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Moscow Metro – Marksistskaya – Line 8

Marksistskaya (Марксистская, lit. ’Marxism’) is a station of the Moscow Metro’s Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line. It was opened along with the initial segment on 30 December 1979. The station is named after the Marksistskaya (Marxist) Street and its architectural theme is the purity of Marxist ideals.

Architects Nina Alyoshina, V. Volovich and N. Samoylova took a standard deep level column tri-vault station (engineers Ye. Barsky, I. Zhukov and Yu. Muromtsev) and applied on overall red theme that includes red Burovshina marble to the columns and a pink Gazgan to the station walls. The spiral-shaped light fixtures symbolize ‘spiral development’, a concept in dialectical materialism, the Marxist philosophical teaching.

The station serves as a transfer point between the Taganskaya station of the Koltsevaya Line and the Taganskaya station of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line forming a busy three station transfer point. Transfer to the former is by the direct escalator from the end of Marksistskaya.

The station is located on the eastern edge of the Taganka Square, and its underground vestibule is situated on the influx of the Taganskaya and Marksistskaya streets into the square with surface subway access available to both sides of the latter street and to the open plaza on the apex of their connection.

It was the deepest station in Moscow Metro from 1979 until 1987.

Text above from Wikipedia.

Marxistskaya

Date of opening;

30th December 1979

Construction of the station;

deep, column, three-span

Architects of the underground part;

N. Aleshina and V. Volovich

Transit to stations Taganskaya of the Circle Line and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line

Marxistskaya is likely the reddest station of The Moscow Metro. The vaults lean against the arcades of elegant columns widening upward. The columns and entablatures are faced with red and pink marble with numerous many coloured inclusions. The walls are faced with light marble, mostly of yellowish, cream-coloured, beige shades turning to white and greyish. This background is decorated with geometric mosaics of narrow arrow-shaped strips of red and pink marble. The lower part of the walls is faced with black gabbro. The central hall of the station is illuminated with original helical chandeliers.

The floor is covered with dark grey granite with large white crystalline inclusions. There are eight-pointed stars of red granite between the columns on the floor and two of red granite of two different shades inscribed one in other along the central hall.

Text from Moscow Metro 1935-2005, p92

Location:

GPS:

55.7411°N

37.6543°E

Depth:

60 metres (200 ft)

Opened:

30 December 1979

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