Geologicheskaya

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Geologicheskaya is the seventh station of the Yekaterinburg Metro. It opened on December 30, 2002, and sits in central Yekaterinburg at the intersection of 8th Marta Street and Kuybysheva Street, between Ploshchad 1905 Goda and Chkalovskaya stations. Nearby are the Ural State University of Economics and the Yekaterinburg Circus. After a new exit to the Greenwich shopping center opened, Geologicheskaya became the first deep-level metro station in the city with two lobbies.

The station’s original project name was Kuybyshevskaya. It was renamed Geologicheskaya at the request of the Urals geologists and the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute because the area contains a building important to geology and mining.

Geologicheskaya is a transfer hub with three levels: service rooms on the top, the first-line platform in the middle, and a future third-line platform on the bottom. There are stairs leading down for transfers to the future third line. The design features a single-span hall, a flat suspended ceiling, Florentine mosaics that imitate the Earth’s crust, and panels made from Urals stone. A memorial plaque lists prominent geologists of the Urals.

The southern lobby, located at the intersection, has six exits on all sides and connects to buses, trams, and taxis. The northern lobby, added in 2019 and connected to the Greenwich shopping center, is reached via a cascade of three inclined escalator tunnels from the underground passage. The underground passage to Greenwich opened a year before the station, on December 20, 2001.