The Vasileostrovskaya station opened after a major overhaul. What the Vasileostrovskaya metro station looks like after renovation

On May 27, 2016 at 9 a.m. the grand opening of the Vasileostrovskaya metro station in St. Petersburg took place. After a major overhaul that lasted about a year, the station changed its appearance.

The facing tiles on the facade of the pavilion and in the lobby were replaced with beige (previously the covering was dirty gray), and the lobby was expanded. The iron supports that supported the building's canopy were dismantled, and the restrictive barriers at the entrance were also removed. The structure of the canopy itself was significantly strengthened during the overhaul process.

During the overhaul, specialists completely replaced the inclined structure of the station, installing modern ones made of composite materials instead of outdated asbestos-cement drainage umbrellas. Leaks that formed during operation have been eliminated, and the waterproofing of the inclined passage has been restored.

New turnstiles were installed in the station's ground vestibule, a modern ticket hall was built, a KSOB booth was installed, new windows and curtain lighting were installed.

The station has also become more convenient for passengers with disabilities. There are now special tactile tiles on the floor, which serve to provide more confident orientation for visually impaired citizens. There are ramps installed at the entrance and exit from the lobby.

For the first time in Russia, expanded doors for wheelchair users are equipped with an automatic mechanism. This technology was developed in St. Petersburg and in the future, automatic doors will appear at all St. Petersburg subway stations.

I can’t even believe that 50 years ago such strict minimalism was in fashion. Nowadays they don’t make stations without candelabra.

Nothing has changed on the platform (in an architectural sense). But everything was washed very well, everything shines and sparkles.

Carpet in front of the doors. For some reason, in the USSR they often decorated floors with broken tiles. Do you remember there were still broken marbles in stores?

Info and postcard

Arch - a portal to the escalator chamber (or what is the correct name for this hall?)

The lining of the walls in the cell was changed. Previously there was white yellowed marble.
It was completely renovated - they made new waterproofing, changed the drainage umbrellas (we can just see them), moved the lamps from the balustrade to the vault.

Entrance lobby. It’s quite tiny, but nevertheless they shoved a checkpoint here, oh my God.

The cash register window was placed on the façade

Labyrinth for the disabled

Today, May 27, 2016, after a major overhaul that lasted eleven months, the Vasileostrovskaya station is opening.

I suggest taking an excursion to Vaska to evaluate the work CJSC "SMU-11 Metrostroy".

Vasileostrovskaya is a station of the St. Petersburg metro. Located on the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya line between the Primorskaya and Gostiny Dvor stations.

The station was originally opened on November 3, 1967 as part of the Vasileostrovskaya - Alexander Nevsky Square section.

Before looking at the station after repair, let's go over the main stages of repair:

Since the station is the only one on the entire Vasilyevsky Island, it was extremely popular among passengers.

This is what the station looked like the day before it was closed for renovations.

Visualization of the renovated ground concourse from LMGT.

Start of renovation. The old cladding of the lobby has been dismantled.

The external walls of the lobby with windows, stained glass windows and door groups were dismantled.

Dismantling the old canopy and the metal supports that supported it.

After the new canopy was installed, work began on the construction of the external walls of the lobby.

Exposed inclined stroke structures.

The central hall has not undergone any changes.

The walls in the tension chamber turned black and the lamps disappeared from them!

Where are these wonderful lamps now?

Restoration work was carried out within eleven monthsinclined course waterproofing.

The drainage umbrellas, destroyed by time and outdated, were replaced with modern ones.The escalators were also renovated. Single-lamp lamps located on the balustrade were replaced with modern energy-saving oneslamps SOFT 1500-1, 40W, ~220V from "Candela"and transferred them to the arch of the inclined passage.

An inspection point was built in the ticket hall, but everything else was the same as before, even the old-style turnstiles.

The station's concourse underwent a more extensive renovation in which old windows, stained glass and entrance areas were remodeled.

Now the entrance doors have become wider and now during rush hour, the crowd that previously stood outside the station will stand inside - at the turnstiles and escalators.

