Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Moscow Metro)

Location
	Ploshchad Revolyutsii Location within Central Moscow

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	Mitinsky Bridge
	over Moskva River
	Pervomayskaya (closed)
	Izmaylovo yard
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Ploshchad Revolyutsii

Площадь Революции
Ploshchad Revolyutsii; Площадь Революции
Moscow Metro station
General information
Location	Tverskoy District; Central Administrative Okrug; Moscow; Russia
Coordinates	55°45′24″N 37°37′18″E / 55.7566°N 37.6216°E
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Pylon station
Depth	33.6 metres (110 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Architect	Alexey Dushkin
Architectural style	Stalinist Architecture, Socialist Realism
Other information
Station code	045
History
Opened	13 March 1938; 86 years ago
Services
Route map
Route map
	Legend
	Mitinsky Bridge
	over Moskva River
	Pervomayskaya (closed)
	Izmaylovo yard
	This diagram: view; talk; edit;
Location
Location
	Ploshchad Revolyutsii Location within Central Moscow

Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Russian: Площадь Революции) is a station in the Moscow Metro, in the Tverskoy District of central Moscow. The station is named after Revolution Square (Resurrection Square until 1918), under which it is located. It is on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line.

History

When the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line was first built, the tracks from Ploshchad Revolyutsii extended westward to Aleksandrovsky Sad rather than Arbatskaya. When the westward extension of the line was completed in 1953, trains were rerouted through the new segment.

Architecture

The station opened in 1938, its architect was Alexey Dushkin. The station features red and yellow marble arches resting on low pylons faced with black Armenian marble. The spaces between the arches are partially filled by decorative ventilation grilles and ceiling tracery.

Sculptures

The station contains 76 statues in the socialist realism style. Originally, 80 sculptures were created for the space—10 pairs, each replicated 4 times throughout the station. Today, nine pairs are in the archways, and a copy of the final pair ("The Pioneers") appears on each of the two platforms, bringing the total number of statues to 76.^[1] Each arch is flanked by a pair of bronze sculptures by Matvey Manizer depicting the people of the Soviet Union, including soldiers, farmers, athletes, writers, aviators, industrial workers, and schoolchildren. The series is meant to be considered in order, symbolizing Russia's transformation from the pre-revolutionary past, through the revolution, into the (then) contemporary era.^[1] The order of sculpture pairs are:

Male worker-partisan & male enlisted soldier
Male agricultural laborer & male sailor with pistol
Male sailor & female aviator
Male soldier with dog & female sharpshooter
Male miner & male engineer
Male & female agricultural laborers
Female & male students
Male football player & female athlete
Mother & father in swim clothing
Male & female students in Young Pioneers uniforms

Several of the sculptures are widely believed to bring good luck to those who rub them. The practice is targeted at specific areas on individual sculptures, including the soldier's pistol, the patrolman's dog, the roosters, and the female student's shoe.^[2]

Transfers

From this station, passengers can transfer to Teatralnaya on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line and Okhotny Ryad on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, but the latter can be reached only through Teatralnaya as there is no direct transfer.

Image Gallery

Ploschad Revolyutsii Metro Station, Moscow, Russia

References

^ ^a ^b O'Mahony, Mike (January 2003). "Archaeological Fantasies: Constructing History on the Moscow Metro". The Modern Language Review. 98 (1): 138–150. doi:10.2307/3738180. JSTOR 3738180. S2CID 161592843.
^ "Ploschad Revolyutsii Metro Station". Discover Moscow. Moscow Government. Retrieved 2 November 2019.