Taganskaya (Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line)

Taganskaya Таганская
Moscow Metro station
Location	Tagansky District Central Administrative Okrug Moscow
Coordinates	55°44′25″N 37°39′08″E / 55.7402°N 37.6522°ECoordinates: 55°44′25″N 37°39′08″E / 55.7402°N 37.6522°E
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	7  Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 156
Construction
Structure type	Pylon station
Depth	36 metres (118 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	116
History
Opened	31 December 1966
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Kitay-gorod toward  Planernaya Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line Proletarskaya toward  Kotelniki Tretyakovskaya Terminus Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line Kalininsky radius Transfer at: Marksistskaya Ploshchad Ilyicha toward  Novokosino Kurskaya anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya Line Transfer at: Taganskaya Paveletskaya 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  5  Pushkinskaya  2   9  Kuznetsky Most  1  Kitay-gorod  6  Taganskaya  5   8  Proletarskaya  10  Volgogradsky Prospekt Tekstilshchiki Kuzminki Ryazansky Prospekt Vykhino Vykhino yard Lermontovsky Prospekt Zhulebino Kotelniki
Location
Taganskaya Location within Moscow

Taganskaya (Russian: Таганская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Tagansky District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line, between Kitay-gorod and Proletarskaya stations.

Taganskaya opened in 1966 as part of the start of the Zdanovsky (now Tagansky) radius. The station's decoration is sparse yet stylish for the 1960s functional designs. Because the deep pylon trivault offers more potential for decorations, architects Nina Alyoshina and Yury Vdovin 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.

Station platform

External links

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