Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Alma-Atinskaya station of Moscow metro: detailed description

The new Alma-Atinskaya subway station opened in Moscow. IIt is located in the residential district Brateyevo which is built up with multi-storey buildings in the period of 1996-2000, his height are 14-22 floors. Now all houses are achievable by foot from Alma-Atinskaya or Borisovo station, and housing cost has to increase in them.




The station is constructed for the last 3-4 years. Due of local conditions - a pond on it the traveling courcs, track layout applied non-standard to Moscow subway system: before station there is a crossover, and behind station track simply terminates in dead end.


Thereof,  few trains go to Alma-Atinskaya station. 3 trains in a row go to the previous station Krasnogvardeyskaya, and the fourth - to station Alma-Atinskaja. 




At the station of the train go in turn from both track, the same organization of movement long time was at station Krylatskoye, before Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line extension.

Passengers didn't get used to the organization of movement yet, and are confused.
















Structurally the station hall is executed according by one of Moscow’s standard project. The main hall is one-volume, close to the ground. There are two exits. Northern it is located on a bigger passenger traffic. It is equipped with the three-stranded escalator, the separate building of a lobby is erected to surface. The main facade is decorated with a stained-glass window with the apple-tree image - a symbol of the city of Alma-Ata. Around the Brateyevo district, also historically many apple-trees grow.

The southern exit located near edge of district, and serves only 4-5 houses. The ladder conducts with station in a substreet cash hall, further on a surface - the second ladder. The exit to a surface is covered with a glass construction.

Closely located bus terminal station "3rd district of Brateyevo / 3-й микрорайон Братеево" approaches to a northern lobby. During construction it is postponed for a new place for 200 meters. It is occupied by 13 bus depot of Mosgortrans. In 1995-2002 on it were unique buses - articulated YaAZ-6211 and YaAZ-6240, similar to a LiAZ-6212 which started building in large quantities only in 2003. No one of YaAZ-6211 did surrived to today. (http://bus.ruz.net/cars/as-1/)
Now on this bus terminusl it is easy to meet artuculated bus Ikarus-280.33M. All vehicles of this model Moscow is planned to write off by 2014.
At the same time on the same day the second exit of station Maryina Roshcha opened.
In some days opening of the second new station - Pyatnitskoye Highway will take place.




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