Babushkinskaya
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Babushkinskaya Бабушкинская | |||||||||||
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Moscow Metro station | |||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Babushkinsky District North-Eastern Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 55°52′10″N 37°39′52″E / 55.8694°N 37.6644°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Moskovsky Metropoliten | ||||||||||
Line(s) | Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line | ||||||||||
Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | Shallow single-vault | ||||||||||
Depth | 10 metres (33 ft) | ||||||||||
Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||
Parking | No | ||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||
Station code | 087 | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 29 September 1978 | ||||||||||
Closed | 31 October 2024 | ||||||||||
Passengers | |||||||||||
2009 | 26,963,645 | ||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||
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Babushkinskaya (Russian: Бабушкинская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Babushkinsky District, North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It was opened on September 29, 1978 as a part of the VDNKh – Medvedkovo sector. It is on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, between Sviblovo and Medvedkovo stations after the commissioning of which there were 107 stations in the Moscow Metro.
Name
[edit]Babsuhkinskaya was named after Babushkinsky District where the station is located, which in turn was named after Mikhail Babushkin, a polar aviator.
On March 29, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic in Russia, the management of the Moscow Metro temporarily renamed the station to "DomaBabushkinskaya" (Russian: Домабабушкинская), meaning "Grandmother at home", to remind the citizens of Moscow to keep their elderly parents at home.[1]
Design
[edit]Babushkinskaya is a single vault-type station, elliptical in cross-section with slightly canted, grey marble side walls. All of the signs and light fixtures are attached to the ceiling, so the platform is completely open except for a few minimalist benches located along the central axis. At the end of the platform, above the exit stairs, is a sculpture by A. M. Mosichuk commemorating Babushkin's Arctic flight.
Entrances
[edit]The entrances to the station are located at the intersection of Yeniseyskaya and Menzhinskogo Streets.
References
[edit]- ^ Новости, Р.И.А. (March 29, 2022). "Московское метро "переименовало" две станции из-за коронавируса". РИА Новости (in Russian). Retrieved 2023-01-11.