25.10.2019
Moscow - At 23:17 the last train with passengers departed from the station. "Kashirskaya" at the station. "Varshavskaya". Passenger traffic on the Kashirskaya - Varshavskaya section has been stopped until the Big Circle Line is introduced into the section. The Kakhovskaya line ceased to exist. The Varshavskaya station has been temporarily withdrawn from passenger service. The total number of operating Moscow metro stations has been reduced to 229.
03.10.2019
St. Petersburg - At 16:46 the first train with passengers departed from the station. "International" to the station. "Shushary". On the second attempt, a section of the Frunzensko-Primorskaya line with the stations: “Prospekt Slavy”, “Dunayskaya” and “Shushary” was put into operation. The total number of St. Petersburg metro stations has increased to 72.
09.09.2019
Moscow - URST JSC began excavating a double-track tunnel on the section of the Big Circle Line from the station. "Karamyshevskaya" to the station. "Mnevniki". The excavation is carried out using a Herrenknecht S-956 Liliya TBM with a diameter of 10.85 m.
05.09.2019
St. Petersburg - At 11 am, the opening ceremony of the section of the Frunzensko-Primorskaya line “International” - “Shushary” took place. Already after the departure at 11:29 of the first train with passengers from the station. "Shushary" to the station. "Prospekt Slavy" (without landing at "Dunayskaya") by the decision of the time. And. O. Governor A.D. Beglov, the opening was canceled, the stations were not put into permanent operation.

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Contrary to popular belief, the soils in St. Petersburg are excellent for metro construction. The stations and transport tunnels of the St. Petersburg metro are planted in a layer of durable and water-resistant blue Cambrian clay. Excellent geological conditions allowed Leningrad metro builders to install in 1981 on the section of the Moscow-Petrograd line from the station. "Pionerskaya" to the station. The “specific” world record for shield tunneling is 1,250 linear meters of tunnel per month. The record was set on the domestic TPMK KT-1-5.6 produced by the Yasinovatsky Machine-Building Plant. But what really poses the greatest difficulty in construction (and in further operation) is the excavation of inclined passages to accommodate escalators. Escalator tunnels are forced to cross all layers of rocks with very different and often very unfavorable characteristics.

Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line

The Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line is a diametrical line of the Moscow Metro formed from two separately operating radii, connecting the north-eastern regions of Moscow through the center with the southern and south-western regions. Almost completely (with the exception of the covered metro bridge over the Yauza River) the underground line includes deep and shallow sections. The line is indicated in orange and has a serial number of six on the diagrams, while in the order of commissioning the Riga line was fifth, and the Kaluzhskaya line was seventh.

March 26, 1958: test train at the station. "Rizhskaya".
Photo from the website “Photos of the Past”.

On March 21, 1933, a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR approved the development scheme for the future metro consisting of five diametrical lines. One of these diameters was Zamoskvoretsko-Dzerzhinsky from the station. "Nizhniye Kotly" to the station. "Ostankino". In addition to the five approved ones, the Kaluga-Timiryazevsky diameter, which began in the area of the Kaluga outpost, was also considered. In 1934, it was decided to dock the Zamoskvoretsky radius to Gorkovsky, and Dzerzhinsky from the station. "Ostankino" to the station. “Sverdlov Square” to Taganskoye from the station. "Sverdlov Square" to the station. "Plant named after Stalin."

The resulting Dzerzhinsko-Taganskaya line would have a length of 16.7 km and would consist of 15 stations (the names of stations, except for the final ones, are given conditionally): “Ostankino” - “Novo-Ostankino” - “Staroalekseevskaya” - “Rzhevsky Station” - “Botanichesky” garden" - "Sukharevskaya Square" - "Trubnaya Square" - "Sverdlov Square" - "Nogin Square" - "Yauza Gate" - "Taganskaya Square" - "Peasant Outpost" - "Novodubrovskaya" - "Simonovo" - "Stalin Plant" "
Babushkinskaya
Sviblovo
Botanical Garden
VDNH
Alekseevskaya
Rizhskaya
Peace Avenue
Sukharevskaya
Turgenevskaya
China town
Tretyakovskaya
Oktyabrskaya
Shabolovskaya
Leninsky Prospekt
Academic
Trade Union
New Cheryomushki
Kaluzhskaya
Belyaevo
Konkovo
Teply Stan
Yasenevo
Novoyasenevskaya

On July 10, 1937, a resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR approved the project for the third stage of metro construction. On the new perspective diagram, the Dzerzhinsko-Kaluga diameter was marked for the first time - the prototype of the future Kaluga-Rizhskaya line - from the station. "Rostokino" (near the Severyanin platform) along the Yaroslavskoe highway with stations (the names, except for "Rostokino", are given conditionally): at the intersection with the current Agricultural Street. (then - Tekstilshchikov St.) - "Staroalekseevskaya" - "Rzhevsky Station" - "Kolkhoznaya Square" - "Kirovskaya" - "Pokrovsky Gate" - "Yauz Gate" - "Novokuznetskaya" - "Oktyabrskaya Square" - station at the intersection with the planned a new boulevard ring (now Akademika Petrovsky St.) - “Kaluzhskaya Zastava” - then the line continued along a promising new highway - the future Leninsky Prospekt. - station at the intersection with the current University Avenue. - the station is approximately at the intersection with the current street. Builders and the final station in the Vorontsovo area.

