Taganskaya-Radialnaya

Taganskaya ( _ru. Таганская) is a station on the Moscow Metro's Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line.

The station was opened in 1966 as part of the start of the "Zdanovskiy" (now "Taganskiy") radius. The station's decoration is sparse yet stylish for the 1960s functional designs. Because the deep pylon trivault offers much more potential for decorations, architects Nina Aleshina and Vdovin quickly exploited this. Decorating the white marbled pylons with brown marble stripes. Likewise the white and black ceramic tiles and are decorated with metallic artworks with a space theme. The floor is covered with red and grey granite. The underground vestibule of the station is interlinked with the subway under the Bolshaya Kammenka street. The surface staircases of which are protected from the weather with glazed concrete pavilions (the first in Moscow). When the station was opened it was the terminus of the Zhdanovskaya line until 1970. Behind the station is a junction link allowing the train to reverse, also it leads onto a service link branch to the Koltsevaya Line.

From the start the station was designed as a transfer point with the western escalators leading on to the Taganskaya station of the Koltsevaya Line. In 1979 with the construction of the station Marksistskaya of the Kalininskaya Line three staircases were built into the northern wall.

The station carries a daily load of 179 200 passengers on the transfer to and from Marksistaskaya, 128 800 from the ring and 22 400 passengers from its vestibule. However in late 2005 the vestibule of the ring station was closed and it is expected that the two latter figures will notably increase while the vetibule undergoes reconstruction.

External links

* [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=7&c=14 Mymetro]
* [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=Taganskaya(T-K)&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)