Rizhskaya (Moscow Metro)

Rizhskaya !B9982082405307  6  Moscow Metro station
Station statistics
Address	Rizhskaya Square Meshchansky District North-Eastern Administrative Okrug Moscow
Coordinates	55°47′33.03″N 37°38′10.27″E / 55.7925083°N 37.6361861°E / 55.7925083; 37.6361861
Line(s)	!B9982082405307  6  Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
Connections	Bus: 0, 19, 84, 85, 265, 714, 778 Trolleybus: 9, 14, 18, 37, 42, 48
Depth	46 metres (151 ft)
Levels	1
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Parking	No
Bicycle facilities	No
Baggage check	No
Other information
Opened	1 May 1958
Station code	092
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
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 Legend Medvedkovo Yauza River Babushkinskaya Sviblovo yard Sviblovo Botanichesky Sad VDNKh Alekseyevskaya Rizhskaya Prospekt Mira !B9983905620875  5  Sukharevskaya Turgenevskaya !C  1  !B9976974149070  10  Kitay-gorod !B9980540898509  7  Moscow River Vodootvodny Canal Tretyakovskaya !B9993068528194  2  !B9979205584583  8  Oktyabrskaya !B9983905620875  5  Shabolovskaya Leninsky Prospekt Akademicheskaya Profsoyuznaya Novye Cheryomushki Kaluzhskoye yard Kaluzhskaya (closed) Kaluzhskaya Belyayevo Konkovo Tyoply Stan Yasenevo Novoyasenevskaya !B9975150933502  12

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 Alexeyevskaya stations. It is named after the nearby Rizhskiy Rail Terminal (which was named after and serves trains to and from 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 Latvian coat of arms, probably the coat of arms of the Latvian SSR . The station opened on 1 May 1958.

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 of Rizhskaya Station

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.

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