Barrikadnaya

Barrikadnaya (Russian: Баррикадная) is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It is named after the events of the Revolution of 1905 when it was a site for barricades on Krasnaya Presnya street. The station was opened in 1972 as the first station on the Krasnopresenenskiy line, and for three years was its southern terminus, until the tunnel to Pushkinskaya connected it to the Zhdanovskiy line.

Barrikadnaya Баррикадная
Moscow Metro station
Location	Presnensky District Central Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55.7612°N 37.5795°E / 55.7612; 37.5795
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 116 Trolleybus: 35
Construction
Depth	30 metres (98 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	120
History
Opened	30 December 1972 (1972-12-30)
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Ulitsa 1905 Goda toward Planernaya Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line Pushkinskaya toward Kotelniki Kiyevskaya anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya line Transfer at: Krasnopresnenskaya Belorusskaya clockwise / inner
Route map Planernoye yard Planernaya Skhodnenskaya Tushinskaya Spartak Moscow Canal Shchukinskaya Oktyabrskoye Polye Polezhayevskaya Begovaya to Krasnaya Presnya yard Ulitsa 1905 Goda Barrikadnaya Pushkinskaya Kuznetsky Most Kitay-gorod connection to Line 5 Taganskaya Proletarskaya Volgogradsky Prospekt  3502  Shosseynaya Prospekt Tekstilshchiki Kuzminki Ryazansky Prospekt Vykhino Vykhino yard connection to Line 15 Lermontovsky Prospekt Zhulebino Kotelniki
Location
Barrikadnaya Location within Central Moscow

The station was built following a typical pylon design, however due to unfavourable underlying geological conditions the pylons eventually had to be widened. Decoratively the station shows that by the early 1970s the architectural style of Moscow Metro stations had evolved from the functional designs of the 1960s. The station architects Strelkov and Polikarpova applied a theme of pink and red marble to the pylons, which due to their extension from the floor to the vault appear to look like barricades. The walls are exquisitely decorated with different shades of pink, red, blue and grey marble. The central hall had to be extended as the station was initially designed for extended seven-carriage trains (although the line has been using eight-carriages since the late 1980s). This design is most obviously seen in the entrances to the central hall, which are all decorated with metallic artworks.

The entrance to the station is located on Barrikadnaya Street, which links Krasnaya Presnya with the Garden Ring, and is externally decorated with stone artwork depicting the events of 1905. Across the road is one of Stalin's Seven Sisters skyscrapers. From the opposite end of the central hall there is a transfer to the Krasnopresnenskaya station of the Koltsevaya Line

The daily passenger traffic of the station amounts to 32,400 people via the station entrance, and 118,500 using the transfer.

External links

• mymetro.ru
• KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)