The Kurskaya metro station is located between the Ploshchad Revolyutsii and Baumanskaya stations of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. It is part of the interchange hub, which consists of three stations.
Station history
Name history
The station got its name thanks to the Kursk railway station, located nearby.
Station Description
The design of the station is dedicated to agriculture. The track walls are lined with ceramic white tiles and black marble. The floor is paved with grey, black and red granite. The pylons are finished with white marble with gray veins. The vault of the station is decorated with a relief ornament. Two types of lamps illuminate the station. There are flat round chandeliers on the ceiling. In the central hall, the lamps are placed in decorative lattices depicting ears of corn and located on pylons.
Specifications
The Kurskaya station was built according to a standard project. This is a pylon, three-vaulted deep station, located at a depth of 40 meters. The dimensions of the vaults are also standard: the central hall has a diameter of 9.5 meters, the side halls - 8.5 meters. Since until 1944 the station "Kurskaya" was the final one, outside of it, the exit exit was preserved, which is used today for official transportation and in case of emergency situations.
Vestibules and transfers
The station has transfers to the Chkalovskaya station of the Lyublinskaya line and to the station of the same name on the Koltsevaya line. The Kurskaya metro station has a vestibule in common with the Koltsevaya station, from which there are two exits. One of them leads to the platforms of the Kursk railway station, the second - to the street. Zemlyanoy Val and to Nizhny Susalny Lane. You can go to the Koltsevaya Line station using the stairs located in the center of the hall. This crossing was opened in 1950. The transition to the Lublin line was opened in 1996. It was built in the western end of the station. To get to the Lublin line, you need to use the escalators.
Ground infrastructure
The most famous part of the station's infrastructure is the Kursk railway station. Train directions: Kursk, Gorky, Smolensk and Tallinn. Near the station is the shopping and entertainment complex "Atrium", which has a beauty salon, bowling alley, cinema, shops, pizzeria, restaurants and cafes. In the immediate vicinity of the station there are banks and ATMs, pharmacies, a hospital and a center for spiritual rebirth using the methods of oriental medicine.
A long time ago, 10 years ago, on the night of November 24-25, my 26th birthday. This was my first official shoot in a subway tunnel. Here is such a kind of gift from the subway turned out. In April 2013, I returned to this station to reshoot it, make panoramas, and look into the tunnel not from the edge, as it was then, but to fully see the local beauties. And they are there.
I just got around to posting this photo. :) Look!
1. "Kurskaya" - a station on the Moscow Metro's Circle Line. It is located under the square of the Kursk railway station between the stations "Komsomolskaya" and "Taganskaya".
2. The station was opened on January 1, 1950 as part of the first section "Kurskaya" - "Park Kultury" of the Circle Line. It is named after the Kursk railway station, near which it is located. It has crossings at the station "Kurskaya" of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line and "Chkalovskaya" of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.
3. Let's start the tour from the new vestibule, opened in 1995 - this is the combined vestibule from the Chkalovskaya station.
4. In my opinion, despite the air and aviation theme, the new lobby is very boring and dull.
5. Light caissons are installed in suspended ceilings, which look like circles of different diameters. The two largest caissons are located in front of the arches of the escalator tunnels, which are located on opposite short walls of the hall. Light windows are covered with tubular metal gratings. The walls and columns are lined with gray and white marble.
6. Characteristic tilt finish for the 80s-90s.
7. And this is the old exit from Kursk, but with new escalators. From July 3, 2008 to May 14, 2009, work was carried out to replace the machines.
8. The design of the station is a columned, three-vaulted, deep-laid structure. The design used a prefabricated cast-iron lining.
9. I did not find any mention in any textbook of how the transfer to the radial station was made. I can assume that the pylons are made of monolithic reinforced concrete, like the vault of this "chamber".
10. If you look into the tunnels, you can see how in front of the station (from both ends) the track tunnels are approaching. There is an assumption that initially the station was supposed to be a pylon, according to the standard design, the distillation tunnels had already been partially built at a greater distance between them. The change in the project also required the convergence of the track tunnels. The station itself was built according to a unique project, which was not used anywhere else.
11. And here is a scan of a page from Limanov's book "Metropolitan". You can download the full pdf of this wonderful book from me.
