Rizhsky railway station is the starting point for regular passenger trains. From here they head northwest.
Directions
From here, long-distance trains leave for Pskov and Velikiye Luki. In addition, branded trains leave for Riga: Latvijas Express (runs daily), as well as Jurmala.
There are also numerous suburban trains that connect the capital with various cities of the Moscow region, such as Krasnogorsk, Istra, Dedovsk and others, which distinguishes the Rizhsky railway station from the rest. Electric trains approach the stations Rumyantsevo, Novoyerusalimskaya, Shakhovskaya, Volokolamsk, Nakhabino. On weekends, there is an express train to Shakhovskaya station.
Location
The accommodation is very convenient for the Rizhsky railway station - Rizhskaya metro station. You can get here by public land transport, as well as use taxi services.
Briefly about the history of the Rizhsky railway station
In Tsarist Russia, the growth of foreign trade turnover at the end of the nineteenth century caused the rapid construction of railway lines to the ports of Latvia. Russian merchants and industrialists persistently made their way to the world market. ATcountry, in addition to flour, grain, meat, there were rich deposits of coal, ore and other minerals. Industry also gained momentum. Entrepreneurs quickly enough appreciated the merits of laying a new route to the B altic.
This led to the construction of the Moscow-Vindavo-Rybinsk road. The creation of the track began by decree of Nicholas II in 1897. The Railway Society turned to the Moscow city government with a request to agree on the location of the passenger and freight station "Moskva" near the Krestovskaya outpost between the Lazarevsky cemetery and the Nikolaevskaya railway line.
The railway station was proposed to be built on a vast wasteland (near Krestovskaya Zastava), adjacent to 1st Meshchanskaya Street. At the same time, there should have been an area between the street and the building itself, capable of providing the entrance of carriages. According to the plan, the freight station was located near the passenger one. It provided a special place for the shipment of firewood and forest materials, which at that moment was of great importance for the city.
The railway company had to spend significant money on resolving issues with the future and existing city water supply, since the pipes of the Moskvoretsky water pipeline ended up on the station territory, as well as landscaping the streets. As a result, the society agreed with the city's conclusions. It undertook to arrange a wide passage near the Lazarevsky cemetery about ten fathoms wide, after which it would be paved, in Trifonovsky Lane, to make a pavement and a sidewalk, to resolve many issues of maintenancePond river, as well as perform other work.
Since the time for the construction of the railway was very limited, its design was carried out according to simplified specifications using many bypasses of the naturally created obstacles of the Klin ridge.
Vindava station was built according to the project of S. Brzhozovsky. This is a Petersburg architect. He is the author of the Vitebsk railway station, located in the northern capital. At the same time, the construction was carried out under the guidance of the architect J. Dietrich.
Opening
In 1901, the Vindavsky railway station was opened in Moscow. The first train to Vindava left at the beginning of the seventh evening. In 1901, the first train came here from Rzhev. After that, the Moscow-Rzhev train ran regularly three times a week.
Description
The station building stands out with an incredibly beautiful facade in the classic Russian style. It consists of 3 towers, which are connected on the first floor by covered passages. The wings of the station and the central part here are two-story. The building is decorated with almost all the elements that were found in Russian architecture of the seventeenth century: windows of various shapes, kokoshniks, platbands, curbs, runners. Contemporaries unanimously noted the merits and sophistication of this chosen option.
The central part of the building, which has a convenient entrance and a covered porch, turned out to be incredibly solemn. The station was quite reasonably considered the most comfortable for passengers, and in terms of technical parameters it was largely perfect. At the same time, he hadown power plant that illuminates platforms and rooms.
Change of names
The station has changed its name several times. From the very moment of construction, it was Vindavsky, then B altic, then Rzhevsky. It began to be called Riga only in 1946
At the end of the thirties, a situation developed when the technical speeds of steam-powered trains began to hold back traffic. The railway electrified road had a higher capacity. For this reason, in 1929, the Moscow-Pushkino section was the first to be electrified at the Moscow junction, then, in 1933, electric trains went in the direction of Gorky, Ryazan - in 1935, Kursk - in 1937.
Launch of electric trains
The first electric trains, according to the plan of the third five-year plan, in the Riga direction were supposed to go in 1943. But the Second World War prevented. And they recovered only in 1945
Rizhsky railway station deteriorated over time. The area under him also needed to be reorganized due to constant traffic jams. And in 1995, the Moscow Government decided to build it up by reconstructing the transport interchange.
The main problem facing the city was just the arrangement of the said interchange at the intersection of the Riga overpass with Prospekt Mira, as well as Suschevsky Val, while Moscow should not have suffered aesthetically. The Riga station had to develop. Experts from possible options, such as an overpass and a tunnel, preferred the first, given the hydrologically difficultenvironment. The construction of the overpass required the demolition of part of the freight yard of the station, as well as a storage room and several other buildings.
Rizhsky railway station in the modern world
Span with wide traffic in 2 directions, as well as a system of pedestrian underpasses that united the metro station, the station itself, the streets of the city - all this is modern, refreshed, updated. The appearance of the building after the reconstruction has not changed: no additional floors, extensions have not been added. In addition, according to the previous drawings, the stucco molding of the ceilings was restored, and the elegant chandeliers were restored.
Today, the Rizhsky railway station is about 5000 square meters. m. area. There are illuminated information on the platform and in the halls, modernized ticket offices, bright, spacious waiting rooms for 1300 people, a comfortable hotel, etc. Illuminated panels of the station and platforms display the information necessary for those passing by. Passengers can use luggage storage. As well as the services of a porter, order an announcement over a loudspeaker. You can use laminating and copying services, long-distance, local communications. Also at the station it is possible to order a meeting of guests and their transfer. In addition, many other services are offered. The capacity of the station complex has tripled. Direct electric trains from here connect Moscow with Dedovsk, Krasnogorsk, Volokolamsk, Istra. At the same time, the schedule here is very flexible: the Rizhsky railway station allows passengers to leave forselected direction around the clock.