The war prevented the rapid implementation of plans, and only with the completion by 1953 of most of the work on the construction of the IV stage - the Circle Line, as well as the Novoarbatsky radius - did work begin on the V stage, which included the Riga radius, which was called Shcherbakovsky during construction . In August 1953, metro builders entered new sites.

In December 1957, Metrostroy received a design assignment for the construction of the Kaluga radius. On the new 11-kilometer radius, 9 stations and an electric depot were designed: “Novokuznetskaya” with a transition to the Gorkovsko-Zamoskvoretskaya line, “Polyanka” (at the intersection of Bol. Polyanka and Dimitrova streets), “Kaluzhskaya” (transition to the Circle Line), “Shabolovskaya” ", "Kaluzhskaya Zastava", "Academic" (on 1st Akademichesky Proezd, now Vavilova Street), "Cheryomushkinskaya", "Lomonosovskaya". The final radius bore the project name “Proezd No. 1683”; behind it, near the village of Vorontsovo, an electric depot with 18 ditches was to be located.

Despite the fact that the two radiuses - Rizhsky and Kaluzhsky - operated independently and were considered separate lines, it was initially planned to connect the Kaluga and Rizhsky radiuses from Novokuznetskaya through Ploshchad Nogina, Dzerzhinskaya and Trubnaya. In the future, it was planned to build two more radii: Serpukhovskaya and Timiryazevsky, to divide the Kaluga-Rizhsky diameter along the station. Trubnaya and create two new lines: Kaluzhsko-Timiryazevskaya and Rizhsko-Serpukhovskaya. In addition to Trubnaya, the second interchange station between the two diameters was to be Polyanka, which was designed as the first combined station in the Moscow metro, that is, a station with a cross-platform interchange. Initially, one station was to be built with provision for the construction of a second one, parallel to the first. The second station with the organization of a combined transfer was to be built together with the Serpukhov radius.

In the second half of 1958, preparatory work began on the Kaluga radius. The launch section from the interchange station to the Circle Line included 6 stations with the following design names (the names in brackets are given when the radius was put into operation): “Kaluzhskaya” (“Oktyabrskaya”), “Shabolovskaya”, “Kaluzhskaya Zastava” (“Leninsky Prospekt”) "), "Cheryomushki" ("Academic"), "Lomonosovskaya" ("Profsoyuznaya") and "Proezd No. 1683" ("New Cheryomushki"). From the construction of Art. "Academic" on the street. Vavilov was refused.

On April 30, 1959, a separate ground lobby of the station was opened. "Botanical Garden". December 12, 1959 Art. “VSKhV” was renamed “VDNKh” (“Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy”).

On June 6, 1961, by decision of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council, the stations of the Kaluga radius under construction were given their current names.

On October 13, 1962, the Kaluga radius with the stations “Oktyabrskaya”, “Leninsky Prospekt”, “Akademicheskaya”, “Profsoyuznaya” and “Novye Cheryomushki” came into operation. The 7th line was formed - Kaluzhskaya, indicated in orange on the diagrams. Along with the line, the electrical depot TCh-5 “Kaluzhskoe” was opened. “Oktyabrskaya” became the first deep pylon station made of cast iron tubes with the diameter of the station halls reduced to 8.5 m. It opened a transition to the station of the same name on the Circle Line. The Shabolovskaya station was built in structures without an inclined track on the Oktyabrskaya - Leninsky Prospect section and was not put into operation.

1960: construction of station. "Lomonosovskaya" ("Profsoyuznaya").
Photo from the Mosmetrostroy website.

On April 15, 1964, the Kaluga line was extended from the station. "New Cheryomushki" to the ground station. "Kaluzhskaya". The Kaluzhskaya station was a separate covered nave of the electrical depot TCH-5 Kaluzhskoye, in which a platform and a vestibule were built. Trains arrived at both dead-end tracks through a cross ramp in front of the station.

In 1965, on the Oktyabrskaya - Novokuznetskaya section, work began on the construction of a central connecting section between the Riga and Kaluga radiuses. From the combined transfer station. "Polyanka" refused.

On October 26, 1966, the “Botanical Garden” stations of the Riga and Circle lines were renamed “Prospekt Mira”, in turn, the “Mir” station was returned to its pre-launch name “Shcherbakovskaya”.

On January 3, 1971, the Kaluzhskaya line was extended to the center from Oktyabrskaya to two stations: Novokuznetskaya and Ploshchad Nogina. At the station

"Novokuznetskaya" has opened a transfer to the station of the same name on the Gorkovsko-Zamoskvoretskaya line. “Ploshchad Nogina” is a two-hall station with a combined transfer between the Zhdanovskaya and Kaluzhskaya lines, and it has become the final station for both lines.

