Arbatskaya Metro Station (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line) (Moscow)

 invisible, metro station, civil defense facility, 1953_construction, underground facility, revealed object of cultural heritage (Russia)

Opened April 5, 1953
Station number 044.
Architects, LM Polyakov, VV Pelevin, JP Zienkiewicz plus AG Rochegova and ML Engelke.
Design engineers, AI Semenov, AN Pirozhkova and P. Pashin.
The name is due to its location near Arbat Street, and the station has the same name as a station of the Filyovskaya line.

This is a deep station buried 41 meters. This is one of the longest station, 220 meters - the second in length after the "Sparrow Hills" station.

The pylons are decorated with red marble at the bottom, made of pottery decorated with bouquets of flowers. The floor is paved with gray granite. The track walls are faced with glazed tiles, white top and black bottom. The station hall is illuminated by massive bronze chandeliers in the shape of rings.

The station is a transfer station connected to the "Lenin Library" of the Sokol'nicheskaya line, the "Alexander Garden" of the Filyovskaya line and and the "Borovitskaya" station of the Serpukhpvsko-Timiryazevskaya line (part of the largest interchange node in Moscow).

Initially, the lobby was in a separate building, but after the construction of the new General Staff building of the Ministry of Defense, the lobby was inside its courtyard. The old exits were bricked up, and a new entrance was built into the General Staff Building opening onto Vozdvizhenka Street.

In the ground floor lobby there is a huge frame but the portrait is missing - until the mid-1950s there was a portrait Joseph Stalin. According to some reports, the portrait is still there, just covered with plaster.

The lobby was restored and partially rebuilt in 2007-2008.

3D panorama 360°:
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