We had free time this morning to allow for jet lag (what jet lag?!), so we headed out.
Северный Речной Вокзал/Severnyy Rechnoy Vokzal/Northern River Station (1937, in Stalinist Gothic style) is being restored; meant to look like a ship |
Waterway statue of woman holding a "model of a yacht" |
Friendship Monument (1976) for "eternal Hungarian-Soviet friendship" after 1945 liberation; its twin in Budapest has since been dismantled |
Articulated buses at the Rechnoy Voksal Metro station |
Dark Green #2 Line Belorusskaya Station (1938, by Ivan Taranov and Nadezhda Bykova) with bust (c 1956) of Lenin |
In the corridor connecting the #2 and #5 lines, the Belarusian Partisans of 1941-1945 (by Sergey Mikhailovich Orlov, S M Rabinovich, and Ilya A Slonim) |
Brown #5 Line Belorusskaya Station (1952, by Ivan Taranov, Z Abramova, A Markova, and Ya Tatarzhinskaya) with marble flooring in a traditional pattern of Belarusian rugs |
A dozen ceiling mosaics celebrate culture, economy, and history of the country of Belarus |
The challenge of travel in Russia is deciphering Cyrillic script! (Belorusskaya) |
Novoslobodskaya Metro Station (1952, by Alexey Dushkin), has 32 Art Nouveau stained glass panels |
Six of the panels show an "intellectual" profession such as the engineer here; also architect, geographer, agronomist, musician, and ... (KSS) |
... artist (stained glass by Latvian artists E Veylandan, E Krests, and M Ryskin) |
Peace Throughout the World (by Pavel Korin) mosaic replaced a portrait of Stalin |
Prospekt Mira Metro Station (1952, by Vladimir Gelfreykh and Mikhail Minkus) with white porcelain reliefs (by G Motovilov) relating to the nearby Moscow State Botanical/Apothecary Garden |
White porcelain relief (KSS) |
White porcelain relief of a botanist? (KSS) |
Komsomolskaya Metro Station (1952 by Aleksey Shchusev) has such a huge hall that we turned around ... |
... for a look to the other end of the station |
Yep, a bust of Lenin under a hammer & sickle |
One of eight large mosaics (by Pavel Korin) with Alexander Nevsky who was victorious over German-Estonian and Swedish invaders |
Not a coat of arms, just military weapons? |
Escalators between the Brown #5 Line and Red #1 Line Komsomolskaya Stations |
Red #1 Line Komsomolskaya Station (1933-1935) has limestone columns topped by the emblem of the Komsomol, the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League |
L side of majolica-tile panel (1935, by Yevgeniy Lanseray) showing the Komsomol volunteers hard at work |
R side of the majolica-tile panel |
Krasnye Vorota Metro Station (1932-1935, by Ivan Fomin and N Andrikanis) where we were directed to see the "ground building," the Red Gate Skyscraper (1947-1953, by Alexey Dushkin) |
Trompe l'oeil across from the Red Gate Building |
The newer Metro trains have USB charging! |
Brown #5 Line Park Kultury Metro Station (1950, by Igor Rozhin) has 26 white marble reliefs (by Iosif or Isaak Rabinovich) of recreational activities that can be enjoyed at nearby Gorky Park |
White marble relief of ice skating |
White marble relief of playing chess |
Relief of Lenin |
Mosaic of the Competition between metalworkers of the Urals and the Donbass (KSS) |
There is surely a Lenin in every Metro station |
Dark Blue #3 Line Kievskaya Metro Station (1953, by L V Lile, V A Litvinov, M F Markovsky, and V M Dobrokovsky) with fresco panels depicting various aspects of life in the Ukraine |
One of the frescoes; note the Kievian-style ornamental frieze below |
Mural (1937) celebrating 300 years of Ukrainian-Russian cooperation |
Warning about pickpocketing |
Dark Blue #3 Line Park Pobedy Metro Station (2003, by Nataliya Shurygina and Nikolay Shumakov) |
Park Pobedy is the deepest station in Moscow and the fourth deepest station in the world |
It has the longest escalators in Europe at 126 m/413' long with 740 steps; the ride takes approximately three minutes |
Dark Blue #3 Line Arbatskaya Metro Station (1953 to replace station bombed by Nazis in 1941, by Leonid Polyakov, Valentin Pelevin and Yury Zenkevich) |
Being the second longest station in Moscow, this is a view in the other direction; larger and deeper stations were being built to double as shelters in the event of a nuclear attack |
The Arbatskaya station is known for its red marble and stucco ornamentation |
Dark Blue #3 Line Ploshchad Revolyutsii/Revolution Square Metro Station (1938, by Alexey Dushkin) is an underground sculpture gallery with 76 bronze sculptures by Matvey Manizer |
Pairs of sculptures sit under the arches, including soldiers and sailors, miners, engineers, agricultural workers, students, and athletes |
Kent rubs the border guard's dog's nose for luck |
Apparently there are several statues that provide luck, depending on the circumstances: A statue of a woman with a rooster is in charge of finances. To solve money problems, it is enough to pat the rooster on its comb. The student girl statue solves unrequited love troubles, and to bring happiness to your personal life you should rub her shoe.
Head over to the revolutionary sailor with a revolver and touch his handgun if you want to leave a boring job. Before graduates defend their thesis, they should rub the bronze scientist's pencil. A sailor signalman is responsible for exciting journeys; a harsh bronze worker helps quit smoking — just rub his grenade; and a young mother is in charge of marriage and childbearing — you have to pat her on the knee."
A miner |
One of 34 ceiling mosaics (by Alexander Deyneka) depicting "24 Hours in the Land of the Soviets" |
Many of the mosaics have aviation subjects, which may go along with the station being used as a command post for Moscow's anti-aircraft regiment during World War II, as well as an air-raid shelter |
It is said that Stalin took up residence in this station during World War II.
We ran out of time and headed back to to the Viking Truvor and lunch.
Next: Moscow Up Close.
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