Krasniye Vorota

Krasniye Vorota

Krasniye Vorota ( _ru. Красные ворота) (literally "Red Gates", named after the square where the famous monumental archway Red Gates once stood) is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro.

Designed by architects Ivan Fomin and N.N. Andrikanis, it opened as part of the original Metro line in 1935. Krasniye Vorota has off-white tiled walls and pylons faced with dark red "Shrosha" marble from Georgia. A model of the station was exhibited at the 1938 World's Fair in Paris, where it was awarded a Grand Prix.

Krasniye Vorota was one of Moscow's first four deep-level stations, and one of the first two to employ a three-arched design with three parallel, circular tunnels. In this type of station, the outer tubes (which house the tracks and platforms) are separated from the larger central hall by heavy pylons. This design was planned to be used for the first time on the four central-city stations on the first Metro line, Krasniye Vorota, Chistiye Prudy, Lubyanka, and Okhotnyi Ryad. However, due to construction difficulties a simpler two-arched design was implemented at Lubyanka or Chistiye Prudy.

Work began on Krasniye Vorota in the spring of 1932 and proceeded smoothly despite fears that the untested three-arch design would collapse under the weight of the soil. The station opened on schedule on May 15, 1935.Krasniye Vorota's original vestibule is a distinctive, shell-like building designed by Nikolai Ladovsky which stands on the south side of the Sadovoye Koltso. A second vestibule, built into the ground floor of the Red Gate Square skyscraper (architect Alexey Dushkin), was completed in 1953.

In 1952 the first turnstile in the Moscow Metro system was installed at this station. Between 1962 and 1986 the station was renamed Lermontovskaya in honour of the Russian author Mikhail Lermontov. There is still a bust of Lermontov at the end of the platform.

External links

* [http://www.metro.ru/stations/sokolnicheskaya/krasnye_vorota/ Description of the station on Metro.ru] (in Russian)
* [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=1&c=07 Description of the station on Mymetro.ru] (in Russian)
* [http://metro.molot.ru/st_sl_krasnyevorota.shtml Description of the station on Metro.molot.ru] (in Russian)
* [http://news.metro.ru/f17.html News.metro.ru]
* [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=KrasniyeVorota&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)


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