12. The entire column complex is in its glory. By the way, at one time, the identification of the drawing of this station was carried out by the elimination method. Fortunately, there are not so many columned stations according to an individual project.
14. The central hall resembles the ancient Roman hall of the basilica type. The pylons and columns of the Doric order are covered with light koelga marble.
15. As far as I remember, four floor lamps were dismantled in the 90s and returned to their place after the modernization of the station lighting was completed in May 2009.
16. The original floor lamps were lost or lost. They returned a miserable likeness, but, however, in an anti-vandal design, which is more important there. Native floor lamps, it seems, were made of crystal glass.
17. Panoramic view of the station.
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18. And a little brainwash :)
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19. The transition to the station "" of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line is located in the center of the hall. The transition begins with a staircase to the bridge across the platform, from which trains leave towards Taganskaya. Then there is a long corridor from which you can get into the transition chamber with stairs to descend (south) and ascend (north).
20. There is such a sign in the passage. On it, as well as on the facade of the lobby, the dates are indicated: "1945" and "1949". But according to legend, Stalin himself moved the opening date of the station to January 1, 1950, so that the launch of the first section of the Circle Line would not become part of the celebrations in honor of the leader's 70th birthday.
21. Bridge over the tracks.
22. The station "Kurskaya" is one of the two largest stations of the Moscow metro (together with "Komsomolskaya").
23. A cast figured gilded grate on the track wall has the inscription “Kurskaya of the Big Ring 1945-1949”, reminiscent of the metro development project of 1947, according to which it was planned to create a small circle metro line approximately within the Boulevard Ring, by closing the doubly intersecting Dzerzhinsko- Serpukhov and Kaluga-Timiryazev diameters
24. The architectural decor of the station is deeply symbolic.
25. All three parts - the central hall, the transitional round entrance hall "Renaissance" with a giant column-capital and the pavilion - personify the idea of the sun and the glory of the Victory and the divinity of its achievement.
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26. The floor is paved with a geometric pattern of black gabbro, labradorite and crimson Tokovo granite. Chandeliers are reminiscent of ancient Roman lamps, which look like the sun from below.
27. Many thanks to the press service of the Moscow Metro and the Tunnel Service for their help in organizing this survey.
Kurskaya is a station on the Moscow Metro's Circle Line. It is located under the square of the Kursk railway station between the stations "Komsomolskaya" and "Taganskaya". It is located on the territory of the Basmanny District of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The station opened on January 1, 1950 as part of the Kurskaya - Park Kultury section. It is named after the Kursk railway station, near which it is located. It has crossings at the station "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 of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, opened in 1938 as part of the second stage of the metro. The original plans of 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 a line much further from the center than was built later. Planned stations were Usachyovskaya, Kaluzhskaya Zastava, Serpukhovskaya Zastava, Stalin Plant, Ostapovo, Hammer and Sickle Plant, Lefortovo, Spartakovskaya, Krasnoselskaya, Rzhevsky Station, Savelovsky Station, Dynamo, Krasnopresnenskaya Zastava, Kyiv. In 1941, the design of the Circle Line was changed. Now it was planned to be built closer to the center. In 1943, a decision was made to urgently build the Koltsevaya Line along the current route in order to unload the interchange hub "Okhotny Ryad" - "Sverdlov Square" - "Revolution Square". The circle line became the fourth stage 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 it was 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 the station with two vestibules. From the southern end of the station in 1995, a second exit was built into the common lobby with the Chkalovskaya station. From July 3, 2008 to October 24, 2009, the ground lobby was closed for renovations.
Architecture and decoration
Lobby
The station has two vestibules: the northern (underground) - combined with the "Kurskaya" Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, and the southern (underground), combined with the "Chkalovskaya". Together with the station, a complex system of underground and surface facilities was built, providing inputs and outputs of the interchange hub, its connection with the internal premises of the Kursk railway station and transitions between metro stations. The center of this ensemble is a round underground hall, in…
July 12th, 2015
Another major transport hub on the Circle Line. Or rather, not even so ... The largest transport hub on the Circle Line. As of 2011, 246,000 people pass through the Kurskaya metro station of the Koltsevaya and Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya lines, as well as the Chkalovskaya station. This is the highest rate in the Moscow Metro. The station is equipped with a ground vestibule. After the construction of the station, they did not begin to make a combined ground vestibule, as it was at the metro station. . Actually the lobby, as it seems to me, is the most interesting, beautiful, pompous part of the station. But let's go and see.
