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"Okhotny Ryad"- station of the Sokolnicheskaya line of the Moscow metro. Located between the Lubyanka and Lenin Library stations. Located in the Tverskoy district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Okhotny Ryad is the closest metro station to Red Square.
History and origin of the name
Okhotny Ryad is the only station in Moscow that has been renamed four times.
Lobbies and transfers
The station is a transfer station to the Teatralnaya station of the Zamoskvoretskaya line. The transition is carried out via escalators located in the center of the hall, as well as through the combined vestibule (eastern), which has access to Teatralnaya Square. The same interchange hub also includes the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station, however, there is no direct transfer between them, since the stations are quite distant from each other.
The western underground vestibule of the station leads to Manezhnaya Square and the underground passage under it; it can also be accessed from the shopping center under Manezhnaya Square.
Technical specifications
The design of the station is pylon, three-vaulted, deep. It was built according to an individual project using a mining method with a lining of monolithic concrete. In this case, the walls of the station were first erected, then the vaults were erected on them (the so-called “German method”). At the time of construction, it was the largest deep-water station in the world. According to the original project, the construction of a central hall was not planned; the project was changed after construction began.
). The name of the station is made in metal letters on a black marble background, the floor is tiled with gray granite. The central hall and landing platforms are illuminated by spherical lamps mounted on the ceiling. Previously, lamps in the form of floor lamps were used to illuminate the central hall, similar to the lamps installed in the central hall of the station "
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An excerpt characterizing Okhotny Ryad (metro station)
“No, I don’t want to,” Pierre said, pushing Anatole away and went to the window.Dolokhov held the Englishman’s hand and clearly, distinctly spelled out the terms of the bet, addressing mainly Anatole and Pierre.
Dolokhov was a man of average height, with curly hair and light blue eyes. He was about twenty-five years old. He did not wear a mustache, like all infantry officers, and his mouth, the most striking feature of his face, was completely visible. The lines of this mouth were remarkably finely curved. In the middle, the upper lip energetically dropped onto the strong lower lip like a sharp wedge, and something like two smiles constantly formed in the corners, one on each side; and all together, and especially in combination with a firm, insolent, intelligent gaze, it created such an impression that it was impossible not to notice this face. Dolokhov was a poor man, without any connections. And despite the fact that Anatole lived in tens of thousands, Dolokhov lived with him and managed to position himself in such a way that Anatole and everyone who knew them respected Dolokhov more than Anatole. Dolokhov played all the games and almost always won. No matter how much he drank, he never lost his clarity of mind. Both Kuragin and Dolokhov at that time were celebrities in the world of rakes and revelers in St. Petersburg.
A bottle of rum was brought; the frame that did not allow anyone to sit on the outer slope of the window was broken out by two footmen, apparently in a hurry and timid from the advice and shouts of the surrounding gentlemen.
Anatole walked up to the window with his victorious look. He wanted to break something. He pushed the lackeys away and pulled the frame, but the frame did not give up. He broke the glass.
“Well, how are you, strong man,” he turned to Pierre.
Pierre took hold of the crossbars, pulled, and with a crash the oak frame turned out.
“Get out, otherwise they’ll think I’m holding on,” said Dolokhov.
“The Englishman is bragging... huh?... good?...” said Anatole.
“Okay,” said Pierre, looking at Dolokhov, who, taking a bottle of rum in his hands, approached the window, from which one could see the light of the sky and the morning and evening dawn merging on it.
Dolokhov, with a bottle of rum in his hand, jumped up onto the window. "Listen!"
he shouted, standing on the windowsill and turning into the room. Everyone fell silent.
- I bet (he spoke French so that an Englishman could understand him, and did not speak this language very well). I bet you fifty imperials, would you like a hundred? - he added, turning to the Englishman.
“No, fifty,” said the Englishman.
- Okay, for fifty imperials - that I will drink the entire bottle of rum without taking it from my mouth, I will drink it while sitting outside the window, right here (he bent down and showed the sloping ledge of the wall outside the window) and without holding on to anything... So? ...
“Very good,” said the Englishman.
