Moskovskiye vorota metrostation (Saint Petersburg)

 draw only border, metro station, 1961_construction, civil defense facility, underground facility

Opened April 29, 1961
Architects VA Petrov, KM Mitrofanov, and AI Goritsky.
Engineer-constructor VI Akatov.
The name derives from the location in close proximity to the Moscow Triumphal Gate (wikimapia.org/16148303).

Station pylon type with a short central nave (Hall) deep (35 m) burial. Oblique stroke (exit from the station), containing 3 of the escalator, located at the southern end of the central hall.

Pylons, growing up only with the middle of the hall, decorated with red-brown marble with the situation in his aluminum profiles, which contrasts with the white arches and light-colored marble floor. The track walls are lined with white tiles. End part of the central hall is decorated with a copy of one of the sculptural fragments Moscow Triumphal Gate, consisting of weapons, armor, guns, swords. Behind it is hidden door to the premises.

There is a ground-based lobby (wikimapia.org/795716) with access to the city to the Moskovsky avenue and Moskovskiye vorota square.

In the years 2013-15. planned to build a transition to the station "Chernigovskaya" of Sixth (Krasnosel'sko-Kalininskaya) line.

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