Transition to Revolution Square, Okhotny Row. Convenient transfers of the Moscow metro

I thoroughly prepared articles about the Moscow metro, including answers to questions of varying degrees of trickiness, and now, in order to be able to answer in an even more convenient way, I will make a kind of sidebar in the popular format of frequently asked questions. This faq will be useful as an addition to the following materials about navigational and toponymic problems of the metro.

What are "platform", "station" and "line"?
I didn’t even think that this question could cause difficulties, but for people who regularly use the metro (not only the Moscow one, all the cancer that we are talking about and will talk about, to one degree or another, applies to all metro stations of the Soviet origin) and are accustomed to the idiotic navigation and an equally idiotic naming system - everything is mixed together.

A station is a stopping point on the route of a train, the tasks of which, in the context of the metro, are the ability to change lines to continue the trip and exit into the city. The platform is engineering structure, designed to allow the train to stop and passengers to board and disembark. A line is, in general, a collection of stations between which direct travel is possible (in fact, not always, but this is not relevant now).

Lines can (and should) intersect and the point at which they intersect Necessarily there will be a station with platforms to which the tracks of the corresponding lines are connected. One station. With the number of platforms corresponding to the number of lines passing through the station.

What are transitions and how are they classified?
A transition is a structure that allows a station to perform one of its functions, namely, the ability to change lines and move on. No engineering features of the implementation (length, direction, escalators, transit through platforms) affect the purpose of the crossing - the ability to change the line. There is either a transition or there is not.

And why all these truisms?
And besides, the tradition of Soviet subways - giving each platform at a station its own name and considering it a separate station - is bad. The whole world, and any other transport in Russia, does not suffer from such a disease. Lines to Vladimir, Aleksandrov and Kurovskoye arrive at different platforms of the Orekhovo-Zuevo station, but no one thought of giving each platform a personal name, and on the Vladimir and Aleksandrovskaya lines there is an Orekhovo-Zuevo station. It’s time to start distinguishing between stations and platforms in the metro, and then fully appreciate all the convenience of the correct approach.

What is so right about this approach? They called it different things and no one died.
Logic and common sense are dead. First of all, this is just idiocy. Secondly, there is elementary logic in favor of calling interconnecting platforms of different lines one station with the same name. When, having arrived at the “station” Library named after. Lenin’s man goes out into the city from the lobby with the inscription “Borovitskaya”, logic gets sick and dies. Thirdly, our metro is impossible for visitors, especially from abroad, to use, because the rest of the world knows what a station is and does it like this:

On platforms with different names more convenient to meet.
And the turnstile on the bus makes you scratch your ass. A typical example of how people learned to use by-effect bad decision. When meeting at normal stations, at Paveletskaya, for example, no one gets lost. Clarifications are needed in any case, so a meeting on the Paveletskaya green line is no better and no worse than a meeting on the Aviamotornaya line at the first car from the center or on the Kitay-Gorod station at the exit to Maroseyka.

The platforms have self-explanatory names. From the name it’s immediately clear where you can go from the platform to the city.
It's a bullshit. For such orientation you need to know Moscow very well. Few Muscovites know the city well, let alone newcomers? What does the name “Sports” mean? From Okhotny Ryad you can go not only to Okhotny Ryad, but also to Bolshaya Dmitrovka. Revolution Square is much closer to the exit from Teatralnaya than from Revolution Square, the exit from Turgenevskaya is on Chistoprudny Boulevard, and so on.

The design of the stations corresponds to the names.
This is probably mainly about Pushkinskaya. And in our collective farm on Proletarskaya Street there is a monument to Ryabushinsky and for some reason this does not bother anyone. There is nothing wrong with the design not matching the name. It’s much worse that the design of many metro stations does not correspond to their purpose: no matter where you hang the diagram, it still looks like alien shit.

At the node “Okhotny Ryad-Teatralnaya-Revolution Square” there is no (direct) transition from “Okhotny Ryad” to “Revolution Square”. It’s the same story with “Alexandrovsky Sad” and “Borovitskaya”, which means these are different stations.
The transition cannot be direct, indirect, intermittent, or anything else: it either exists or it does not. Tens of thousands of people daily move from Revolution Square to Okhotny Ryad: how is this possible with a missing crossing? What, “Teatralnaya” is on the way? Here is another negative effect of different names of platforms and the veneration of each platform as an independent station. Three lines pass through the station, which should logically be called “Red Square”: blue, red and green. And people make the transition to the line, and not to the station. If the transition from the red line to the blue line passes, among other things, along the platform of the green line of the same station, then this is a peculiarity of the transition, and in general, anything can be encountered along the way: escalators, platforms of other lines, long and short corridors, turns or stairs. A person making a transition from one line to another does not care: he moves from one line to another without changing the station and without going into the city.

