"Avtozavodskaya" metro station in Moscow

In the south of the Zamoskvoretskaya line (a green branch on the metro map) of the Moscow metro there is a station called Avtozavodskaya, which is associated with a large number of events and historical facts from the life of the city. This station played a significant role in the development and success of the capital.

Location:

Metro "Avtozavodskaya" is located between the stations Kolomenskaya and Paveletskaya, if you go from the area to the center. The ring line starts at the next station. Every day this station is used by about 70,000 people. Even more passengers pass it daily on their way to work and back home, since after the Avtozavodskaya station the metro drives to the big sleeping areas of the capital.

The doors of the station are not opened at a time. The northern exit starts at 5:30 am, while the southern exit opens 5 minutes later at 5:35. The station closes its doors for passengers exactly at 01:00.

History of creation

The metro station Avtozavodskaya was opened on New Year's Day - January 1, 1943, in the midst of the Great Patriotic War. The decision on the need for a new metro station was made almost three years before the opening, but the long war that began began to make corrections to the city plans. During the war, the lobby and tunnels were actively used as bomb shelters.

For the construction of the metro station "Avtozavodskaya" a competition was announced, within the framework of which the project of the famous architect Alexei Nikolaevich Dushkin won. He already had a rich experience in creating stations in the city, whose name is Moscow. Metro Avtozavodskaya became its fourth and not the last project. Prior to that, he was already working on the construction of Kropotkinskaya metro stations (at that time it was called the Palace of Soviets), Revolution Square and Mayakovskaya.

Title History

Initially, the metro station "Avtozavodskaya" operated under a different name - "Plant named after Stalin". In short, it was called ZIS. The station was named in honor of the eponymous factory, which was near the station and for servicing the numerous staff of which it was conceived. The modern name - Avtozavodskaya - this station was later, 13 years after the opening. It was and remains for the most part an industrial area. In addition to the plant in honor of the leader of the people, there was another important object here: I. Likhachev.

The history of the name of this station is not yet complete. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was an idea of another change of name - to Simonovo, in honor of the nearby ancient Simonovsky Monastery, but so far it has not been implemented.

By the way, if you look closely, then on the walls there are noticeable small depressions left from the former name.

Modern History

The metro station "Avtozavodskaya" has remained practically unchanged. When the passenger traffic increased significantly, and one exit from the vestibule could not cope with the number of people entering and leaving, in 1968 it was decided to build another, northern, exit. Before the construction began, there was a large bust of Joseph Stalin.

Initially, the station had only one, southern, exit, which looked like a two-storeyed separate building. Now it is built into a multi-storey residential building, built above and around the entrance to the station "Avtozavodskaya". Metro in Moscow is replete with non-standard architectural solutions.

The main theme of all the station's decorations is the defense of the country and the heroic feat of the people during the Great Patriotic War. Four bas-reliefs on its walls are dedicated to the professional activities of people of various professions and nationalities. This is one of the very patriotic metro stations in the city. However, the murals were performed later - in the 1950s. Initially, the walls of the station and the vestibule looked much more modest, since the station's functional was originally needed. There was no time to decorate.

The tragic events of the not so distant past are connected with this station. On February 6, 2004, there was a terrorist act that killed 41 people. More than two hundred other passengers were injured. After this terrorist act, in memory of those killed at the northern exit from the lobby, a memorial plaque with the names of all the victims of the tragedy was installed.

Infrastructure around

It is unlikely that visitors to the city will be interested in industrial plants that are located nearby, but nearby there are other buildings, museums worthy of attention.

For example, nearby is the Simonovsky Monastery, founded in the XIV century and preserved in very good condition. Previously, it was one of the largest and richest monasteries in the near Moscow region. A few centuries ago it was one of the fortified monasteries, designed to protect the approaches to the city from the south. In the XVIII century, the building of the monastery was used as a plague isolator for patients with a terrible disease that killed many Europeans.

At the factories that are nearby, there are also small museums that tell about the history of the creation of these industrial facilities, as well as their achievements and participation in the history of the city and the country.