Anděl (, meaning "Angel") is a
Prague Metro station on Line B, located in
Smíchov
Smíchov () is (since 1909) a district of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, and is part of Prague 5. It is on the west bank of the Vltava river.
History
Between 1945 and 1989, the district contained a monument dedicated to Soviet ta ...
,
Prague 5
Prague 5, formally the Prague Municipal District (''Městská čast Praha 5''), is a second-tier municipality in Prague. The administrative district (''správní obvod'') of the same name consists of municipal districts Prague 5 and Slivenec.
P ...
. The station was built between 1977 and 1985, designed in the
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
style, by Soviet architects and dedicated to the Czechoslovak–Soviet friendship. It was opened on 2 November 1985, as part of the inaugural section of Line B between
Sokolovská and
Smíchovské nádraží.
The station was renamed in 1990 to Anděl, after the nearby
Anděl neighborhood. At present it is one of the busiest stations on line B.
Its original name was ''Moskevská'', after the city of
Moscow
Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 millio ...
. In the same year the Czechoslovak Metrostav designed the station
Prazhskaya, named after Prague, it was opened on the
Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the
Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro) is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first ...
, which resembles the ceramic-tiled stations on the C line's Jižní Město segment. The Anděl station still contains one of the last pieces of propaganda art promoting Czechoslovak-Soviet friendship.
Anděl station has two exits, leading to the two underground
vestibules. One vestibule is directly in the Anděl neighborhood, next to the shopping mall and the other is at "Na Knížecí", a large bus station serving as a terminus for local and intercity buses.
The station was renovated in 2015.
Gallery
Metro Anděl - vstup1.JPG, Entrance building
Prague 07-2016 Metro img5 LineB Andel.jpg, Platform hall
Metro Andel 2005-03-26 03.jpeg, Escalators
Metro Anděl - turnikety.JPG, Southern vestibule with Moscow–Prague relief, referring to its former name
Praha, Anděl mozaika západ IV-IV.jpg, A propaganda relief in Anděl station
References
External links
Gallery and information (Czech)Gallery and information (English)
Prague Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1985
1985 establishments in Czechoslovakia
Smíchov
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