More about “Okhotny Ryad-Teatralnaya-Revolution Square”. There is a passage 400 meters long, which means these are different stations. The transition can't be that long, can it?
It shouldn't, in theory. But it’s quite possible. Yes, for the Moscow metro the length of the transition from “Revolution Square” to “Okhotny Ryad” is a record one. And in the Tokyo metro there is a passage longer than 500 meters, but this does not create two stations. The transition fulfills the task: it makes it possible to change the line at the station. Another example is the Kursk Station railway station. To transfer from the Gorky train to the train to Podolsk, you need to walk from 200 to 500 meters, and along the way you will come across other platforms, payment control points, and you will even have to go into the station building and buy another ticket, but the station does not change . This is how the Kursk Station was, and remains so.

And if they dig a passage from the Alexander Garden to Okhotny Ryad, will the two stations become one?
The question that plunged me into despondency and despair: I cannot imagine organizing an underground pedestrian connection between stations. Precisely stations, because a train runs between them. They will remain stations, and in this case, another metro idiocy will be added - a pedestrian backup for two lines at once. Or the first pedestrian metro line.

At stations, the platforms must be parallel and visible. What kind of station is this with perpendicular (or other) platforms?
Again, engineering implementation does not affect the intent. Digging so that all paths are visible and parallel is not only expensive, but also dangerous even for shallow stations. The nature of underground construction allows for greater freedom to place platforms in three dimensions, and they can indeed be positioned at 90-degree angles one above the other. The purpose of the station does not suffer from this: at it you can just change the line or go into the city.

There are several transfer stations in the Moscow metro, where it is better to go completely different from where the signs suggest you go. This allows you to save time or make the transition more comfortable.

1. Turgenevskaya -> Chistye Prudy.

Alternative way: Escalator up at the end of the station (exit to the city).

We go up the escalator, go left and see the “No passage” sign.

If you don’t want to “violate”, we pass to the right. Passage there is completely permitted. On the left we see an escalator, along which we go down to Chistye Prudy.

It takes a little longer, but most of that time is spent standing on the escalator rather than walking down a long walkway.
Plus, you don't have to climb the stairs. If you are carrying a heavy suitcase, this is very important.

2. Chistye Prudy -> Turgenevskaya.

Official way to go: down the escalator in the center of the station.

Alternative way: Escalator up at the end of the station with a sign “Exit to the city”.

We go up the escalator and go right.

We see an escalator down on the right (now there is a metal fence there - repairs are underway. The escalator is right behind it), we go down the escalator.

3. Library named after Lenin -> Arbatskaya.

Official way of crossing: stairs up in the center of the station.

Alternative way: stairs up without a sign at the end of the station.

In fact, passage through the end of the station is not prohibited and the left half of the passage is allocated for it, but there is no sign at the station, but as soon as you go up the stairs, which seem to be only for passengers going to the platform, on the left you will see signs for exits and passages. Move forward.

You will run into the same escalator, to which a long curved tunnel leads, through which you are asked to go in the official way. So much faster and shorter!

4. Lenin Library -> Alexander Garden.

Official way of crossing: the same stairs up in the center of the station.

Alternative way: the same stairs up without a sign at the end of the station.

You go up the stairs and walk with right side. There will be three passages on the right, above each of which there is a “no passage” sign. First one, then two more.

If you need a train to Mezhdunarodnaya, feel free to take the second passage to the right. If it's before Kuntsevskaya - on the third one.

You will immediately find yourself on the right platforms.

If you follow the official path, you will have to climb several stairs and spend a lot of extra time. Even though in this case you will pass under a prohibitory sign, you will not disturb anyone - there are very few people coming from the platform.

5. Theater -> Revolution Square.

Official way of crossing: stairs up in the center of the station.

We go up an escalator and immediately go down another one and find ourselves at another station.
The alternative method is much faster and more comfortable (the official method involves traveling through a long tunnel).

6. Revolution Square -> Teatralnaya.

Official way of crossing: stairs up in the center of the station.

