If you suddenly have a desire to see a city familiar from childhood in a somewhat unusual perspective, then you are right here, on the eastern outskirts of Moscow. The subway tunnel comes to the surface here, and here we are in Izmailovo - one of the oldest historical districts of the capital. Metro station Izmailovskaya, we have to get off here.
Izmailovo
The history of this village can be traced back to the sixteenth century, when it was the specific fiefdom of the Romanov boyars. Gradually it was integrated into greater Moscow. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, it has been a typical working outskirts. The indelible imprint of this circumstance is visible to the naked eye to this day. Izmailovo is Moscow. But Moscow is not like that. Not facade, not front and not glossy. This is clearly not the most prestigious area of the capital. But it would be unfair not to note that it is gradually changing for the better. New residential complexes are being built, historical and architectural monuments that have survived to our time are being maintained in the proper form. Liquidated for many yearsnearby is the Cherkizovsky market, which heavily criminalized the situation.
Moscow, Izmailovskaya metro station
There are not many native Muscovites who want to move to this eastern outskirts for permanent residence.
But few people doubt that Izmailovo has its own unique look. Already the Izmailovskaya metro station itself is very textured and very characteristic of this particular area. It was put into operation in 1961. You have to imagine what time it was. And this was the era of the struggle of N. S. Khrushchev with excesses in the field of design and construction. Thus, he saved money by reducing the architecture to a minimum and to zero. The Izmailovskaya metro station was among the first objects to be affected by this reasonable (only at first glance) initiative. One can argue about whether there is any architecture here at all.
The station was made according to an individual project, but assembled from standard reinforced concrete structures. Everything is reduced to the utmost minimalism, there are not even walls. This allows you to admire the views of Izmailovsky Park while waiting for the train. Even the floor of the station was originally laid with primitive asph alt, which was later replaced by tiled pavement.
The Izmailovskaya metro station is located on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. And this only emphasizes its unpretentious appearance against the backdrop of masterpieces located in the same direction, such as Revolution Square, Arbatskaya, Smolenskaya or Kyiv. Visu althe contrast is simply striking, it seems that the subway train accidentally drove into some other, very poor and unhappy city. But the inhabitants of Izmailovo have long been accustomed to this appearance of their station. And for many native Muscovites, bright nostalgic feelings flare up in their souls at the sight of a short inscription in some municipal directory "Izmailovskaya metro station." And even such an open type of station has become familiar and has long gone down in the history of metro construction. This is a clear example of how not to build and how not to save money.
