Reva Square - Teatralnaya, 3. Teatralnaya - Okhotny Ryad, 4. Chistye Prudy - Turgenevskaya. Even from BIL to Aleksandrovsky Sad, I do not walk through the passage in the middle of the station, but through the end towards the traffic. For hooligans, you can go from Tretyakovskaya to Novokuznetskaya if you came from the south of KRL, not through the passage, but along one of the switched off escalators at the end of the station.
One of the first projects, drawn up in 1931, provided that between the Dzerzhinsky Square and Okhotny Ryad stations there would be a Sverdlov Square station. Hermetic seals are installed at the ends of the station hall, as well as in the passages.
The northern lobby of Teatralnaya is shared with Okhotny Ryad station. This lobby was built according to the design of D.N. Chechulin and built into the old house. From this lobby there is a passage leading to the Teatralnaya escalator.
Wall sconces illuminate the transition. At the end, the tunnel is divided into two passages, between which there is a lattice with floral patterns. The passage from Revolution Square connects this station with the end of Teatralnaya, its architect is N. N. Andrikanis. It was opened on May 9, 1946, and its design is dedicated to the theme of Victory. In the bas-reliefs above the crossing arches there are images of banners and weapons. At the end of the transition with " Okhotny Ryad“Previously there was a bust of Ya. M. Sverdlov by the sculptor A. P. Shlykov, but now only a pedestal remains of it.
Travel time by underground passage from Teatralnaya to Okhotny Ryad will be approximately 2.5 to 3 minutes. Another transfer method, not indicated on the signs, is through ground vestibule. The journey through the underground passage to the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station takes just over 3 minutes. Another way to transfer is to go up and down the escalator (exit to Revolution Square). In this case, the transition time is approximately 4.5 minutes.
On the bridge, upon arrival of the train, the crowd immediately begins, since the crossing is narrow, and this is the only official crossing route. Few people know about the transition at the end, and it is easier and faster to transition there. I looked at the diagrams in the pMetro program, there is also a transition through the exit to the city between the Kursk nuclear submarines and the KL. But I’m not sure that the path there is faster, as in the case of emergency - Turgenevskaya. I wrote by the color of the columns. So there is a passage in the center of both stations, along which a darkness of people rushes from White to Red.
Kursk nuclear submarine - Kursk ring road, but the crossing there takes longer, but you don’t have to push around in a narrow passage with stairs. If we talk about crossing the street, then during rush hours1. From Borovitskaya to Aleksandrovsky Garden it is faster to walk past the Library than to push through two crossings through BIL or Arbatskaya.2.
Revolution Square – Teatralnaya – Okhotny Ryad
Well, from Polyanka, of course, walking to Tretyakovskaya is a hundred times faster than going there through the center with a transfer first at Chekhovskaya. It is also more convenient than through the middle of the station. Ahead of me, I also wanted to write about this transition.
In 1931, a decision was made to build the Moscow Metro. General plan reconstruction of Moscow in 1935 already provided that the Sverdlov Square station would open as part of the Gorky radius of the 2nd stage of the Moscow metro.
The design of the pylons on the side of the apron halls is the same as in central hall. Alternating protrusions and depressions are formed on the marble track walls, corresponding to the pitch of the pylons. The liquid porcelain mass was poured into a plaster mold removed from the bas-relief and left until it hardened. The station is designed in tones white. This design helps reduce the feeling of the subway. The pylons are lined with Koelga marble of a warm shade.
Crystal bowl lamps in bronze frames are suspended from the vaults. The southern lobby of Teatralnaya is shared with the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station; its architect is A. N. Dushkin. Initially, it was assumed that this lobby would be built into the building of the Academic Cinema in the future. Therefore, the architect was faced with the task of making a vestibule such that it could be built into large building and so that at the same time he could exist independently.
Maybe somewhere the topic of alternative transitions from station to station was discussed. Included in one interchange complex ( direct transition from Okhotny Ryad to Revolution Square and back - no). It is a fairly busy stopover in the Moscow metro. If from points 1 - 3 I can understand: official crossings are much longer and more inconvenient, then why the rest?
