Zaporizhzhia

“Oleksandrivsk” Railway station of Katerynska railway

Buildings

Description

  • Built in 1902-1905 during the construction of the Second Catherine Railway, it has transformed the city into a significant junction of passenger and freight traffic with a total length of routes of 10 thousand km. In the northern part of the building were offices, a health center, a kitchen and a buffet; inside - ticket room, waiting room, post office, help desk; in the south there are administrative rooms and a storage room.

The railway station is a one-storey building with a small two-storeyed northern part of brick, painted in terracotta color, the decor elements are highlighted in white all over the facade. Built on one side of the track.

The total length is 92 m, width (without risalites) - 10 m. The station floor is flat, the sloping pyramidal roofs are covered with roofing iron. The plinth is lined with granite blocks with a chipped surface.
The station is built in modernized forms of historicism with the use of brick decor. The linear structure of the building has an asymmetrical composition. The main entrances (two from the platform, two from the street) are decorated in the form of elevated square towers with crowned tents surrounded by figured attic, consisting of stylized Baroque gables with semicircular apertures.
The attic windows of the building in forceps, framed by stepped teeth, flank overhanging fluted sailboards supporting a straight unbuttoned cornice. The north two-story volume is completed by a simple eaves.
In the northern part of the building there were offices, a health post, a kitchen and a buffet; inside - ticket room, waiting room, post office, help desk; in the south there are administrative rooms and a storage room.

The railway station is a one-storey building with a small two-storeyed northern part of brick, painted in terracotta color, the decor elements are highlighted in white all over the facade. Built on one side of the track.

The total length is 92 m, width (without risalites) - 10 m. The station floor is flat, the sloping pyramidal roofs are covered with roofing iron. The plinth is lined with granite blocks with a chipped surface.
The station is built in modernized forms of historicism with the use of brick decor. The linear structure of the building has an asymmetrical composition. The main entrances (two from the platform, two from the street) are decorated in the form of elevated square towers with crowned tents surrounded by figured attic, consisting of stylized Baroque gables with semicircular apertures.
The attic windows of the building in forceps, framed by stepped teeth, flank overhanging fluted sailboards supporting a straight unbuttoned cornice. The north two-story volume is completed by a simple eaves.
In the northern part of the building there were offices, a health post, a kitchen and a buffet; inside - ticket room, waiting room, post office, help desk; in the south there are administrative rooms and a storage room.

How to get there?

By bus # 39 to stop «Zaporozhye 2» Nearby: Alexander Women's Gymnasium Building, Power Station, St. Pokrovsky Bishops' Cathedral, Zaporizhzhya Regional Museum, Local Hospital Hospital GB Bera

And also nearby

HISTORY

  • The building of the station is an original architectural work of the beginning. Twentieth century.

The construction of the railway was carried out in 1902-1905, a separate construction department under the direction of engineer B. Rippas, in 1907-1908 connected with the stations of the Southern railway "Alexandrovsk" and "Transmission", which turned the city into a significant junction of passenger and freight traffic. with a total distance of 9936 miles (over 10 thousand km).

During the revolution of 1905, the territory of the station was one of the centers of the armed uprising in Alexandrovsk.

The construction of the railway was carried out in 1902-1905, a separate construction department under the direction of engineer B. Rippas, in 1907-1908 connected with the stations of the Southern railway "Alexandrovsk" and "Transmission", which turned the city into a significant junction of passenger and freight traffic. with a total distance of 9936 miles (over 10 thousand km).

During the revolution of 1905, the territory of the station was one of the centers of the armed uprising in Alexandrovsk.

INTERESTING FACTS

  • In August 1907, traveling by rail to the south, the station was a prominent Ukrainian writer Lesja Ukrainka. To commemorate this event, a granite plaque (sculptor V. Vialy) with a copper bas-relief portrait and inscription was erected on the facade of the house in 1995.
  • In August 1907, traveling by rail to the south, the station was a prominent Ukrainian writer Lesja Ukrainka. To commemorate this event, a granite plaque (sculptor V. Vialy) with a copper bas-relief portrait and inscription was erected on the facade of the house in 1995.