Rustaveli

რუსთაველი
Tbilisi Metro station
Entrance vestibule to the metro station
General information
Location2, Merab Kostava Str., Tbilisi, Georgia
Coordinates41°42′13″N 44°47′24″E / 41.70361°N 44.79000°E / 41.70361; 44.79000
PlatformsIsland platform
Tracks2
Construction
Depth60 m (197 ft)[1]
Platform levels1
History
Opened11 January 1966 (1966-01-11)
ElectrifiedYes
Services
Preceding station Tbilisi Metro Following station
Marjanishvili
towards Akhmetelis Teatri
 Akhmeteli–Varketili Line Tavisuplebis Moedani
towards Varketili

Rustaveli (Georgian: რუსთაველი) is a station of the Tbilisi Metro on the Akhmeteli–Varketili Line (First Line). It is located at Rustaveli square at the northern end of Rustaveli Avenue next to the Shota Rustaveli statue. The station was opened on 11 January 1966 as part of the original metro line with six stations from Didube to Rustaveli. The construction was carried out according to the project by O. Kalandarishvili and L. Janelidze.

Located between Tavisuplebis Moedani and Marjanishvili stations, Rustaveli is 60 metres underground (Alternative sources estimate the depth to be 100 metres.[2]) with an escalator length of 120 meters[3] making the station the deepest of the Tbilisi metro system and one of the deepest in Europe.[4] [1] According to some sources, Rustaveli metro station has the world's 6th longest escalator with the length of 120 metres or 394 feet.[3]

The metro station is named after Shota Rustaveli, a great Georgian poet and thinker of the 12th century, the author of The Knight in the Panther's Skin, a Georgian national epic poem. The walls and columns of the station are covered with red marble. The metro station is decorated with relief images and depictions of the theme of Shota Rustaveli's epic poem.[5] A frieze on the theme of Shota Rustaveli and The Knight in the Panther's Skin is placed above the entrance of the metro station, the sculptor of which is Elguja Amashukeli.

Third Line (Rustaveli-Vazisubani Line)

According to the plan of the third line of the Tbilisi Metro, Rustaveli station was supposed to become a transfer station, tentatively referred to as the Rustaveli-2 station, the connecting staircase and passage of which exist in the current station. According to the plan, the Rustaveli-2 station of the third line of the Tbilisi Metro would connect the stations in the western direction to Vake and Didi Dighomi, and in the eastern direction to Saarbrücken Square towards Vazisubani and other south-eastern districts of Tbilisi. The first section of the third metro line was supposed to be built from Rustaveli in the direction of Vazisubani (with stations Rustaveli-2, Saarbrücken Square, Kvemo Elia, Zemo Elia (Metromsheni) and Vazisubani). Nowadays, construction works are frozen.[6]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Tbilisi in figures 2018" (PDF). Tbilisi City Hall. 2018-06-12. p. 13.
  2. ↑ "(in Georgian) თბილისის მეტრო – მიწისქვეშა არქიტექტურა". idaaf.com. 2014-10-23. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  3. 1 2 "The 10 Longest Escalators in the World". mentalfloss.com. 2022-05-24. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  4. ↑ "Metro in figures". Tbilisi Metro. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
  5. ↑ "(in Georgian) ვის სახელებს ატარებს თბილისის მეტროსადგურები (Whose names are Tbilisi metro stations named after?)". intermedia.ge. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
  6. ↑ "(in Georgian) თბილისის მეტროს მესამე ხაზი და სხვა პროექტები (Third line of Tbilisi Metro and other projects)". AT.ge. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2023.
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