The Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line is the seventh Moscow metro line. On the maps of the capital's subway, it is indicated by a lucky number 7 and graphically represented in purple. This line is able to surprise. In addition to being one of the busiest branches of the Moscow metro, and despite the fact that almost all of its stations are unique and have no other underground counterparts, this is the only Moscow metro line completely located on one side of the Moskva River and neither it doesn’t cross at once (not taking into account the short Kakhovskaya line, which consists of only three stations). You can tell many interesting stories about each of the stopping points on it to an inquisitive traveler. And one of them is the Polezhaevskaya metro station.
Origin
The metropolitan subway was built in stages, in parts. The same applies to the violet branch (Zhdanovsk-Krasnopresnenskaya at that time). On December 30, 1972, when the Polezhaevskaya metro station was opened for the first time, this line did not exist yet, but there were only two separate radii: Taganskaya-Zhdanovskaya (the former name of the Vykhino station) and Barrikadnaya-Oktyabrsky field, which entered a new stopping point. The name of the station was given in honor of Vasily Dementievich Polezhaev, the Hero of Socialist Labor, the crew leader and subsequently the head of the Moscow metro construction. This is evidenced by the memorial plaque in one of the vestibules of the station.
Station name
It is no exaggeration to say that Polezhaevskaya is a unique and unique metro station in the Moscow subway. It has two platforms and as many as three railway tracks for supplying passenger trains. The lobby of the station is one of the widest in the metro and is only second in size to the Partizanskaya station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. The station was commissioned at a time when the city was actively developing, the sleeping areas grew like mushrooms after the rain, Moscow expanded and expanded.
Metro "Polezhaevskaya" is one of those stations, which received the name not by its urban or geographical location. There are few such stations in Moscow, but they are. For example, the Kropotkinskaya station or the same Partizanskaya station. Although the design names of the Khoroshevskaya and Ulitsa Kuusinena stations could have been, and in 1992 the Polezhaevskaya metro station was almost renamed Khoroshevskaya (even the schemes where it is so marked were preserved), she managed to preserve her original historical title.
Transfer station
The lobby of the station leads to the very Kuusinen street and Khoroshevskoe highway. From here came the proposals for its link to the city plan. Moreover, the convenient territorial location of the station was noticed by the leaders back in the days of the Union republics. According to the project of architects of that time, the station was supposed to become a transfer hub, and a special third route was intended for a promising branch, which was supposed to go to Serebryany Bor. And although the plans of the leaders of the proletariat were not destined to come true, since the project was rejected by the highest authority, the Polezhaevskaya metro station will nevertheless become a transfer hub, and the third route will be re-opened for passengers, putting it into operation for the intended purpose and design of the designers. In 2017, they plan to launch a branch of the third interchange circuit through Polezhaevskaya, linking it with the already designed Khoroshevskaya station.
Screen tests
Currently, the third station path is not used for its intended purpose. Almost all the filming of movies and TV shows, the moments of which take place in the subway, take place here. This fully applies to commercials as well. The idle apron and the railway track are very famous among directors and directors. Indeed, for filming in the Moscow subway, you always have to coordinate a huge number of documents and get mountains of permits. In the case of Polezhaevskaya, everything is much simpler. The third way is rented out for temporary use to filmmakers under a specially developed standard contract.
Design and architecture
Polezhaevskaya metro station on the map of Moscow is located between the Begovaya and Oktyabrskoye Pole stops . It is shallow with a depth of only 10 meters from the surface. Column station, three-span with an increased step between the bearing columns, 25 pieces in a row. The exit on the famous third way goes from the second way with a turnout, and its length is 340 meters. The third way is dead end. The modern look of the station was developed by architects L. N. Popov, A. F. Fokina, as well as design engineer N. M. Silina.
The columns in the shape of a regular octahedron in cross section are decorated with white and yellow marble in different shades and are located in the center of each platform. The walls are lined with white glazed ceramic tiles and the floor is made of non-marking gray granite. Passage and ticket halls are finished in gray granite. Polezhaevskaya is a metro station that was mentioned in D. Glukhovsky’s world famous novel Metro 2033.