Taganskaya (Koltsevaya Line)

Taganskaya Таганская
Moscow Metro station
Coordinates	55°44′30″N 37°39′06″E / 55.7418°N 37.6517°E / 55.7418; 37.6517Coordinates: 55°44′30″N 37°39′06″E / 55.7418°N 37.6517°E / 55.7418; 37.6517
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	5  Koltsevaya Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Pylon station
Depth	53 metres (174 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	072
History
Opened	1 January 1950; 67 years ago (1950-01-01)
Traffic
Passengers (2002)	20,914,500
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Kurskaya anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya Line Paveletskaya clockwise / inner Kitay-gorod toward  Planernaya Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line Transfer at: Taganskaya Proletarskaya toward  Kotelniki Tretyakovskaya Terminus Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line Transfer at: Marksistskaya Ploshchad Ilyicha toward  Novokosino
Route map  9  Novoslobodskaya Prospekt Mira  6   2  Belorusskaya Komsomolskaya  1  to Krasnaya Presnya yard Kurskaya  3   10   7  Krasnopresnenskaya Taganskaya  7   8  Moskva River Moskva River  3   4  Kiyevskaya Vodootvodny Canal Moskva River Paveletskaya  2   1  Park Kultury Dobryninskaya  9  Moskva River Oktyabrskaya  6  This diagram:
Location
Taganskaya Location within Central Moscow

Taganskaya (Russian: Тага́нская) is a station on the Koltsevaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It opened on 1 January 1950 with the first segment of the fourth stage of the system. The station is named after the Taganka Square which is a major junction of the Sadovoye Koltso.

Designed by architects K. Ryzhkov and A. Medvedev, this pylon station was built with the post-war flamboyance in mind, the overall design is based on the traditional Russian motives in decorations. The central feature of the station are 48 maiolica panels located on each face of the pylon. (works of Ye.Blinova, P. Kozhin, A. Sotnikov, A. Berzhitskaya and Z. Sokolova). These contain apart from floral elements, profile bas-reliefs of various World War II Red Army & Navy servicemen each dedicated to a group such as pilots, tank crews, sailors etc. The color gamma is balanced in such a way that the panels facing the central hall are on a blue majolica background, whilst the platform hall panels are monochromatic. Lighting comes from a set of 12 gilded chandeliers in the central hall with the same blue majolica center. The remaining decoration of the station include a cream-colored ceramic tile on the walls, powder colored marble on the lower pylons and also on the walls, and a checkerboard floor layout of black and gray granite.

The end of the central hall once had a large sculptural group Stalin and youth, however this was replaced in 1961 by a new artwork of the same authors (P. Baladin and Ye. Blinova) depicting Vladimir Lenin, Coats of arms of the Soviet Republics and images of Hero-Cities Leningrad, Stalingrad, Sevastopol and Odessa. This was also taken down in late 1966 to make way for a transfer to the newly opened Taganskaya of the Zhdanovskaya Line. Further transfer was opened in 1979 by adding a stairwell into the middle of the central hall for the new station Marksistskaya of the Kalininskaya Line.