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Image ID : Elektrozavodskaya_st
View/Description : View of the hall leading to the platforms
Image Creator : Eugeny1988
Image Date : 2008.11.28
Image Source :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Elektrozavodskaya_st.JPG

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Rights Owner : Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 

URL to larger image :

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Elektrozavodskaya_st.JPG

 

 

Work ID :

ElektrozavodskayaMoscow

Title :

Elektrozavodskaya Metro Station

Creator/Agent :

Gelfreich, Vladimir [AAT]

Rozhin, Igor

Rozhin, Igor' [AAT]

Date (of work) :

1944

Location/Site :

Moscow

GIS Coordinates :

+55.782256+37.705222/

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Description :

Located on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro system. Named after the electric light bulb factory nearby, the ceiling has six rows of circular incandescent inset lamps

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Work Type :

Architecture [AAT]

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Material :

marble, granite, labradorite

stone

Technique :

 

Style/Period/

Group/Movement :

Twentieth Century

 

Cultural Context :

Stalinist Architecture

Russian [AAT]

Soviet

Soviet Union

Subject :

urban transit systems [AAT]

public transit [AAT]

subway stations [AAT]

subway [AAT]

Relation :

station on the Metro System of Moscow (Московский метрополитен, Moskovskiy metropoliten)

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Text Reference :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrozavodskaya

Tarkhanov, Alexei, Sergei Kavtaradze, and Mikhail Anikst. 1992. Architecture of the Stalin era. New York: Rizzoli.

Keywords :

hallway, passage, skylights, lights, lighting, relief, sculpture

Notes :

Relief panels by Georgii Motovilov.  Some sources claim the station was begun by architect Vladimir Schuko, who died in 1939, but this is unconfirmed.  The station serves the Basmanny district and is located on the Bolshaya Semyonovskaya Street, next to the Yauza River

 


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