The Krasnogvardeiskaya metro station of the Zamoskvoretskaya line of the Moscow metro has not such a big history. She went into operation in 1985. For more than a quarter of a century, she played the role of the terminal station in this direction of the Zamoskvoretskaya line - and only in 2012 did the metro step further south.
Krasnogvardeiskaya metro station
This station can hardly be considered a masterpiece of the underground architecture of the center of Moscow, but it does not suffer from a complete lack of expressiveness. In its appearance, a certain middle ground is observed between the lurid luxury of the architecture of the Stalinist Empire and the complete absence of architectural excesses of the subsequent Khrushchev decade. Everything is balanced here. Structurally, the Krasnogvardeiskaya metro station is a spacious, single-vault shallow structure. The main material is monolithic reinforced concrete. The arch of the station is decorated in the form of long coffered rows overlapping the entire space. The lower part of the room is lined with red and gray grades of marble. The end parts are decorated with stained-glass windows on the theme of the October Revolution. A characteristic feature of the Krasnogvardeiskaya metro station is the location of stands with its name in the center of the hall, and not on the side walls, as is most often the case. There are four exits into the city on different intersection streets and two underground vestibules on opposite sides. Above ground structures are absent. But the station organically fit into the life of the southern outskirts of a large metropolis - and it would be very difficult to imagine a transport network today without it. Even for real estate agencies, its presence greatly increases the capitalization of real estate located in the immediate vicinity of the metro.
Krasnogvardeiskaya in urban infrastructure
The station is located at a very lively Moscow intersection. After four of its exits to the surface, you can exit to the streets of Musa Jalil and Yasenevaya and Orekhovy Boulevard. For many Muscovites and guests of the capital, this is simply a place of transfer from one mode of transport to another.
There are many land transport communications in this place and many commercial facilities are located - hotels, restaurants, large shopping centers and auto service stations. It also built modern residential complexes. The operation of the Krasnogvardeiskaya metro fundamentally changed in December 2011, when the station acquired the status of a transfer hub in the
south of Moscow. In the center of the hall, a passage to the Zyablikovo station of the Lublin-Dmitrov line was opened.
This greatly expanded the transport significance of the station and provided the residents of the district with the opportunity to get to the central part of the city in the shortest possible way. The negative aspects include the constructive solution of the transition node. It is designed in such a way that when passing through it you have to go beyond the paid zone and secondly overcome the turnstile. This cannot but cause complaints from passengers.