Everything about Vorobyovy Gory totally explained
Vorobyovy Gory (lit.
Sparrow Hills) is a station on the
Sokolnicheskaya Line of the
Moscow Metro. Its name originates from a nearby elevated area called the
Sparrow Hills. Built into the lower level of a bridge, it's unique in the city and in the world. At 270 m in length, the platform is the longest in the system as the station needed to be accessible from both sides of the river. It is also the highest station above ground level at 15 m, though this is less remarkable since all but a handful of Metro stations are underground. Apart from its dimensions, Vorobyovy Gory is also notable in being the only Metro station with windows.
The bridge, which is known as the
Luzhniki Metro Bridge, or simply
Metromost, and spans the
Moskva River, was originally built in
1958. The architects for the project were
M.P. Bubnov,
A.S. Markelov,
M.F. Markovsky,
A.K. Ryzhkov, and
B.I. Tkhor. However, by
1983 the bridge, plagued by corrosion, had fallen into disrepair and was deemed structurally unsound, so Vorobyovy Gory (at the time called Leninskiye Gory) was "temporarily" closed for repairs and trains were rerouted to temporary bridges alongside. Eighteen years later,
December 14,
2002, the newly renovated and renamed station was opened to the public once again.
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Image:SS100701.JPG|Central hall. 4th of April, 2008
Image:SS100723.JPG|Vestibule. 4th of April, 2008
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