August 11, 1974 was the last day of operation of the ground station. "Kaluzhskaya", while some of the trains disembarked passengers at the station.

“New Cheryomushki” and went to the launch site for turnover along the new terminal. On August 12, 1974, the section from the station was opened. "New Cheryomushki" to the station. "Belyaevo" from the intermediate underground station. "Kaluzhskaya", which replaced the ground one.

September 29, 1978 Art. “VDNKh”, which had been a terminal for 20 years, ceased to be such: a section to the north of the station was opened. "VDNH" with four stations: "Botanical Garden", "Sviblovo", "Babushkinskaya" and "Medvedkovo". The operational length of the line reached 31.3 km. Art.

Medvedkovo became the northernmost station of the Moscow metro. On the stretch "Sviblovo" - "Babushkinskaya" a reserve was left for the planned branch to the station. "Losinoostrovskaya". On September 30, 1978, the acceptance certificate for the Sviblovo electric depot was signed.

On November 5, 1980, the station was opened on the existing stretch “Oktyabrskaya” - “Leninsky Prospekt”. "Shabolovskaya". April 11, 1983 Art. “Novokuznetskaya” of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line was renamed “Tretyakovskaya”.

On January 11, 1986, train movement along track II (to the south) at the station. “Tretyakovskaya” was moved to an open new (northern) hall, parallel to the existing one. In the new hall, only one platform was operational; both inclined passages (exit and transfer) were closed. On January 25, 1986, with the launch of the Marksistskaya - Tretyakovskaya section of the Kalininskaya line, the new station hall became fully operational, providing a combined (cross-platform) transfer between the two lines. The opening of the new hall created the first three-station interchange hub on the line: “Novokuznetskaya” - “Tretyakovskaya” - “Tretyakovskaya”.

On March 16, 1987, 8-car trains were issued to the line from the Kaluzhskoye depot, thus reaching the maximum train length for the line. The line received new trains of cars of the 81-717/714 series (“numbered”), which gradually began to replace trains of cars of the E, Ezh and Em types.

On November 5, 1990, as part of a large-scale renaming, three stations of the line changed their names at once: “Nogina Square” began to be called “Kitay-Gorod”, “Kolkhoznaya” - “Sukharevskaya”, and “Shcherbakovskaya” returned to its very first design name: “Alekseevskaya” "

With the opening on December 29, 2007 Art. “Sretensky Boulevard” on the Lyublinskaya line at the station.

"Turgenevskaya" the entrance hall was opened with a transition to a new station. Another three-station interchange hub appeared on the line: “Chistye Prudy” - “Turgenevskaya” - “Sretensky Boulevard”.

June 3, 2008 art. “Bitsevsky Park” received a new name - “Novoyasenevskaya”, freeing up the old one for the planned station of the Butovskaya Line. With the opening of the Butovskaya line section on February 27, 2014 Art. "Novoyasenevskaya" received a transfer to a new station. "Bitsevsky Park" through the newly built eastern lobby.

On May 31, 2011, a new underground lobby was opened under Turgenevskaya Square with an inclined passage to the entrance hall of the station. "Turgenevskaya".

Since the end of 2017, a gradual renewal of rolling stock began on the line. Since 1996, only cars of the 81-717/714 series (“numbered”) of various modifications have worked on it. On December 7, 2017, the first train of 81-760/761 Oka cars entered the line from the Sviblovo depot, and on May 14, 2018, the same depot released the first train of 81-765/766/767 Moskva cars. . Thus, Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya became the second line of the Moscow metro to receive the latest cars.

At the moment, there are still plans to extend the line from the station. "Medvedkovo" beyond the Moscow Ring Road, or at one station. “Chelobitevo”, or two: to the station. "Mytishchi", however, this construction is not a priority, and all design work on it was suspended in 2012.

Last updated May 2018

The Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line (orange) of the Moscow Metro consists of 24 stations. The total length of the line is 37.8 km, travel time from end to end is 55-57 minutes. The line is marked on the metro map with the number 6. It runs through the center of Moscow, connecting the northeastern and southwestern regions.

The first section of the current Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line was opened in 1958. The line ran parallel to Mira Avenue, connecting the city center with VDNH. The section was called the Riga radius and was marked in yellow. In 1962, the Kaluga radius was put into operation, consisting of five stations: Oktyabrskaya, Leninsky Prospekt, Akademicheskaya, Profsoyuznaya and New Cheryomushki. The project also included the construction of the Shabolovskaya station, but it began operating only in 1980. The central section, which united the Riga and Kaluga radiuses, began to be built in 1970. And he was ready in 1972.

There are many “centipede stations” on the line that require frequent repairs. Short-lived tiled wall decoration periodically crumbles and has to be renewed.

Stations of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line

Medvedkovo

Medvedkovo station is the final station of the northern section of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line of the Moscow metro. The station is located in the Northern Medvedkovo district of the North-Eastern Administrative District. The depth of the station is 10 meters.

