Moscow metro station "Pechatniki"

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Metro "Pechatniki" is one of the stations of the Moscow metro, which is located on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line. It is located between the stops "Kozhuvskaya" and "Volzhskaya". The Pechatniki metro station was opened in December 1995 and named after the district of the same name on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.

Lublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line

The light green line was the first to open after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Its construction began in the late 1980s, and it was put into operation in the winter of 1995. Currently, the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line includes seventeen functioning stations, including the Pechatniki metro station. The operational length of the light green branch is almost twenty-four kilometers. The average travel time on it is thirty minutes. It is worth noting that the tenth line of the Moscow metro until 2007 was referred to in official documents as Lublinskaya, and todayonly its southern radius and directly the central part have been completely built. The rest is under construction and, according to the plan, should be put into operation in 2014.

Metro "Pechatniki": general information

This station, as noted earlier, is located in the Pechatniki district of the same name, on the territory of the so-called South-Eastern administrative district. Interestingly, in the nineteen years of its existence, it has never changed its name. Currently, it is the shallowest of all the underground stops of the Moscow metro. Passenger traffic of the station until recently amounted to just over twenty-five thousand people.

Station name history

As has been repeatedly noted, the Pechatniki metro station (Moscow) owes its name to the district of the same name, on whose territory it is actually located. In turn, the history of the latter is closely intertwined with the history of the Nikolo-Perervinsky Monastery, which was founded in 1380-1381. Today, in official documents, you can find two options for the name of this area - Pechatnikovo and Pechatniki. According to the first version, the name of the district comes from the name of a certain Vladimir Pechatnikov, a serviceman who was killed in the Livonian campaign. It is mentioned in the chronicles of 1558. According to another version, in the eighteenth century, in a village located just on this very spot, chintz was painted in large quantities. To speed up the process, the residents used a special wooden form with a pre-cutrelief pattern, which was then painted with different colors. By covering the calicoes with variegated color patterns, the masters, as it were, “printed”. Subsequently, the whole area began to be called Printers. As you can see, the versions are very different, but the essence of this does not change.

Station design features

The "Pechatniki" metro station has three flights, that is, with two rows of columns, and belongs to the shallow group. The latter means that this stop was built in an open way from unified prefabricated structures made of reinforced concrete. The depth of laying in this case is not more than five meters. A distinctive feature of the station is the presence of several additional floor supports, which are located parallel to the enfilade axis. The track walls are lined with black and gray marble, and pink marble is used to decorate the columns. As for the floor, it is lined with multi-colored granite, which forms an ornament of the correct form. Luminaires of an original design, built into the wavy ceiling, form the basis of lighting. Of particular note is a large panel located in the lobby and made using a special technique of painting on metal. The painting was made by the artist V. A. Bubnov and is dedicated to the work and rest of Muscovites. Outside, the lobby of the Pechatniki metro station (Pechatniki district) is decorated in red and white colors.

Interchange

Exit to the city from this stop is carried out by stairs through the eastern lobby. Passengers from herecan get to Polbina, Guryanov and Shosseynaya streets. The west lobby is currently closed, however, even under conditions of opening, due to its small size, it can only be used as an exit.

It should be noted that in the future the management of the Moscow metro is going to extend the Kakhovskaya line directly to the Kashirskaya station. The corresponding transfer will be carried out through this unused exit of the western vestibule of the Pechatniki metro station. The construction of this interchange hub is planned in the very near future. In addition, in front of the station "Pechatniki" there are ramps to the connecting branch (two tracks) in the electric depot, which currently serves the line in question.