Botanicheskiy Sad
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Botanicheskiy Sad (Russian: Ботанический сад), "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. Although such etmology is rather confusing as the garden itself is closer to Vladykino whilst from Botanicheskiy Sad its a good 10-15 minute walk. Although the station Prospekt Mira-Radialnaya was also called Botanicheskiy Sad between 1958 and 1966. Opened as the first part of the 1978 northwestward extension of the Rizhskiy radius, the station serves the Rostokino district of Moscow (and was originally planned to be named accordingly). Designed by N.Demchinskiy 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 traffica of 28,650 which partly accredits to its rather dark appearance.