The station was opened on September 29, 1978. "Medvedkovo" is a three-span shallow column. Along the hall there are 26 pairs of columns, lined with yellowish-pink marble and decorated with stainless steel inserts. The floor is paved with slabs of gray and black granite, and the lower part of the track walls is paved with gray granite. Above this is a strip of red marble, and above this is a cladding of bronze anodized aluminum. The coating is made in the form of relief pyramids. The theme of the station's design is the development of the North, and it is revealed by eight decorative panels with scenes about wild northern nature: a polar bear on an ice floe, the flight of polar geese, hunting, ice blocks, sleds, etc. The panels are also made of anodized aluminum.

Babushkinskaya

The Babushkinskaya station is located in the district of the same name in the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. Type: shallow, single-vault station. The depth of the station is 10 meters.

"Babushkinskaya" opened on September 29, 1978. Both the station itself and the area are named after the polar pilot Mikhail Babushkin. The decorative design of the station is dedicated to the conquest of the Arctic. The walls of the only hall are lined with light marble, and the floor is covered with black and gray granite slabs. In the rounded vault along the entire length of the hall there are recesses, inside of which lamps are fixed. At the exits from the hall you can see artistic compositions made by A.M. Mosiychuk. These are original structures resembling ventilation pipes - five each above the northern and southern entrances. In the center of one composition there is a biplane plane, in the center of the other - a flying ship. In addition, a monument to Young Metro Builders was erected outside, on the southern exit. The monument was opened on May 1, 1979 in honor of the 55th anniversary of Metrostroy.

The sculptural composition depicts three young workers carrying a banner, a bump stop and a roll of drawings. There was a misconception that the monument was dedicated to the memory of metro workers who died during the construction of the station, but in fact this is not true. In the mid-1990s, the monument was dismantled and its further fate is unknown.

Sviblovo

The Sviblovo station is located in the district of the same name in the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. The depth of the station is 8 meters. The station was opened in 1978.

Sviblovo does not have ground entrance halls, and you can enter the station through underground passages. The walls and columns of the hall are lined with light marble. In addition, the columns are decorated with vertical inserts made of golden anodized aluminum. The floor is paved with black and gray granite slabs. At the northern exit there is a smalt panel “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”, and at the southern exit there is “Girls in Folk Dresses”. The upper part of the track walls is decorated with a frieze with mosaics dedicated to Russian cities. There are 48 such mosaics in total, 24 on each side.

Botanical Garden

The Botanical Garden station is located in the Sviblovo and Rostokino districts of the North-Eastern administrative district of Moscow. This is a columned three-span station, laid at a depth of 7 meters.

The Botanical Garden station was opened in September 1978, and received its name from the Main Botanical Garden of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located in relative proximity. To many, the name does not seem entirely logical, because the Vladykino station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line is located directly at the entrance to the botanical garden.

Along the station hall there are two rows of reinforced concrete columns, 26 on each side. The walls are lined with white marble. On the track walls there are five illuminated paired panels with images of flowers and fruits. The panels are made of anodized aluminum. The floor is paved with slabs of labradorite and gray granite, and the main decoration of the station is the golden cellular aluminum ceiling, into which lamps are mounted.

The southern lobby of the station is decorated with sculptural flower beds made of glazed ceramics, and the southern exit leads to the territory of the Leonovo estate.

Until 2005, the Botanical Garden station was the darkest in the Moscow metro, but since then the lighting has been brighter.

VDNH

The VDNH station is located in the Ostankino and Alekseevsky districts of the North-Eastern district of Moscow. This is a deep three-vaulted pylon station. The depth of the station is 53.3 meters.

The station opened on May 1, 1958. It was originally named after the All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition Center, located next door. After some time, the Exhibition was restructured and renamed, and the station acquired its current name. Then, when it was renamed VVTs, the metro station was no longer renamed, but now its name has again come into line with one of the main attractions of Moscow.

This is a pylon station with a very ascetic decor. It is decorated only with cast grilles covering the ventilation holes and six-arm pendant chandeliers with crystal shades.

In the lower part, the pylons are decorated with white-gray marble, and on the side of the arches the edges are painted with green paint. Initially, it was assumed that in place of the green paint there would be a Florentine mosaic in golden-green tones. The patterns for the mosaic looked like an interweaving of ribbons and oak leaves; sketches for them were developed by the artist V.A. Favorsky. However, after one pylon was almost ready, it turned out that funds would not be allocated for such expensive finishing, and the mosaic that had already been laid was painted over, and at the same time the other arches were also covered with paint. Marble benches are installed along the pylons.

The arch of the northern exit (the first carriage from the center) is decorated with a stucco ornament of oak leaves. In the southern lobby there is a Gzhel panel "Fair in Zamoskvorechye". The panel appeared in 1997 - it is the work of artists M.V. Podgornaya and A.V. Tsaregorodtseva. The powerful square columns of the lobby are also decorated with Gzhel majolica.

Alekseevskaya

Alekseevskaya station is located in the district of the same name in the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon. The depth of the station is 51 meters.