An alternative way: an escalator at the end with a sign “Exit to the city at Revolution Square.”

We go up an escalator and immediately go down another.

Surely there are more convenient ways transition and at other stations. If you know about them, write in the comments.

upd.: Lifehacks from readers:

hige_san : The same story on Paveletskaya from the ring to the radial. The official transition is in the center of the hall, go down and stomp along the tunnel for a long time. Unofficially, go up and down the escalator at the end. On the contrary - a similar way, the main thing is not to confuse the ends. You don’t need to cross through the exit to Paveletsky Station.

On May 15, 1935, the first line opened from the station Sokolniki to the station "Park of Culture", with a branch to "Smolenskaya".

During this time the main transport system, whose daily passenger traffic is approaching 10 million, and whose annual passenger traffic is approaching 2.5 billion, has managed to acquire not only more than a dozen more lines, but also a huge number of secrets, mysteries, myths and legends. The last three “entities” will still be left to the guides and tour guides, who will tell naive tourists about the huge monsters that live in subway tunnels, ghost stations, the mythical Metro-2 for the government and the president, and much, much more.

We want to tell AiF.ru readers about the secrets of the Moscow metro, which are not mythical, but more practical. This knowledge can not only be applied in practice, but it can actually make daily life make it easier and more pleasant for Muscovites and guests of the capital.

Where will the carriage doors stop?

One of the most obvious “secrets” for those who travel by metro every day is also one of the main secrets of the universe for those who go underground from time to time - as needed. At some point, the metro management even decided to accommodate passengers by placing signs on the floor of some stations where the doors will arrive. But this idea was not developed and most stations were left without their labels.

In fact, it is very easy to determine exactly where on the platform you should wait for the car doors in order to get inside as quickly and comfortably as possible. You just need to take a closer look at the floor at the edge of the platform. Despite the fact that the metro service constantly cleans its premises perfectly, some part of the edge of the platform will be a little dirtier, and some places will be not just clean, but wiped almost to a shine. They were made like this by the feet of passengers leaving the carriage and entering it. It is in the places of these abrasions that the doors of the carriage will stop.

At the edge of the platform. Taganskaya station Photo: www.russianlook.com

How to save on travel?

But there is a way to reduce the price of one trip to 30 rubles. Considering that when purchasing a card it costs 50 rubles, the benefit is not so small. You just need to buy yourself a card called “Troika”. Or rather, not even buy it, but take it for your own use. You just need to pay 80 rubles at the cash register. For this money you can get a card with 30 rubles in your account, which is enough for one trip. You can then return the card to the metro ticket office at any time and receive a 50 ruble deposit back. The secret is that you can put any amount on this card Money, at least 30 rubles, at least 3000 rubles. But in any case, the cost of the trip when using it will be 30 rubles. Now, instead of buying a one-time card at the cash desk, you can simply put 30 rubles on a Troika card, saving 20 rubles each time.

Troika card. Photo: RIA Novosti / Mikhail Voskresensky

How to get to the escalator faster?

The essence next secret it would be difficult to rationally explain the metro. And its application in practice, as, in principle, the description in this article, can cause negativity on the part of metro users. But, you must admit, sometimes a situation arises when it is necessary to squeeze through to the escalator as quickly as possible, but it is almost impossible to do this through the flow of people.

We, of course, will not tell you how to teleport onto an escalator, or how to soar into the air above the crowd, flying to the coveted self-propelled steps, but we will at least advise you on how you can get to the beginning of the escalator as quickly as possible.

The secret is to stay to the left of the escalator queue. For some reason, she is moving noticeably faster than the right side of the line. Although, it would seem that those who walk from the right stand directly in the right row on the step and, at best, every other time they let in the “leftists” who are trying to enter the escalator “without the queue”. But it just so happens that the rebellious left side goes faster ethical right.

Escalator in the metro Photo: www.russianlook.com

How to board an empty train?

The next secret is generally the dream of any person who moves around Moscow using the metro. It turns out that even at rush hour, at some stations, not the final ones, there is a real opportunity to board an... empty train. For many, this comes as a real surprise. However, if you look closely, at such stations you can notice a certain number of cunning people who deliberately let full trains, waiting for the arrival of an empty train - they know that it will arrive soon.

And they know this for sure for one reason - trains arrive at this station either from the depot or from a return dead-end, which serves to send the train in the opposite direction if, according to the schedule, it does not go to the final station, which often happens.

