Rizhskaya (russian: Рижская) is a

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station in the

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. It is on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, between Prospekt Mira and Alekseyevskaya stations. It is named after the nearby

Rizhsky railway station Rizhsky station (russian: Рижский вокзал, ''Rizhsky vokzal'', Riga station) is one of the nine main railway stations in Moscow, Russia. It was built in 1901. As well as being an active station it also houses the Moscow Railway Museum ...

(which was named after and serves trains to the Latvian capital,

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) and was designed by

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n architects A. Reinfelds and V. Apsītis. The brightly coloured 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

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and sandwiched between piers faced with lemon yellow tile and decorated with gold-coloured

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s. The ventilation grilles above the pylons are decorated with the

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. 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. The station reopened after reconstruction on 7 May 2022. A transfer to the

Bolshaya Koltsevaya line The Bolshaya Koltsevaya line (russian: Большая кольцевая линия), known in English as the Big Circle Line, designated Line 11 and 11A is an under construction rapid transit line of the Moscow Metro. When complete, it will beco ...

at Rizhskaya is opened on 1 March 2023.

2004 terrorist bombing

The street outside of the entrance to 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. The suicide bombing was thought initially to have been carried out by Roza Nagayeva, but she in fact took part in the

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that started the next day, and was herself killed when the school was stormed several days later.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rizhskaya (Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line) Moscow Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 1958 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line Railway stations located underground in Russia