Marksistskaya metro station received its first passengers in the last days of December 1979. It was a kind of New Year's gift to Muscovites. She entered service as part of the new metro line. The latter was laid in the eastern part of the city to Novogireevo station. The line was named "Kalininskaya" and was marked in yellow on the diagram. Construction was carried out at an accelerated pace by the beginning of the Moscow Olympics. The Marksistskaya metro station completed the Kalininskaya line in 1980. It became part of the transfer hub near Taganskaya Square, where it was possible to go from Kalininskaya to Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya or Koltsevaya.
The first stage of the Kalinin line had no other interchange stations. It is interesting to note that all stops on it are made according to individual architectural projects. This circumstance marks the final end of a certain period in the history of Soviet architecture, known as the struggle against excesses. Some Moscow metro stations built in the 1960s suffered greatly from this policy.
Moscow, metro Marxistskaya
The station is located at a fairly large depth. It is devoid of a ground vestibule; you can get to the surface from itExit through the underground passage under Taganskaya Square. The Marksistskaya metro station itself is quite expressive in terms of architecture. Structurally, it is made as a three-vaulted column type.
The interior decoration is dominated by pink and red granite. Both in terms of geometric shapes and color scheme, two rows of columns effectively harmonize with the black stone of the socle of the track walls and the gray finish of the station floor. In the axial direction, the gray granite floor is decorated with red ornamental inserts made of the same material. The latter resemble carnation flowers in their contours. In the end parts of the hall, under the ceiling, there are two decorative panels. Their theme is traditional and is in the general context of the entire design solution. It is given by the name of the station. It is interesting to note that the Marxistskaya metro station did not fall under the general wave of renaming during the change of historical eras in the early nineties.
She kept her ideological name. Its toponym is a kind of monument to bygone times. In 1986, the Marksistskaya metro station ceased to be the terminus of the Kalininskaya line, which was extended to Tretyakovskaya in Zamoskvorechye. But it remains one of the busiest in the entire Moscow metro in terms of passenger traffic passing through it daily. Projects for the further construction of the Kalininskaya line were reviewed several times. The decision has now been made. Construction is underway in the westerndirection.
On the ground
From the Marxistskaya metro station we exit through the underground passage to the street of the same name, and then we get to the famous Taganskaya Square and the Garden Ring. This is a very lively place in Moscow, a kind of crossroads of many paths and directions. One of the centers of business and commercial activity and a transfer hub for other modes of transport.
