Park Pobedy (Moscow Metro)

Park Pobedy Moscow Metro station
Station statistics
Address	Kutuzovsky Avenue, Dorogomilovo District, Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow
Coordinates	55°44′10″N 37°31′00″E
Lines	Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line
Connections	Bus: 91, 116, 157, 157e, 205, 818, 840 Trolleybus: 2, 7, 39, 44
Structure	Deep pylon tri-span
Depth	84 metres (276 ft)
Levels	1
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Parking	No
Bicycle facilities	No
Baggage check	No
Other information
Opened	6 May 2003
Accessible
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Slavyansky Bulvar toward Mitino Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Kiyevskaya toward Shchyolkovskaya

Park Pobedy (Russian: Парк Победы, English: Victory Park), is a Moscow Metro station in the Dorogomilovo District, Western Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, between Slavyansky Bulvar and Kiyevskaya stations. At 84 metres underground, Park Pobedy is the deepest station in Moscow and the third deepest in the world by mean depth, after Kiev Metro's Arsenalna and Saint Petersburg Metro's Admiralteyskaya, and the very deepest station by maximum depth, 97 m. It also contains the longest escalators in Europe, each one is 126 metres long and has 740 steps. The escalator ride to the surface takes approximately three minutes.

Park Pobedy is actually a cross-platform complex with two separate, parallel platforms, though only the inner pair of tracks is presently used. When the construction was begun in 1986, plans called for this to be a transfer to the future Solntsevo-Mytischenskaya and the Mitino-Butovskaya Chordial lines [1]. The former were to use the two halls as a transfer to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya whilst the latter would have a third perpendicular station. However the 1990s financial crises ended the Chordial projects and instead the Strogino-Mitino extension passed via Park Pobedy when opened in 2003 (2008). The second set of tracks will be used by the Solntsevskaya Line after that has been completed.

Trains arriving from Kievskaya stop at the northern platform to drop off passengers before going into reversal sidings and coming back to the southern platform to pick up passengers for the trip back. This is the only Metro station where all passengers board and exit trains in different locations. A further complication: only the southern (inbound) platform has an entrance vestibule, so passengers arriving at the outbound platform must change platforms before exiting.

The two platforms work of architects Nataliya Shurygina and Nikolay Shumakov are of identical design but have opposite colour schemes, which creates a striking effect. The pylons of the outbound platform are faced with red marble on the transverse faces and pale grey marble on the longitudinal faces. The inbound platform is exactly the reverse. The station is adorned with two large enameled panels by Zurab Tsereteli depicting the Patriotic War of 1812 (at the end of the inbound platform) and the Great Patriotic War (on the outbound platform).

Gallery

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  Southern platform

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  The escalators

External links

• metro.ru — Park Pobedy station
• KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)
• Park Pobedy: 165th station of the Moscow Metro