At the design stage, this station was first designated as “Alekseevskaya” and then as “Shcherbakovskaya”. However, on May 1, 1958, its opening took place, and the name of the station sounded like “Mir”. In 1966, the station was given a second design name, and until 1990 it bore the name “Shcherbakovskaya” - in honor of the party and statesman of the Stalin era, A.S. Shcherbakov. Only on November 5, 1990, Alekseevskaya received its current name. Benches are installed at the base of the pylons in all halls. The floor is paved with slabs of gray and red granite. The track walls are lined with dark green and milky white marble. The station is illuminated by “sun-like” pendant chandeliers with many fluorescent tubes radiating from the center. The same chandeliers can be seen at the Kurskaya station.

Rizhskaya

The Rizhskaya station is located in the Meshchansky district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon. The depth is 46 meters.

"Rizhskaya" opened on May 1, 1958. The station got its name from the one located nearby.

The main part of the track walls of "Rizhskaya" is lined with light ceramic tiles; the lower walls are lined with black ceramic tiles. The sides of the pylons are decorated with yellow tiles, and their central part is burgundy. The tiles contain subtle reliefs depicting famous industrial and architectural sites in Riga. Benches are installed under the burgundy part of the pylons. The floor is laid with gray granite slabs. Ventilation grilles, ends of benches, cornices and side parts of pylons are decorated with Latvian ornaments.

The initial project suggested a slightly different decor for the station - richer. It was planned to install forged lamps, decorate the passages between the pylons with bas-reliefs depicting the happy life of Soviet Latvia, and place an extensive mosaic with a view of Riga at the end. But after the adoption of the resolution “on excesses in construction and architecture,” this project, like many others, was simplified.

Now the end wall is decorated with a poster “Cities of the World in the Moscow Metro” with photographs of cities of the world and Moscow metro stations named after them: Rome, Warsaw, Kyiv, Prague, Bratislava, Riga.

There is a legend associated with Rizhskaya, according to which, to decorate the station, a Latvian potter was ordered to have tiles imitating yellow and brown amber. The master completed the task, but during transportation of the cargo, some of the tiles were broken, and it was necessary to make up for the loss. The master refused to make another batch. He was allegedly offended by such a careless attitude towards his work, and he said that it was unlikely that it would be possible to achieve an exact color match. The master did not give in to persuasion, and then a special student was sent to him - A.M. Bludze. The master taught him, but never revealed the main secret. Bludze had to tell the potter the truth, and he softened. The missing tiles were made, although their final color was still slightly different.

And the following tragic story is real. On August 31, 2004, a suicide bomber was about to enter the station, but, noticing police officers at the entrance, she turned around and detonated the device in the thick of people. As a result of the terrorist attack, 10 people were killed (including a suicide bomber and leader of the Karachay Jammaat Nikolai Kipkeev) and 33 people were injured.

In May 2007, a bag of explosives was discovered in the area of the station's northern vestibule. He was found by a dog living in the passage.

Peace Avenue

The Prospekt Mira metro station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line is located in the Meshchansky district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon. The depth of the station is 50 meters. At the southern end of the Prospekt Mira station there is a transition to the station of the same name on the Circle Line.

The station opened on May 1, 1958. It was originally called the "Botanical Garden", and received its current name in 1966.

The station design is standard. The pylons are rectangular, with cut corners. Light marble was used as a facing material. Lamps are hidden behind the cornices of the pylons running in the upper part. The floor is paved with slabs of dark and light granite, arranged in a checkerboard pattern.

Sukharevskaya

The Sukharevskaya station is located in the Meshchansky and Krasnoselsky districts of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The depth of the station is 43 meters.

The Sukharevskaya station was opened on January 5, 1972. Initially it was called “Kolkhoznaya”, and became “Sukharevskaya” in November 1990.

The station does not have ground-based vestibules; passengers enter through an underground passage from Bolshaya and Malaya Sukharevskaya squares.

This is a three-vaulted pylon station, built according to the design of the architect R.I. Pogrebny. The pylons are made in the form of sheaves, and are finished with gray-yellow-brown marble. The track walls are decorated with large embossings and lined with light marble. The floor is laid out with rectangular slabs of gray granite.

Turgenevskaya

Turgenevskaya station is located in the Krasnoselsky district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The station was built under Turgenevskaya Square and the Chistye Prudy station on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, its depth is 49 meters. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon.

"Turgenevskaya" was opened on January 5, 1972. The station is decorated in grayish tones: the pylons are covered with gray marble, the floor is lined with gray granite slabs (originally the floor was made of white marble), and there are decorative brass inserts on the track walls. The ceiling of the central hall is decorated with diamond-shaped fiberglass slabs.

At Turgenevskaya station there are two transitions to other metro lines. In the center of the hall there is a transition to the Chistye Prudy station, and at the northern end there is a transition to the Sretensky Boulevard station of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.

China town

The Kitay-Gorod station is a large cross-platform hub belonging to two lines of the Moscow metro: Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya. The station is located at a depth of 29 meters under Ilyinsky Square, in the historical district. "Kitai-Gorod" is a station that belongs to three districts of the Central Administrative District of Moscow: Tverskoy, Tagansky and Basmanny.

The station was opened on January 3, 1971 as "Nogina Square", and this name remained with it until 1900.

