И. А. Курбасова Е. И. Силантьева

TEXT С. THE RECONSTRUCTION

OF THE KURSKY TERMINAL IN MOSCOW
(1) As is known, all the nine railway terminals in Moscow were erected many years ago. As they were unable to cope with the increased flow of passengers, some of them were reconstructed whereas others are to be rebuilt in the near future.

(2) The Kursky terminal was the first to be reconstructed. While designing the new building the civil engineers and architects faced a lot of problems which were to be solved in order to make the terminal convenient for passengers and attractive. One of the, most important tasks was to make it capable of servicing a great flow of passengers going to the Black Sea Coast. For this purpose the main hall was considerably expanded, and now it can accommodate up to 6,000 passengers.

(3) The travelling public is provided with numerous con­veniences: the information centre, the waiting-rooms, the restaurant, a large number of automatic baggage cells (камера хранения багажа), etc. There are enough ticket windows so that passengers can reserve tickets in a few minutes.

(4) The station handles now about 40,000 long-distance passengers and 750,000 suburban passengers daily. The designers provided for different platforms to service subur­ban and long-distance passengers thus facilitating the problem of train operation.

(5) Being finished with glass and aluminium, the new building of the Kursky terminal is now regarded one of the most remarkable and modern buildings in Moscow.