MOSCOW, May 13th. We continue a series of materials about a unique collection of digitized attributed photographs from the repository, which contains more than three million frames. The earliest date back to the middle of the 19th century. Employees of the Visual Projects Service are conducting scientific work to find reliable information for historical photographs of different years.
The first photo shows the Sokolniki station of the V.I. Lenin, 1948.
On May 15, 1935, the opening of the first stage of the Moscow Metro took place in the sections from the Sokolniki station to the Park Kultury station with a branch from the Okhotny Ryad station to the Smolenskaya station with a total length of 11.2 kilometers. This line was served by the rolling stock of the Severnoye depot, which was put into operation on April 26, 1935.
The architects of the station were the spouses Ivan Taranov and Nadezhda Bykova. And it was named after the historical district of Moscow «Sokolniki». When it was opened, spherical chandeliers were installed between the columns, now fluorescent lamps are used instead. Currently, the floor is paved with black and gray granite, and in 1935 the pavement was asphalt. It was from Sokolnikov that the first train with passengers in the history of the Moscow metro departed. And even during the Great Patriotic War, the Moscow Metro continued its work, not only as a transport company, but as a refuge. -type=»photo» data-crop-ratio=»0.680624792289797″ data-crop-width=»600″ data-crop-height=»408″ data-source-sid=»rian_photo» class=»lazyload» width=» 1920″ height=»1307″ decoding=»async» />
Senior engineer of the Severnoye electric depot of the Moscow Metro named after V.I. Lenina Yekaterina Mishina (standing left) talking to a locomotive brigade, 1949.
Before the Great Patriotic War, several dozen women machinists already worked in the Moscow metro. Among them, Ekaterina Mishina, who was born in the family of a railway worker and took part in the construction of the metropolitan subway. She received the right to operate subway trains in 1937. By March 1942, under the leadership of the second-class machinist Mishina, the first female subway train was formed and launched on March 8 of the same year. It also became the first personalized train — the «Women's train named after March 8».
Women mastered many specialties that were considered predominantly «male» before the war, and with the beginning of the Second World War, the metropolitan men, despite the reservation, went to the front. After the war, many women worked as assistant machinists and machinists, laying the foundation for labor dynasties.
Guests of the capital at the station «Taganskaya» of the Moscow Metro named after V.I. Lenin at the panel «Gratitude of the people to the leader-commander» depicting Joseph Stalin surrounded by workers and children. Sculptors Evgenia Blinova and Pavel Balandin, 1950.
The Taganskaya station of the Moscow Metro's Circle Line, which is located on Taganskaya Square, was opened on January 1, 1950. The architects were Konstantin Ryzhkov and Alexander Medvedev. The theme of the design was the victory and courage of soldiers in the Great Patriotic War. On the pylons from the side of the hall and platforms, shallow niches with military-themed majolica panels were made to the full height. Initially, on the wall of the central hall there was a multi-figured panel «The Gratitude of the People to the Leader-Commander», depicting Joseph Stalin surrounded by happy Soviet people against the backdrop of the Kremlin and a banner with the profile of Vladimir Lenin. The authors are sculptors Evgenia Blinova and Pavel Balandin. However, in the early 1960s, the composition was destroyed, and a portrait of Vladimir Lenin and the emblems of the republics of the USSR were installed instead.
During the construction of the transition to the Taganskaya radial station in 1966, the sculpture was completely removed.
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