The Moscow metro scheme is quite complex. It is not easy for a person who has arrived in the capital to understand it for the first time. And in a few years this scheme will become even more complicated, because new stations are opened every year. Today, more than thirty are under construction. One of them is the Lefortovo metro station. Where will it be located? What streets will be exited? What project is it being built on? We will consider all this below.
Location on the scheme
The opening of the Lefortovo metro station is planned for April-May 2018. It will be located on the so-called third landing point. So metro builders called a new line, which runs outside the main ring and includes mainly stations still under construction.
So, from the Aviamotornaya station located in the eastern part of the city, passengers will be able to go to the third landing point and get to the Lefortovo metro station. And if they get from there to Rubtsovskaya, which opens in the same 2018, they will have the opportunity to go to the Arbat-Pokrovskaya line. The Moscow Metro is so actively built up and branched out that, perhaps, no one will soon use land transport.
Architectural features
The future of the Lefortovo metro station belongs to shallow stations. It is being built according to a standard project. Like other stations of the third landing point, Lefortovo will have a completely restrained appearance, without any elaborate architectural elements. In the photo below, you can see what will be the design of the future metro. However, often the idea of designers changes in the process.
Area
Lefortovo - a metro with only one exit - onto Nalichnaya street. According to the initial design, the station was supposed to be located along Soldatskaya. But this project did not suit local residents and was changed according to their urgent requirements.
Lefortovo is a metro station located in one of the oldest districts of Moscow. This region belongs to the Southeast administrative district. Nalichnaya Street in the city existed in the XVIII century. Then it, however, was called Nalishnaya and was located in a slightly different place.
This street was between Hospital Square and New Road. But in 1843 a major fire broke out in Lefortovo, after which not only repairs were required, but also redevelopment. Cash (or Cash) street was removed, but after a few years she again appeared on the map of Moscow. It was already located in a slightly different place, although also in Lefortovo. Where does this name come from? There are several versions. According to one of them, the street was named after a large landlord who lived in these places.
Not far from the future Lefortovo metro station is Soldatskaya Street. Once upon a time it was called Peter and Paul. It was named after the temple, which was built in the seventeenth century. Then there was the Soldier's Sloboda. Hence the modern name. And what is now where the Lefortovo station will open soon?
Church of Peter and Paul
It was in honor of this temple that Soldierskaya Street was called Petropavlovskaya several centuries ago. In 1613, it was lit in honor of Nikolai Ugodnik. The temple was built, like other structures at that time, from wood. A hundred years after the opening, a new, stone one was erected in its place.
In this form, however, the Temple of Peter and Paul, several times restored, appears before the eyes of Muscovites and guests of the capital and is one of the main attractions of the Lefortovo district.
Vvedenskoe Cemetery
This is one of the old cemeteries in Moscow. Like Vagankovsky, it was discovered during the plague epidemic. One of the villages located in the eighteenth century on the site of the modern Lefortovo district is Vvedenskoye. Hence the name of the cemetery, which was originally called German, because it was mainly buried here Lutherans.