Chekhovskaya station

The station was opened to passengers on December 31, 1987 as part of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya metro line. During its existence, the name has not changed.

In the middle of the hall there is a staircase leading to the passage to the Pushkinskaya station of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. From the western end central hall escalator slope for the transition to the Tverskaya station of the Zamoskvoretskaya line.

Exit to the city from the eastern end of the central hall along three successive escalators. From the first intermediate platform there is a second transition to the Pushkinskaya station.

Behind the station is a dead end, which was used to turn trains before the extension of the line to the north. Now it is used for night sludge of trains.

Access to the city through an underground passage and a ground vestibule located in a building on Pushkinskaya Square. In the middle of the hall there is a staircase leading to the passage to the Pushkinskaya station of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. At the end of the hall there is an escalator slope leading to the station and Tverskaya on the Zamoskvoretskaya line. Also in the passage is a monument to Maxim Gorky.

The Chekhovskaya station is located in the Tverskoy district on the territory of the Central Administrative District of Moscow.

Transition to stations

Remember, when the Big Circle Line was just being built, it was called the "Third interchange circuit" in the documents and announcements of Depstroy? Then many had a reasonable question why the contour is the third, since the ring is only the second. Indeed, there are only two rings, and the current ring line is the second interchange circuit, the first one is the interchange stations inside the ring. Today we will talk about one such station, which is part of a large transfer hub. This is the Chekhovskaya station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line. The station was opened in 1987, the last of the three included in the large junction where the "gray", "green" and "purple" lines of the Moscow metro intersect.

Let's start with archival photographs, thank God there are quite a few of them. Here is house number 6 on Strastnoy Boulevard before a staircase was built into it into the metro lobby.

But already in 1987, the active construction of the underground vestibule of the station is underway. The escalator slope is visible. Cool photo.

Phot another photo of the same period.

And now the end of the 1990s, the stairway at cinema Russia.

A little later in the backyard. Look, the tiles have been painted white.

Here is the stairs from the other side. It is interesting that here it turns out that you can get to two metro stations, and from the opposite, judging by the inscription above the staircase, only to Chekhovskaya.

A few more unique photos from the construction. The station is almost ready, only the flooring is either not laid, or covered with something so as not to spoil it.

And here is a view of the decorative part of the lamps of the central hall.

Here is another interesting photo from recent history. Many have probably already forgotten, but I remember how they sold magazines here at Gorky's. =)

And near the exits from the metro station. "Chekhovskaya" in 1996 there was a terrorist attack, Chechen terrorists blew up a trolley bus. Luckily, no one died then.

It is surprising that the driver did not die, although the bag with explosives was in his cab. In 4 years, there will be another terrorist attack very close to this place, but I will tell about it in the story about the metro station. "Tverskaya" at the time.

1. So let's look. The station has one underground vestibule, combined with the metro station. "Pushkinskaya" and although from this vestibule you can get to the platforms of both stations, above the stairway exits at the cinema "Rossiya" the inscription says that this is the entrance to the metro station. "Chekhovskaya"

2. According to the new fashion, exits from metro stations are now marked with numbers. Moreover, it is completely incomprehensible why all the exits entering the interchange node have a single continuous numbering. So here, all the exits from the three interchange stations are numbered from 1 to 14. But in fact, this is stupidity, since you can’t get to exits 1-10 from Chekhovskaya only if you go to Tverskaya and exit the combined from the "Pushkinskaya" lobby. In fact, this numbering is valid only for Pushkinskaya, from which you can really get into any of the 14 exits. And here, on "Chekhovskaya" there are only 4 exits to the surface and they are marked respectively 11-14, which is rather strange =). So the exits to the cinema are numbers 13 and 14. There are simple staircases here, thank God they didn’t put these modern covers here, although they may simply not have gotten around to it. Repairs were made in the floorboard and even the ceiling was hemmed. They left the ribbed structure of the ceiling, but sheathed it with some kind of panels. Why this is done, I still do not fully understand. Plaster with painting looks quite good if done with high quality.

