Rizhskaya

Rizhskaya ( _ru. Рижская) is a station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It is named after the nearby Rizhskiy railway terminus (which serves trains to and from the Latvian capital, Riga) and was designed by Latvian architects A. Reinfelds and V. Apsītis. The brightly colored 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-colored cornices. The ventilation grilles above the pylons are decorated with the Latvian coat of arms. The station opened on May 1, 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.

2004 Terrorist Bombing of Rizhskaya Station

The Rizhskaya station was the site of a terrorist attack by Chechen separatists that occurred shortly after 8 pm on August 31, 2004, in which a bomb was detonated killing 10 people and injuring another 50, some 30 of them seriously. [Erin E Arvedlund and Sophia Kishkovsky, "After a Spate of Bombings, Moscow's Full of Foreboding", The New York Times Sept. 2, 2004; Arina Borodina, "Terroristicheskaia Sekta," "Kommersant" Sept. 2, 2004. ] The suicide bombing was thought initially to have been carried out by Roza Nagaeva, but she in fact took part in the Beslan School siege in Ingushetia that started the next day, and was herself killed when the school was stormed several days later.

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External links

* [http://www.metro.ru/stations/kaluzhsko-rizhskaya/rizhskaya/ metro.ru]
* [http://www.mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=6&c=18 mymetro.ru]
* [http://www.deposviblovo.ru/photo/07_riga/riga.htm deposviblovo.ru]
* [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=Rizhskaya&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map en icon/ru icon