Old Arbat. Metro station on Arbatsky Gate Square

Very much responds to the soul of the native Muscovite at the word "Arbat", but also to the guests of the capital, this street is also well known. It has long been one of the brightest and most original symbols of Moscow. Everyone knows how to get to the Old Arbat as soon as possible. The metro station on the Arbat Gate Square usually becomes the beginning of a walk along it. Since the end of the eighties of the last century, after reconstruction, the street has become a pedestrian zone throughout its entire length.

Old Arbat, metro station "Arbatskaya". Further - on foot ...

The history of this street can be traced back to the times of the medieval Moscow. But the final shape, known to us today, was formed during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Great changes occurred in the Soviet period of history, but to this day it is difficult to find a brighter and more characteristic street, reflecting the cultural and historical appearance of Moscow. It is difficult to list all the amazing and multifaceted reflections of your favorite street in literature, cinematography, poetry, painting, city chanson.

Which Metro station of Old Arbat is suitable for us?

On the simple question of how to get to the Old Arbat by metro as soon as possible, the answer is not so simple and straightforward. The thing is that there are two Arbat stations. Their vestibules are located not far from each other on the square of the Arbat Gate. But these stations are on different lines of the Moscow Metro.

In the distant 1935, underground transport first came to Old Arbat. The metro station was part of the starting section of the first stage of the Moscow Metro. Today it is well known to Muscovites as the station "Arbatskaya" Filevskaya line. Its very characteristic ground vestibule in the form of a red five-pointed star is a kind of monument of a bygone era. But today it is one of the quietest and least crowded metro stations in Moscow. The main passenger flow passes through another "Arbat". Its lobby is located nearby, it is through it that most of the passengers prefer to travel to the Old Arbat. The Arbatskaya metro station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro entered service in the spring of 1953.

Today this is a very lively place: the station is one of the largest interchange nodes of the Moscow metro. It so happened historically that two stations of the same name are on the same square. However, at different depths. Often this circumstance causes slight bewilderment among the guests of the capital, when they want to walk along a well-known street and, looking at the scheme of the Moscow Metro, decide the question that they are more suitable, which metro station? The old Arbat has a very considerable length. And it is quite possible that it will be much more convenient to get to it from the opposite direction, from the Smolenskaya Square of the Garden Ring. It all depends on which direction and from which district of Moscow to go here. It may well be that the station "Smolenskaya" Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, much faster will take you to the goal. The exit from its lobby is located in the courtyard of house 54 on the Arbat.