Owned by Moskovsky Metropoliten Platform levels 1 Opened 30 September 1978 Platforms in use 1 | Depth 7 metres (23 ft) Parking No Level 1 Tracks 2 | |
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Line(s) 6 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line Connections Bus: 33, 61, 71, 134, 154, 185, 195, 603, 628, 789 Similar Sviblovo, VDNKh, Kitay‑gorod, Rizhskaya, Alekseyevskaya | ||
Botanichesky Sad (Russian: Ботани́ческий сад) is a Moscow Metro station in Rostokino District, North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, between VDNKh and Sviblovo stations.
Botanichesky Sad opened on 29 September 1978 along with northwestward extension of the Rizhsky radius. The station is named after the Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences. The name is somewhat confusing as the garden itself is near the entrance of the Vladykino station, while it takes a 10-15—minute walk to get to the Botanical Garden from the Botanichesky Sad metro station.
Botanichesky Sad was designed by architects N. Demchinsky and Yuliya Kolesnikova. The station features a pillar-trispan with a ceiling covered with a grid of modular anodized aluminium light fixtures. White marble was employed in facing the pillars and the walls, although the latter is also decorated with aluminium artworks on various nature-based themes (artist Z. