Rizhskaya (Russian:Рижская) is aMoscow Metro station in theMeshchansky District,North-Eastern Administrative Okrug,Moscow. It is on theKaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, betweenProspekt Mira andAlekseyevskaya stations. It is named after the nearbyRizhsky railway station (which was named after and serves trains to the Latvian capital,Riga) and was designed byLatvian architectsArtūrs Reinfelds [lv] andVaidelotis 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-browntile and sandwiched between piers faced with lemon yellow tile and decorated with gold-colouredcornices. The ventilation grilles above the pylons are decorated with thecoat 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 theBolshaya Koltsevaya line atRizhskaya was opened on 1 March 2023.
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,[1][2] some 30 of them seriously.[citation needed] The suicide bombing was thought initially to have been carried out by Roza Nagayeva,[2] but she in fact took part in theBeslan school siege inNorth Ossetia that started the next day, and was herself killed when the school was stormed several days later.[3]
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