Botanichesky Sad

Botanichesky Sad ( _ru. Ботанический сад, meaning "botanical garden") is a station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It is named for the Russian Academy of Sciences's main Botanical Garden. It should be noted that the name is rather confusing because the garden itself is closer to the Vladykino station, and it takes a 10-15—minute walk to get to the Botanical Garden from the Botanichesky Sad metro station. Opened as the first part of the 1978 northwestward extension of the Rizhsky radius, the station serves Rostokino District of Moscow (and was originally planned to be named accordingly). Designed by N. Demchinsky and Yuliya Kolesnikova, the station features a pillar-trispan with a ceiling covered with a grid of modular anodized aluminum light fixtures. White marble was employed in facing the pillars and the walls, although the latter is also decorated with aluminium artworks on various nature-based themes (artist Z. Vetrova).

The station has two vestibules with the southern one being a surface rotunda building, on the Leonova street, which is internally lit by sculptural lamps (work of N. Masterpulo) and is linked by escalators to the main platform. As the station is located under Moscow's circular railway, the station was foreseen as a perspective future transfer point. The northern subteranial vestibule is located on the opposite side of the railway and to reach it a vaulted subway on the platform level continues under the railway tracks, up to the northern vestibule which is interlinked with subways under the Serebryakova and Snezhnaya Streets. The station has a low daily passenger traffic of 28,650, which partly accounts for its rather dark appearance.

External links

* [http://www.metro.ru/stations/kaluzhsko-rizhskaya/botanichesky_sad/ metro.ru]
* [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=6&c=21 mymetro.ru]
* [http://news.metro.ru/f64.html news.metro.ru]
* [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=BotanicheskySad&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)