Barrikadnaya

Barrikadnaya (Russian: Баррикадная) is a station on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It is named after the events of the Revolution of 1905, when it was a site for barricades on Krasnaya Presnya street. The station was opened in 1972 as the first station on the Krasnopresenenskiy line, and for three years was its southern terminus, until the tunnel to Pushkinskaya connected it to the Zhdanovskiy line.

Barrikadnaya Баррикадная
Moscow Metro station
General information
Location	Presnensky District, Central Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55.7612°N 37.5795°E / 55.7612; 37.5795
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 116 Trolleybus: 35
Construction
Depth	30 metres (98 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	120
History
Opened	30 December 1972; 51 years ago (1972-12-30)
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station Ulitsa 1905 Goda towards Planernaya Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line Pushkinskaya towards Kotelniki Kiyevskaya anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya line transfer at Krasnopresnenskaya Belorusskaya clockwise / inner
Route map Legend Planernoye yard Planernaya Skhodnenskaya Tushinskaya Spartak Moscow Canal Shchukinskaya Oktyabrskoye Pole Polezhayevskaya Begovaya to Krasnaya Presnya yard Ulitsa 1905 Goda Barrikadnaya Pushkinskaya Kuznetsky Most Kitay-gorod connection to Line 5 Taganskaya Proletarskaya Volgogradsky Prospekt  3502  Shosseynaya Street Tekstilshchiki Kuzminki Ryazansky Prospekt Vykhino Vykhino yard MKAD Moscow Ring Road connection to Line 15 Lermontovsky Prospekt Zhulebino Kotelniki This diagram: view talk edit
Location Barrikadnaya Location within Central Moscow

The station was built following a typical pylon design, but due to unfavourable underlying geological conditions the pylons eventually had to be widened. The station architects Strelkov and Polikarpova used pink and red marble in the pylons. The walls use with different shades of pink, red, blue and grey marble. The central hall had to be extended as the station was initially designed for extended seven-carriage trains (although the line has been using eight-carriages since the late 1980s). The entrances to the central hall are all decorated with metallic artworks.

The entrance to the station is located on Barrikadnaya Street, which links Krasnaya Presnya with the Garden Ring, and is externally decorated with stone artwork depicting the events of 1905. Across the road is one of Stalin's Seven Sisters skyscrapers. From the opposite end of the central hall there is a transfer to the Krasnopresnenskaya station of the Koltsevaya Line

The daily passenger traffic of the station amounts to 32,400 people via the station entrance, and 118,500 using the transfer.

External links

• mymetro.ru
• KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)