Pervomayskaya, former metro station in Moscow
Pervomayskaya is a decommissioned surface metro station in the Izmaylovo District of Moscow, situated within the grounds of the Izmaylovo depot. The platform runs along two tracks and features marble walls, decorative tiled reliefs, and a wooden roof.
The station was built in 1954 to serve the Izmaylovo depot, which had opened a few years earlier. It closed in 1961 when the metro line extended further east and a new station replaced it elsewhere.
The station takes its name from the Russian word for May Day, a holiday that carried great symbolic weight in Soviet times. The street nearby shares the same name, which reflects how political symbols shaped public space in Moscow during that era.
The depot grounds are not open to the public, so the platform cannot be visited directly. The entrance building at the corner of Pervomayskaya Street and 1st Parkovaya Street can be seen from outside.
Pervomayskaya was among the first Moscow metro stations to have a wooden roof, a relatively unusual feature for the system, and was designed by Nikolai Ivanovich Demchinsky. Original metro cars from the early years of the network are said to still be stored on the depot grounds.
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