The metro station "Dubrovka" is located on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line. It was opened in 1999. However, the construction of this station took longer than expected. What is the reason for the repeated postponement of the opening date of the Dubrovka metro station? This, as well as the area in which the station is located, will be discussed in this article.
Construction
Quickswain is the most insidious enemy of the metro builders. Representing a soil saturated with water, it liquefies under mechanical action, thereby slowing down the process of opening the pit. Workers first encountered this problem back in the thirties, when the first stations of the Moscow metro were being built. At the same time, the metro builders began to use such technology as freezing the soil. This method "arrived" in the capital from distant Siberia, where prospectors have long learned to freeze mines in order to speed up the tunneling.
However, the trouble is that the Dubrovka metro station was built in an area wherethere were several industrial enterprises. Freezing the soil was not so easy. The enterprises regularly leaked hot water, the quicksand, located below, was constantly heated. Under such conditions, deep freezing is not possible. The construction of the Dubrovka metro station was suspended. For four years, trains were sent from Krestyanskaya Zastava to Kozhukhovskaya without stopping.
The metro station "Dubrovka" was opened due to the economic crisis, which by the end of the nineties reached an unprecedented scale. As you know, most of the enterprises in these years ceased to operate. The shutdown plants no longer heated groundwater, and the work was completed.
Architectural features
Station "Dubrovka" is located at a distance of sixty-two meters from the surface. It is a column-wall three-vaulted building. The interior of this station has no striking distinctive features, with the exception of a mosaic panel located at the end of the hall. The floor is paved with red, gray and black granite. The author of the mentioned panel is the famous artist and sculptor Zurab Tsereteli.
The project for the construction of the metro station "Dubrovka" was created in the early nineties. The working name of the station is Sharikopodshipnikovskaya. As already mentioned, there is an industrial enterprise on the surface. Hence the name. However, it is worth telling more about the history of the area in which the Dubrovka metro station was opened in 1999.
District
When exactly the village of Dubrovka arose on the territory of modern Moscow is not exactly known. But the first information about this settlement is noted in historical sources dating back to the fourteenth century. Until the 18th century, the village was part of the Krutitsy Compound.
Several centuries ago, the Dubrovka area could not be called picturesque. However, like most of the historical places of the capital. But in the area in which the Dubrovka metro station was opened at the end of the 21st century, once upon a time, for many years, there was a huge sewerage system. In addition, a slaughterhouse and irrigation fields were arranged here. The location of the village was such that the fetid odors that the locals suffered from did not penetrate into the city center. It's all about the Moscow wind rose, which was taken into account when organizing sewage in Dubrovka.
The first factories in this area appeared at the beginning of the 20th century. In those years, Dubrovka was a typical workers' settlement. Soon the area became part of Moscow. And in 1925, active construction began here, as a result of which twenty-five houses with five floors were built. But the planners didn't stop there. By 1928, a larger residential complex appeared in the area, which also included five-story houses, which at that time testified to the high achievements of domestic architecture.
This is a brief history of the area called Dubrovka. Which subway is located here is described above. But it is worth saying that not only the station borrowed the name from the ancient settlement. ATThe streets located here are named after the village, formed in distant medieval times (1st, 2nd Dubrovskaya).
Terrorist attack on Dubrovka
The name of this district, as well as the metro station, is associated with tragic events in the history of Moscow, and indeed the whole country. In October 2002 terrorists seized more than nine hundred people in a concert hall located near the Dubrovka metro station. According to official figures, 130 people died in this attack, including ten children.
