Krasnye Vorota (Moscow Metro)

Krasnye Vorota
Moscow Metro station
Location	Krasnoselsky District Central Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55°46′08″N 37°38′55″E / 55.7690°N 37.6487°ECoordinates: 55°46′08″N 37°38′55″E / 55.7690°N 37.6487°E
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	1  Sokolnicheskaya Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Trolleybus: 10, 24, Б (B)
Construction
Structure type	Deep pylon tri-vault
Depth	31 metres (102 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Bicycle facilities	No
Other information
Station code	007
History
Opened	15 May 1935
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Chistye Prudy toward  Salaryevo Sokolnicheskaya Line Komsomolskaya toward  Bulvar Rokossovskogo
Route map Legend Bulvar Rokossovskogo Cherkizovo yard Cherkizovskaya Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad Preobrazhensky Bridge  Yauza River Sokolniki Krasnoselskaya Severnoye yard Komsomolskaya  5  Krasnye Vorota Chistye Prudy  6   10  Lubyanka  7  Okhotny Ryad  2  ( 3 ) Biblioteka Imeni Lenina  3   4   9  Kropotkinskaya Park Kultury  5  Frunzenskaya ( closed until March 2017 ) Sportivnaya Luzhniki Metro Bridge Vorobyovy Gory Moskva River Universitet Prospekt Vernadskogo Yugo-Zapadnaya Troparyovo Rumyantsevo Salaryevo Salaryevo yard
Location
Krasnye Vorota Location within Central Moscow

Krasnye Vorota (Russian: Кра́сные воро́та) is a Moscow Metro station in the Krasnoselsky District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. It is on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, between Chistye Prudy and Komsomolskaya stations.

History

Work began on Krasnye 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 without a delay on 15 May 1935.

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.

Name

The station's name means Red Gate in Russian. It comes from the square where the famous monumental archway Red Gate once stood

Design

Station platform of Krasnye Vorota

Designed by architects Ivan Fomin and N. Andrikanis, it opened as part of the first Metro line in 1935.

Krasnye 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, Krasnye Vorota, Chistye Prudy, Lubyanka, and Okhotnyi Ryad. However, due to construction difficulties a simpler two-arched design was implemented at Lubyanka or Chistye Prudy.

Krasnye 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.

Entrance

Krasnye Vorota has two entrances. The southern is a subterranean vestibule with mezzanine stairwells and a distinctive shell-like pavilion designed by Nikolai Ladovsky, that stands on the south side of the Garden Ring (with an open Red Gates plaza in front of it), on the intersection of Myasnitsky drive, Boyarsky side-street and Khoromny lane. The original three 28.4 metre high N-type escalators were replaced in 1994 by ET-3M models. The works included a renovation of the vestibule.

The second entrance was built into the ground floor of the Red Gate skyscraper, designed by architect Alexey Dushkin and opened on 31st of July, 1954, the architecture carries resemblance of the more flamboyant Stalinist style. Due to the landscape of the region, it required the escalator tunnels to be split. As a result there is a small incline that follows the axis of the station (3 x EM-1M escalators, 11.5 metres high) and a great incline that brings commuters to the ground level (3 x EM-4 escalators, 18.5 metres). It is scheduled to close for renovation in January 2014 which would include the replacement of escalators.