Plans to connect the four radii of the Moscow Metro have existed since the early 1930s. They were periodically reviewed, and first one or another line was selected that could be connected to each other. In 1957, it was decided to unite several radii in the Nogin Square area. Construction was carried out on one side from the Taganskaya station and on the other side from the Oktyabrskaya station. At the same time, work was carried out in six parallel tunnels.

Since at the time the station was put into operation it was the final station for two radii, at first one hall worked only for boarding passengers, and the other for disembarking. Only in 1975, when the Tagansky (then Zhdanovsky) radius was connected to Krasnopresnensky, the station began to be operated in full as provided for by the project (the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line was formed even earlier, in 1972).

"Kitai-Gorod" is a complex consisting of two independent deep column stations. When following in one direction, to move from one line to another, it is enough to move from one side of the platform to the other. If you need to change not only the line, but also the direction, then you should go along the short corridor located in the center of the hall. Trains heading north arrive in the eastern hall, and trains heading south arrive in the western hall.

Both stations are columnar, three-vaulted. In places where there are passages over platforms, the bridges are supported by powerful pylons. At the western station, the columns are made in the form of prisms, and at the eastern station they are rectangular in plan and ribbed on the side of the central and platform halls. You can easily imagine the shape of the columns by learning how the designers named these halls: the western one - Crystal, the eastern one - Accordion.

Along the line connecting the supports and the vault in the western hall there are metal friezes with chased pyramidal figures. Lamps are attached to the friezes, providing diffused light. The pylons and track walls are finished in gray marble, and the floor is cream. The track walls are decorated with metal grilles with images of the hammer, sickle, stars and doves.

In the eastern hall, the decoration is mirrored: the walls and pylons are cream, and the floor is gray. The bases of the track walls in this hall are decorated with cast slabs depicting a torch.

The underground vestibules of the Kitay-Gorod station are common to both halls. There are no ground entrance halls; you can get to the station through underground passages from the Varvarsky Gate, Ilyinsky Gate, Slavyanskaya Square and Solyansky Dead End squares.

Tretyakovskaya

Tretyakovskaya station is a cross-platform interchange hub. The station belongs to the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line, and at the same time is the terminal for the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line. "Tretyakovskaya" is located in the Zamoskvorechye district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The depth is 46 meters. Type: three-vaulted deep pylon.

The southern hall of the station was opened on January 3, 1971 as part of the Kaluga section of the line. Initially, the station was called "Novokuznetskaya", and it received its current name in 1983 from the station located nearby. In January 1986, the northern hall of the Tretyakovskaya also began to operate.

The station is designed in the same way as the cross-platform Kitay-Gorod hub: to transfer from one line to another, you just need to go to the opposite side of the platform. To change both the line and the direction, you need to go to another room.

Trains of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line in the direction of the Kitay-Gorod station and trains of the Kalininskaya line in the direction of the Marksistskaya station arrive at the southern hall of the Tretyakovskaya station.

Trains of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line in the direction of "Marksistskaya" arrive at the northern hall, and the hall is the final station for trains.

The southern hall of the Tretyakovskaya station is decorated in gray tones: the walls are decorated with gray marble, and there are gray granite slabs on the floor. The northern hall is lined with pink marble, and its walls are decorated with bronze portraits of Russian artists, made by the artist A.N. Burganov.

In the history of the Tretyakovskaya station, January 1, 1998 stands out. On this day, a blockless explosive device with a capacity of 150 grams of TNT exploded in the lobby. The driver, moving from one train to another, found a small bag at the gate closing the station for the night. The man opened the bag, and seeing the wires and batteries, he took it to the duty officer on the platform, and he went along the route. The duty officer left the find in the far part of the platform, fenced off from the passenger hall, and she dialed the police number. At that moment an explosion occurred. As a result, the attendant was injured by glass fragments from the cubicle, and two cleaners received minor injuries.

Oktyabrskaya

The Oktyabrskaya radial station of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line of the Moscow Metro is located in the Yakimanka district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow. The depth of the station is 50 meters. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon.

The station was opened on October 13, 1962, named after Oktyabrskaya Square (now Kaluzhskaya). From the radial "Oktyabrskaya" there is a transition to the station of the same name on the Circle Line. It is located at the southern end of the station hall. The station's pylons are lined with gray marble, the floor is lined with slabs of red and gray granite. The track walls are decorated with white ceramic tiles in the upper part and black ceramic tiles in the lower part.

Shabolovskaya

The Shabolovskaya station is located in the Donskoy district of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow. The depth of the station is 46.5 meters. Type: deep three-vaulted pylon.

18 years passed from the time the station was built until it was put into operation - this is a unique case in the history of the Moscow Metro. Shabolovskaya was built in 1962, and opened only in 1980. This delay was due to difficult geological conditions that made it impossible to lay escalators. In addition, according to calculations, the passenger flow at the station was expected to be small, and we had to wait until the Kaluga line reached the city center. By the time the station opened, its appearance had been changed, and now it differs significantly from the design version.

