Shchukinskaya

Shchukinskaya Щукинская
Moscow Metro station
General information
Location	Shchukino District North-Western Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55.8086°N 37.4641°E / 55.8086; 37.4641
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 021, 60, 100, 105, 137, 253, 277, 631, 638, 640, 652, 654, 681, 687, 743, 798, 800 Tram: 10, 15, 28, 28к, 30
Construction
Depth	13 metres (43 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	125
History
Opened	30 December 1975 (1975-12-30)
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station Spartak towards Planernaya Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line Oktyabrskoye Pole towards Kotelniki
Route map Planernoye yard Planernaya Skhodnenskaya Tushinskaya Spartak Moscow Canal Shchukinskaya Oktyabrskoye Pole Polezhayevskaya Begovaya to Krasnaya Presnya yard Ulitsa 1905 Goda Barrikadnaya Pushkinskaya Kuznetsky Most Kitay-gorod connection to Line 5 Taganskaya Proletarskaya Volgogradsky Prospekt  3502  Shosseynaya Street Tekstilshchiki Kuzminki Ryazansky Prospekt Vykhino Vykhino yard MKAD Moscow Ring Road connection to Line 15 Lermontovsky Prospekt Zhulebino Kotelniki
Location Shchukinskaya Location within Moscow Metro

Shchukinskaya (Russian: Щукинская) is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Named after the village of Schukino before it was consumed by Moscow and became a municipality in the 1940s, it was opened on 30 December 1975. The design follows the original pillar-trispan (40 columns instead of 26). The pillars are faced with different shades of pinkish marble (from the Ukrainian deposit of Burovshchina) and punctuated by a vertical strip of anodized aluminum on each face. The walls are of corrugated, bronze-coloured aluminum, an alloy of extensive strength and flexibility, adorned with decorative panels. The floor is covered with polished grey granite. The architects were Nina Aleshina, N. Samoylova and M. Alekseev.

During the construction of the extension tunnel Oktyabrskoe Pole – Shchukinskaya a new engineering method was developed. Because the Moscow soil was sandy, the metro tunnels had traditionally been built using the open pit method (i.e. digging from the surface) or by restricting building work from passing under inhabited areas as cave-ins would have been very likely. For the Shchukinskaya tunnel however circular concrete blocks were pressed rather than mounted into the soil, and as this was done rapidly the elements did not have time to develop into heavy pressure and sap into the tunnel. This removed the need for festering a sand-cement mixture into the finish, thereby dramatically increasing the potential speed of construction, and saving on building materials. Another achievement was that no metal was used for the mounting of the tunnel blocks, instead a bitumen mixture formed from the pressure of the boring complex was used to join the blocks. As this was denser than the soil, there was no need for festering of the cement.

The entrances to the station are located near the intersection of Shchukinskaya Ulitsa and Ulitsa Marshala Vasilevskogo.

The station handles 93500 people daily.

External links

• metro.ru
• mymetro.ru
• KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)
• Yuri Gridchin's website