Work was also carried out to strengthen the canopy structures, which made it possible to remove the metal supports that greatly disfigured the already unattractive lobby.

vseslav Sat, 10/17/2015 - 20:50

Station "Vasileostrovskaya" is one of the oldest stations of the Leningrad-Petersburg metro. The station was opened on November 3, 1967 as part of the first section of the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line (M3). The station was built during the period of Khrushchev’s total austerity, which makes itself felt well at the present time and creates a number of problems. Firstly, the poor quality of construction work, coupled with difficult engineering and geological conditions, led to the need to repair and restore the waterproofing of the inclined track, just as was done at the stations "Alexander Nevsky Square-1", "Pushkinskaya", "Gostiny Dvor" " and others. Secondly, a cramped ground lobby with worn-out structures, which has long been unable to cope with the colossal passenger flow at the station (at rush hour, the queue to enter starts 20 meters before the external staircase to the lobby). All this led to the need to organize a major overhaul of the inclined passage and the vestibule, which was discussed a few years ago. Then, closing the station was not possible, because it would lead to a transport collapse since Vasileostrovskaya is very overloaded. It was decided to close the station for major repairs immediately after the opening of the second exit from the Sportivnaya station to Vasilyevsky Island. The latter was opened on May 27, 2015, and Vasileostrovskaya closed for major renovations on July 11.

Initially, it was planned to rebuild and expand the ground lobby by integrating it into a new building of a shopping or business center. But at the beginning of 2015, Vice Governor Igor Albin decided to abandon such construction. Thus, the ground lobby will not be expanded, and the problem of crowding and queues at the entrance during peak hours will not be solved. In addition, by building a shopping center on the corner of Sredny Avenue and the 6-7 line, it would be possible to achieve a geometric completion of the streets, since against the backdrop of pre-revolutionary multi-story urban development, the one-story Khrushchev vestibule, for which the same multi-story building was once demolished, looks out of place. The shopping center, in turn, was planned to be built in the Stalinist Empire style, which would fit more or less well into the surrounding buildings.

The overhaul of the lobby (which will retain its original appearance and area) and the inclined passage is expected to take 11 months. The work is carried out by SMU-11 of OJSC Metrostroy. The exact opening date has not yet been announced.

1. The room under the station ticket hall. Hermetic door.

2. Upper machine room.

3. Upper machine room. There are escalator ribbons on top.

4. Spare escalator steps. Traditionally, the escalators themselves will not be changed; they will limit themselves to major repairs of the belts.

5. Inclined stroke. Top down view. Technological passage along the tray between the belts. At the top is an escalator balustrade.

6. We go down the inclined tray.

7. Room in the lower tension.

8. Machine room of escalators in the lower tension.

9. Let's go up from the lower tension to the escalators. While the workers are engaged in waterproofing, the metro workers responsible for the escalators are engaged in their repair, running-in and adjustment. The station's passenger platform is fenced off with a temporary metal mesh. Her appearance will not change.

10. Inclined movement with dismantled umbrellas. Lining made of cast iron tubes.

11. Scaffolding from which workers carry out waterproofing repairs. At this stage, the tubing bolts are being replaced.

12. Inclined stroke. View up. The bolts in this area have not yet been replaced. After replacing the bolts, cement mortar will be injected behind the lining.

13. Inclined stroke and its head. Above are the vestibule structures.

14. Cash register hall of the lobby. Here we will limit ourselves to cosmetic repairs only.

15. Lobby outside. A concrete canopy similar to the one that fell in 1999 from the lobby of the Senaaya Ploschad station is being dismantled. Then, as a result of the tragedy, several people died. After those events, metal supports were installed on all Khrushchev-era lobbies with similar canopies, including the one at Vasileostrovskaya. During the major renovation of the lobby, the ill-fated canopies will be completely dismantled.

16. Unrealized project of a shopping center with the integration and expansion of a metro lobby.

17. The photograph shows how the new building would harmoniously complement the geometry of the surrounding buildings, resulting in a vacant lot on the corner of Sredny Avenue and 6-7 lines of V.O. with a one-story “box” of the lobby would be eliminated.

18. Existing reconstruction project. The lobby will practically not change its appearance and will not be expanded.

19. Only a ramp will be added to lift people with wheelchairs and people with disabilities.