Aleksandrovsky Sad (Moscow Metro)

Aleksandrovsky Sad Александровский сад
Moscow Metro station
Coordinates	55°45′09″N 37°36′31″E / 55.7525°N 37.6085°E / 55.7525; 37.6085Coordinates: 55°45′09″N 37°36′31″E / 55.7525°N 37.6085°E / 55.7525; 37.6085
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	4  Filyovskaya Line
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: K, 6, 12c Trolleybus: 1, 2, 12, 33, 44
Construction
Depth	8 metres (26 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	054
History
Opened	15 May 1935; 81 years ago (1935-05-15)
Closed	5 April 1953; 64 years ago (1953-04-05) to 7 July 1958; 58 years ago (1958-07-07)
Previous names	Ulitsa Kominterna (1935–1946) Kalininskaya (1946–1990)
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Arbatskaya toward  Kuntsevskaya or Mezhdunarodnaya Filyovskaya Line Terminus Smolenskaya toward  Pyatnitskoye Shosse Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Transfer at: Arbatskaya Ploshchad Revolyutsii toward  Shchyolkovskaya Kropotkinskaya toward  Salaryevo Sokolnicheskaya Line Transfer at: Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Okhotny Ryad toward  Bulvar Rokossovskogo
Route map to  3  Molodyozhnaya 12.2 Kuntsevskaya  3  10.7 Pionerskaya 9.6 Filyovsky Park 8.6 Bagrationovskaya Fili yard 7.2 Fili 5.5 Kutuzovskaya  14  (OSI) 4.5 Studencheskaya 1.0 Mezhdunarodnaya  14  (OSI) 0.5 Vystavochnaya  8A  Moskva River 3.3 Kiyevskaya  3   5  Smolensky Bridge  Moskva River 1.9 Smolenskaya 0.7 Arbatskaya 0.2 Aleksandrovsky Sad  1   3  ( 9 ) to  1  Okhotny Ryad to  3  Ploshchad Revolyutsii This diagram:
Location
Aleksandrovsky Sad Location within Central Moscow

Aleksandrovsky Sad (Russian: Алекса́ндровский сад, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandrəfskʲɪj ˈsat]) is a station of the Filyovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was designed by A. I. Gontskevich and S. Sulin and opened on 15 May 1935 along with the first stage of the metro.

The station is situated under the southern part of the Vozdvizhenka Street (which was then called Kominterna—hence the original name) next to the building of the Russian State Library.

The northern of the two side platforms of the station works during rush hours only.

Originally the station was not included in the plans for the first stage due to its closeness to the Biblioteka Imeni Lenina station. When a change to the plans was introduced with a new station it was decided not to augment the design of the planned large tunnel with parallel tracks separated by a row of columns, but to modify it by increasing its height and building platforms on the sides in what is known as a Parisian Style.

Construction began in July 1934, and immediately problems were encountered. Under the street was situated a massive sewage pipe consisting of fragile ceramic, and with an outflow of two million buckets. In such conditions, even a slight vibration in the soil would have caused a serious accident, especially since the proposed subway tunnels were only 1.5–2 metres away from it.

A few solutions to the problems were proposed, either to temporary turn off the sewer system and deposit the massed water via a gully on the Arbatskaya square into the Moskva River, or to relay the sanitation into metallic pipes. Moscow Soviet discarded both ideas, the former out of sanitary and hygienic interests, the second one because that would have required closing off the whole street for a few weeks to the traffic. Engineer Kulbakh came up with a more innovative solution – relaying the collector not from trenches dug up from the surface, but from those in which the walls of the tunnels were built. Works on a shared 40-metre stretch were carried out with superior precision and accuracy, thus preventing the collector to be damaged, with no injuries or streets being closed off.