Biblioteka Imeni Lenina

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Biblioteka Imeni Lenina in the 1950s.

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Biblioteka Imeni Lenina (Template:Lang-ru), or "Lenin Library," is a Metro station in central Moscow, on the Sokolnicheskaya Line. The station opened on May 15, 1935 and was named for the nearby Lenin Library (now the Russian State Library). Its architects were A.I. Gontskevich and S. Sulin.

To prevent the disruption of traffic, Biblioteka Imeni Lenina was built using underground excavation rather than cut and cover even though the station ceiling is just two metres below ground level. Soil conditions and the narrowness of the space in which the station was to be built necessitated a single-vault design, the only one on the first Metro line. The entire excavation was only 19.8 metres wide and 11.7 metres high. The main station vault was built from rubble stone set in concrete and reinforced with an iron framework. This was lined with an "umbrella" of bitumen-coated paper to prevent groundwater from seeping into the station. The station was finished with plaster, yellow ceramic tile, and marble.

The station originally had two entrance vestibules, one at either end. The southern vestibule, located between the old and new buildings of the State Library, is shared with Borovitskaya. The temporary northern vestibule, which served Biblioteka Imeni Lenina and Aleksandrovskiy Sad, was removed in the 1940s.

Transfers

From this station it is possible to transfer to Arbatskaya on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, Aleksandrovskiy Sad on the Filyovskaya Line, and Borovitskaya on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line.

Though Biblioteka Imeni Lenina and Aleksandrovskiy Sad (then called Kominintern) were built concurrently, they were not connected by transfer passages until 1938, when Aleksandrovskiy Sad became part of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. Before this the line from Aleksandrovskiy Sad to Kievskaya operated as a branch of the Sokolnicheskaya Line.

External links

• Description of the station on Metro.ru (in Russian)
• Description of the station on Mymetro.ru (in Russian)
• Description of the station on Metro.molot.ru (in Russian)