Barrikadnaya

Barrikadnaya ( _ru. Баррикадная) is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. Named after the events of the Russian Revolution of 1905, when it was a site of Barricades on the Krasnaya Presnya street. The station was opened in 1972 as the first station in the Krasnopresenenskiy radius, and for three years was the southern terminus of it until the tunnel to Pushkinskaya connected it to the Zhdanovskiy radius, unititing the two lines.

The station was built to a typical pylon design, however due to harsh geological conditions the pylons had to be widened. Decoratively the station shows that by early 1970's the Metro architecture deviating from the fuctionalty design of the 1960s. The architect Strelkov and Polikarpova applied a theme of pink and red marbles to the pylons which due to their angular and straight extension from the floor to the vault appear as barricades. The walls are exquisetely decorated with different shades of pink, red, blue and grey marble. The central hall had to be extended as the station was the first design for extended seven-carriage trains (although the line has been using eight-carriages since the late 1980s). This design is visibly seen in the Portals leading to the central hall which are decorated with metallic artworks.

The vestibule of the station is located on the Barrikadnaya street which links Krasnaya Presnya with the Garden Ring, it is externally decorated with a stone artwork depicting the 1905 events. Opposite is on of the Stalin's Seven Sisters skyscraper. From the opposite end of the central hall is a transfer to the Krasnopresnenskaya station of the Koltsevaya Line

The daily passenger traffic of the station amounts to 32400 people via the vestibule and 118500 via the transfer.

External links

* [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=7&c=10 mymetro.ru]
* [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=Barrikadnaya&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)