Electrozavodskaya is one of the more well-known Moscow metro stations, but it isn’t as busy as most of the other stations I’ve featured in this photo series so far since it’s not smack-dab downtown like Ploshad Revolyutsii.
Electrozavodskaya in Cyrillic.
Electrozavodskaya is the perfect name for this station. It was named after the nearby light bulb factory, but looking at the platform ceiling will give you that aha moment.
Aha…the light bulb effect!
Honestly, I’m not the biggest fan of the light bulb effect. To me, the six rows of 53 circular lights (318 total) just look like big bright holes in the ceiling. Looking at them for a few seconds gives me a case of the heebie jeebies.
The lights certainly make this stand out from the others, but to me, the 12 marble bas-reliefs on the pylons are what make Electrozavodskaya station truly spectacular. The theme is how Russians were struggling yet managing to survive during the Second World War. Construction was put off for a while because of the war, but Electrozavodskaya was opened on May 15th, 1944.
Do you like them? ↓
The other side of the pylons, where you board the train, are lamps attached to the decorative grilles with the communist hammer and sickle. The lamps remind me a bit of the ones in Arbatskaya Station.
The hammer and sickle girdle and lamps.
How do you like Electrozavodskaya
compared to the other stations?
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