Novogireevo
Encyclopedia
Novogireyevo is a Moscow Metro
station on the Kalininskaya Line
. It was constructed in 1979 in Moscow's Novogireyevo District
, as the final terminus of the Perovo radius. The station has entrances at both ends, and is at a depth of nine metres. About 110,000 passengers use Novogireyevo station daily.
and the walls are reveted with steel blue marble. The upper parts of the pillars and the walls are decorated with frieze
s devoted to the nature of the Moscow area (by A. Kuznetsov). The floor is faced with slabs of red and brown granite
and strips of white marble.
Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system serving Moscow and the neighbouring town of Krasnogorsk. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. As of 2011, the Moscow Metro has 182 stations and its route length is . The system is...
station on the Kalininskaya Line
Kalininskaya Line
The Kalininskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened as the eastwards Perovo radius lines in 1979 and presently has 7 stations.-History:...
. It was constructed in 1979 in Moscow's Novogireyevo District
Novogireyevo District
Novogireyevo District is an administrative district of Eastern Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia....
, as the final terminus of the Perovo radius. The station has entrances at both ends, and is at a depth of nine metres. About 110,000 passengers use Novogireyevo station daily.
Architecture
The station was designed by Robert Pogrebnoi and Plyukhin. The station was the first of the newer version of the pillar-trispan with the step of the pillars further increased from 6 to 7.5 metres. The pillars are reveted with light-grey marbleMarble
Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite.Geologists use the term "marble" to refer to metamorphosed limestone; however stonemasons use the term more broadly to encompass unmetamorphosed limestone.Marble is commonly used for...
and the walls are reveted with steel blue marble. The upper parts of the pillars and the walls are decorated with frieze
Frieze
thumb|267px|Frieze of the [[Tower of the Winds]], AthensIn architecture the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Even when neither columns nor pilasters are expressed, on an astylar wall it lies upon...
s devoted to the nature of the Moscow area (by A. Kuznetsov). The floor is faced with slabs of red and brown granite
Granite
Granite is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock. Granite usually has a medium- to coarse-grained texture. Occasionally some individual crystals are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic...
and strips of white marble.