Owned by Moskovsky Metropoliten Platform levels 1 Station code 047 Opened 18 January 1944 Platforms in use 1 | Depth 32.5 metres (107 ft) Parking No Level 1 Tracks 2 | |
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Line(s) 3 Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Similar Elektrozavodskaya, Krasnoselskaya, Kurskaya, Semyonovskaya, Partizanskaya |
Baumanskaya (Russian: Бауманская) is a station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, named after the revolutionary Nikolai Bauman. It was designed by Boris Iofan and Yury Zenkevich and opened in 1944. The Art Deco design features white marble pylons with rounded corners, projecting, fluted piers faced with red ceramic tile, and decorative ventilation grilles. In the bays between each set of piers are bronze sculptures by V.A. Andreev depicting Russian soldiers and workers of the home front during World War II. At the end of the platform is a mosaic portrait of Vladimir Lenin. This station is very busy, as one of the biggest Moscow institutes (Moscow State Technical University) is located not far away.
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The station was closed in 2015 for repairs, maintenance and escalator shaft replacement.
Passenger traffic
Baumanskaya is the second busiest station in Moscow Metro. The facts:
Inscription
A cryptic inscription is on the wall of station. It is situated near the first car stop towards the Shchyolkovskaya station just under the last ventilation lattice. The inscription is deeply carved in marble on about 120 centimetres (47 in) above the floor, is about 8 centimetres (3.1 in) in length and 1.5 centimetres (0.59 in) in height. It consists of two dates, divided by hyphen:
19 14/XI 46 - 19 15/XII 54
These dates translate to 14 November 1946 - 15 December 1954. The way of writing is very similar to the way dates are written on gravestones. The origin of that artifact is unknown.