Dear guests of the capital! And also Muscovites (it turned out that many Muscovites are also not in the know. Yes, I myself discovered this not so long ago). That in the Moscow metro there are a lot of nightmarish, long and tiring transitions from line to line, especially in the center - I think everyone knows this. For some reason, St. Petersburg residents especially complained to me: as far as I understand, most of their crossings there are arranged according to the same principle as ours at Kitay-Gorod. But not everyone knows that sometimes this problem can be easily circumvented, you just need to know where and how. The fact is that the Moscow metro lines usually intersect under acute angle. And transitions from branch to branch in most cases are an escalator, or more often a simple staircase in the center of the hall. Going up or down the stairs is a great pleasure, especially if a crowd of people is rushing there with you, and you have sore legs, a bag on wheels or just a heavy backpack! – you find yourself in a more or less long corridor leading to the center of the hall of the neighboring station. At the same time - attention, know-how! – both of these stations very often have a common ground vestibule. And the escalators leading upstairs (here there will almost certainly be an escalator!) go out into the common room, as a rule, even before the turnstiles. That is, instead of climbing up and down stairs and walking along long, cramped corridors in a crowd of people, you can simply go to the end of the hall, go up an escalator, go down another, and now you are at the desired station. However, this opportunity is hardly advertised anywhere. The signs indicate: the exit to the city is at the end of the hall, the transition to such and such a station is in the center of the hall. Walk up the stairs, darling.
Most shining example- “Paveletskaya”. The transition from the Paveletskaya ring road to the Paveletskaya radial road seems to be the longest in Moscow. Plus, cramped, steep stairs are a trademark of the “green” line. But I haven't used it for several years. The escalator at the end of the hall leads to a round lobby, there is a second escalator literally ten steps away, and that’s it. On ring output to the city there is one, you won’t get lost, on the radial - two, at the crossing - the one that is not to the station. At the same time, on the radial there is a sign hanging deliberately near the escalator: “Transition to Circle line in the middle of Hall". Yeah thanks. I know.
Or the transition "Turgenevskaya" - "Chistye Prudy". The corridor is shorter than at Paveletskaya, but uphill. The same thing: exit to the city (there is only one at both stations), from the escalator from Turgenevskaya - to the left, from " Chistye Prudy", respectively - to the right, escalator down.
"Teatralnaya" - "Okhotny Ryad". This is where it gets more complicated. On Okhotny Ryad there are two exits to the city, and each time you have to remember again which of them you can go to Teatralnaya. It seems that Bolshoi Theater, but will need to check. And the “Teatralnaya” station is generally a very confusing station, it’s easy to get lost there - but, again, if you use the right escalator, you won’t have to climb stairs and wander through passages. In short, the path is proven, but needs clarification.
They say there is also a similar transition from Teatralnaya to Revolution Square, but I have never been there.
“Pushkinskaya” - “Tverskaya” - in principle, the transition there is quite convenient, but if you can’t climb the stairs AND YOU HAVE A TRAVEL PASS WITH AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF TRIPS, or you don’t mind spending an extra trip, you can go up the escalator, and Immediately go back in and go down the escalator to the desired station. As for the travel card, this is important, because when you go upstairs, you will find yourself behind the turnstiles. It makes sense if, for example, you have a heavy, bulky load that you don’t want to carry up the stairs.
“Pushkinskaya” - “Chekhovskaya” - the second crossing is officially marked, but it cannot be said that it is much more convenient than the other: both there are stairs and corridors. Unless it is more convenient for you personally to cross at the end of the platform, and not in the center of the hall.
“Komsomolskaya” ring-radial - in principle, this can also be done, there the escalators lead into one hall, but it makes no sense: on the way to the escalators there are a lot of stairs and passages. It only makes sense if the official crossing is packed to capacity: at the exit the stairs and corridors are wider. But at the exit the crowd is usually thicker, there are three stations after all.
"Lenin Library", transition to "Alexandrovsky Garden" and "Arbatskaya" - two official transition, but it’s more convenient to use the one at the end of the hall. There is a wide staircase and a short passage, and in the center of the hall there is a staircase and a long narrow corridor, leading to the same passage. It's better not to go there during rush hours.
That's all I remember for now. I propose to supplement it, systematize it, and maybe post it somewhere if it hasn’t already been done. I haven't found it yet.
On each platform you can see well-trodden light paths. The carriage doors stop right in front of them. The life hack loses its value at Pushkinskaya, where the stopping places of the carriage doors are already marked with markings on the floor.
Which car to sit in
On the Koltsevaya it is almost always freer in the first and last cars. On radial branches you need to choose the second carriages: the first and last ones are filled with those who want to be the first to be at the escalator to the exit.
How to ride beyond the end
After the train stops at the final metro station, the attendants must “run through” the train and check whether there are any passengers left in it. During rush hours, only 30 seconds are allocated for the check, so employees are usually in a hurry. At the moment when the carriage has already been inspected, but the doors have not yet closed, you can jump into the train and take a “turnaround” ride - get to a dead end, change direction and return to the station again.
