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The Pecherskaya metro station in Kiev was built with accidents, it was transit: interesting facts | Capital life

During the construction of the Syretsko-Pecherskaya metro line in Kiev, accidents occurred, and it itself was in transit for a long time.

According to the portal 44, its design is made in light colors with the use of marble on tubing (an element of prefabricated fastening of underground structures. – Ed.) pylons. During its creation, architects, among other things, were inspired by the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra.

Construction site of the station lobby on Lesia Ukrainka Square.

The station in structures was ready already in 1991.

Station intermediate lobby.

The station has a straight island platform 101.5 meters long. Architects Valery Gnevishev, Nikolai Aleshkin and Tamara Tselikovskaya were involved in its creation.

Construction of the foundation for the upper escalator.

Escalator installation.

The construction of Pecherskaya began in the 1980s and was planned to open in the early 1990s. However, the great depth of the installation caused problems with the construction of the escalator. For a long time “Pecherskaya” was a transit between “Klovskaya” and “Druzhby Narodov”, but it was opened only on December 27, 1997.

This is how it was proposed to design the station.

Or like this.

Final design option.

Finishing work at the station.

The foundation of the station is associated with the geographical features of Pechersk. For example, the nearby Arsenalnaya is the deepest in the world.

Station nowadays.

Lamps.

“Pecherskaya” got its name from the historical area of ​​Pechersk and the administrative district of the same name. Which, in turn, originate from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, where caves (caves) were built by monks in ancient times.

The name of the station in the font is made in the Old Russian style.

Previously OBOZREVATEL reported that the station of the Syretsko-Pecherskaya metro line “Zolotye Vorota” in Kiev due to its design recognized as one of the most beautiful in the world.

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