Tchistye Proudy (subway of Moscow)

Tchistye Proudy (in Russian, Чистыепруды ), literally the “Clean Ponds”, is a station of the Ligne Sokolnitcheskaïa of the Métro of Moscow. It opened the May 15th 1935, as a station belonging to the first line of the Muscovite subway. The station is located under the street Myasnitskaïa, on the level of the Tourguenevskaïa Place.

Although initially envisaged in the form of a station with three vaults, with a central hall making all its length (with the manner of Krasnye Vorota or Okhotny Riyadh), Tchistye Proudy was built with a standard design Métro of London, with at each end of the station, two passages connecting both platforms. The completion of the vaults of the external platforms gives the impression which the central hall existed, with what seemed to be a line of pylons of black Marbre. However, all the arched passages, except those located at the ends of the station, were barricaded. The architect of the initial station was N.Ya. Kolli.

During the Second world war, the station was closed and its platforms were enclosed with Contreplaqué in order to be used as general headquarters at the committee of staff and the Anti-aircraft defense. The central hall of Tchistye Proudy was built in 1971 so that the station becomes a point of correspondence towards the Ligne Kaloujsko-Rijskaïa. The architects of this project were N.A. Choukhareva, L.N. Popov, and A.F. Fokina. The new portion of the station was conceived to resemble the original sections as much as possible, maintaining its character original. Escalators were installed in the center of the platform for the correspondence with Tourguenevskaïa.

Tchistye Proudy has as a subject the marbles gray-black of Oufaleï and white of Koelga, and a platform in black Granite. In 1989, the walls external of the station were refined with the marble, instead of tiles of Céramique, in order to approach even more close the original design.

The station bore the name of Kirovskaïa , starting from its opening until 1990, and one still finds a bust of Bronze carved by V. Andreev with the effigy of Sergueï Kirov at the end of the platform. In 1992, the station was briefly called Myasnitskaïa , but was famous afterwards a few days.

Correspondences

Since Tchistye Proudy, it is possible to borrow the Ligne Kaloujsko-Rijskaïa from Tourguenevskaïa. A correspondence towards Stretenski Boulvar (Line Lyoublinskaïa) must open when the station is finished, in 2008.

External bonds

Description of the station on Metro.ru
Description of the station on Mymetro.ru
News.metro.ru

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