Anatole turned to the Englishman and, taking him by the button of his tailcoat and looking down at him (the Englishman was short), began repeating to him the terms of the bet in English.
- Wait! - Dolokhov shouted, banging the bottle on the window to attract attention. - Wait, Kuragin; listen. If anyone does the same, then I pay one hundred imperials. Do you understand?
The Englishman nodded his head, not giving any indication as to whether he intended to accept this new bet or not. Anatole did not let go of the Englishman and, despite the fact that he nodded, letting him know that he understood everything, Anatole translated Dolokhov’s words to him in English. A young thin boy, a life hussar, who had lost that evening, climbed onto the window, leaned out and looked down.
“Uh!... uh!... uh!...” he said, looking out the window at the stone sidewalk.
- Attention! - Dolokhov shouted and pulled the officer from the window, who, entangled in his spurs, awkwardly jumped into the room.
Having placed the bottle on the windowsill so that it would be convenient to get it, Dolokhov carefully and quietly climbed out the window. Dropping his legs and leaning both hands on the edges of the window, he measured himself, sat down, lowered his hands, moved to the right, to the left and took out a bottle. Anatole brought two candles and put them on the windowsill, although it was already quite light. Dolokhov's back in a white shirt and his curly head were illuminated from both sides. Everyone crowded around the window. The Englishman stood in front. Pierre smiled and said nothing. One of those present, older than the others, with a frightened and angry face, suddenly moved forward and wanted to grab Dolokhov by the shirt.
- Gentlemen, this is nonsense; he will be killed to death,” said this more prudent man.
Anatole stopped him:
“Don’t touch it, you’ll scare him and he’ll kill himself.” Eh?... What then?... Eh?...
Dolokhov turned around, straightening himself and again spreading his arms.
“If anyone else bothers me,” he said, rarely letting words slip through his clenched and thin lips, “I’ll bring him down here now.” Well!…
Having said “well”!, he turned again, let go of his hands, took the bottle and brought it to his mouth, threw his head back and threw his free hand up for leverage. One of the footmen, who began to pick up the glass, stopped in a bent position, not taking his eyes off the window and Dolokhov’s back. Anatole stood straight, eyes open. The Englishman, his lips thrust forward, looked from the side. The one who stopped him ran to the corner of the room and lay down on the sofa facing the wall. Pierre covered his face, and a weak smile, forgotten, remained on his face, although it now expressed horror and fear. Everyone was silent. Pierre took his hands away from his eyes: Dolokhov was still sitting in the same position, only his head was bent back, so that the curly hair of the back of his head touched the collar of his shirt, and the hand with the bottle rose higher and higher, shuddering and making an effort. The bottle was apparently emptied and at the same time rose, bending its head. “What’s taking so long?” thought Pierre. It seemed to him that more than half an hour had passed. Suddenly Dolokhov made a backward movement with his back, and his hand trembled nervously; this shudder was enough to move the entire body sitting on the sloping slope. He shifted all over, and his hand and head trembled even more, making an effort. One hand rose to grab the window sill, but dropped again. Pierre closed his eyes again and told himself that he would never open them. Suddenly he felt that everything around him was moving. He looked: Dolokhov was standing on the windowsill, his face was pale and cheerful.
- Empty!
He threw the bottle to the Englishman, who deftly caught it. Dolokhov jumped from the window. He smelled strongly of rum.
- Great! Well done! So bet! Damn you completely! - they shouted from different sides.
The Englishman took out his wallet and counted out the money. Dolokhov frowned and was silent. Pierre jumped onto the window.
Gentlemen! Who wants to bet with me? “I’ll do the same,” he suddenly shouted. “And there’s no need for a bet, that’s what.” They told me to give him a bottle. I'll do it... tell me to give it.
- Let it go, let it go! – said Dolokhov, smiling.
- What you? crazy? Who will let you in? “Your head is spinning even on the stairs,” they spoke from different sides.
- I'll drink it, give me a bottle of rum! - Pierre shouted, hitting the table with a decisive and drunken gesture, and climbed out the window.
