May 31, 2011
OPENING OF VESTIBULE OF STATION SRETENSKIY BUL'VAR
JSC Mosmetrostroy is a diversified construction company that carries out on a contract basis
construction of underground facilities, underground, transportation, civil and other structures from
scratch. Metrostroy was established in 1931 and laid the foundations of the domestic metro
construction. The first line of the Moscow metro was built in record time and put into operation on
May 15, 1935.
OPENING OF VESTIBULE OF STATION SRETENSKIY BUL'VAR (Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line)
OPENING DATE
LOCATION
The new vestibule is construct directly under Turgenevskaya Square and adjoins the existing pedestrian crossing. Exits from it are built in front of the exits from the existing vestibule of the stations Turgenevskaya and Chistye Prudy.
STATION DESIGN
Having descended into the vestibule of the station Sretenskiy Bul'var, the passenger gets into the light and bright space of the upper hall, made in the form of a circle, at an angle consisting of 4 escalators 79 meters long and stairs. The area of the vestibule hall is 514 square meters, the height of the lobby hall is 4 m.
ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTION
Atmosphere of the vestibule creates a suspended ceiling design, consisting of a dense luminous grid, the cells of which are filled with colored metal details, as in a kaleidoscope. To the right of the escalators is another unusual element of decor - a colorful stained-glass window depicting playing children and the inscription Sretenskiy Bul'var.
This project was worked by the specialists of the architectural institute Metrogiprothans: chief architect Nikolai Ivanovich Shumakov and Natalia Viktorovna Shurygina.
SUBCONTRACTORS
SMU-5 Mosmetrostroya, USR Mosmetrostroya