Sokolniki (subway of Moscow)

Sokolniki (in Russian, Сокольники ) is a station of the Ligne Sokolnitcheskaïa of the Métro of Moscow. It is located under the street Roussakovskaïa at the foot of the Sokolniki Place and belonged to the first underground line in 1935. Its name comes from the Parc Sokolniki neighbouring. It was drawn by the architects Ivan Taranov and Nadejda Bykova and present of the walls at squares covered with marble gray-blue of Oufaleï. A model of the station accepted a Grand Prix with the World Fair of Paris in 1937.

The end nort-is line, Sokolniki included/understood, was built with the method of the cut-and-cover, simply consisting in extruding a trench then to cover. The tunnels of Krasnoselskaïa in Sokolniki were in construction as of the be 1933, but work on the stations started only in March 1934. The concrete hull of the station was finished in only 5 months, and Sokolniki opened with the remainder of the line, the May 15th 1935. The first test of the subway took place in 1934 between this station and Komsomolskaïa.

Sokolniki was the northern terminus of the line during 30 years before the expansion of 1965 until Preobrajenskaïa Plochtchad. The sidings are always used for the maintenance and the storage of the trains during the night.

External bonds

Description of the station on Metro.ru
Description of the station on Mymetro.ru
Description of the station on Metro.molot.ru

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