Moscow Metro – Semyonovskaya – Line 3

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Moscow Metro – Semyonovskaya – Line 3

Semyonovskaya (Семёновская) is a station of the Moscow Metro in the Sokolinaya Gora District, Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, between Elektrozavodskaya and Partizanskaya stations. Semyonovskaya opened in 1944.

Semyonovskaya – Line 3 – 01

Originally, the station was called Stalinskaya, as it was built under Stalinskaya Ploshchad. As part of de-Stalinization, the station was renamed in 1961 to Semyonovskaya for the settlement from which the Semyonovsky Regiment took its name.

Semyonovskaya – Line 3 – 05

It was the deepest station in Moscow Metro from 1944 until 1950.

Semyonovskaya – Line 3 – 03

Built concurrently with Partizanskaya, it too is war-themed, sporting plaques along the outer walls depicting a variety of Soviet weapons used in the war, including swords, sniper rifles, and machine guns. A much larger plaque at the end of the platform includes an image of the Order of Victory and the words ‘Our Red Army – Glory!’.

Semyonovskaya – Line 3 – 04

Semyonovskaya is an unusual design, with a double-width platform and four rows of pillars instead of the usual two. This was because the station was built as a pylon type, but was later changed in design and the pylons were transformed into pillars. The pillars are faced with red and white marble. The outer walls are grey marble. There is a row of square-pedestalled, green marble floor lamps along the center of the platform. The architects of the station were S. Kravets and V. Akhmetev.

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The station was closed for escalator replacement and general renovation on the 70th anniversary of the first Metro line, May 15, 2005. It reopened on April 28, 2006, with new escalator machinery and new interior and exterior finishes for the surface vestibule.

Text from Wikipedia.

Location:

Semyonovskaya square, Sokolinaya Gora District, Eastern Administrative Okrug

GPS:

55.7833°N

37.7208°E

Depth:

40 metres (130 ft)

Opened:

18 January 1944

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Moscow Metro – Rizhskaya – Line 6

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Rizhskaya – Line 6 – Mikhail (Vokabre) Shcherbakov

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Moscow Metro – Rizhskaya – Line 6

Rizhskaya (Russian: Рижская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Meshchansky District, North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, between Prospekt Mira and Alekseyevskaya stations. It is named after the nearby Rizhsky railway station (which was named after and serves trains to the Latvian capital, Riga) and was designed by Latvian architects Artūrs Reinfelds and Vaidelotis Apsītis.

Rizhskaya – Line 6 – 02

The brightly coloured Latvian ceramics employed throughout the station make it instantly recognizable. The pylons, which follow the curve of the station tube, are faced with reddish-brown tile and sandwiched between piers faced with lemon yellow tile and decorated with gold-coloured cornices. The ventilation grilles above the pylons are decorated with the coat of arms of the Latvian SSR. The station opened on 1 May 1958.

Rizhskaya – Line 6 – 01

The round vestibule, which was designed by S.M. Kravets, Yu.A. Kolesnikova, and G.E. Golubev, is located on the east side of Prospekt Mira at Rizhskaya Square.

Rizhskaya – Line 6 – 03

The station reopened after reconstruction on 7 May 2022. A transfer to the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line at Rizhskaya was opened on 1 March 2023.

2004 terrorist bombing

The street outside of the entrance to the Rizhskaya station was the site of a terrorist attack by Chechen separatists that occurred shortly after 8 pm on 31 August 2004, in which a bomb was detonated killing 10 people and injuring another 50, some 30 of them seriously. The suicide bombing was thought initially to have been carried out by Roza Nagayeva, but she in fact took part in the Beslan school siege in North Ossetia that started the next day, and was herself killed when the school was stormed several days later.

Text above from Wikipedia

Rizhskaya

Date of opening;

1st May 1958

Construction of the station;

deep, pier, three-span

Architects of the underground part;

A. Reinfelds and V. Anpsitis

Rizhskaya is constructively similar to two previous stations but much differs by decoration. It is an absolutely ceramic station. The walls are faced with light yellow tiles while the pylons are with yolk-yellow and claret-coloured tiles. So the station is called ‘fried eggs with bacon’.

Hardly visible very thin high relieves on raw ceramics decorate the claret-coloured surfaces of the side of the central hall. They show well-known architectural and industrial structures of Riga and sights of other Latvian cities, such as House of Government, House of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Latvia, old Riga, Museum of Arts, Academy of Arts, heat power station, VEF, port, central kolkhoz market, Kemeri (region of Jurmala), seashore. There are also silhouettes of Moscow State University and Academy of Sciences on the first pylon of the western end that manifests the inviolable relations between Riga and Moscow. The Latvian national colouring is highlighted with ornaments on the sides of station benches and tiles facing the platform walls.

Text from Moscow Metro 1935-2005, p77

Location:

GPS:

55.7936°N

37.6362°E

Depth:

46 metres (151ft)

Opened:

1 May 1958

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Moscow Metro – Pushkinskaya – Line 7

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Pushkinskaya – Line 7 – Alex ‘Florstein’ Fedorov

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Pushkinskaya (Russian: Пушкинская) is a station on Moscow Metro’s Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line. Opened on 17 December 1975, along with Kuznetsky Most as the segment which linked the Zhdanovskaya and Krasnopresnenskaya Lines into one. Like its neighbour, the station was a column tri-vault type, which had not been seen in Moscow since the 1950s. Arguably the most beautiful station on the Line, the architects Vdovin and Bazhenov took every effort to make it appear to have a ‘classical’ 19th century setting. The central hall lighting is created with stylised 19th century chandeliers with two rows of plafonds appearing like candles, while the side platforms have candlesticks with similar plafonds. The columns, covered with ‘Koelga’ white marble are decorated with palm leaf reliefs and the grey marble walls are decorated with brass measured insertions based on the works of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. The grey granite floor completes the appearance of the masterpiece. Architecturally the station put the final stop to the functionality economy design of the 1960s and went against Nikita Khrushchev’s policy of struggle to avoid decorative ‘extras’, which left the stations of 1958–59 greatly altered in their design.

Pushkinskaya – Line 7 – 01

The station’s original vestibule, with its magnificent cessoned ceiling from anodized aluminium (architects Demchinskiy and Kollesnikov) is situated under Pushkinskaya Square of the Boulevard ring, the centre of Moscow’s nightlife, and is linked with subways to the square and to Tverskaya Street. In 1979 it was combined with the Gorkovskaya (now Tverskaya) station of the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. The opposite end was decorated with a bust of the great poet himself (architect — Shumakov), however in 1987 a pathway was opened to the underground vestibule of the two escalator cascades of the Chekhovskaya station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line. The bust was moved into a combined vestibule built into the office building of the newspaper Izvestia on the Strastnoi Boulevard of the Boulevard ring. [That might have been the case in the past but there was a bust of Pushkin on the metro platform in 2017.] When transferring between the stations it is possible to bypass the vestibule via the lyre fenced stairs leading from the middle of the columns.

Pushkinskaya – Line 7 – 02

The transfer point, was originally named for the three writers and poets (Alexander Pushkin, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov). In 1991, the original street Ulitsa Gorkova was renamed Tverskaya, and hence the station was also given this name. The transfer point is one of the busiest in Moscow; Pushkinskaya receives a daily load of 46,770 via the vestibules, 170,000 to Tverskaya and 212,000 to the Chekhovskaya station.

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