Moscow metro : Park Pobedy Парк Победы

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Park Pobedy (Victory Park), is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Metro. At 84 metres underground, it is the deepest station in Moscow. It also contains the longest escalators in Europe, each one is 126 metres long and has 740 steps. The ride to the surface takes approximately three minutes.

Park Pobedy is actually a cross-platform complex with two separate, parallel platforms, though only the inner pair of tracks is presently used. When the construction was begun in 1986, plans called for this to be a transfer to the future Solntsevo-Mitischenskaya and the Mitino-Butovskaya Chordial lines [1]. The former were to use the two halls as a transfer to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya whilst the latter would have a third perpendicular station. However the 1990s financial crises ended the Chordial projects and instead the Strogino-Mitino extension passed via Park Pobedy when opened in 2003 (2008). The second set of tracks will be used by the Solntsevskaya Line when that is completed.

Trains arriving from Kievskaya stop at the northern platform to drop off passengers before going into reversal sidings and coming back to the southern platform to pick up passengers for the trip back. This is the only Metro station where all passengers board and exit trains in different locations. A further complication: only the southern (inbound) platform has an entrance vestibule, so passengers arriving at the outbound platform must change platforms before exiting.

The two platforms work of architects Nataliya Shurygina and Nikolay Shumakov are of identical design but have opposite colour schemes, which creates a striking effect. 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 exactly the reverse. The station is adorned with two large enameled panels by Zurab Tsereteli depicting the Patriotic War of 1812 (at the end of the inbound platform) and the Great Patriotic War (on the outbound platform)..

Парк Побе́ды — станция Арбатско-Покровской линии Московского метрополитена. Расположена между станциями «Киевская» и «Славянский бульвар». Была конечной станцией на линии с открытия до 7 января 2008 года, когда Арбатско-Покровская линия была продлена на северо-запад до станции «Строгино».

Открыта 6 мая 2003 года в ходе продления линии на запад. Архитекторы: Н. И. Шумаков, Н. В. Шурыгина. Название получила по одноимённому парку.

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[eiroight]

are there stairs inbetween those 2 long escalators?

[alanheath]

@eiroight No, there is just a landing!

[eiroight]

@alanheath i mean if you can take stairs instead of the escalator cause i can't tell from the video if there are stairs in between them.

[alanheath]

@eiroight There is another escalator between them which is the usual thing these days although in London you can find a staircase between two escalators but they were built a long time ago.

[milky27oreo]

..what an amazing train station!

[alanheath]

@milky27oreo I knew you would appreciate it!!  (Lots more from Moscow, Newcastle and other places here!)

[eiroight]

@alanheath ok thanks.

[alanheath]

Thanks for pointing this out. I had never heard of it!

[chk2595]

I am sorry you did not hear of the "Teardrop Statue" in Bayonne, N.J. that Russian gave the US following the 9-11-01 bombing. The "teardrop is 40 feet high and is enclosed in pair of columns. It was an act of friendship between the two countries that got harldy an media coverage.

[alanheath]

I don't understand the 'Tear Drop'!!