They grabbed him by the arms; but he was so strong that he pushed the one who approached him far away.
“No, you can’t persuade him like that,” said Anatole, “wait, I’ll deceive him.” Look, I bet you, but tomorrow, and now we're all going to hell.
“We’re going,” Pierre shouted, “we’re going!... And we’re taking Mishka with us...
And he grabbed the bear, and, hugging and lifting it, began to spin around the room with it.
Prince Vasily fulfilled the promise made at the evening at Anna Pavlovna's to Princess Drubetskaya, who asked him about her only son Boris. He was reported to the sovereign, and, unlike others, he was transferred to the Semenovsky Guard Regiment as an ensign. But Boris was never appointed as an adjutant or under Kutuzov, despite all the efforts and machinations of Anna Mikhailovna. Soon after Anna Pavlovna's evening, Anna Mikhailovna returned to Moscow, straight to her rich relatives Rostov, with whom she stayed in Moscow and with whom her beloved Borenka, who had just been promoted to the army and was immediately transferred to guards ensigns, had been raised and lived for years since childhood. The Guard had already left St. Petersburg on August 10, and the son, who remained in Moscow for uniforms, was supposed to catch up with her on the road to Radzivilov.
The Rostovs had a birthday girl, Natalya, a mother and a younger daughter. In the morning, without ceasing, trains drove up and drove off, bringing congratulators to the large, well-known house of Countess Rostova on Povarskaya throughout Moscow. The countess with her beautiful eldest daughter and guests, who never ceased replacing one another, were sitting in the living room.
The Countess was a woman with an oriental type of thin face, about forty-five years old, apparently exhausted by children, of whom she had twelve. The slowness of her movements and speech, resulting from weakness of strength, gave her a significant appearance that inspired respect. Princess Anna Mikhailovna Drubetskaya, like a domestic person, sat right there, helping in the matter of receiving and engaging in conversation with the guests. The youth were in the back rooms, not finding it necessary to participate in receiving visits. The Count met and saw off the guests, inviting everyone to dinner.
“I am very, very grateful to you, ma chere or mon cher [my dear or my dear] (ma chere or mon cher he said to everyone without exception, without the slightest shade, both above and below him) for himself and for the dear birthday girls . Look, come and have lunch. You will offend me, mon cher. I sincerely ask you on behalf of the whole family, ma chere.” He spoke these words with the same expression on his full, cheerful, clean-shaven face and with an equally strong handshake and repeated short bows to everyone, without exception or change. Having seen off one guest, the count returned to whoever was still in the living room; having pulled up his chairs and with the air of a man who loves and knows how to live, with his legs spread gallantly and his hands on his knees, he swayed significantly, offered guesses about the weather, consulted about health, sometimes in Russian, sometimes in very bad but self-confident French, and again with the air of a tired but firm man in the performance of his duties, he went to see him off, straightening the sparse gray hair on his bald head, and again called for dinner. Sometimes, returning from the hallway, he walked through the flower and waiter's room into a large marble hall, where a table for eighty couverts was being set, and, looking at the waiters wearing silver and porcelain, arranging tables and unrolling damask tablecloths, he called Dmitry Vasilyevich, a nobleman, to him. who was taking care of all his affairs, and said: “Well, well, Mitenka, make sure everything is fine. “Well, well,” he said, looking around with pleasure at the huge spread-out table. – The main thing is serving. This and that...” And he left, sighing complacently, back into the living room.
- Marya Lvovna Karagina with her daughter! - the huge countess's footman reported in a bass voice as he entered the living room door.
The Countess thought and sniffed from a golden snuffbox with a portrait of her husband.
“These visits tormented me,” she said. - Well, I’ll take her last one. Very prim. “Beg,” she said to the footman in a sad voice, as if she was saying: “Well, finish it off!”
A tall, plump, proudly looking lady with a round-faced, smiling daughter, rustling with their dresses, entered the living room.
