Park Pobedy (russian: Парк Победы – ''Victory Park'') is a station of the

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in the city's Dorogomilovo District. It is on two lines: the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line and the Kalininsko–Solntsevskaya line. At underground, according to the official figures, it is the deepest metro station in Moscow and one of the deepest in the world (after Kyiv Metro's Arsenalna,

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and

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's Admiralteyskaya).

Services

The Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line serves the station with trains running from

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in the northwest via Park Pobedy and central Moscow to

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in the northeast of the city. Until 16 March 2017, the Kalininsko–Solntsevskaya line's western section had only two stations, Park Pobedy and Delovoy Tsentr. An extension to the south, opened on that day, connected Park Pobedy first with Ramenki via two other stations. Eventually it is planned to be extended to

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, near

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. Park Pobedy allows

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between the two lines across the station's two island platforms.

History

Construction began in 1986. The initial plans envisaged connections from the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line to the future Mitino–Butovskaya and the Solntsevo–Mytischinskaya Chordal lines. The former was accommodated in the station's design, with two additional tracks included parallel to those of the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line (the latter would have used a third set of track perpendicular to these). However, the 1990s financial crises ended the Chordal projects; the station opened in 2003 as a terminus of the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line, and in 2008 the Strogino–Mitino extension of the Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line was begun from Park Pobedy. The second set of tracks saw their first use on 31 January 2014 as part of the Kalininsko–Solntsevskaya line's partial service to Delovoy Tsentr.

Design

This is the only Moscow metro station where all passengers board and alight trains in different locations. A further complication was that only the southern, or inbound, platform had an entrance vestibule, so passengers arriving at the northern, or outbound, platform had to change platforms to leave the station. This, however, changed in March 2017, when the southern platform was connected directly to the entrance by a new escalator tunnel. The main reason for this was the opening of new section of Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line, which now terminates at Ramenki instead of Park Pobedy. At underground, Park Pobedy is the deepest station in Moscow and the fourth-deepest in the world by mean depth, after Kyiv Metro's ,

and

's Admiralteyskaya, and is the deepest station by maximum depth, .Park Pobedy, 165th Station of the Moscow metro
at news.metro.ru It also contains the longest

escalator An escalator is a moving staircase which carries people between floors of a building or structure. It consists of a motor-driven chain of individually linked steps on a track which cycle on a pair of tracks which keep the step tread horizo ...

s in Europe, each one is long and has 740 steps. The escalator ride to the surface takes approximately three minutes. The two platforms, the work of architects Nataliya Shurygina and Nikolay Shumakov, are of identical design but have opposite colour schemes. The pylons of the outbound platform are faced with red marble on the transverse faces and pale grey marble on the longitudinal faces. The inbound platform is the exact reverse. The station is adorned with two large mosaics by Zurab Tsereteli depicting the 1812

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(at the end of the inbound platform) and

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(on the outbound platform). The station has a unique structural design. Instead of traditional cast iron tunnel lining Park Pobedy lining included steel blocks filled with concrete. It significantly reduced amount of structural metal and consequentially overall cost of construction.

Gallery

File:Park_Pobedy_Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya_Line_Moscow_Metro_platform.jpg, Southern platform File:Parkpobedy-escalator.jpg, The escalators File:Clockmm.jpg, Clocks File:Mos ParkPob hall.jpg, Vestibule File:Park Pobedy (Парк Победы) (5087260112).jpg, Station name

References

External links

metro.ru
— Park Pobedy station
KartaMetro.info
— Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)

{{Moscow Metro Buildings and structures completed in 2003 Moscow Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 2003 Railway stations with vitreous enamel panels Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Kalininsko–Solntsevskaya line Railway stations located underground in Russia