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Moscow Metro station
Vorobyovy Gory
Moscow Metro station
General information
LocationGagarinsky District
Ramenki District
Khamovniki District
Western Administrative Okrug
Central Administrative Okrug
South-Western Administrative Okrug
Moscow
Russia
Coordinates55°42′37″N 37°33′33″E / 55.7103°N 37.5592°E / 55.7103; 37.5592
Owned byMoskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)#1 Sokolnicheskaya line Sokolnicheskaya line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Construction
Platform levels1
ParkingNo
Bicycle facilitiesNo
Other information
Station code016
History
Opened1 December 1959; 65 years ago (1959-12-01)
Rebuilt20 October 1983; 41 years ago (1983-10-20) to 14 December 2002; 22 years ago (2002-12-14)
Previous namesLeninskye Gory
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station
Universitettowards Potapovo Sokolnicheskaya line Sportivnayatowards Bulvar Rokossovskogo
Route map
Legend
Bulvar Rokossovskogo Ground transferTransfer for #14 Moscow Central Circle at Bulvar Rokossovskogo
Cherkizovo yard
Cherkizovskaya Transfer for #14 Moscow Central Circle at Lokomotiv Vostochny Railway Terminal
Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad
Preobrazhensky Bridge  Yauza River
Sokolniki Transfer for #11 Bolshaya Koltsevaya line at Sokolniki
Krasnoselskaya
Severnoye yard
Komsomolskaya Komsomolskaya Square Transfer for #5 Koltsevaya line at Komsomolskaya Ground transferTransfer for #D2 Line D2 (Moscow Central Diameters) at Kalanchyovskaya
Krasnye Vorota
Chistye Prudy Transfer for #6 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line at Turgenevskaya Transfer for #10 Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line at Sretensky Bulvar
Lubyanka Transfer for #7 Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line at Kuznetsky Most
Okhotny Ryad Transfer for #2 Zamoskvoretskaya line at Teatralnaya (Transfer for #3 Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line at Ploshchad Revolyutsii)
Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Transfer for #3 Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line at Arbatskaya Transfer for #4 Filyovskaya line at Aleksandrovsky SadTransfer for #4A Filyovskaya line at Aleksandrovsky Sad Transfer for #9 Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line at Borovitskaya
Kropotkinskaya (Transfer for #8 Kalininskaya line at Volkhonka)
Park Kultury Transfer for #5 Koltsevaya line at Park Kultury
Frunzenskaya (Transfer for #17 Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya line at Frunzenskaya)
Sportivnaya Ground transferTransfer for #14 Moscow Central Circle at Luzhniki
Luzhniki Metro Bridge
Vorobyovy Gory Moskva River Cable Car
Moskva River
Universitet
Prospekt Vernadskogo Transfer for #11 Bolshaya Koltsevaya line at Prospekt Vernadskogo
Yugo-Zapadnaya
Troparyovo
Rumyantsevo
Salaryevo
Solntsevo–Butovo–Warsaw Highway
Filatov Lug
Prokshino
Olkhovaya
Novomoskovskaya (Transfer for #16 Troitskaya line at Troitskaya line)
Stolbovo yard
Potapovo
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Location
Vorobyovy Gory is located in Moscow MetroVorobyovy GoryVorobyovy GoryLocation within Moscow Metro

Vorobyovy Gory (Russian: Воробьёвы го́ры, lit. Sparrow Hills) is a Moscow Metro station. It is on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, between Universitet and Sportivnaya stations. Its name originates from a nearby elevated area literally translated as Sparrow Hills.

History

In 1982 before reconstruction

The bridge, which is known as the Luzhniki Metro Bridge, or simply "Metromost", and spans the Moskva River, was originally built in 1958. The architects for the project were M. P. Bubnov, A. S. Markelov, M. F. Markovsky, A. K. Ryzhkov, and B. I. Tkhor. The bridge, hastily built, was plagued by corrosion and seeping water and fell into disrepair. It was deemed structurally unsound by 1984, so the station (at the time called Leninskiye Gory) was "temporarily" closed for repairs and trains were rerouted to temporary bridges alongside. Eighteen years later on December 14, 2002, the newly renovated station was opened to the public once again. As the historic name of Sparrow Hills (Vorobiovy Gory) (renamed Lenin Hills in 1935) was restored in 1999, the station was named in honor of the landmark.

Design

Built into the lower level of a bridge, it is unique in the city. At 282 metres (925 ft) in length, the platform is the longest in the system as the station needed to be accessible from both sides of the river. It is also the highest station above ground level at 15 metres (50 ft), though this is less remarkable since all but a handful of Metro stations are underground. Apart from its dimensions, Vorobyovy Gory is also notable in being the only Moscow Metro station with windows.

References

  1. "Метрополитен в цифрах" (in Russian). Moscow Metro. Retrieved 2018-03-17.

External links

Moscow Metro
#1 Sokolnicheskaya line Sokolnicheskaya line
#2 Zamoskvoretskaya line Zamoskvoretskaya line
#3 Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line
#4 Filyovskaya line Filyovskaya line
Main
#4А 4А line Branch
#5 Koltsevaya line Koltsevaya line
#6 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line
#7 Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line
Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line
#8 Kalininskaya line Kalininskaya line
#8A Solntsevskaya line Solntsevskaya line
#9 Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line
#10 Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line
#11 Bolshaya Koltsevaya line Bolshaya Koltsevaya line
#12 Butovskaya line Butovskaya line
#13 Moscow Monorail Moscow Monorail
#14 Moscow Central Circle Moscow Central Circle
#15 Nekrasovskaya line Nekrasovskaya line
#16 Troitskaya line Troitskaya line
#17 Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya line Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya line
#18 Biryulyovskaya line Biryulyovskaya line
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