“Park Pobedy” metro stationSeptember, 2002 On the outside it’s nothing special. Similar structures can be found all over Moscow. ![]() The cages take people down and bring soil back up. They don’t discriminate. ![]() Approaching the station. If I’d attempted to take a photo from this angle six months later, I would’ve been run over by a train: ![]() Industry portraits and scenes from workers’ everyday lives — these are my favourite genres (it’s a shame I am not actually proficient in them). ![]() Worker: ![]() Electric locomotive driver: ![]() Cladder doing the walls along the track: ![]() Welders: ![]() Marble and granite sawyers: ![]() This is what the future passage connecting one station to the other looks like: ![]() If you translate the sign into Russian it says: “don’t lift your arms above shoulder level — you’ll get electrocuted and die” (the overhead line brushes your head as you go past, but you’re wearing a plastic hard hat, so it’s no big deal :-) ![]() High-voltage trolley This is what one of the service tunnels looks like. They’re needed to hoist the removed soil up to the surface. Once the station opens, all of these tunnels will be filled in with concrete. In the photograph you can see an electric locomotive (on the right) and a mine cart (on the left). ![]() The stations themselves are just a small portion of what people can see. The ventilation chambers, traction power substations, technical rooms, and extra tunnels take up more space than the two “Park Pobedy” stations combined (the bits in blue and in red on the right side of the diagram). ![]() |
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