"Old Village" - a metro that is very popular

The "Old Village" is a metro that is well known and enjoys great popularity not only among the residents of St. Petersburg, but also among the guests of the Northern capital of the Russian Federation. Why? In fact, there are plenty of prerequisites for this. First of all, one can not but note the fact that there is a splendid traffic intersection in this place, and secondly, the attractions located above, for example, the Redan museum, the amusement park "Miracle Island" and the 300th anniversary of Petersburg can not but attract attention.

"Old village". Metro. general description

Almost everyone who is interested in the Northern Capital knows that the metro station "Staraya Derevnya" refers to the Petersburg Metro, namely to the Frunzensko-Primorskaya line. On one side is the station "Komendantsky Prospekt", and on the other - "Krestovsky Island".

By the way, it should be noted that the address of the metro station "Staraya derevnya" was not always the same. Literally until March 7, 2009, it belonged to a completely different line, the Right Bank.

The "old village" is a deep station and is located at a depth of 61 meters. Architecturally this metro has one arch. This is the last station in the St. Petersburg subway, referring to the single-vault type. Designed the "Old Village" by VN Shcherbina and I.P. Makayuda.

Few people know that the station has a negotiated impasse, in which there are trains at night, in addition, there is a VET in it.

"Old village". Metro. History of construction

The facility was commissioned relatively recently, on January 14, 1999. The name was chosen quite simply: the station was given a name in honor of the historic district of the same name. Initially, the project was planned to be called "Sestroretskaya".

At the moment, the exterior balcony of the lobby is faced with granite. If you delve deeper into the recent history, it becomes known that before he went to the trolleybus ring, but in 1999 he was fenced off from the stop by stalls. The rows of stalls were removed in 2007, but soon the balcony was closed and a shopping center was started in the pavilion, in which book and flower shops were placed in 2008.

"Old village". Metro. Typical features of the station

The travel walls are covered with a gray-blue Urals marble "Urfal". They are decorated with shallow arches that resemble spans of bridges. In the service rooms, the end walls are also decorated with marble arches. In addition, the walls have small grilles with a floral pattern.

Travel doors in their design are very similar to the doors of the Polytechnic station. The floor of the station is covered with red granite.

Along the axis of the platform there are seven cast-iron lamps-floor lamps. On the top of each floor lamp there are nine lamps, and below them there are wooden benches for visitors to the metro.

The end wall of the apron hall is decorated with a mosaic of A.K. Bystrov, depicting a beautiful seaside landscape. The platform of the station is covered with red granite. The exit from the station (incline) is located at the northern end and has four escalators.

The ground pavilion is located on the Peat Road, near the railway platform "Staraya Derevnya". The two-story lobby building is constructed in the form of a circle. It is divided into two parts: the northern part of the building is glazed and is designed for the entrance and exit of the metro visitors, in the southern part there are offices. In the western and eastern part of the lobby there are stairs. He stands on a high stylobate, and his roof is supported by ten six-meter arches. The lobby is illuminated by a cross-shaped lantern.

The halls with cashiers and escalators are divided, their architecture is different. The escalator hall is illuminated by an annular chandelier with daylight lamps, which is attached to the dome-shaped ceiling.

To decorate the station's interior, natural stones such as the Saarem dolomite, marble and granite are used.