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Simferopol railway station is the first attraction that visitors come to. Provided that if the tourist does not hurry to leave the station and find himself at the place of rest, and will allow himself to look around more attentively, he will see a lot of interesting things.

Railway station in Sochi - a copy of Simferopol.

The building of the Crimean railway gate was built in style of Italian architecture. From the main building go two galleries, which form an internal courtyard. In this courtyard is a fountain, which is called Italian. On the roof of the building there is another element of decoration - a small building in the form of an ancient temple.

About this place very few people know, so here it is usually quiet (as far as it can be at the station, noise still hits). But in this "small Italy" you can brighten up the time to the train, and not sit in the waiting room amidst a fussy crowd of other passengers.

Architects wanted to arrange a transparent roof over the courtyard and organize a winter garden. But the project was not implemented.

The clock tower is the brightest element of the decoration of the station building. The height of the tower is 42 m, so it's almost impossible not to notice such a bell tower. The watch is mechanical, with a weight of 250 kg in motion. The clock starts every nine days. The spire of the tower is crowned by a red star.

The signs of the zodiac are on the dial of the station clock. The artists sculpted the bas-reliefs and installed them in the wrong sequence. In addition, if you look closely, you can see: instead of zodiacal images of Taurus, Virgo and Libra on the clock are the Swan, Hounds Dog and Ophiuchus.

This incident is associated with the name of the chief architect - Alexei Dushkin, who in antireligious Soviet times was fond of the ancient manuscripts and mysticism. Astrologers believe that he encrypted some message in the dial and used for a reason the rare sign - Ophiuchus, which means "The Gate of Heaven". And the construction on the roof, so similar to the ancient temple, also the idea of ​​Alexei Dushkin

The railway station in Sochi is a copy of Simferopol, it was opened a year later. It is interesting that the railway twin brother on the dial also does not have everything in order with the signs of the zodiac. There are unconventional images and there are no Taurus, Virgo or Scorpio.

Alexei Dushkin rebuilt the Simferopol station, destroyed during the Great Patriotic War. The first station building appeared in 1874 on the Lozovo-Sevastopol railway line, at first it was a small and dusty station And in 1951 a new railway station was opened. For the construction of attracted prisoners of German soldiers. The construction estimate was more than 8, 5 million RUB.

Alexey Dushkin was able to build a beautiful majestic building. The only thing that the architect did not have time to make before the publication of a special resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers on "Eliminating excesses in design and construction" is to build a winter garden. The ideas of Alexei Dushkin were recognized as irrational, he was accused of architectural excesses and love of the West. The artist even had to serve time in prison.

The hall of the station is decorated with medallions with bas-reliefs. The bas-reliefs depict Russian scientists, writers, commanders and other public figures.

Above the railway station in Simferopol

Address: Simferopol, pl. Privokzalnaya, 1.

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