The place near the Victory Park metro station in Moscow is the focus of the people's memory about all the defenders of the Russian lands - from Ancient Russia to the present day, a memorial to the heroes of all nationalities and faiths. This is a place of worship, worship and sorrow, the value of Russian history and culture. How to get to Victory Park in Moscow? By metro - the fastest and easiest way.
History of the area
The territory of Moscow, where the metro station "Victory Park" was built, used to be just pasture and land in the Moscow Region village of Troitsa-Golenishchevo. It was forbidden to build housing in this area. And for a long time, sprawling Moscow was approaching its foundation. Later, Poklonnaya Gora gradually entered the city’s borders, and after the Great Patriotic War, part of its slopes were leveled under the new memorial complex - Victory Park. The mountain has lost its former greatness, but the significance remains. Indeed, if we turn to the history of the formation of a toponym, then several versions are expressed:
- travelers arriving in or leaving Moscow beat the capital with bowing to the capital;
- next to the mountain there was a checkpoint where travelers had to pay a special fee for entry and exit - a bow;
- there were churches on the mountain, whose parishioners and travelers bowed to them as they approached.
Poklonnaya Gora was located on the old Mozhaisk road, but in Soviet times Kutuzovsky Prospekt was laid and active urban development began, which continues to this day. From the highest point, high-rise buildings of new buildings are clearly visible.
Station history
In 2003, near the residential area and historical and cultural monuments, a new metro station “Victory Park” was opened in Moscow, which became a major interchange hub in the capital. It is a transition from Solntsevskaya to the Arbat-Pokrovskaya line.
This item refers to the type of pylon and is a deep station. The streets and avenues around the Victory Park metro in Moscow are named after the famous Russian military leaders during the war of 1812: Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly, Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Alexei Petrovich Ermolov, Denis Davydov, Dmitry Petrovich Neverovsky. One of the streets speaks about the topic of toponyms of the area - 1812 street.
Triumphal Gate
Between the metro stations "Victory Park" and "Kutuzovskaya" the central metropolitan highway is decorated with a triumphal arch, erected in memory of Russian soldiers who defended the Fatherland from the French army of Napoleon. Once this gate stood in another place - near the Belorussky railway station - and was built according to the design of Osip Bove for the victorious return of the Russian army. Their installation was planned in 1814. But due to the necessity of processing the project into a new plan for the Tverskaya Zastava Square , they were installed fifteen years later. The construction was the only arch-type monument in the capital. In connection with the expansion of the area in 1936, the arch was dismantled, and recreated in a new place only thirty years later.
Borodino panorama
This is one of the Russian museums, which became a monument to the war of 1812, and in this case its main event - the battle of Borodino - the work of F. Roubaud. An equestrian monument to the commander of the Russian army Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov was erected in front of the panorama building.
The panorama was originally opened in 1912 in a completely different place - on Chistye Prudy in a specially constructed wooden pavilion. But because of the disrepair after six years, it was dismantled and only forty-four years later it was reconstructed again not far from the place where the Moscow Victory Park metro will be opened.
Poklonnaya Hill Memorial
Near the metro station "Victory Park" is a hill, which occupies an important place in the history of Moscow. This is Poklonnaya Gora. Once, from its upper point, Napoleon Bonaparte contemplated the burning capital, and in Soviet times a memorial park was laid around as a memory to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their immortal feat.
To the dominant of the memorial - Stele to the heroes, decorated with a symbolic image of the patron saint of the Russian army St. George the Victorious and the diorama is a wide Alley of Memory. The alley is framed by rows of fountains, and on its left side, like soldiers, lined up in a series of monuments to all fronts and types of troops that took part in the victory over fascism. At the beginning of the alley, a monument to the heroes of the First World War was recently erected.
In addition, the following objects are located throughout the memorial complex : the museum of military equipment, the monuments to “Missing Soldiers Without Graves”, “Defenders of the Russian Land”, “Tragedy of the People”, “Warriors-Internationalists”, “In the fight against fascism, we were together "," Spanish volunteers who fell during the Great Patriotic War "," Countries of the anti-Hitler coalition "," On the roads of war ", as well as a memorial synagogue, the Shuhad mosque, the church of St. George the Victorious.
On the Moscow metro scheme, Victory Park is located on the yellow branch between the Minskaya and Delovoy Tsentr stations and on the blue branch between the Kievskaya and Slavyanskiy Boulevard stations.