Krestovsky ostrov metrostation (Saint Petersburg)

 draw only border, metro station, civil defense facility, 1999_construction, underground facility

Opened September 3, 1999
Architects YM Rapoport, GA Vasil'yev.
Named from its location on the eponymous island, and in the same historic district of St. Petersburg.
Project name Park Kul'tury.

Colonna-Wall Station depth (49 m) of burial, experienced. For the first time all the construction is made in precast concrete. Oblique stroke (exit from the station), containing 3 of the escalator, located in the northern end of the station.

For the first time in the practice of St. Petersburg underground station and the elevated lobby were resolved as thematically unified and architecturally cohesive whole. The three underground space station has a traditional banker's system, stylized, enlarged volume and, to some extent, archaic. The combination of characteristic Petersburg bright limestone finish of columns and arches, and travertine in the decoration of the walls of travel, stresses the wholeness of the architectural solutions. End wall first in Russia finished mirrors that visually lengthens the platform. The effect of reflection visually increases the station and makes its spatial effects. Also, first used by the Roman designation of the opening date of the frieze of the pediment, separated from the arch at the end. The floors of polished granite decorated dark red squares on a gray background. Applied zakarniznoe lighting station. Every wall, connecting the two columns, decorated with mosaics. They allegorically depicted the river (in the central tunnel) and the island (in travel). The islands and rivers are depicted as mythic figures.

There is a ground-based lobby (www.wikimapia.org/499019) with access to the city on the Morskoy avenue and Ryukhina street.

During the architectural decision lead author of the EM Rapoport was awarded the Golden Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2000) and the Golden Diploma winner architectural festival "Architecture-2001".