Everything is clear about the depot - it is located in front of such stations as "Kashirskaya", "Sokol", "Chertanovskaya", "Vladykino", "Partizanskaya", "Novye Cheryomushki", "Krasnopresnenskaya" and "Belorusskaya" ring stations, "Pechatniki" . It’s more difficult with reversible dead ends - on the metro map, at least accessible to ordinary citizens, they are not marked, so you have to guess where there are and where they are not. The most famous reversible dead end is the branch of the metro line near the station "Prazhskaya". It is here that during peak hours you can see whole crowds of passengers passing trains in the hope of an empty train. With stations "Chkalovskaya" and "Kurskaya", by the way, a similar story.

An empty carriage at the Belorusskaya metro station Photo: www.russianlook.com

Which carriage is safer?

Our next secret is for inveterate paranoids who, apparently, have watched all the films from the “Final Destination” series and now cannot sleep, otherwise they dream of a disaster in the subway. Such people simply dream of knowing where the safest car in the metro is located.

So, it is believed that the safest car in the subway is the penultimate car in the direction of the train. The fact is that when a train collides with the train in front, or with a wall, which is what overly restless passengers most often fear, the further you are from the lead car, the less will be the inertial force with which you will hit the passenger in front, or the a wall, or against a door... But such passengers are also not recommended to sit in the last carriage, because theoretically a train coming from behind could enter it. Therefore, it will be safest to be in the penultimate carriage.

We, of course, understand that the situations described above are excluded, but to completely calm your subconscious, if it does play pranks, we recommend choosing the second car from the end.

How to move from station to station faster and more pleasantly?

The following secrets are the most interesting. It turns out that in addition to the official crossings, indicated by arrows and all kinds of signs, in the Moscow metro at many stations there are “secret” crossings to which people are not directed for fear of a crowd. But experienced metro passengers know about them and often use them either for speed of movement or for convenience.

The most popular such place is the station "Theatrical" To get from it either to "Okhotny Ryad", on either "Revolution square" Officially, you need to use the stairs in the center of the hall, leading into long corridors to the required station. But you can simply use the escalators at both ends of the station. One of them will lead to a common pavilion with Revolution Square, from where you can go down the same escalator to the corresponding station, the second to Okhotny Ryad - the same way. If this can gain time, it won't be much. But this path will definitely save you from walking and dragging up stairs.

The lobby of the Ploshchad Sverdlova (now Teatralnaya) station. On the left is the transition to the Prospekt Marksa station (now Okhotny Ryad). 1979 Photo: RIA Novosti / Boris Babanov The same applies to two "Paveletsky" stations, ring and radial. This secret, by the way, will be especially relevant for them, because many in the area of ​​Paveletsky Station descend into the metro with heavy suitcases, bags, and boxes. In this case, of course, it would be more pleasant to use the escalator.

The same, if you believe the comments of Moscow metro passengers, also applies to two "Kursk" stations. You can also often see people there with suitcases, so it would be easier for them to go up and down the escalator.

Another station with a similar transition system and a hidden passage at the end of the station through a common pavilion - between stations "Turgenevskaya" And "Chistye Prudy". In this case, by the way, it turns out to go not much faster than along the official path.

Interesting transition between stations "Krasnogvardeyskaya" and "Zyablikovo"" It is much faster to leave one station and enter another across the street than to use the official crossing. But this option is suitable only for those who use a travel card, or social card, or travel with the help of a card for 90 minutes, so that you don’t have to pay extra for entry.

Passengers at the Zyablikovo metro station Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexey Kudenko An interesting option with transitions concerns "Tretyakovsky" and "Novokuznetskaya" stations. Many people find the long and winding transition from the Tretyakovskaya station of the Orange Line to Novokuznetskaya inconvenient. Everything became easier after the opening of the Tretyakovskaya station on the yellow line. Now you can simply and conveniently move first from the “old” Tretyakovskaya to the “new” one, and then from there along a short escalator almost to the very center of the platform at Novokuznetskaya.

Cross-platform stations

The latest “life hack” concerns cross-platform stations - those where trains arrive on one platform from two different lines. On them, in order to get to another branch, you often just need to overcome two branches and a short, very short passage over the tracks. But you can also cheat. If you go one station further than the one you need, and then change to an oncoming train, then you arrive on the other side of such a cross-platform station. This applies to stations such as "Tretyakovskaya", "China-Gorod" and "Kashirskaya".