The pylons of "Shabolovskaya" are lined with light marble. The track walls are covered with corrugated aluminum. Almost the entire width of the central hall, the floor is laid with gray granite slabs, and along the edges and in the arched passages the slabs are made of red granite. The floors in the side rooms are decorated in the same way. At the end of the central hall there is a colorful stained glass window with an image.

With a standard station hall length of 162 meters, the Shabolovskaya hall has only 104 meters. Thus, this is the shortest deep station of the Moscow metro today.

Leninsky Prospekt

The Leninsky Prospekt station is located in two districts and two administrative districts of the capital: in the Donskoy and Gagarinsky districts and in the South-Western and Southern administrative districts. The depth of the station is 16 meters.

The station was opened on October 13, 1962. It got its name from Leninsky Prospekt, which runs nearby.

This is a three-span column station, similar to other standard Moscow metro stations. The columns are decorated with white and yellowish marble, the floor is lined with gray and brown granite slabs. At the end of September 2016, builders began dismantling the old ceramic tiles that lined the track walls. The tiles often fell off and the walls had to be repaired at night. During the renovation, the tiles will be replaced with marble of a similar color.

Academic

“The Akademicheskaya station is located in the district of the same name in the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow. It is a shallow station, its depth is 8.5 meters.

The station was opened in 1962. In the project it was listed as “Cheryomushki”, but in the end it was named after the previously existing Akademicheskiy Proezd, in the area of which it was located.

"Academic" is a three-span column station that looks like a typical "centipede". 80 columns arranged in two rows are lined with light marble. The floor is laid with gray granite. When opened, the station's track walls were tiled in white, blue and black. There is nothing more to say about the station's decor - it simply doesn't exist. Like all standard “centipedes”, the ceramic tiles periodically crumbled, and in 2002-2003 they were completely replaced with aluminum composite panels of the same color range as the tiles.

Trade Union

The Profsoyuznaya station is located in two districts of the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow: Cheryomushki and Academichesky. The depth of the station is 7 meters.

The station was opened on October 13, 1962. The project name is "Lomonosovskaya". The station was built according to a standard design. Gray marble with white veins was used as a facing material for 80 columns. The floor is paved with gray and red granite slabs. The track walls are lined with white tiles, grouped in the form of large rhombuses.

New Cheryomushki

The New Cheryomushki station is located on the territory of two districts of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow: in Cheryomushki and Obruchevsky district. This is a three-span shallow column station located at a depth of 7 meters.

The station was opened in 1962 in one of the first areas with "Khrushchev" buildings, which began to be built on the site of an ancient village, known since the beginning of the 16th century.

There are 40 pairs of columns lined with marble along the hall. Perhaps marble is the only decoration of the New Cheryomushki station - the slabs have an interesting yellow-green-brown color. The floor is paved with gray granite slabs, with a strip of red granite running down the center. The track walls are covered with white ceramic tiles on the top and black on the bottom. There are also two brown stripes running along the walls.

Kaluzhskaya

The Kaluzhskaya station is located at the junction of three districts of the South-Western Administrative District of Moscow: Cheryomushki, Obruchevsky and Belyaevo. This is a three-span shallow column station built at a depth of 10 meters.

Kaluzhskaya station was opened in 1974. Its appearance is no different from standard centipede stations, but there are formal differences - instead of 40 columns on each side with a step of 4 meters, here the columns are located at a distance of 6.5 meters from each other (2 rows of 26 columns). The columns have a multifaceted configuration. Pink-brown-green marble was used as cladding (in fact, the marble is called pink Baikal marble). The track walls are covered with white ceramic tiles and decorated with metal inserts. Gray granite slabs are laid on the floor.

Plans for the coming years include the opening of the Kaluzhskaya station of the Third Interchange Circuit, which will provide a transfer to the current Kaluzhskaya station of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line.

Belyaevo

The Belyaevo station is located in the Konkovo district of the South-Western administrative district of Moscow. The depth of the station is 12 meters. Type: shallow three-span column.

The Belyaevo station was opened in 1974, and like most of its peers, it does not have a particularly remarkable decor. The station's 52 columns are lined with white marble. They are installed at a distance of 6.5 meters from each other in two rows. The track walls are lined with white ceramic tiles and decorated with two metal compositions located opposite each other. In the center of the composition is a cast date for the opening of the station, and it is framed by fairy-tale characters.

The station cannot boast of an interesting history, but there is still one fact - in 1990, the Tekhnologiya group’s video “Strange Dances” was filmed here.

Konkovo

The Konkovo station is located in the Teply Stan and Konkovo districts of the South-Western administrative district of Moscow. This is a shallow, single-vault station located at a depth of 8 meters.

The station was opened on November 6, 1987, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution. The station is built from monolithic reinforced concrete. In the niche of the vault are hidden lamps that illuminate the hall. The floor is paved with gray granite slabs. In the center of the hall there are wide benches in the shape of an ellipse; in the center of the benches there are structures with the name of the station.

