Pervomayskaya (Moscow Metro)Pervomayskaya (Russian: Первомайская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Izmaylovo District, Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, between Izmaylovskaya and Shchyolkovskaya stations. Before the current station opened on 21 October 1961, Pervomayskaya referred to the temporary station located in the Izmaylovo depot near the present-day Izmaylovskaya. HistoryThe station was the first to be built to the standard column tri-span design which would from then become the most widespread in Moscow Metro and in other ex-USSR cities, with slightly flared red marble pillars and tiled walls. The architects were M. F. Markovsky and Ya. V. Tatarzhinskaya.
The current "Pervomaiskaya" (With the design name "11th Parkovaya") was first included in the prospective line scheme adopted on February 22, 1957. Construction was carried out in an open way. After the opening of the section with the Izmailovsky Park and Pervomaiskaya stations, on October 21, 1961, the Pervomaiskaya station located in the Izmailovo electric depot was closed. As a result, the Moscow Metro has 60 stations. Until July 22, 1963, when the line was extended to the north to the Shchelkovskaya station, it was the final one. On January 8, 1977, on an open stretch between the Izmailovskaya and Pervomaiskaya stations, an explosion occurred that claimed the lives of 7 people. References
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