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Taganskaya Таганская
General information
Location	Tagansky District Central Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55°44′30″N37°39′06″E / 55.7418°N 37.6517°E /55.7418; 37.6517
System	Moscow Metro station
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line	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; 75 years ago (1950-01-01)
Passengers
2002	20,914,500
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station Kurskaya anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya line Paveletskaya clockwise / inner Kitay-gorod towardsPlanernaya Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line transfer atTaganskaya Proletarskaya towardsKotelniki Tretyakovskaya Terminus Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line (Kalininsky radius) transfer atMarksistskaya Ploshchad Ilyicha towardsNovokosino
Route map Legend Belorusskaya Krasnaya Presnya yard Krasnopresnenskaya Moskva River Kiyevskaya Moskva River Park Kultury Moskva River Oktyabrskaya Dobryninskaya Paveletskaya Vodootvodny Canal Moskva River Taganskaya Kurskaya Komsomolskaya Prospekt Mira Suvorovskaya Novoslobodskaya This diagram: view talk edit
Location Taganskaya Location within Central Moscow

Taganskaya (Russian:Тага́нская) is a station on theKoltsevaya line of theMoscow Metro. It opened on 1 January 1950 with the first segment of the fourth stage of the system. The station is named after theTaganka Square which is a major junction of theSadovoye Koltso.

Designed by architects K. Ryzhkov and A. Medvedev, thispylon station was built with thepost-war flamboyance in mind, the overall design is based on thetraditional Russian motives in decorations. The central feature of the station are 48maiolica 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 IIRed Army and 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 groupStalin and youth, however this was replaced in 1961 by a new artwork of the same authors (P. Baladin and Ye. Blinova) depictingVladimir Lenin,Coats of arms of the Soviet Republics and images ofHero-CitiesLeningrad,Stalingrad,Sevastopol andOdessa. This was also taken down in late 1966 to make way for a transfer to the newly openedTaganskaya of theZhdanovskaya line. Further transfer was opened in 1979 by adding a stairwell into the middle of the central hall for the new stationMarksistskaya of theKalininskaya line. A replica of the Stalin and youth was unveiled in 2025 as part of the 90th anniversary of the opening of the metro.^[1][2]

Because the Taganka Square is located on the hill, in order to conveniently place the large vestibule, and also preserve a nearby heritage building, the escalator descent had to be broken, and an intermediate hall was added by placing a large cylinder and gradually lowering to the required depth. After a dome was added, the interior work on the new lobby began, the walls of which are faced withAltai marbleOroktoy withSyringa shade, and the pilasters from white marble. The dome contains a large ceiling fresco,Victory Fireworks by A. Shiryaeva.

On 18 November 2005 thevestibule was closed for restoration, during which oldescalators (installed in 1949) were replaced. All of the decoration features were renovated, and the upgrade included new turnstiles, ticket offices and security upgrade. The station was re-opened on 20 December 2006.

It was the deepeststation inMoscow Metro from 1950 until 1958.

On 15 May 2025, a bas-relief wall panel depictingJoseph Stalin was installed in the connecting passage between the two Taganskaya stations.^[3] An earlier version of this sculpture at this location was removed in 1966.^[4] Stalin was removed from the relief in the 1950s during theDe-Stalinization campaign. Russian human rights activistYan Rachinsky wrote that "amongStalin’s victims were more than 750 construction workers and employees of the Moscow Metro. More than 140 were executed, including the subway’s first director, Petrikovsky (his name appears in a Stalinist execution list dated August 20, 1938). There’s no mention of these people anywhere in the subway today, but the man responsible for their deaths is honored with a life-sized statue."^[3]

In 1991 the rock bandLyube recorded the songTaganskaya Station about the station in its debut album titledAtas.

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  Restored Stalin relief at Taganskaya metro station
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  Taganskaya on a 1950 stamp
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  Station platform of Taganskaya
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  LeavingRusich train. The upper pass is used for connection to theTagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya line and theKalininskaya line
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  Round middle escalator hall
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  Stalin relief at Taganskaya metro station in 1949

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