Mayakovskaya Маяковская | |||||||||||
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| Location | Tverskoy District Central Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 55°46′12″N37°35′45″E / 55.7701°N 37.5958°E /55.7701; 37.5958 | ||||||||||
| System | Moscow Metro station | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Moskovsky Metropoliten | ||||||||||
| Line |  Zamoskvoretskaya line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1island platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
| Connections | Bus: м1, е30, 239, с369, с543, Б (along the Garden ring); night routes: н1, н12 | ||||||||||
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| Depth | 33 metres (108 ft) | ||||||||||
| Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||
| Parking | No | ||||||||||
| Architect | Alexey Dushkin | ||||||||||
| Architectural style | Stalinist Architecture | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 034 | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 11 September 1938; 87 years ago (1938-09-11) | ||||||||||
| Previous names | Triumfalnaya ploshchad, Ploshchad Mayakovskogo | ||||||||||
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Mayakovskaya (Russian:Маяковская), is aMoscow Metro station on theZamoskvoretskaya Line, in theTverskoy District of central Moscow, Russia.
The name as well as the design is a reference toFuturism and its prominent Russian exponentVladimir Mayakovsky. Considered to be one of the most beautiful stations in the system, it is a fine example of pre-World War IIStalinist Architecture and one of the most famous Metro stations in the world. It is best known for its 34 ceiling mosaics depicting "24 Hours in the Land of the Soviets." During World War II, it was used as a command post for Moscow's anti-aircraft regiment.[1]
The station was built as part of the second stage of the Moscow Metro expansion, opening on 11 September 1938.[2] If the first stage was more focused on the building of the system itself, both architecturally and in terms of the engineering, the stations appear modest in comparison to those that the second stage brought to the system. For the first time in the world, instead of having the traditional three-neath pylon station layout, the engineers were able to overlap the vault space and support it with twocolonnades, one on each side. This gave birth to a newDeep column station type design, and Mayakovskaya was the first station to show this.
Located 33 meters beneath the surface, the station became famous duringWorld War II when an air raid shelter was located in the station.[3] On the anniversary of theOctober Revolution, on 7 November 1941,Joseph Stalin addressed a mass assembly of party leaders and ordinary Muscovites in the central hall of the station. During World War II, Stalin took residence in this place.[4]
At the1939 New York World's Fair the Soviet Pavilion included a life-size showcase copy of this station, whose designerAlexey Dushkin was awarded Grand Prize of the 1939 World's Fair.[5]
Alexey Dushkin'sArt Deco architecture was based on a Soviet future as envisioned by the poet Mayakovsky. The station features streamlined columns faced with stainless steel and pinkrhodonite, white Ufaley and grey Diorite marble walls, a flooring pattern of white and pink marble, and 35 niches, one for each vault. Surrounded by filament lights there are a total of 34 ceiling mosaics byAlexander Deyneka with the theme "24-Hour Soviet Sky."
In 2005 a new second north exit was built, along with a new vestibule. Passengers leaving the station first descend on a short escalator ride into an underground vestibule, and then ascend the long way to the surface. The new exit also allows access to the 35th mosaic, which was previously hidden behind the service section. Other mosaic works were designed from scratch, accompanied by ample use of marble and stainless steel sculpturing. The bust of the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was moved to the new surface vestibule, whose ceiling was also decorated with a mosaic composition from Mayakovsky's poem "Moscow Sky".
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