Paveletskaya-Radialnaya

Paveletskaya ( _ru. Павелецкая), also known as Paveletskaya-Radialnaya, is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. It opened in 1943 and was designed by S.V. Lyashchenko and E.S. Demchenko. Paveletskaya features tall white marble pillars decorated with the hammer and sickle and a high, arched ceiling. The walls are faced with white marble.

Construction history

The long run between Teatralnaya (then "Ploshchad Sverdlova", opened in 1938) and Avtozavodskaya was opened January 1, 1943. Work on Novokuznetskaya and Paveletskaya continued throughout 1943, and these two stations were opened November 20, 1943. Novokuznetskaya was commissioned as a completed station (most of its 1943 interiors surviving to date); Paveletskaya was built to a design by Alexey Dushkin as a temporary deep (33.5 meters underground) pylon station of London type - with two side platforms, but without a central hall. [ [http://metro.msk.ru/pavel.html Photograph of 1943 platform hall] ]

Work on converting Paveletskaya to a fully functional station commenced in 1950; the station was reopened February 21, 1953. Fragments of original pylons were retained in the southern end of the station; the rest was expanded to a spacious column type hall of the same structure as Mayakovskaya. Bronze-coloured inserts with hammer and sickle motive, the sole example of figurative art in this station, were actually painted ceramic castings.

Accidents

* April 20, 1987, at 19:55 local time, fire erupted in a northbound train approaching Paveletskaya. The train reached Paveletskaya, all passengers disembarked safely (the sole injury was a subway worker hospitalized with smoke poisoning). However, the train burnt out completely, damaging the interiors in the southern end on the station. It had to be partially rebuilt again. [ru icon [http://metro.molot.ru/crash_pav.shtml www.metro.molot.ru] ]
* February 6, 2004, at 08:40 local time, 40 passengers were killed in a terrorist attack on a train that left Avtozavodskaya for Paveletskaya.
* January 15, 2007, both Paveletskaya stations were evacuated due to a fire in the tunnel connecting them. No injuries were reported. [ru icon "Rossiyskaya Gazeta", January 16, 2007 [http://www.rg.ru/2007/01/16/metro-pozhar.html] ]

Transfers

* Paveletskaya-Radialnaya has two transfers to Paveletskaya-Koltsevaya of the Ring line - either through underground tunnel, or through the common surface vestubule on the northern side of [Garden Ring] .
* Southern exit directly connects to Paveletsky Rail Terminal which provides express train service to Domodedovo Airport.

References

External links

* [http://www.metro.ru/stations/zamoskvoretskaya/paveletskaya/ metro.ru]
* [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=2&c=10 mymetro.ru]
* [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=Paveletskaya&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)