Moscow Metro Borovitskaya is part of the largest interchange hub and is one of its four stations. She has her own boarding pavilion, which faces Makhovaya Street, where the State Library of the Russian Federation is located. In fact, this metro station is a transfer station, thanks to which passengers can get to other types of metropolitan transport.
Description
Borovitskaya metro station is located in the central district of Moscow and is part of the Serpukhov-Temiryazevskaya line. Thirty years have passed since its discovery.
In the southern part of the main hall of this station there is a picture dedicated to the
friendship of the peoples of the USSR. Art. Borovitskaya metro is named after one of the
towers of the Moscow Kremlin, and white and red columns emphasize its connection with this building.
The total workload of the site, which includes this station, is very high and amounts to more than three hundred thousand people daily. At the same time, the flow of passengers through the lobby itself per day is approximately 17,000 citizens, and the transfer - 160,000 to the Arbatskaya station and 191,000 to the station. "The library to them. Lenin. "
Design
The Borovitskaya metro was built according to a new and improved project and made of cast-iron arches, and the station was developed by architects such as Popov, Volovich, Moon, the team also included an engineer and designer Barsky. The minimum length of one pylon is two rings, and the side tunnels have a diameter of 8.5 meters, the central one, in turn, is 9.5 m.
Thus, Art. Borovitskaya metro looks like a building consisting of three pylon arches.
Decor
The hall was decorated with shades of light and brown marble, as well as red and orange bricks. Four stairs and an escalator located in the central part of the hall lead to the lower floor, which is decorated with a portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin made of mosaics.
On the walls of Art. Borovitskaya metro has a variety of built-in pictures that are not interconnected by a common theme. The platform floor is made of natural stones of dark color, such as marble and granite.
Where can I transfer?
The Borovitskaya metro scheme shows that using the escalator passage located at the northern end of the hall, it is possible to make the transition to st. "Arbat". The latter was opened a little later than this subway station.
There is no direct transfer to a station such as "Alexander Garden", although it is included in the same node as Art. metro station "Borovitskaya". You can get to it in only one way - to go through the library rooms.
Lobbies
This room has two tiers. Since this place is part of the Borovitskaya station (metro), the photos taken there show that the lobby is also decorated with marble of various colors.
Near this subway is the well-known Pashkov house. In order to get there, you can use Art. metro station "Borovitskaya". Its exits can also lead to the Moscow Kremlin, located on Mokhovaya Street. In that case, if you turn left, leaving the station, and walk a little more, you can reach the famous Alexander Garden in this way.
Prospects
Once, the city authorities planned the construction of the second exit of Art. "Borovitskaya", which was supposed to serve as passengers also by transfer to other metro stations. But, as it turned out later, such a construction was completely inexpedient, so they soon turned up from this idea.
Interesting to know
It turns out that when the construction of the station began, the workers excavated an old house of the nineteenth century at a depth of five meters. It still remains a mystery what the purpose of this building was, and most importantly - by whom it was erected. But what was most surprising was that all the things and furniture in the house were completely untouched by anyone.
Therefore, it was decided that a museum would be established in this place. But all the people who were near this building began to feel badly in a strange way, and some even lost consciousness. As a result, the house was dismantled and taken far beyond the capital.
Such a wonderful location right in the heart of the capital gives Borovitskaya metro station a large number of historical sights located next to it. The main ones are, of course, Red Square and the Kremlin building, since every centimeter of these places is fraught with the history of our country. In addition, not far from this metro station, Alesandrovsky Park is located - a favorite place for both citizens and visitors to Moscow. It was founded in the twenties of the nineteenth century.
Also nearby is a temple built in the name of the Holy Martyr Antipas Bishop, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ. In addition, there are well-known cultural institutions, such as: Moscow Memorial Museum. A.N. Scriabin and the Gogol House library, four cinemas, many children's centers, nightclubs, cafes and restaurants, as well as a huge number of all kinds of supermarkets, shops and various travel agencies.
Driving Methods
How to get to the metro station "Borovitskaya" - can tell any Muscovite. The station is located in the Arbat area, therefore it is one of the main ways of travel for each resident of the Russian capital. There are several convenient options. The first of them is to get there by bus of route N1:
- from "Kitay Gorod" to this station you need to drive five stops;
- from "Kropotinskaya" - one;
- to the "Kuznetsk bridge" - seven;
- “Lublyanka” and “Revolution Square” are only six stops away from this place;
- from the "Okhotny" row and the "Theater" - eight;
- to art. "Pushkin" and "Tver" - ten;
- Art. Chekhovskaya is located eleven stops from this metro station;
- from Mayakovskaya - twelve;
- "Belorusskaya" is separated from the station "Borovitskaya" seventeen stops;
- from Dynamo - twenty-three;
- you can get here from the airport by driving twenty-eight stops;
- The Falcon is located thirty-one stops away .;
- to the "Voikovskaya" - 34.
Another way to get there is by bus number six:
- Thus, you can get to the "Barrikadnaya" and "Krasnopresnetskaya" stations, after passing ten stops.
- From Arbatskaya station to the Borovitskaya station we need, there are only 3 stops.
- Before the "Streets of 1905" - twelve stops.
- Art. "Running" is located after fifteen.
- From Polezhavskaya to this station - twenty one stop.
You can also take the trolleybus number 33 and get to the station. Kropotinskaya, which is located at one stop, or to Kitai Gorod (five stops).
Number one trolleybus will also take its passengers to the Borovitskaya metro station from st. "Pushkin". For this you need to drive seven stops.
From the railway stations to this subway there are: bus number 6, carrying people from the Paveletsky station, or trolley bus number 1, coming from the Lower Boilers.
From all metro metro stations to Borovitskaya can be reached in the following ways:
- On trolleybus number 44 there is an opportunity to drive to Victory Park, breaking fifteen stops.
- Bus number 1: from the "Glade" - three stops, from the "October" - five, to the station. "Leninsky Prospekt" - fourteen, to the "South-West" - thirty-seven stops.
- Trolleybus No. 2 carries passengers from the Vystavochnaya and Studencheskaya stations to Borovitskaya (eleven stops), Bagrationovskaya is eighteen, and twelve to Kutuzovskaya.
- Minibus No. 2 takes people to Kitay Gorod, Lublyanka and Ploshchad Revolyutsii, and these stations can also be reached by bus number 12C.
- Trolleybus No. 33: from “Polyanka” - three stops, from “Oktyabrskaya” station - five, and also from “Leninsky Prospekt” - twelve.
This Moscow metro station begins its work for passengers at 05:40 in the morning, and ends at 01:00 at night, so it is a very convenient way to travel to any part of Moscow.