“Chere comtesse, il y a si longtemps... elle a ete alitee la pauvre enfant... au bal des Razoumowsky... et la comtesse Apraksine... j"ai ete si heureuse..." [Dear Countess, how long ago... she should have been in bed, poor child... at the Razumovskys' ball... and Countess Apraksina... was so happy...] animated women's voices were heard, interrupting one another and merging with the rustle of dresses and the moving of chairs. That conversation began, which is started just enough so that at the first pause you get up and rustle with dresses , say: "Je suis bien charmee; la sante de maman... et la comtesse Apraksine" [I am in admiration; mother's health... and Countess Apraksina] and, again rustling with dresses, go into the hallway, put on a fur coat or cloak and leave. about the main city news of that time - about the illness of the famous rich and handsome man of Catherine's time, old Count Bezukhy, and about his illegitimate son Pierre, who behaved so indecently at an evening with Anna Pavlovna Scherer.
"Okhotny Ryad" is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Located between the Lubyanka and Lenin Library stations. Located in the Tverskoy district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Okhotny Ryad is the closest metro station to Red Square.
History and origin of the name
The station was opened on May 15, 1935 as part of the first launch section of the Moscow Metro - Sokolniki - Park Kultury with a branch Okhotny Ryad - Smolenskaya. Until March 1938, there was a fork traffic from the station (in a 1:1 ratio) in the direction of the Lenin Library and Comintern stations (now Alexandrovsky Garden). After the separation of the Arbat radius into an independent line, the tunnel to the “Alexandrovsky Garden” (at that time this station was called “Comintern”, on December 24, 1946 it became “Kalininskaya”) was used for official purposes. During the construction of a shopping center under Manezhnaya Square in the mid-1990s, the tunnel was half filled in (one track, previously used for traffic from the Alexander Garden, was dismantled, the second was preserved). The underground passage to the Teatralnaya station was opened on December 30, 1944; previously the transition was carried out only through the common vestibule. On November 29, 1959, an exit from the station to one of the first underground passages in Moscow (under Okhotny Ryad) was built. On November 7, 1974, the second transition corridor to the Teatralnaya station was opened; from that moment on, each of the corridors works as a transition only in one direction. The station got its name from Okhotny Ryad Street (at that time - Okhotny Ryad Square). The square was named after the shops that were located here in the 18th-19th centuries, where they sold hunters' catch - killed game and poultry. In the 19th century, Okhotny Ryad acquired an exclusively commercial character: trading shops, warehouses, hotels, and taverns were located there. In 1956, the square was transformed into a street, which in 1961-1990 was part of Marx Avenue. On November 25, 1955, the station was renamed the Imeni Kaganovich station: due to the fact that the Moscow metro, which hitherto bore the name of the Soviet politician who led the construction of the metro, L. M. Kaganovich, received the name of Lenin, the name of Kaganovich was assigned to one of the stations. In 1957, the former party leader was removed from senior government posts, and in the fall of 1957 (it was not possible to establish more precisely) the station was renamed back to Okhotny Ryad. On November 30, 1961, the station was renamed again - to “Marx Avenue” - after Marx Avenue, which arose in the same year, uniting three central streets and named in honor of the founder of communism, Karl Marx. On November 5, 1990, during perestroika, the station was returned to its original name for the second time (this also corresponded to the renaming “on the surface”: Marx Avenue was eliminated, and Okhotny Ryad Street reappeared). Okhotny Ryad is the only station in Moscow that has been renamed four times.
Stalin's metro. Historical guide Zinoviev Alexander Nikolaevich
Okhotny Ryad
Okhotny Ryad
Even before its opening, the Okhotny Ryad station received the epithet “the heart of the metro” - it was built in the very center of the capital and was supposed to have a light appearance, despite its deep location. Also, during the construction of the station, the design was changed: it began to have a central hall. The name of the station was given after an ancient street located here in the 17th–19th centuries, where there was a lively trade in hunters' prey. In the 19th century, specialization disappeared, and various goods began to be traded here.
By 1935, monumental buildings were built here: the house of the Committees of the Council of Labor and Defense (now the building of the State Duma of the Russian Federation) and the Mossovet Hotel (“Moscow”). It was necessary to take into account the proximity to these buildings and be able to build pavilions in densely built conditions. A solution was found - two lobbies were located on the first floors of the buildings.