3. Two more exits are built into the first floors of houses 4 and 6 along Strastnoy Boulevard. Interestingly, the staircases were built into an already existing building. There are also stations in the Moscow metro with metro entrances located inside buildings, but it seems that all of them were originally built taking into account the needs of the metro, or the metro pavilion appeared before the building, but such an option with embedding into an existing building .... were there any more where are the solutions?

4. It's great that they kept the facade of this beautiful building. One opening is used as an entrance, while the other two are glazed. In general, earlier it was the profitable house of Prince K. A. Gorchakov.

5. The interior of the staircase has recently been reconstructed, there are no hints of pre-revolutionary interiors here, which is a pity.

6. And here is the house of State Councilor I. I. Benkendorf, next to number 6, p. 1. The building was built in 1799 with a long history, for example, the poet Ivan Krylov lived here. In 1813, the Moscow English Club moved here from Gagarin's burnt house for a while, and now there is an entrance to the metro.

7. The interior decoration of the stairway after a recent reconstruction, everything is the same as everywhere else, simple but clean.

8. Pointer in the floorboard.

9. Entrance to the lobby.

10. 4 lines of escalators lead to the lobby level.

11. They are still old with wood trim.

12. It is interesting that the escalators are very low, usually in such cases they put stairs, but here they took care of the passengers, which is nice. Pay attention to the lamps in the caissons. We saw similar ones at the metro station. "" and at the st.m. " "Zamoskvoretskaya line at the escalators on the rise towards the Paveletsky railway station.

13. The lobby is quite spacious, as it is designed for the passenger flow of two stations at once.

14. To be honest, even with such old-fashioned lamps, the lobby looks pretty good. in addition, there is so much space that it was possible to place inspection equipment with little or no harm to passengers. The walls here are lined with native stone, I hope they will not carry out a barbaric reconstruction here, where there is a beautiful stone, and you see, it was selected by color to make these beautiful transitions on the walls, they will be replaced with the same type of porcelain stoneware.

15. Of the new here, only new turnstiles. Even the booth on duty at the escalators (in the background) is still old.

16. 4 threads of escalators lead down, but not to the level of the platform.

17. There is a hall from which you can get to the metro station. "Pushkinskaya" is here to the right.

18. By the way, it was here that the presentation of the new train "Moscow" took place, ? From this hall there is a passage to some office premises. Look at the authentic tiles on the floor "at the bottom". =)

19. It is interesting that the design of this hall echoes the design of the platform part of Chekhovskaya, in particular, there are the same lamps that we will see below.

20. Further the escalator leads us down. "Chekhovskaya" is the deepest station of the three stations of the hub, it is located at a depth of 62 meters. The escalator umbrellas are made of anodized aluminum, which echoes the finish of the fixtures. Warm "tube" anodized aluminum was wildly popular in the 90s.

21. Below is a small hall with two walkers towards the platform.

22. But that's not all, after the escalator, two more stair descents await passengers.

23. One from the hall with an escalator to the switch room at the end of the station.

24. And another stairway directly to the platform. In total, in order to go down to the platform from ground level, the passenger must overcome the stairway at the entrance, then a small escalator, then another one to the distribution room with a transfer to Pushkinskaya, then another escalator, and then two more flights of stairs.

25. The butt is not decorated with anything. This is the only station of the three interchange stations where there is no bust or monument to the writer after whom the station is named. Chekhov would look quite organic here.

26. Before entering the platform, there is a hermetic seal on the portal of which, from the side of the platform, there is such a mosaic panel. Only here we see Comrade Chekhov, or rather his profile.

27. In addition, the station can be reached by crossing from a neighboring station. Escalator from platform level st. m. "Tverskaya" takes us down. Here is the same decoration of the vaults, pay attention.

28. Beautiful.

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30. Here is another distribution room in which there is a bronze Gorky. He moved here from the end of the metro station. "Gorkovskaya", the current "Tverskaya". It's a little strange to see him here, but there really is no place for him on Tverskaya.