TTX of the station.
Archival photo. It is written that there is some kind of construction, but most likely they just change the rails.
Rally on the occasion of the opening of a new section and metro station "Kurskaya". The cult of personality gave everything.
Ground lobby in its original form. Now this side part adjoins the station.
Suddenly, some kind of strange roof on the pavilion. It can only be seen from afar.
And here is the original view of the hall in the pavilion. Attention is drawn to the beautiful floor, lined with small tiles.
And of course, in the now 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 mostly sculpted leaders, but not only. His own authorship is a monument to Gogol, on Gogol Boulevard. Stalin was removed from Kursk after 1961 and eventually lost.
Beauty, no validators. Ticket travel.
A bit of propaganda. It is interesting that nowadays 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 violently.
Station hall near the transition to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. What beautiful lamps. I understand that the original lamps are lost!
Soviet people in the subway.
Looks like a staged photo again.
But this is cool. It's great that the subway THEN was primarily a work of art. Even in the chronicle, the stations are called "underground palaces"
Here's a great color photo. A wonderful composition of type D at the metro station Kursk.
1. So let's take a walk around the modern station. Let's start with the ground lobby. The pavilion looks very pompous. At night, the space inside a kind of portico is illuminated. It's a pity there is no illumination of the pavilion itself.
2. During the day, the pavilion looks like this. In front of the pavilion on the square, a granite mosaic is beautifully laid out. They put benches and lanterns - it became very cool.
3. Interestingly, at the top there is an inscription with the name of the station, there are also two dates, the date of the start and end of construction 1945-1949. The station itself was opened in 1950. There is an opinion that Stalin himself postponed the opening date so that, allegedly, the 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 Kurskaya pavilion indicate that the station was ready in 1949.
4. On the one hand, the pavilion adjoins the station building, on the other, it is fenced off with a fence.
5. Left extension. Sign above the door "Hall of Official Delegations". This extension is rather Russian Railways. Funny balcony. There must be a "beautiful" view from there.
6. Let's go further. In front of the entrance group. The pavilion looks very neat because it was restored in 2008-2009.
7. Inside the pavilion is very cool. And it is the Temple of Victory. Many stations built after the Great Patriotic War are decorated with the theme of the Victory.
8. But first we get to the ticket office. There are equally made 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. 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 an interesting room with a dome, which rests on 12 columns. Above the eight central ones there are sculptures with laurel wreaths. On the circular beam, which lies on the columns, there are two couplets from the Soviet anthem.
Through the storms the sun of freedom shone for us,
And the great Lenin lit the way for us.
Stalin raised us to be loyal to the people,
Inspired us to work and deeds!
The last two lines were lost and appeared only after the reconstruction.
11. Very cool, reminiscent of some kind of ancient pagan temple.
12. Behind the octagonal hall is an altar with the supreme deity, a niche in which stood a sculpture of Stalin. Naturally, the sculpture was lost, and even after the 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 caused a lot of 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, validators are naturally already modern. And in the archival photo above, we saw a sign about presenting tickets above this place.
16. From here you can get to the "light green" and "blue" branch. There are always a lot of people in this hall.
17. The hall is illuminated by the coolest chandeliers. Look.
18. Escalator hall. A round room in plan with beautiful stone columns around 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 like a strange little man.
19. Simply wonderful. When you see all this, you understand that no matter how hard modern domestic architects try to match the architectural masterpieces of the past, to surpass in beauty, pomposity and solemnity such specimens as the st.m. "Kurskaya" is hardly within their power.
20. Beautiful.
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22. The decoration of the column is dedicated to abundance. Girls with fruits, floral ornament, a vine with bunches of grapes is launched at the top.
23. Escalator descent. Another niche in the background. I wonder if there was a sculpture there or not. There are also lamps here, similar to those that we saw on archival photos of the platform hall in the area of the transition to the "blue" branch.
24. We go down. There is a hermetic seal in front of the entrance to the station.
25. Station column, deep.
26. The columns are oblong in plan. Stone decoration sends us back to ancient temples.
27. Metal plates on the track wall are gilded. There are also floral ornaments. The inscription "Kursk Big Ring" is interesting, 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 a staircase to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.