For the northern vestibule, an old house located on the corner of Bolshaya Dmitrovka and Okhotny Ryad was rebuilt - a project by architect D.N. Chechulin. The first floor was decorated in the form of a basement, in which the entrance to the metro was located. The windows of the upper floors are divided by pilasters, and a balustrade is built on the entablature. High niches on the sides of the doors were intended to house statues. For some time after the opening of the station, figures of athletes stood in two of the four niches. Inside, the lobby features a coffered ceiling with small globe lights. Some time after the opening, a standard sculpture of Stalin was added to the interior.
The southern lobby is located on the first floor of the Moscow Hotel building, the authors of the project are architects L.I. Savelyev and O.A. Stapran. The interior was distinguished by the treatment of the ceiling and wall cladding. This famous hotel was dismantled in 2004, thereby losing the old lobby.
In the escalator antechamber, along its axis, there were massive tall floor lamps. The vaulted ceiling is treated with shallow coffers. There are large tetrahedral columns on the sides.
The underground hall of the station was designed by architects N.G. Borov, G.S. Zamsky. Yu.A. Revkovsky. In terms of its dimensions, it was the largest deep-lying station in the world at the time of its opening! The authors of the station tried to relieve passengers from the feeling of depth. The station's pylons, built in the form of double columns, are lined with light Italian marble. The vault of the central hall is richly coffered with complex-profile squares. The vaults of the side halls are decorated with stucco molding in the form of a meander. Currently, all halls are illuminated by globe-shaped chandeliers, but before the construction of the passage in the center of the hall, the middle nave was illuminated by massive floor lamps located along the axis of the station.
Art. Okhotny Ryad. Sculpture “football player” in the niche of the ground vestibule
Art. Okhotny Ryad. Lobby built into the Moscow Hotel
In November 1955, it was decided to give the Moscow metro the name of V.I. Lenin, and the central station to be named after Kaganovich, who led the construction of the metro. They decided to rename the Okhotny Ryad station. The station named after Kaganovich did not carry its name for long: in 1957, after Khrushchev’s victory over the “anti-party group”, which included L.M. Kaganovich, the station returned its former name.
In 1961, Okhotny Ryad Street became part of the formed Marx Avenue and on November 30, 1961, in order to bring the name of the station into line, it was given the name “Marx Avenue”. In 1964, the northern lobby was decorated with a panel with a portrait of Karl Marx (artist E. Reichzaum). On November 5, 1990, the station returned to its original name.
Station losses
1. Floor lamps from the central hall of the station. Dismantled due to high passenger flows and the construction of a passage in the central hall. Lighting has been replaced with ball chandeliers. Floor lamps have also been removed in the escalator hall of the lobby.
2. Sculptures in the niches of the ground vestibule.
3. Sculpture of I.V. Stalin in the northern vestibule.
4. Lobby of the Moscow hotel. Demolished along with the hotel building in 2004.
Belonging to the capital's metro. The Lenin Library and Lubyanka station are located nearby. Included in the Tverskoy district. From here you can easily get to Red Square.
How did the name come about?
“Okhotny Ryad” is a metro station that appeared in May 1935. It was part of the first launch site, which belonged to the capital's transport complex. They organized a branch line from this place to Smolenskaya. The fork-type traffic operated here until 1938.
The Okhotny Ryad metro station had a 1:1 balance of vehicles when moving towards the Library named after. Lenin" and "Comintern", which was later renamed "Alexandrovsky Garden". Moving away from Arbat, it is possible to get into a separate line with a tunnel, which is used for official business. The ability to quickly move around in such a large city is thanks to the Moscow metro. Okhotny Ryad underwent a number of changes when it was built in the mid-90s of the last century. The tunnel was filled in halfway. One path was dismantled, and the second was left intact. Before that, in 1944, a passage to the Teatralnaya station was opened. Previously, you had to use a large lobby.
During 1959, an underground passage was laid under the Okhotny Ryad metro station, the first in the capital's transport network. In 1974, a second similar structure appeared, leading to Teatralnaya station. Work is being carried out at each crossing in a one-way direction.
