Biblioteka Imeni Lenina

Biblioteka Imeni Lenina
Moscow Metro station
Coordinates	55°45′04″N 37°36′36″E / 55.7512°N 37.6100°ECoordinates: 55°45′04″N 37°36′36″E / 55.7512°N 37.6100°E
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	1  Sokolnicheskaya Line
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: К, 6, 12ц Trolleybus: 1, 2, 12, 33, 44
Construction
Structure type	Shallow single-vault station
Depth	12 metres (39 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Bicycle facilities	No
Other information
Station code	011
History
Opened	15 May 1935
Previous names	Biblioteka Lenina, Mokhovaya, Rossiyskaya biblioteka
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Kropotkinskaya toward  Salaryevo Sokolnicheskaya Line Okhotny Ryad toward  Bulvar Rokossovskogo Chekhovskaya toward  Altufyevo Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line Transfer at: Borovitskaya Polyanka toward  Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo Arbatskaya toward  Kuntsevskaya Filyovskaya Line Transfer at: Aleksandrovsky Sad Terminus Smolenskaya toward  Pyatnitskoye Shosse Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Transfer at: Arbatskaya Ploshchad Revolyutsii toward  Shchyolkovskaya
Route map Legend Bulvar Rokossovskogo  14  (OSI) Cherkizovo yard Cherkizovskaya  14  (OSI) Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad Preobrazhensky Bridge  Yauza River Sokolniki Krasnoselskaya Severnoye yard Komsomolskaya  5  Krasnye Vorota Chistye Prudy  6   10  Lubyanka  7  Okhotny Ryad  2  ( 3 ) Biblioteka Imeni Lenina  3   4   9  Kropotkinskaya Park Kultury  5  Frunzenskaya ( closed until March 2017 ) Sportivnaya  14  (OSI) Luzhniki Metro Bridge Vorobyovy Gory Moskva River Universitet Prospekt Vernadskogo Yugo-Zapadnaya Troparyovo Rumyantsevo Salaryevo Salaryevo yard
Location
Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Location within Central Moscow

Biblioteka Imeni Lenina (Russian: Библиоте́ка и́мени Ле́нина) is a station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. The station was opened on May 15, 1935 as a part of the first stage of the Metro. It is situated in the very centre of the city under the Mokhovaya Street, and is named for the nearby Russian State Library (called the Lenin Library in 1925 – 1992). Its architects were A. I. Gontskevich and S. Sulin.

To prevent the disruption of traffic, Biblioteka Imeni Lenina was built using underground excavation rather than cut and cover even though the station ceiling is just two metres below ground level. Soil conditions and the narrowness of the space in which the station was to be built necessitated a single-vault design, the only one on the first Metro line. The entire excavation was only 19.8 metres wide and 11.7 metres high. The main station vault was built from rubble stone set in concrete and reinforced with an iron framework. This was lined with an "umbrella" of bitumen-coated paper to prevent groundwater from seeping into the station. The station was finished with plaster, yellow ceramic tile, and marble.

The station originally had two entrance vestibules, one at either end. The southern vestibule, located between the old and new buildings of the State Library, is shared with Borovitskaya. The temporary northern vestibule, which served Biblioteka Imeni Lenina and Aleksandrovsky Sad, was removed in the 1940s.

Transfers

From this station it is possible to transfer to Arbatskaya on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, Aleksandrovsky Sad on the Filyovskaya Line, and Borovitskaya on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line.

Though Biblioteka Imeni Lenina and Aleksandrovsky Sad (then called Komintern) were built concurrently, they were not connected by transfer passages until 1938, when Aleksandrovsky Sad became part of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. Before this the line from Aleksandrovsky Sad to Kievskaya operated as a branch of the Sokolnicheskaya Line.

External links

• Description of the station on Metro.ru (Russian)
• Description of the station on Mymetro.ru (Russian)
• Description of the station on Metro.molot.ru (Russian)
• KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English) (Russian)