This will not make life easier for an ordinary passenger, but when you don’t want to go up the stairs with baby strollers, and even more so when you are a wheelchair user, this secret can come in very handy.

Reva Square - Teatralnaya, 3. Teatralnaya - Okhotny Ryad, 4. Chistye Prudy - Turgenevskaya. Even from BIL to Aleksandrovsky Sad, I do not walk through the passage in the middle of the station, but through the end towards the traffic. For hooligans, you can go from Tretyakovskaya to Novokuznetskaya if you came from the south of KRL, not through the passage, but along one of the switched off escalators at the end of the station.

One of the first projects, drawn up in 1931, provided that between the Dzerzhinsky Square and Okhotny Ryad stations there would be a Sverdlov Square station. Hermetic seals are installed at the ends of the station hall, as well as in the passages.

The northern lobby of Teatralnaya is shared with Okhotny Ryad station. This lobby was built according to the design of D.N. Chechulin and built into an old house.. From this lobby there is a passage leading to the Teatralnaya escalator.

Illuminate the transition wall sconces. At the end, the tunnel is divided into two passages, between which there is a lattice with floral patterns. The passage from Revolution Square connects this station with the end of Teatralnaya, its architect is N. N. Andrikanis. It was opened on May 9, 1946, and its design is dedicated to the theme of Victory. In the bas-reliefs above the crossing arches there are images of banners and weapons. At the end of the passage from Okhotny Ryad there used to be a bust of Ya. M. Sverdlov by sculptor A. P. Shlykov, but now only a pedestal remains of it.

Travel time along the underground passage from Teatralnaya to Okhotny Ryad will be approximately 2.5 to 3 minutes. Another transfer method, not indicated on the signs, is through the ground concourse. The journey through the underground passage to the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station takes just over 3 minutes. Another way to transfer is to go up and down the escalator (exit to Revolution Square). In this case, the transition time is approximately 4.5 minutes.

On the bridge, upon arrival of the train, the crowd immediately begins, since the crossing is narrow, and this is the only official crossing route. Few people know about the transition at the end, and it is easier and faster to transition there. I looked at the diagrams in the pMetro program, there is also a transition through the exit to the city between the Kursk nuclear submarines and the KL. But I’m not sure that the path there is faster, as in the case of emergency - Turgenevskaya. I wrote by the color of the columns. So there is a passage in the center of both stations, along which a darkness of people rushes from White to Red.

Kursk nuclear submarine - Kursk ring road, but the crossing there takes longer, but you don’t have to push around in a narrow passage with stairs. If we talk about crossing the street, then during rush hours1. From Borovitskaya to Aleksandrovsky Garden it is faster to walk past the Library than to push through two crossings through BIL or Arbatskaya.2.

Revolution Square – Teatralnaya – Okhotny Ryad

Well, from Polyanka, of course, walking to Tretyakovskaya is a hundred times faster than going there through the center with a transfer first at Chekhovskaya. It is also more convenient than through the middle of the station. Ahead of me, I also wanted to write about this transition.

In 1931, a decision was made to build the Moscow Metro. The master plan for the reconstruction of Moscow in 1935 already provided that the Sverdlov Square station would open as part of the Gorky radius of the 2nd stage of the Moscow metro.

The design of the pylons on the side of the apron halls is the same as in central hall. Alternating protrusions and depressions are formed on the marble track walls, corresponding to the pitch of the pylons. IN plaster mold, removed from the bas-relief, the liquid porcelain mass was poured in and left until it hardened. The station is designed in tones white. This design helps reduce the feeling of the subway. The pylons are lined with Koelga marble of a warm shade.

Crystal bowl lamps in bronze frames are suspended from the vaults. The southern lobby of Teatralnaya is shared with the Ploshchad Revolyutsii station; its architect is A. N. Dushkin. Initially, it was assumed that this lobby would be built into the building of the Academic Cinema in the future. Therefore, the architect was faced with the task of making a lobby such that it could be built into a large building and so that it could exist independently.

Maybe somewhere the topic of alternative transitions from station to station was discussed. They are part of the same interchange complex (there is no direct transfer from Okhotny Ryad to Revolution Square and back). It is a fairly busy stopover in the Moscow metro. If from points 1 - 3 I can understand: official crossings are much longer and more inconvenient, then why the rest?