Sretensky Bulvar

Sretensky Bulvar ( _ru. Сретенский Бульвар) is a station on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro in Russia. The construction, which began in the late 1980s, has frequently stalled as a result of continuous breaks in finances. Only in 2004 did proper funding resume, which allowed finishing the construction. The station was opened on December 29 2007.

The station opening had been long awaited, as it simultaneously allowed transfers to two other stations: Chistiye Prudy of the Sokolnicheskaya Line and Turgenevskaya of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line. The projected passenger dynamics for the station are 10,800 per hour on entry and 20,100 on exit, which allows for a dramatic occupancy decrease on the Koltsevaya Line, particularly on the Komsomolskaya – Kurskaya path.

The station, designed by architects N.Shumakov and G.Moon, features a standard Lyublinskaya pylon-trivault design with the base set as a monolith concrete plate. White fibreglass is used on the vaults of the central (9.5 metre diameter) and the platform halls (8.5 m) as well as the escalator and transfer corridor ceilings, which also doubles the hydroisolation. Initially it was though that the station's main decorative feature would include a set of three metre high bronze and rock sculptures in the niches of all 30 pylons. Made by leading Russian sculptors, they would stand on granite pedestals with luminescent lamps lighting down on top of them. However recently it has emerged that this would be too costly, and hence the pylon design was altered to now include a set of metallic artworks on themes of the Boulevard Ring. White marble covers the floors, whilst flooring will be done with granite.

There will be two escalator tunnels leading from both ends of the station: one directly to Chistiye Prudy station, and the other will be a combined transfer to Turgenevskaya as well as a diversion to a second escalator tunnel to the surface. The combined vestibule will be located underground the Turgenevskaya Square at the beginning of Alademika Sakharova avenue and next to the Sretensky Boulevard for which the station is named. In an effort to conserve the spendings and time, the vestibule and the escalator tunnel to the surface will open later.

External links

*ru icon [http://russos.livejournal.com/tag/%D0%A1%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9+%D0%B1%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80 Russos livejournal]
*ru icon [http://www.arhmetro.ru/lubl_dm/sreten.htm Metrogiprotrans Arkitektura] - Description of the future station and designs.
*ru icon [http://www.mosmetro.ru/pages/page_6.php?id_page=307 Moskovsky Metropoliten] - Description on official website
*ru icon [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=10&c=04 Mymetro.ru] - Description
*ru icon [http://www.rosmetrostroy.ru/sreten.htm Rosmetrostroy] - Description and [http://www.rosmetrostroy.ru/sreten-f.htm construction photographs]
* [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Moscow&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=55.765825,37.635405&spn=0.002958,0.013561&t=k&iwloc=addr Google maps] - Satellite shot centred on the future location