"Peasant Outpost": a complete description of the metro station, overview of attractions in the area

The Moscow metro for the traveler is primarily a variety of stations with their own history and features. Here we will analyze one of them - "Peasant Outpost".

Characteristics of the station

This station Lublin line (salad branch) - 154th in the account in Moscow metro. Neighbors "Peasant Outpost" are "Dubrovka" and "Roman". Its opening took place on December 28, 1995, the name was given by the name of the square next to it. The station is located on the territory of Central Administrative District, Tagansky district of the city, at the Chkalovskaya-Volzhskaya site.

The depth of the "Peasant Outpost" is 47 m. It has one straight island-type platform, the width of which is 19 m. The station opens daily at 5:40, closes at 1:00. The average passenger flow at the station is about 7,800 people a day, and the transshipment is about 120,300 people every day.

Allocate "peasant outpost" of all the others that this is the first station, built on a column-wall type. It became a prototype for the later constructed salad "Dostoyevskaya", "Dubrovka", "Trumpet". For this type is characterized by a three-vaulted construction of deep foundation, support for columns and track walls - reinforced concrete slab-monolith, absence of sub-platform rooms.

Outputs and transitions

From the given station of the Moscow underground it is possible to pass on an underground lobby to a purple station "Proletarskaya". The possibility of transplantation appeared a year and a half after the opening of the item - 23.07.1997.

The station without a track development "Peasant Outpost" has two outputs:

• To stopping complexes of land transport;
• On the same area and 1-st Dubrovskaya street.

Artistic design of the station

Almost all Moscow metro stations have their recognizable "face" and style of decoration. "Peasant outpost" here is no exception - its appearance reflects all kinds of agricultural work. The architects N. Shurygin, N. Shumakin, artists and sculptors Yu. Shishkov, M. Andronov, designers L. Romadin, E. Barsky, M. Belova worked on the project development.

The walls and arches of the "Peasant Outpost" are lined with marble of light tones, and the floor is lined with black and gray granite. Illuminate its space fluorescent fixtures peeping out of niches. Columns of the station are works of art in the technique of Roman mosaic - abstract panels, on which the viewer must unravel elements that are somehow connected with peasant labor.

Area "Peasant Outpost"

The square, which gave the name of the metro station, acquired its modern name in the last century - in 1919. Prior to this, it was called the Spassky Outpost - because of the close location of the Novospassky Monastery. The word "outpost" was added from the customs station of the Kamer-Kollezhsky shaft, which also settled in the neighborhood. The power of the Soviets renamed the square to the glory of the Soviet peasants.

The peasant outpost, which has an area of about 300 m ² , is limited by Vorontsovskaya and Abelmanovskaya streets, 3-rd Krutitskiy lane and Volgogradsky avenue. It can be accessed directly from the streets of Marxist, 1 st Dubrovskaya and Stroikovskaya. Territorially the area is in the South Administrative District, Yuzhnoportovy and Tagansky districts of Moscow. It goes to the metro station "Peasant Outpost" and "Proletarian".

sights

Coming out at the station-heroine of our story, you can meet a lot of interesting things. For example:

• Krutitskoye podvorye (Krutitskaya st., 11/13) is a real corner of the Middle Ages, founded in the beginning of the XIII century, the former residence of the patriarchs. Visitors are delighted with the ancient bell tower, cobblestones, glazed tiles on the gates of the Krutitsa tower, a small garden.
• The "Victory" cinema (Abelmanovskaya str., 17a) is a restored building that completely conveys the atmosphere of the 50s of the last century. Visitors are amazed by large-scale frescoes, huge chandeliers, arches of the present Palace of cinema.
• Novospassky Monastery (Peasant Square, 10) - a grandiose complex, founded in 1490. Even people far from religion are impressed by the architectural organic nature of its white stone buildings.
• Moscow International House of Music (Kosmodamianskaya Embankment, d. 52/8). Beautiful as the appearance and interiors of this building, and musical evenings, held here simultaneously in several halls.
• "Aquamarine", circus of dancing fountains (Melnikova street, 7). At least once in a lifetime it is worth looking at the acrobats and dancing water jets. In the circus are also arranged for small spectators with animators and funny little animals.
• The museum is a retro-car (9/2 Rogozhsky Val Street). It is a serious alternative to the well-known Zadorozhnogo museum of technology - here without feeling the time, you can easily spend 2-3 hours viewing and photographing the best examples of the Soviet, European and American automotive industry of the past.
• Museum of Water (Sarinskiy proezd, d. 13/5). Free museum with many interesting exhibits, devoted to the history of the city's water canal.
• "Bunker-42 on Taganka" (5th Kotelnicheskiy lane, 11). A real underground bunker with a radio station, a laboratory and a cabinet of Stalin himself. In 2006, about 20 years after the declassification, it began to function as a museum.

Near the metro station "Krestyanskaya Zastava" there are many curious and cognitive objects, interesting both for the guests of the city, and for Muscovites. In addition, she herself is attractive enough to study.