Baumanskaya (Moscow Metro)

Baumanskaya Бауманская
Moscow Metro station
Coordinates	55°46′23″N 37°40′50″E / 55.7730°N 37.6806°ECoordinates: 55°46′23″N 37°40′50″E / 55.7730°N 37.6806°E
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	3  Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Construction
Depth	32.5 metres (107 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	047
History
Opened	18 January 1944
Closed	8 February 2015 (reconstruction)
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Kurskaya toward  Pyatnitskoye Shosse Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Elektrozavodskaya toward  Shchyolkovskaya
Route map Legend Mitino yard Pyatnitskoye Shosse Mitino Volokolamskaya Mitinsky Bridge  Moskva River Myakinino Strogino Krylatskoye Molodyozhnaya Kuntsevskaya  4  Slavyansky Bulvar Park Pobedy  8A  Kiyevskaya  4   5  Moskva River Smolenskaya Arbatskaya  1   4   9  to Fili yard Ploshchad Revolyutsii  2  ( 1 ) Kurskaya  5   10  Baumanskaya Elektrozavodskaya Semyonovskaya Partizanskaya Pervomayskaya (closed) Izmaylovo yard Izmaylovskaya Pervomayskaya Shchyolkovskaya
Location
Baumanskaya Location within Moscow Ring Road

Baumanskaya (Russian: Бауманская) is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, named after the revolutionary Nikolai Bauman. It was designed by Boris Iofan and Yury Zenkevich and opened in 1944. The Art Deco design features white marble pylons with rounded corners, projecting, fluted piers faced with red ceramic tile, and decorative ventilation grilles. In the bays between each set of piers are bronze sculptures by V.A. Andreev depicting Russian soldiers and workers of the home front during World War II. At the end of the platform is a mosaic portrait of Vladimir Lenin. This station is very busy, as one of the biggest Moscow institutes (Moscow State Technical University) is located not far away.

The station will be closed from 8 February 2015 for repairs, maintenance and escalator shaft replacement^[1] and will be open on 24 December 2015.^[2]

Passenger traffic

Vestibule of the station

Baumanskaya is the second busiest station in Moscow Metro. The facts:

• There are at least 3 major universities near the station: Bauman Moscow State Technical University main and secondary buildings Moscow State University of Civil Engineering and Moscow State Academy of Law.
• Specific configuration of central hall like garmon (Russian accordion) before the escalator, where some passengers try to short jump queue.
• Most passengers prefer Baumanskaya to other station if they would get to the area which is at half-way between Baumanskaya and another station even if causes additional transfer or even best accessible by ground transport.
• The escalators here were the oldest working in Moscow Metro and the entire world. Their replacement began in January 2015 and is due to complete in February 2016.

Inscription

Station platform with incoming train

A cryptic inscription is on the wall of station. It is situated near the first car stop towards the Shchyolkovskaya station just under the last ventilation lattice. The inscription is deeply carved in marble on about 120 centimetres (47 in) above the floor, is about 8 centimetres (3.1 in) in length and 1.5 centimetres (0.59 in) in height. It consists of two dates, divided by hyphen:

19 14/XI 46 - 19 15/XII 54

These dates translate to 14 November 1946 - 15 December 1954. The way of writing is very similar to the way dates are written on gravestones. The origin of that artifact is unknown.^[3]

References

1. На 20 суббот в течение года отдельные участки столичной подземки «возьмут» выходной - Газета.Ru | Общество
2. Станция «Бауманская» откроется 24 декабря (Russian)
3. Info on the mysterious inscription (Russian)

External links

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