In the mid-to-late 2000s, many stray dogs lived in the area of the Konkovo station. Some residents complained about the aggressiveness of the animals, and some decided to “restore order” themselves. So in 2006, a criminal case was opened against one of the metro guards who beat a stray dog, and in 2009 a local resident received a suspended sentence for shooting more than 30 dogs with an air rifle.

Teply Stan

The Teply Stan station is located in the South-Western Administrative District, in the Teply Stan and Yasenevo districts. The depth of the station is 8 meters. Type: three-span shallow column.

The station was opened in 1987. Along the hall there are 52 columns lined with white marble installed in two rows. The sides facing the central hall and the platforms are decorated with large corrugated red-brown ceramic tiles resembling tiles. The track walls are entirely covered with the same tiles. The floor is paved with gray granite slabs, and the bases of the opposite columns on the floor are visually connected by strips of black granite.

Yasenevo

The Yasenevo station is located in the South-Western administrative district of Moscow, in the Yasenevo and Teply Stan districts. The depth of the station is 8 meters. Type: shallow three-span column.

The station was opened on January 17, 1990. This is one of the few southern radius stations with a memorable design. In the central hall of the station there are 26 pairs of cylindrical columns, decorated with greenish-brown marble. At the distance of the columns from one track wall to the opposite one, large rounded recesses are arranged in the ceiling, in which lamps of an original configuration with four round shades are fixed. The track walls are lined with large olive-colored cellular tiles. The floor is laid with gray slabs, wide gray areas are interspersed with strips of black granite that connect pairs of opposing columns.

Novoyasenevskaya

The Novoyasenevskaya station is located in the South-Western administrative district of Moscow, in the Yasenevo district. The depth of the station is 7 meters. At Novoyasenevskaya there is a transition to the Bitsevsky Park station of the Butovskaya line.

The station was opened on January 17, 1990, and was originally called Bitsevsky Park. The current “Novoyasenevskaya” bore this name until 2008, and then was renamed in connection with the transfer of the name of the station under construction on the Butovskaya line.

When it opened, the station had two above-ground lobbies. The southern one opened into an underground passage leading to the ground pavilion. The attraction of this pavilion was the sculptural composition “Noah’s Ark” by sculptor L.L. Berlin, it was also decorated with figures of various animals. However, due to low passenger traffic, the lobby only operated for a year before it was closed. The decor theme for the lobby was chosen in accordance with plans to move the Moscow Zoo to the Bitsevka Forest. Now the composition “Noah’s Ark” can be seen in front of the combined vestibule of the Butovskaya and Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya lines, built on the site of the demolished southern vestibule.

The northern vestibule is connected to an underground passage under Novoyasenevsky Prospekt; access to the city is through ground-based vestibules. Located on both sides of the avenue.

The station itself is columnar, three-span, has 26 pairs of columns, decorated with pink marble. The track walls are lined with green cellular metal tiles. The floor has dark gray granite slabs with a geometric pattern of light gray granite.

Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line, consisting of 24 stations and having a length of 37.8 km, is one of the busiest. It is the sixth line of the Moscow city metro. It consists of sections of different depths: both deep and shallow.

The history of the Kaluga-Rizhsky metro line begins in the 1950-1960s, when the northern and southern parts of the line were opened.

History of the development of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line

According to the original project, the Kaluga and Riga directions were supposed to exist autonomously. Later, this decision was changed: the opening of the central section, which took place in 1972, gave rise to the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line.

The Riga radius was opened in May 1958.

The length of the section was 4.5 kilometers. It included 4 stations - “Prospekt Mira”, “Rizhskaya”, “Alekseevskaya” and “VDNKh”. All stations are deep.

The need for the Kaluga radius arose as a result of the intensive development of the southwestern districts of the capital.

In the fall of 1962, a section of the Kaluga direction from the Oktyabrskaya station to Novye Cheryomushki was opened. Its length reached 8.1 km.

A year and a half later, in April 1964, the route was extended another 1.5 km to the Kaluzhskaya station, opened in the electrical depot building (in 1974, this ground platform was closed and an underground station with the same name was opened to replace it).

During the construction of the Kaluga radius, the construction of stations in open pits was used for the first time, and the distillation tunnels were built using the shield tunneling method without opening the surface of the earth. This method began to be called “Moscow”.

Construction of the central link, connecting the northern and southern radii of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line, began in 1970.

During the work, an improved deep column station was built for the first time - the Kitay-Gorod station (formerly Nogina Square).

By using columns, a more uniform load distribution was achieved. This type of station began to be called “Moscow column”.

The section from Oktyabrskaya to Kitay Gorod station began operating in early 1971.

The section with the Kolkhoznaya and Turgenevskaya stations, which connected Kitay-Gorod and the Riga radius station Prospekt Mira, was opened in January 1972.

This is how the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line came into being.

In the summer of 1974, the direction “New Cheryomushki” - “Belyaevo” was opened.

The metro line from VDNH to Medvedkovo was extended in 1978. The length of the section was 8.1 km. The metro line over the Yauza River is a section of the tunnel raised above the water.

Intermediate stations of the shallow section are “Botanical Garden”, “Sviblovo”, and “Babushkinskaya”.

The southern final part of the line opened in two stages: