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Rizhskaya Рижская
Moscow Metro station
General information
Location	Rizhskaya Square Meshchansky District North-Eastern Administrative Okrug
Coordinates	55°47′37″N 37°38′10″E / 55.7936°N 37.6362°E / 55.7936; 37.6362
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Rizhskaya Rizhskaya Bus: 0, 19, 84, 85, 265, 714, 778 Trolleybus: 9, 14, 18, 37, 42, 48
Construction
Depth	46 metres (151 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	092
History
Opened	1 May 1958; 66 years ago (1958-05-01)
Closed	22 August 2020; 4 years ago (2020-08-22)
Rebuilt	7 May 2022; 2 years ago (2022-05-07)
Passengers
2009	15 304 450
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station Prospekt Miratowards Novoyasenevskaya Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line Alekseyevskayatowards Medvedkovo Maryina Roshchaanticlockwise / outer Bolshaya Koltsevaya linetransfer at Rizhskaya Sokolnikiclockwise / inner
Route map Legend Medvedkovo Yauza River Babushkinskaya Sviblovo yard Sviblovo Botanichesky Sad VDNKh Alekseyevskaya Rizhskaya Prospekt Mira Sukharevskaya Turgenevskaya Kitay-gorod Moskva River Vodootvodny Canal Tretyakovskaya Oktyabrskaya Shabolovskaya () Leninsky Prospekt Akademicheskaya () Profsoyuznaya Novye Cheryomushki Kaluzhskaya (closed) Kaluzhskoye yard Kaluzhskaya Belyayevo Konkovo Tyoply Stan Yasenevo Novoyasenevskaya This diagram: view talk edit
Location RizhskayaLocation within Moscow Metro

Rizhskaya (Russian: Рижская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Meshchansky District, North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, between Prospekt Mira and Alekseyevskaya stations. It is named after the nearby Rizhsky railway station (which was named after and serves trains to the Latvian capital, Riga) and was designed by Latvian architects Artūrs Reinfelds [lv] and Vaidelotis Apsītis [lv].

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 tile and sandwiched between piers faced with lemon yellow tile and decorated with gold-coloured cornices. The ventilation grilles above the pylons are decorated with the coat of arms of the Latvian SSR. 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 at Rizhskaya was 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 Beslan school siege in North Ossetia that started the next day, and was herself killed when the school was stormed several days later.

References

1. "Крестовский поход" (in Russian). Kommersant. 1 September 2004. Archived from the original on 15 December 2017. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
2. ^ Erin E. Arvedlund; Sophia Kishkovsky (2 September 2004). "After a Spate of Bombings, Moscow's Full of Foreboding". New York Times. Archived from the original on 27 July 2018. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
3. Zaur Farniev (20 April 2005). "Московские террористки взорвались в Беслане". Kommersant (in Russian). Archived from the original on 27 September 2017. Retrieved 25 March 2023.

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Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line	Novoyasenevskaya Yasenevo Tyoply Stan Konkovo Belyayevo Kaluzhskaya Kaluzhskaya (closed) Novye Cheryomushki Profsoyuznaya Akademicheskaya Leninsky Prospekt Shabolovskaya Oktyabrskaya Tretyakovskaya Kitay-gorod Turgenevskaya Sukharevskaya Prospekt Mira Rizhskaya Alekseyevskaya VDNKh Botanichesky Sad Sviblovo Babushkinskaya Medvedkovo
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line	Planernaya Skhodnenskaya Tushinskaya Spartak Shchukinskaya Oktyabrskoye Pole Polezhayevskaya Begovaya Ulitsa 1905 Goda Barrikadnaya Pushkinskaya Kuznetsky Most Kitay-gorod Taganskaya Proletarskaya Volgogradsky Prospekt Tekstilshchiki Kuzminki Ryazansky Prospekt Vykhino Lermontovsky Prospekt Zhulebino Kotelniki
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Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line	Altufyevo Bibirevo Otradnoye Vladykino Petrovsko-Razumovskaya Timiryazevskaya Dmitrovskaya Savyolovskaya Mendeleyevskaya Tsvetnoy Bulvar Chekhovskaya Borovitskaya Polyanka Serpukhovskaya Tulskaya Nagatinskaya Nagornaya Nakhimovsky Prospekt Sevastopolskaya Chertanovskaya Yuzhnaya Prazhskaya Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya Annino Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo
Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line	Fiztekh Lianozovo Yakhromskaya Seligerskaya Verkhniye Likhobory Okruzhnaya Petrovsko-Razumovskaya Fonvizinskaya Butyrskaya Maryina Roshcha Dostoyevskaya Trubnaya Sretensky Bulvar Chkalovskaya Rimskaya Krestyanskaya Zastava Dubrovka Kozhukhovskaya Yuzhny Port Pechatniki Volzhskaya Lyublino Bratislavskaya Maryino Borisovo Shipilovskaya Zyablikovo
Bolshaya Koltsevaya line	(← Loop towards Maryina Roshcha) Savyolovskaya Petrovsky Park CSKA Khoroshyovskaya Narodnoye Opolcheniye Mnyovniki Terekhovo Kuntsevskaya Davydkovo Aminyevskaya Michurinsky Prospekt Prospekt Vernadskogo Novatorskaya Vorontsovskaya Zyuzino Kakhovskaya Varshavskaya Kashirskaya Klenovy Bulvar Nagatinsky Zaton Pechatniki Tekstilshchiki Nizhegorodskaya Aviamotornaya Lefortovo Elektrozavodskaya Sokolniki Rizhskaya Maryina Roshcha (Loop towards Savyolovskaya →)
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Moscow Monorail	Timiryazevskaya Ulitsa Milashenkova Teletsentr Ulitsa Akademika Korolyova Vystavochny Tsentr Ulitsa Sergeya Eyzenshteyna
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Troitskaya line	Troitsk Vatutinki Desyonovskoye Desna Rakitki Sosenki Novomoskovskaya Kommunarka Kornilovskaya Tyutchevskaya Generala Tyuleneva Universitet Druzhby Narodov Novatorskaya Ulitsa Stroiteley Akademicheskaya Sevastopolsky Prospekt
Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya line	Ilyinskaya Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye Troitse-Lykovo Strogino Zhivopisnaya Bulvar Generala Karbysheva Prospekt Marshala Zhukova Presnya Shelepikha Delovoy Tsentr
Biryulyovskaya line	ZIL Ostrov Mechty Klenovy Bulvar Batyunino Moskvorechye Kavkazsky Bulvar 6th Radialnaya Ulitsa Lipetskaya Zagorye Biryulyovo
Disasters / attacks 1977 Moscow bombings February 2004 Moscow Metro bombing August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing 2010 Moscow Metro bombings 2014 Moscow Metro derailment

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