Why not lean against doors?
Because it really is unsafe! There are malfunctions in which the doors begin to open and close by themselves, without the participation of the driver. This is rare, but it doesn’t hurt to be on the safe side: with such a breakdown while moving, you can easily fall out of the carriage.
How to reduce transitions
At some stations, experienced passengers use passages completely different from those indicated by the sign. Because there are faster and shorter ways. So, from Teatralnaya to Okhotny Ryad you can go through an escalator marked “Exit to the city to Okhotny Ryad”. The opposite escalator on Teatralnaya helps in the same way to shorten the path to Revolution Square. The transition from the Paveletskaya ring to the radial can be shortened using an escalator at the end of the hall. It leads to a circular lobby, where ten steps away is the second escalator. You can also go from Turgenevskaya to Chistye Prudy via an escalator indicating “Exit to the city.” When moving from Turgenevskaya, after the escalator you need to go left, from Chistye Prudy - to the right and take the escalator down.
What are the voices saying?
Metro stops are designated as women's and male voices. This is done specifically for blind passengers: a male announcer makes announcements when the train moves towards the center, a female announcer makes announcements from the center. On the Ring female voice turns on when moving counterclockwise (women just want to speak out), men's - clockwise.
How to “read” an escalator
The age-old question: Why do escalator handrails move faster or slower than the steps? The handrails are driven by a drive unit, which wears out due to friction. Therefore, initially the diameter of the blocks is made 2% larger than required, which is why the handrails “run” faster. That is, if the hand moves forward of the steps, the escalator is new. If backwards, the escalator is old and needs to replace the drive unit.
I thoroughly prepared articles about the Moscow metro, including answering questions varying degrees trickiness, and now, in order to be able to answer in an even more convenient way, I will make a kind of sidebar in the popular format of frequently asked questions. This faq will be useful as an addition to the following materials about navigational and toponymic problems of the metro.
What are "platform", "station" and "line"?
I didn’t even think that this question could cause difficulties, but for people who regularly use the metro (not only the Moscow one, all the cancer that we are talking about and will talk about, to one degree or another, applies to all metro stations of the Soviet origin) and are accustomed to the idiotic navigation and an equally idiotic naming system - everything is mixed together.
A station is a stopping point on the route of a train, the tasks of which, in the context of the metro, are the ability to change lines to continue the trip and exit into the city. The platform is engineering structure, designed to allow the train to stop and passengers to board and disembark. The line is, in general case, a set of stations between which direct travel is possible (in fact, not always, but this is not relevant now).
Lines can (and should) intersect and the point at which they intersect Necessarily there will be a station with platforms to which the tracks of the corresponding lines are connected. One station. With the number of platforms corresponding to the number of lines passing through the station.
What are transitions and how are they classified?
A transition is a structure that allows a station to perform one of its functions, namely, the ability to change lines and move on. None engineering features implementations (length, direction, escalators, transit through platforms) do not affect the purpose of the transition - the ability to change the line. There is either a transition or there is not.
And why all these truisms?
And besides, the tradition of Soviet subways is to give each platform at the station proper name and considering it a separate station is bad. The whole world, and any other transport in Russia, does not suffer from such a disease. Lines to Vladimir, Aleksandrov and Kurovskoye arrive at different platforms of the Orekhovo-Zuevo station, but no one thought of giving each platform a personal name, and on the Vladimir and Aleksandrovskaya lines there is an Orekhovo-Zuevo station. It’s time to start distinguishing between stations and platforms in the metro, and then check out all the convenience the right approach fully.
What is so right about this approach? They called it different things and no one died.
Logic and common sense died. First of all, this is just idiocy. Secondly, elementary logic for calling interconnecting platforms of different lines one station with the same name. When, having arrived at the “station” Library named after. Lenin’s man goes out into the city from the lobby with the inscription “Borovitskaya”, logic gets sick and dies. Thirdly, our metro is impossible for visitors, especially from abroad, to use, because the rest of the world knows what a station is and does it like this: 
On platforms with different names more convenient to meet.
And the turnstile on the bus makes you scratch your ass. A typical example of how people learned to use by-effect bad decision. When meeting at normal stations, at Paveletskaya, for example, no one gets lost. Clarifications are needed in any case, so a meeting on the Paveletskaya green line is no better and no worse than a meeting on the Aviamotornaya line at the first car from the center or on the Kitay-Gorod station at the exit to Maroseyka.
The platforms have self-explanatory names. From the name it’s immediately clear where you can go from the platform to the city.
