Rizhskaya (Moscow Metro)

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 A. Reinfelds and V. Apsītis. The brightly colored 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-colored 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 Рижская
Moscow Metro station
Location	Rizhskaya Square Meshchansky District North-Eastern Administrative Okrug
Coordinates	55.7936°N 37.6362°E / 55.7936; 37.6362
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Kaluzhsko–Rizhskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 0, 19, 84, 85, 265, 714, 778 Trolleybus: 9, 14, 18, 37, 42, 48
Construction
Depth	46 metres (151 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	092
History
Opened	1 May 1958 (1958-05-01)
Traffic
Passengers (2009)	15 304 450
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Prospekt Mira toward Novoyasenevskaya Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line Alekseyevskaya toward Medvedkovo
Route map Medvedkovo Yauza River Babushkinskaya Sviblovo yard Sviblovo Botanichesky Sad VDNKh Alekseyevskaya Rizhskaya Prospekt Mira Sukharevskaya Turgenevskaya Kitay-gorod Moskva River Vodootvodny Canal Tretyakovskaya Oktyabrskaya Shabolovskaya Leninsky Prospekt Akademicheskaya Profsoyuznaya Novye Cheryomushki Kaluzhskaya (closed) Kaluzhskoye yard Kaluzhskaya Belyayevo Konkovo Tyoply Stan Yasenevo Novoyasenevskaya
Location
Rizhskaya Location within Moscow Metro

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.

2004 terrorist bombing

Main article: August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing

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.[1] 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 Ingushetia that started the next day, and was herself killed when the school was stormed several days later.

References

1. Erin E Arvedlund and Sophia Kishkovsky, "After a Spate of Bombings, Moscow's Full of Foreboding", The New York Times 2 September 2004; Arina Borodina, "Terroristicheskaia Sekta," Kommersant" 2 September 2004.