cathedral
St. Basil's Cathedral
Russia's most recognizable building with its colorful onion domes on Moscow's Red Square.
12 km · about 25 min drive
Moscow, Russia · Europe
Pokrovskoye-Streshnëvo works well as a base: 5 minutes from Sokol, 12km from Moscow Kremlin.
Pokrovskoye-Streshnëvo is a town located in Moscow, Russia. With a population of 55,000, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Pokrovskoye-Streshnëvo sits in Russia. It's in the Europe/Moscow time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Pokrovskoye-Streshnëvo to your route.
Shchukinskaya (Russian: Щукинская) is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Named after the village of Schukino before it was consumed by Moscow and became a municipality in the 1940s, it was opened on 30 December 1975. The design follows the original pillar-trispan (40 columns insteadRead more
of 26). The pillars are faced with different shades of pinkish marble (from the Ukrainian deposit of Burovshchina) and punctuated by a vertical strip of anodized aluminum on each face. The walls are of corrugated, bronze-coloured aluminum, an alloy of extensive strength and flexibility, adorned with decorative panels. The floor is covered with polished grey granite. The architects were Nina Aleshina, N. Samoylova and M. Alekseev.
During the construction of the extension tunnel Oktyabrskoe Pole – Shchukinskaya a new engineering method was developed. Because the Moscow soil was sandy, the metro tunnels had traditionally been built using the open pit method (i.e. digging from the surface) or by restricting building work from passing under inhabited areas as cave-ins would have been very likely. For the Shchukinskaya tunnel however circular concrete blocks were pressed rather than mounted into the soil, and as this was done rapidly the elements did not have time to develop into heavy pressure and sap into the tunnel. This removed the need for festering a sand-cement mixture into the finish, thereby dramatically increasing the potential speed of construction, and saving on building materials. Another achievement was that no metal was used for the mounting of the tunnel blocks, instead a bitumen mixture formed from the pressure of the boring complex was used to join the blocks. As this was denser than the soil, there was no need for festering of the cement.
The entrances to the station are located near the intersection of Shchukinskaya Ulitsa and Ulitsa Marshala Vasilevskogo.
The station handles 93500 people daily.
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Pokrovskoye-Streshnëvo is located in Moscow, Russia, Europe. The coordinates are 55.8080 latitude, 37.4581 longitude.
Pokrovskoye-Streshnëvo has a population of approximately 55,000 people, making it a town in Russia.
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4 notable places within an hour's drive.
cathedral
Russia's most recognizable building with its colorful onion domes on Moscow's Red Square.
12 km · about 25 min drive
landmark
Vast central square in Moscow flanked by the Kremlin, St Basil's Cathedral, and the GUM department store.
12 km · about 20 min drive
landmark
Tallest Orthodox Christian church in the world in central Moscow, demolished by Stalin and rebuilt in the 1990s.
12 km · about 20 min drive
castle
A fortified complex at the heart of Moscow serving as the official residence of the President of Russia and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
12 km · about 20 min drive
May to September
Far northern latitude: short daylight hours outside summer make long drives harder.
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