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32. Here, next to the sculpture, there is a place for musicians from the Music in the Metro project.

33. Apparently, Gorky doesn't like music very much, or he simply follows passengers who transfer to the "green" line.

34. The finger with which he pawned the book (what is Gorky reading, by the way, whose book is this?) is rubbed to a shine, probably there is also some kind of belief, as with dogs in st.i. "Revolution square".

35. Lamp.

36. And again the descent. Now the escalator will take us to the level of the platform. Here again, the old-school finish of the vault with anodized aluminum slats.

37. The station "Chekhovskaya" is one of the busiest in the Moscow subway, however, like any other, where 3 metro lines intersect at once.

38. There is another panel above the airlock portal from the side of the platform. On the left side we see the autograph of the classic of Russian literature.

39. In the middle of the platform part there is another transition to the metro station. "Pushkinskaya".

40. I don’t even know how to make a transfer between these two stations faster in time, using this transition in the center of the platform part or from the end. By the way, floor navigation, which appeared in the Moscow metro, appeared for the first time right here, at these three stations.

41. Well, in the end, let's look at the platform.

42. The side halls are illuminated by lamps that are suspended along the edge of the platform. Also, benches are installed only at the ends. They look really good even now, by the way. Simple and concise design.

43. In 1987, when the station opened, it was the final one, apparently this rare sign has remained since then. Or rather, not so ... It's AMAZING that this artifact is still hanging here and it has not been removed against the backdrop of the widespread installation of a new branded navigation and the removal of the same ubiquitous, old navigation.

44. The decoration of the station is quite simple. The pylons are trimmed with light-coloured stone, above them there is a plastered decorative cornice. The lighting of the central and side halls is carried out by a line of lamps that hang under the arches; there are no lamps behind the cornices and in the openings between the pylons.

45. The main decoration of the station is the mosaics on the track walls, they were made by the artists M. A. Shorchev and L. K. Shorcheva (they are not relatives of the artist Akindin Petrovich Shorchev?), The same authors later worked on the mosaic at the ends of the platform st. m. " ". Some mosaics use up to 15 types of stone. Subtle, but work. The name of the station is also typed in the form of a mosaic - very cool.

46. ​​Mosaics, as conceived by the authors, should serve as illustrations for the works of A.P. Chekhov. They really look like the illustrations you see in books, the kind of abstract plots that are printed at the beginning of every chapter and story. The mosaics were made by the artists of the Moscow Combine of Monumental and Decorative Art.

47. In the central hall, a ribbon of lamps is decorated with bronze flowers and bronze decorative elements.

48. It looks so good, especially bouquets of flowers, look like a real bouquet was dipped in paint. The bouquet is inscribed in a voluminous parallelepiped and it all looks cool and may well be a separate work of art. I immediately remember another composition in the Moscow metro with bronze flowers, which stands at the end of the old platform of the metro station. "", but there is the author Tsereteli.

49. Beauty. True, some smudges are visible, it is clear that these things were tinted.

50. The massive lamps of the central hall look, of course, very impressive, especially against the background of the simple monochrome decoration of the rest of the station.

51. New navigation.

52. A characteristic feature of the station are rather narrow pylons, they are no more than 2 meters wide with trim, which means it is only a couple of tubings wide. This design makes the deep pylon station very spacious due to the wide openings between the pylons. However, as you can see, in some places cracks began to appear along the cladding, which means that, perhaps, the load deforms the supporting structures somewhat.

53. Beautiful in its conciseness, the station, due to such a strict approach to finishing materials and their shape, the station looks quite modern even today. Look to the north of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line, such solutions are used today.

54. That's all and we'll go look at other stations of this transfer hub.

P.S.
Archival photos found on a wonderful site pastview, as well as other open sources.

Tsvetnoy boulevard<- Чеховская ->Borovitskaya
Transfer to st.m. (Tagansko-Krasnfreshwater line)
Transfer to st.m. (Zamoskvoretskaya line)

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