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This year, the Kiev railway station "celebrated" its 95th anniversary.
A little historical information (from Wikipedia): The first station building was built in March 1899, and consecrated on 29 June of the same year. It was unremarkable one-story building. The decision to build a modern building of the Kiev (at the time - Bryansk) station was made in 1912, in the centenary year of the Battle of Borodino. Given the location of station at the beginning of the road from Moscow Borodino, and to offload traffic at the request of the city government to the investors' money first station was built Borodino Bridge (architect Roman Klein).
Station was built in 1914-1918. Architectural design - I. Rerberg with the participation of B. K. Oltarzhevskaya, the project landing stage and floor rooms - Shukhov, sculptor S. Aleshin, painting rooms - the artist F. Rerberg. In the architectural concept of the station, in the halls of the paintings and sculptures of monumental underscored the linkage with the Patriotic War of 1812. Station was built in the neoclassical style with elements of the Empire. Total area of the Kiev railway station for more than 36 thousand square meters. meters. Passenger traffic Kiev station is more than 400 persons / hour.
The building is adjacent station jetty: the space above the platforms covers a huge glazed arched cover (length 321 m, width of span 47.9 m, height 28 m, weight of structures more than 1250 m) in the shape of a parabola. Steel fully articulated high arched truss exhibit elegance majestic building.
The first train from a unique platform of the Kiev railway station went to 18 February 1918.
The general plan of reconstruction of Moscow in 1935 in order to emphasize the grandeur of the building of the Kiev railway station, it was decided to expand the area of the Kiev railway station to Dorogomilov streets and architectural design it with the ensemble of the Moscow River and Borodino Bridge.
In 1940-1945 on the north side of the station was built suburban housing with cash room and the metro station "Kiev" (architect D. Chechulin).
Kiev railway station was the first station in Moscow, where in the late 90s were delivered to the turnstiles at the entrance and exit, in the beginning it was not the ticket with a bar code and magnetic cards like metropolitenovskih for years that are given in addition to the normal ticket....