Old times
During the nineteenth century, only trade was carried out here, goods were left in warehouses. There was an opportunity to stay in a hotel or visit a tavern. When 1956 came, the square that was here was redeveloped into a street, which in the period from 1961 to 1990 was a segment of Marx Avenue.
“Okhotny Ryad” is an area where in 1955 the station was named after Kaganovich. This is due to the fact that it previously bore a name associated with the name of this Soviet politician. He led the process of building the transport complex. Then they paid tribute to Lenin, naming the entire network after him, leaving only one station for Kaganovich.
In 1957, he was removed from his leading government position, and now he enjoyed less honor and respect. Changes took place once again - the station became Prospekt im. Marx." Three large streets of great importance were connected here. When the restructuring processes took place in 1990, the station acquired its original name - Okhotny Ryad metro station. The point had to go through a name change four times, which in itself is unique for Moscow.
Interior decoration
Here you can transfer to Teatralnaya. You need to proceed to the escalator, which is located in the center. You can go through the east lobby, where there is also an exit. There is a transfer hub here, from which you can get to Revolution Square. However, you will not find a direct transition. The stations are located very far away.
The underground part in the west is part of Manezhnaya Square. There is a transition to it. You can go through the shopping center. Chechulin created the project for this building, and the house on the surface was reconstructed. It was torn out during a competition and renamed. The project was designed in such a way that there were exteriors, but over time they were lost. They were created by M. Manizer; a teacher from the circus school, A. Shirai, was used as a model for one sculpture.
Curious details
When they filmed the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears,” the authors decided to focus on the time of filming in 1958. During the episode of the train ride, a track wall with the name of the station was filmed. When the film was released in 1979, the point itself changed its name to “Marx Avenue”. This created the effect of transporting the viewer into the past 20 years. The most interesting thing is that the filming itself took place at Novoslobodskaya.
Technical features
The station has a pylon structure and three vaults, and is laid deep. The project was created individually, based on the mountain method. Monolithic concrete was used for the covering. First, the walls were erected, and then the vaults, based on the German design. When the point was built, it was the largest such deeply embedded station. In accordance with the initial plan, they did not want to build a hall in the center, but then radical changes took place.
The style in which the place is decorated
Here you can see structures that resemble columns with many faces; the cladding consists of gray and white marble. Before this, it was changed by removing the yellow ceramic tiles. The name of the item was written in metal-colored symbols. The background is completely black. The floor was made of gray granite. There are lighting fixtures throughout the hall and near the landing platforms. Previously, there were floor lamps similar to those at Novokuznetskaya.
The convenience of the point lies in the fact that Red Square is easily accessible from here. The Okhotny Ryad metro station is decorated in the east with an image of Marx from a mosaic created by E. Reichzaum.
If we take statistics for March 2002, the passenger flow at the entrance was 97,000 people, and at the exit - 95,000 people. The transport point receives the first people at 5:30 am, the last - at 1:00 am.
Thanks to this location, the transportation needs of many people are met. The work is carried out smoothly and properly.
Okhotny Ryad metro station is the closest metro station to Red Square. It is located on the territory of the Tverskoy district of the capital between the stations of the Sokolnicheskaya line “Lubyanka” and “Biblioteka im. Lenin".
Station history
The Okhotny Ryad station was put into operation as part of the first launch section of the Moscow metro Sokolniki - Park Kultury on May 15, 1935.
Until 1938, the station operated a forklift service to the Komintern (present-day Alexandrovsky Garden) and Lenin Library stations. After the Arbatsky radius began to run on its own line, the branch to the “Alexandrovsky Garden” began to be used only for official needs. In the 90s, a shopping center was built under Manezhnaya Square, during which this tunnel was half filled in.
Until December 30, 1944, the transition to Teatralnaya station was made through the common lobby. On the eve of 1945, the underground passage was opened.
On November 29, 1959, an exit from the station to an underground passage was built, by the way, the very first underground passage in Moscow, located under Okhotny Ryad. After another corridor crossing to Teatralnaya was opened on November 7, 1974, both crossings began to work only in one direction.
