Tsaritsyno (russian: Царицыно) is a

Moscow Metro The Moscow Metro) is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first unde ...

station in

Tsaritsyno District Tsaritsyno ( rus, Царицыно, p=tsɐˈrʲitsɨnə) is a district within the Southern Administrative Okrug of Moscow. Area: 426,2 hectare, ha. Its current name is traced back to 1775. Previously, Tsaritsyno was known under several other names ...

Southern Administrative Okrug Southern Administrative Okrug, or Yuzhny Administrative Okrug (russian: link=no, Южный административный округ, ), is one of the twelve high-level territorial divisions (administrative okrugs) of the federal city of Mosco ...

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. It is on the

Zamoskvoretskaya line The Zamoskvoretskaya line (russian: link=no, Замоскворе́цкая ли́ния, ), formerly Gorkovsko–Zamoskvoretskaya () (Line 2), is a line of the Moscow Metro. Opened in 1938, chronologically it became the third line. There are 24 ...

, between Kantemirovskaya and Orekhovo stations. The entrance is located at the intersection of , and ('Luhansk', 'Caspian', and 'Tovarishch' streets). Tsaritsyno opened on 30 December 1984 as part of an extension but was closed the very next day because of flooding. It reopened on 9 February 1985. From its opening until November 1990, the station was named ''Lenino'' for the Lenino-Dachnoye region. The city renamed the station Tsaritsyno for

Tsaritsyno Park Tsaritsyno ( rus, Царицыно, p=tsɐˈrʲitsɨnə, literal meaning "Tsaritsa's property") is a palace museum and park reserve in the south of Moscow. It was founded in the 1775 as the summer residence of Empress Catherine II, but the const ...

, which houses a palace once owned by

Catherine the Great , en, Catherine Alexeievna Romanova, link=yes , house = , father = Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst , mother = Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp , birth_date = , birth_name = Princess Sophie of Anhal ...

. The stations has been closed since 12 November 2022 due to the reconstruction works.

Design

The station was designed by architects V. Cheremin and A. Vigdorov. It has white

marble Marble is a metamorphic rock composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or Dolomite (mineral), dolomite. Marble is typically not Foliation (geology), foliated (layered), although there are exceptions. In geology, the ...

pillars, walls inlaid with patterns of red, brown, grey and yellow marble and mosaics depicting the achievements of the Soviet science. A mosaic by A. Kuznetsov above the entrance stairs depicts the Moscow skyline.

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Moscow Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 1984 Zamoskvoretskaya Line Southern Administrative Okrug Railway stations located underground in Russia {{Moscow-metro-stub