| Geologicheskaya | |
| Coordinates: | 56.8272°N 60.6033°W |
| Line: | First line |
| Structure: | Island |
| Platform: | 1 |
| Tracks: | 2 |
| Opened: | 30 December 2002 |
Geologicheskaya (Russian: Геологическая) is the 7th station of the Yekaterinburg Metro and was opened on December 30, 2002. It is situated in the central part of the city at the intersection of 8th Marta street and Kuybysheva street between metro stations "Ploshchad 1905 Goda" and "Chkalovskaya". The main building of Ural State University of Economics and the Yekaterinburg Circus are near the station's entrance. After the opening of the exit to the Greenwich shopping center, it became the first deep-level station of the Yekaterinburg metro with two lobbies (before that there were only shallow stations located at the edges of the line and in the first section).
The project name of the station was "Kuybyshevskaya". The modern name was assigned by the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU B.N. Yeltsin and the Sverdlovsk Executive Committee A.A. Mekhrentsev, at the request of the staff of Uralgeologiya due to the fact that in the area of the metro station there is an administration building, where outstanding geologists of the Urals, and discoverers of deposits worked, as well as the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute.
The transfer hub station has a three-tiered structure: on the upper tier - there are service rooms, on the middle tier - the station of the first line, and on the lower tier - the station of the third line. On the station platform, there are two flights of stairs going down under the station for transferring to the future station of the third line. The station is single-span, and has a flat suspended ceiling, with modern lighting. The walls are decorated with Florentine mosaics imitating a cut of the Earth's crust. Mosaics were made at the "Ural Gems" plant.[9]
There is a memorial plaque in the station lobby with a list of the names of prominent geologists of the Urals. The walls of the platform are decorated with panels made of Ural stone. Turnstiles of a new model for Yekaterinburg are installed in the station lobby. The lobby is located at the intersection of the streets 8th Marta and Kuybysheva, near the circus.
It was planned that from December 2016 the station will have two lobbies with 6 exits, but the northern lobby, built into the Greenwich shopping center, did not open until July 22, 2019.[8]
The southern lobby of the station has six exits - on all four sides of the intersection of 8th Marta and Kuybysheva streets to stops for buses, trams, and taxi routes. It is interesting to note that the underground passage, to which this lobby is attached, was opened a year earlier than the station itself - on December 20, 2001 (the "Geologicheskaya" itself was opened on December 30, 2002). Initially, this crossing had only five exits - two at the Circus (on the southeastern side of the intersection of 8 Marta and Kuibyshev streets), two at the southwest and one at the northwest corners of this intersection. In 2017, new links appeared at this crossing, leading to the northeastern side of the intersection of 8th Marta and Kuibyshev and to the Greenwich shopping center. At the end of July 2019, a second, northern lobby appeared at the station, which can only be accessed from the Greenwich shopping center (it is attached to the lower (underground) floor of the said shopping center). Another interesting feature of the new lobby is that it is not connected to the station hall by a continuous inclined escalator tunnel, but by a cascade of three inclined escalator tunnels with transitions between them, and one of these three inclined tunnels is perpendicular to the other two. From "Greenwich" you can get to the south lobby of the station via the above-mentioned underground passage.
Tables: public transport routes (data as of May 2020)
| Buses | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | toward metro station | End Point 1 | End Point 2 |
| 011 | «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | Pekhotintsev | T.Ts. Lerua Merlen (Leroy Merlin shopping center (hardware store)) |
| 012 | «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop), «Botanicheskaya» | Elizavet | Pavla Shamanova street |
| 014 | «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | T.Ts. Lenta (shopping center) | DMB No. 9 |
| 016 | «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop), «Botanicheskaya» | DMB No. 9 | Yuzhnaya podstantsiya (South substation) |
| 018 | «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | 17th Mekhkalonka | Avangard |
| 019 | «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop), «Botanicheskaya» | Elizavet | Pavla Shamanova street |
| 23 | «Uralskaya» («Zh.D. Vokzal» stop), «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | Akademgorodok | Zh.D. Vokzal |
| 030 | «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop), «Botanicheskaya» | Avangard | Okrainnaya street |
| 46 | «Geologicheskaya» | Pavla Shamanova street | Pavla Shamanova street (circle) |
| 047 | «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | Gromova street | Traktovaya street |
| 50 | «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | Ural Federal University | 17th Mekhkolonna |
| 54 | «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | Ural Federal University | Krasnolesye |
| 57 | «Uralskaya» («Vokzalnaya» stop), «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop), | Pekhotintsev street | Elizavet |
| 57А | «Uralskaya» («Vokzalnaya» stop), «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop), | Pekhotintsev street | Elizavet |
| — | «Geologicheskaya» | Karsyeozersky-2 | T.R.Ts. Grinvich (shopping and entertainment center) |
| Trams | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | toward metro station | End Point 1 | End Point 2 |
| 1 | «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | VIZ (Vizovsky residential area) | Vtorchermet Microdistrict |
| 3 | «Uralskaya» («Zh.D. Vokzal» stop), «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop) | Mayakovsky Central Park of Culture and Leisure | VIZ (Vizovsky residential area) |
| 5 | «Uralmash (Yekaterinburg Metro)», «Mashinostroiteley» («Peduniversitet» stop), «Uralskaya» («Zh.D. Vokzal» stop), «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop), «Botanicheskaya» | UZTM (Uralmash factory) | Metro station «Botanicheskaya» |
| 9 | «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | Mayakovsky Central Park of Culture and Leisure | Keramicheskaya |
| 10 | «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop) | Mayakovsky Central Park of Culture and Leisure | 7 Klyuchey Microdistrict |
| 14 | «Mashinostroiteley» («Peduniversitet» stop), «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | Elmash | Keramicheskaya |
| 15 | «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | Vtorchermet Microdistrict | 40 Let Vlksm street |
| 21 | «Uralskaya» («Zh.D. Vokzal» stop), «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop) | Mayakovsky Central Park of Culture and Leisure | Kirova street |
| 25 | «Prospekt Kosmonavtov (Yekaterinburg Metro)», «Mashinostroiteley» («Peduniversitet» stop), «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | Frezerovshchikov street | Keramicheskaya |
| 27 | «Uralskaya» («Zh.D. Vokzal» stop), «Ploshchad 1905 Goda», «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop), «Chkalovskaya» («Avtovokzal» stop) | Keramicheskaya | Zh.D. Vokzal |
| 32 | «Uralskaya» («Zh.D. Vokzal» stop), «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop) | Dvorets Sporta (Palace of Sports) | 40 Let Vlksm street |
| 33 | «Geologicheskaya» («Tsirk» stop) | Dvorets Sporta | Mayakovsky Central Park of Culture and Leisure |