorodskaya station (St. Petersburg, metro) is located in the Semenovsky District of St. Petersburg. Earlier, in the 19th century, the parade ground and barracks of the Semenovsky, Jaeger and Moscow regiments were located here. In the middle of the century, public executions were carried out on the parade ground, for example, butashevichi-Petrashevsky or Narodnaya Volya. The place of public executions was soon converted into a temporary tent market, and even later into a hippodrome. It was at this hippodrome at the end of the century that a historic football match took place.
It was from here that the history of the metropolitan railway began: first horse-drawn to Tsarskoye Selo, and then a steam train to Vitebsk. In the second half of the XIX century, the Vitebsk railway station was built.
The place between the hippodrome and the train station in the late 19th - early 20th centuries was used for fairs, booths, carousel rides, etc. And then barracks for the Railway Battalion and the Automobile Company, the Military Automobile School and the printing house were erected on an empty place on the parade ground.
In the years of the siege of Leningrad, the hippodrome was destroyed, and in the post-war period, the building of the Young Spectators Theater named after Alexander Bryantsev and the Pushkinskaya metro station were built in the free territories.
Construction history
53 years after the opening of Pushkinskaya, on the other side of the Youth Theater, the Zvenigorodskaya metro station was opened. This event was a joy for Petersburgers on December 20, 2008. Zvenigorodskaya metro station is one of the major metro interchange hubs. From it you can get to the red Kirov-Vyborg branch by going to Pushkinskaya. Zvenigorodskaya is located on the violet Frunzensko-Primorsky line and is located between the Sadovaya and Obvodny Canal stations.
The history of the construction of the Zvenigorodskaya metro station dates back to the 1980s, but the construction that was started then was frozen. The mayor, Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, included the project in her campaign and fulfilled the promise made to the townspeople.
Zvenigorodskaya is a deep-seated station (its depth is about 57 m) and is connected to the external lobby by an oblique passage with an escalator. The station passes 650 thousand passengers a month.
The project has undergone changes since the 1980s: soil features were taken into account and a supporting wall was erected. The arches of the inner lobby rest on columns. Therefore, the station belongs to the variety of column-wall. The distance between the axes of the columns is 3.8 m in the longitudinal and 8 m in the transverse direction.
In addition, the variant of the external exit of the Zvenigorodskaya metro station was also re-planned: initially it was planned to build a two-story building in the style of the Semenovsky regiment barracks, which were previously located on this site, but eventually made it inside a modern building, where a shopping complex was located on the second floor.
Features of decorative decoration
The decor of the station is done in white-green with gold tones. Granite Kashina Gora and marble Koelga and Indiana Green from India were used as facing material for walls and columns. The floor is also made of red Indian Imperial Red granite as a border and dark green Indian Rakhi Green granite with colored inserts. Over the openings between the columns are semicircular windows with milk glass and gilded bars.
History of Russia in the Zvenigorodskaya Mosaics: Lower Entrance Hall
The mosaic design of the Zvenigorodskaya metro station is also connected with the history of the Semenovsky regiment. The place of the Semenovsky regiment in Russian history is very important. It was from him and one more, the Preobrazhensky Regiment, that Peter the Great began the formation of the Russian army. In 1683, by his decree, recruits were recruited from the villages of Semenovskoye and Preobrazhenskoye, based on which amusing regiments were created for the amusements of Pyotr Alekseevich. They later became the basis of the foot troops of the Peter Army, glorifying the Russian state with their courage and courage.
On the front wall of the inner lobby there is a mosaic panel made of smalt depicting Semenovtsy in the form of an imperial era: a blue (cornflower blue) caftan of European cut with cuts on the sides and back (side cuts are supplemented with folds, and back - decorative loops) with wide red cuffs on the sleeves and a red lining, a red camisole with metal buttons like a caftan, buttons and red knee-high trousers with copper buttons on the sides, blue stockings to the knees, a black cocked hat made of woolen fabric and black shoes. The whole costume is trimmed with a golden gait and a white string cord. At the head of the soldiers is their commander, dressed in a red caftan. Flags and banners flutter over the shelf in the sky. Some depict saints, on the right - the archangel Michael, the great commander, and on the center in the blue circle, the Virgin and son Jesus.
