Elektrozavodskaya (Moscow Metro)

Elektrozavodskaya Электрозаводская
Moscow Metro station
Coordinates	55°46′54″N 37°42′13″E / 55.7817°N 37.7037°E / 55.7817; 37.7037Coordinates: 55°46′54″N 37°42′13″E / 55.7817°N 37.7037°E / 55.7817; 37.7037
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	3  Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Construction
Depth	31.5 metres (103 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	048
History
Opened	15 May 1944; 72 years ago (1944-05-15)
Traffic
Passengers (2002)	16,516,250
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Baumanskaya toward  Pyatnitskoye Shosse Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Semyonovskaya toward  Shchyolkovskaya
Route map Mitino yard Pyatnitskoye Shosse Mitino Volokolamskaya Mitinsky Bridge  Moskva River Myakinino Strogino Krylatskoye Molodyozhnaya Kuntsevskaya  4  Slavyansky Bulvar Park Pobedy  8A  Kiyevskaya  4   5  Moskva River Smolenskaya Arbatskaya  1   4   9  to Fili yard Ploshchad Revolyutsii  2  ( 1 ) Kurskaya  5   10  Baumanskaya Elektrozavodskaya Semyonovskaya Partizanskaya  14  (OSI) Pervomayskaya (closed) Izmaylovo yard Izmaylovskaya Pervomayskaya Shchyolkovskaya This diagram:
Location
Elektrozavodskaya Location within Moscow Ring Road

Elektrozavodskaya (Russian: Электрозаводская) is a Moscow Metro station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. It is one of the most spectacular and better-known stations of the system. Built as part of the third stage of the Moscow Metro and opened on 15 May 1944 during World War II, the station is one of the iconic symbols of the system, famous for its architectural decoration which is work of architects Vladimir Shchuko (who died whilst working on the station's project in 1939) and Vladimir Gelfreich, along with participation of his student Igor Rozhin.

Named after the electric light bulb factory nearby, the preliminary layout included Schuko's idea of making the ceiling covered with six rows of circular incandescent inset lamps (of which there were 318 in total). However the outbreak of World War II halted all works until 1943 when construction resumed. Gelfreich and Rozhin finished the design by adding an addition theme to the station the struggle of the home front during the war, which is highlighted by the 12 marble bas-reliefs on the pylons done by Georgiy Motovilov. The rest of the station's interior features most of the 1930s plans including powder-ballada marble on the rectangular pylons (the outside faces have sconces and decorative gilded grilles depicting the hammer and sickle), red salietti marble on the station walls, a dark olive duvalu marble on the socle and a chessboard layout on the main platform floor of granite and labradorite.

The station's hexagonal shaped vestibule, features a domed structure on a low drum, on the corner niches of which are six medallions with bas-reliefs of main pioneers in electricity and electrical engineering: William Gilbert, Benjamin Franklin, Mikhail Lomonosov, Michael Faraday, Pavel Yablochkov, and Alexander Popov along with their pioneering apparatus. The interior of the vestibule is further punctuated by the same bright red salietti marble. Outside the vestibule in the archway there is a sculpture to the metro-builders by Matvey Manizer.