It's a bullshit. For such orientation you need to know Moscow very well. Few Muscovites know the city well, let alone newcomers? What does the name “Sports” mean? From Okhotny Ryad you can go not only to Okhotny Ryad, but also to Bolshaya Dmitrovka. Revolution Square is much closer to the exit from Teatralnaya than from Revolution Square, the exit from Turgenevskaya is on Chistoprudny Boulevard, and so on.
The design of the stations corresponds to the names.
This is probably mainly about Pushkinskaya. And in our collective farm on Proletarskaya Street there is a monument to Ryabushinsky and for some reason this does not bother anyone. There is nothing wrong with the design not matching the name. It’s much worse that the design of many metro stations does not correspond to their purpose: no matter where you hang the diagram, it still looks like alien shit.
At the node “Okhotny Ryad-Teatralnaya-Revolution Square” there is no (direct) transition from “Okhotny Ryad” to “Revolution Square”. The same story with “Alexandrovsky Garden” and “Borovitskaya”, which means this different stations.
The transition cannot be direct, indirect, intermittent, or anything else: it either exists or it does not. Tens of thousands of people daily move from Revolution Square to Okhotny Ryad: how is this possible with a missing crossing? What, “Teatralnaya” is on the way? Here is another negative effect of different names of platforms and the veneration of each platform as an independent station. Through the station, which should logically be called “Red Square”, pass three paths lines: blue, red and green. And people make the transition to the line, and not to the station. If the transition from the red line to the blue line takes place, among other things, along the platform green line the same station, then this is a feature of the transition, and in general, anything can be encountered along the way: escalators, platforms of other lines, long and short corridors, turns or stairs. A person making a transition from one line to another does not care: he moves from one line to another without changing the station and without going into the city.
More about “Okhotny Ryad-Teatralnaya-Revolution Square”. There is a passage 400 meters long, which means these are different stations. The transition can't be that long, can it?
It shouldn't, in theory. But it’s quite possible. Yes, for the Moscow metro the length of the transition from “Revolution Square” to “Okhotny Ryad” is a record one. And in the Tokyo metro there is a passage longer than 500 meters, but this does not create two stations. The transition fulfills the task: it makes it possible to change the line at the station. One more example - railroad station « Kursky railway station" To transfer from the Gorky train to the train to Podolsk, you need to walk from 200 to 500 meters, and along the way you will come across other platforms, payment control points, and you will even have to go into the station building and buy another ticket, but the station does not change . This is how the Kursk Station was, and remains so.
And if they dig a passage from the Alexander Garden to Okhotny Ryad, will the two stations become one?
The question that plunged me into despondency and despair: I cannot imagine organizing an underground pedestrian connection between stations. Precisely stations, because a train runs between them. They will remain stations, and in this case, another metro idiocy will be added - a pedestrian backup for two lines at once. Or the first pedestrian metro line.
At stations, the platforms must be parallel and visible. What kind of station is this with perpendicular (or other) platforms?
Again, engineering implementation does not affect the intent. Digging so that all paths are visible and parallel is not only expensive, but also dangerous even for shallow stations. The nature of underground construction allows for greater freedom to place platforms in three dimensions, and they can indeed be positioned at 90-degree angles one above the other. The purpose of the station does not suffer from this: at it you can just change the line or go into the city.
In the section on the question What is a metro transfer? And how to transfer from Teatralnaya to Revolution Square? given by the author Victoria Solntseva the best answer is Teatralnaya station is the center of a large interchange hub. From here you can transfer to the Okhotny Ryad station. Sokolnicheskaya Line and “Revolution Square” of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. You can get to each of these stations in two ways - through underground passages and through common ground lobbies. The passages are located in the center of Teatralnaya, and stairs above the tracks lead to them. The Okhotny Ryad and Ploshchad Revolyutsii stations do not have direct connections between each other, so you can only go from one station to another through Teatralnaya.
Travel time along the underground passage from Teatralnaya to Okhotny Ryad will be approximately 2.5 to 3 minutes. Another transfer method, not indicated on the signs, is through the ground concourse. You need to take the escalator (exit to Theater Square), walk through a small gallery and go down to the Okhotny Ryad metro station. The time taken will be about 2.5 minutes. You can also go from Okhotny Ryad to Teatralnaya in two ways, but the journey through the underground passage will take about 4 minutes.
The journey through the underground passage to the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station takes just over 3 minutes. Another way to transfer is to go up and down the escalator (exit to Revolution Square). In this case, the transition time is approximately 4.5 minutes. Advantage last method The only downside is that you have to walk quite a bit. You can also go from Ploshchad Revolyutsii station to Teatralnaya station in two ways