Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Moscow Metro)

Ploshchad Revolyutsii Площадь Революции
Moscow Metro station
Location	Tverskoy District Central Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55°45′24″N 37°37′18″E / 55.7566°N 37.6216°E / 55.7566; 37.6216Coordinates: 55°45′24″N 37°37′18″E / 55.7566°N 37.6216°E / 55.7566; 37.6216
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Pylon station
Depth	33.6 metres (110 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Architect	Alexey Dushkin
Architectural style	Stalinist Architecture, Socialist Realism
Other information
Station code	045
History
Opened	13 March 1938; 83 years ago (1938-03-13)
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Arbatskaya toward Pyatnitskoye Shosse Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line Kurskaya toward Shchyolkovskaya Tverskaya toward Khovrino Zamoskvoretskaya line Transfer at: Teatralnaya Novokuznetskaya toward Alma-Atinskaya Biblioteka Imeni Lenina toward Kommunarka Sokolnicheskaya line via Teatralnaya platform Transfer at: Okhotny Ryad Lubyanka toward Bulvar Rokossovskogo
Route map Legend Rozhdestveno Pyatnitskoye Shosse Mitino Volokolamskaya over Moskva River Myakinino MKAD Strogino () Krylatskoye Molodyozhnaya Kuntsevskaya Slavyansky Bulvar Park Pobedy Kiyevskaya Moskva River Smolenskaya () Arbatskaya to Aleksandrovsky Sad station Ploshchad Revolyutsii () Kurskaya () Baumanskaya Elektrozavodskaya Semyonovskaya Partizanskaya Pervomayskaya (closed) Izmaylovskaya Pervomayskaya Shchyolkovskaya Golyanovo This diagram: view talk
Location
Ploshchad Revolyutsii Location within Central Moscow

The transfer to Teatralnaya on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line

Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Russian: Пло́щадь Револю́ции) is a station on the Moscow Metro, in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow. The station is named after Revolution Square, under which it is located. It is on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line.

History[]

When the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line was first built, the tracks from Ploshchad Revolyutsii extended westward to Aleksandrovsky Sad rather than Arbatskaya. When the westward extension of the line was completed in 1953, trains were rerouted through the new segment.

Architecture[]

The station opened in 1938, its architect was Alexey Dushkin. The station features red and yellow marble arches resting on low pylons faced with black Armenian marble. The spaces between the arches are partially filled by decorative ventilation grilles and ceiling tracery.

Sculptures[]

The station contains 76 statues in the socialist realism style. Originally, 80 sculptures were created for the space—10 pairs, each replicated 4 times throughout the station. Today, nine pairs are in the archways, and a copy of the final pair ("The Pioneers") appears on each of the two platforms, bringing the total number of statues to 76.^[1] Each arch is flanked by a pair of bronze sculptures by Matvey Manizer depicting the people of the Soviet Union, including soldiers, farmers, athletes, writers, aviators, industrial workers, and schoolchildren. The series is meant to be considered in order, symbolizing Russia's transformation from the pre-revolutionary past, through the revolution, into the (then) contemporary era.^[1] The order of sculpture pairs are:

1. Male worker-partisan & male enlisted soldier
2. Male agricultural laborer & male sailor with pistol
3. Male sailor & female aviator
4. Male soldier with dog & female sharpshooter
5. Male miner & male engineer
6. Male & female agricultural laborers
7. Female & male students
8. Male football player & female athlete
9. Mother & father in swim clothing
10. Male & female students in Young Pioneers uniforms

Several of the sculptures are widely believed to bring good luck to those who rub them. The practice is targeted at specific areas on individual sculptures, including the soldier's pistol, the patrolman's dog, the roosters, and the female student's shoe.^[2] An observer in the station will see numerous passengers touching or rubbing the statues as they pass, and the bronze of these details is highly polished as a result.

Transfers[]

From this station, passengers can transfer to Teatralnaya on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line and Okhotny Ryad on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, but the latter can be reached only through Teatralnaya as there is no direct transfer.

References[]

External links[]

• (in Russian)—metro.ru: official Ploshchad Revolyutsii website
• mymetro.ru
• KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on map of Moscow — (in English and Russian)

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