Akademicheskaya (Moscow Metro)

Akademicheskaya Академическая
Moscow Metro station
Coordinates	55°41′16″N 37°34′24″E / 55.6877°N 37.5733°E / 55.6877; 37.5733Coordinates: 55°41′16″N 37°34′24″E / 55.6877°N 37.5733°E / 55.6877; 37.5733
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	6  Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line
Platforms	1
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 67, 119, 121, 142, 196, 218, 218k, 786
Construction
Depth	8.5 metres (28 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	101
History
Opened	13 October 1962; 54 years ago (1962-10-13)
Traffic
Passengers (2002)	24,601,000
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Profsoyuznaya toward  Novoyasenevskaya Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line Leninsky Prospekt toward  Medvedkovo
Route map Medvedkovo Yauza River Babushkinskaya Sviblovo yard Sviblovo Botanichesky Sad  14  (OSI) VDNKh  13  (OSI) Alekseyevskaya Rizhskaya Prospekt Mira  5  Sukharevskaya Turgenevskaya  1   10  Kitay-gorod  7  Moskva River Vodootvodny Canal Tretyakovskaya  2   8  Oktyabrskaya  5  Shabolovskaya Leninsky Prospekt  14  (OSI) Akademicheskaya Profsoyuznaya Novye Cheryomushki Kaluzhskaya (closed) Kaluzhskoye yard Kaluzhskaya Belyayevo Konkovo Tyoply Stan Yasenevo Novoyasenevskaya  12  This diagram:
Location
Akademicheskaya Location within Moscow Ring Road

Akademicheskaya (Russian: Академи́ческая, IPA: [ɐkədʲɪˈmʲitɕɪskəjə],) is a station on the Moscow Metro's Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line. It is named for the several Akademichesky Proyezd streets formerly located nearby, which were themselves named after the Russian Academy of Sciences but have all been renamed since. Akademicheskaya opened on October 13, 1962 and was designed by Yuliya Kolesnikova, Petukhova, and Fokina. Built to the relatively new pillar-trispan design (aka Sorokonozhka, centipede), which became prevalent in the 1960s due to its low construction costs. The station has white marble pillars accented with a stripe of black marble near the top. The walls, originally faced with white tile with four horizontal blue stripes, were re-covered in 2003 with similarly coloured aluminium planes for a cleaner, more modern look.

The entrances to the station are located around Ho Chi Minh Square, at the intersection of Profsoyuznaya street and Dmitriya Ulyanova street. Currently the station serves 67,400 passengers daily.