30. Floor navigation, which is now being implemented at many stations, I think is a great innovation. They help to quickly navigate, including visitors, who sometimes stand in the middle of the station, blocking the road and standing looking at the signs above.
31. But the lamps, unfortunately, are not authentic here. Not even stylized. What a cheap fake. It's strange, because you can make a replica of the lamp, especially since the originals are not lost, but are upstairs in the escalator hall.
32. Ceiling.
33. In the central hall, the lamps are round, but in the side halls they are of an unusual shape.
34. An extremely unusual shape of a chandelier. Very original.
35. There are always a lot of people at the station. Someone hurries to the station, someone to the transition.
36. Another view of the central hall.
37. By the way, the new trains are perfectly combined in color with the design of the station. Everyone, we get on the train, we go further.
P.S.
All archive photos found on a wonderful site
Kursk - radial
In the Moscow metro there are two stations with the name "Kurskaya" - on the Koltsevaya and Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya lines. They are connected by a long passage, the walls of which are lined with red marble-like limestone. This is where fossils are found. On the walls of the main part of the corridor, red marble-like limestone with fossils is interspersed with white, paleontologically empty stone. And on the walls near the stairs leading to the "Kursk-radial" lining with red stone is solid and it is there that most of the fossils are found.
This picture shows colonial coral from the corridor between the Kurskaya-Koltsevaya and Kurskaya-Radialnaya stations. This is one of the finest specimens of coral found in the subway in red marble (marble limestone) cladding. Corals of this species have been found so far only on the "Kurskaya". There are good coral reefs at other stations, but there are very few of them in red marble.
A gastropod mollusk in the wall of the corridor connecting the two Kurskaya stations. The shell is sawn almost in half, partially filled with fossilized sediment. It can be seen that the shell is upside down in relation to the position in which it was fossilized. Gastropods are not the most common subway fossil, so this well-preserved shell is quite interesting. Above it is visible the "transparent" shell of a small gastropod and a fragment of a sea lily.
Another gastropod mollusk is the gastropod. The sink is located in the lining of the passage-tunnel connecting the stations of the ring and radial lines. The tunnel is lined with red and white marble; fossils are found in the red stone. Below the shell of a gastropod, segments of crinoids and a small colony of corals are visible in the image.
Large ammonite shell. It is partially hidden in stone and is not evident. Only if you look closely, you can see that another turn appears around the central, light part of the shell - curved partitions between the shell chambers are visible. In one place, a rather thick outer wall of a large whorl is visible.
In this photo - segments of sea lilies. Sea lilies, unlike gastropods, are very common in red marble. Many segments of their stems were frozen in stone at various angles. In some places, the surface of the stone by 30 percent consists of fragments of lilies. Some segments are cut almost perfectly, some are only slightly visible in the breed. You can see fragments of different types of lilies in a variety of angles.
Section of the rostrum of a small belemnite. There are several such cuts in the passage between the Kursks, some of them are almost round, others are elliptical, as if cut at an angle. It turns out that all these belemnite rosters were located in the rock in approximately the same direction, and when using stone in facing, it was sawn and polished in the same way, so that all the rosters were cut across. There is a longitudinal section of the rostrum at Elektrozavodskaya and, apparently, this is a rarity in the metro.
Small colonial coral. The fossil is torn in half by a crack in the rock. Apparently, these cracks arose already in the petrified rock, and mineralized solutions passed through them, deposited on the walls. The composition of the solution gradually changed, and the color of the deposits that fell out of them also changed accordingly.
In this picture - a segment of a sea lily, visible "from above" - its structure is clearly visible and the five-ray symmetry characteristic of echinoderms is noticeable. And above it is a part of the lily stem, consisting of several segments - they are visible from the side. You can see the central channel in the stem of this marine animal.
Collection of various fossils. In the center is a spirally twisted gastropod shell. It is clearly seen that it was filled with a heterogeneous sediment - partly sand, partly - small particles, apparently clay. On the right, two more small gastropod shells are visible (one of them is barely visible, as it is painted black). Segments of the stem of a sea lily are scattered around. The nature of the white fossil on the lower right is not entirely clear - either this is the base of the stem of a crinoidea, or fragments of a small coral.