History of the name
The station is named after Okhotny Ryad Street. In the 18th-19th centuries, Okhotnye Ryady Square was located on the site of today’s street. Hunters' spoils were sold on the square: poultry, game, animal skins. In the 19th century, the square began to serve exclusively commercial functions: hotels, taverns, warehouses and shops were built here. In 1956, the square was converted into a street, which from 1961 to 1990 was part of Karl Marx Avenue.
On November 25, 1955, the Okhotny Ryad metro station was renamed in honor of L. M. Kaganovich. The fact is that Kaganovich took an active part in the construction of the Moscow Metro, which began to bear his name. In 1955, they decided to give the Moscow metro the name of Lenin, and it was necessary to assign at least some station to Kaganovich. But in 1957, Kaganovich was removed from all government positions, and in the fall of 1957 the station was returned to its former name “Okhotny Ryad”.
On November 5, 1990, the original name was returned. “Okhotny Ryad” is the only station of the Moscow metro that has been renamed 4 times in its history.
Description of the station
The main decoration of the station are the pylons, made in the form of multifaceted double columns. The floor is covered with gray granite. The station is illuminated by spherical chandeliers located on the ceiling of the central hall and above the landing platforms.
In the eastern antechamber there is a portrait of Karl Marx, made from mosaic in 1964 by Eugene Reichtsaum.
Specifications
Okhotny Ryad is a three-vaulted pylon station. It is the shallowest deep station of the Moscow metro. The station is located at a depth of 15 meters. It was built using the mining method according to an individual project using monolithic concrete. The construction method is called “German”. Its essence lies in the fact that first the walls of the station are erected, and then vaults are placed on them.
At the time of construction, Okhotny Ryad was the largest station in the world by area. Initially, the construction of the central hall was not even included in the project, which was redone during the construction work.
Lobbies and transfers
The Okhotny Ryad metro station has a transfer to the Teatralnaya station of the Zamoskvoretskaya line. In the central hall of the station there are escalators, along which the transition is carried out. The eastern vestibule of the station is combined with the Teatralnaya station, respectively, the transition can also be made through the vestibule. Despite the fact that one more station, namely “Revolution Square”, is included in the interchange hub, there is no direct transfer between the stations.
The eastern lobby faces Teatralnaya Square.
The western lobby is underground. It has access to Manezhnaya Square. You can get to this lobby directly from the shopping center located under Manezhnaya Square.
Not far from the station are Bolshaya Dmitrovka, Mokhovaya and Okhotny Ryad streets.
Ground infrastructure
Since the station is located in the very center of Moscow, it is difficult not to find places for shopping here. About 200 different stores are located near the station, not to mention the fact that GUM, Petrovsky Passage and the Okhotny Ryad shopping complex are nearby.
There is no need to talk about museums at all. Here are the Lenin Mausoleum, and the Moscow Art Theater Museum, and the Museum of Archeology, and the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, and the museums of the Bolshoi and Maly Theaters, and a lot of other interesting and educational places.
Not far from the station there are 8 theaters, a huge number of cafes and restaurants, 6 nightclubs where you can try your luck by playing roulette, and a lot of other entertainment that will not let you get bored after you leave the Okhotny Ryad station "to the surface.
For those who are not looking for entertainment, but want to get a higher education, it will be interesting that not far from the metro there are universities such as Moscow State University (Faculty of Psychology), Medical Academy named after. Sechenov, Russian State Humanitarian University, School of Private Law, as well as the Moscow Regency Singing Academy.
Useful facts
The station is open to visitors from 5:30 to 1:00.
One of the scenes of the movie “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears” was filmed at the Okhotny Ryad station. The film was filmed in 1977-78, when the station was called “Marx Avenue”. According to the plot, the action at the station takes place in 1958. At that time the station was still called “Okhotny Ryad”. In order for everything to be authentic, the station was given its previous names during filming. In the episode with the heroine Irina Muravyova, you can clearly see a sign with the name “Okhotny Ryad”.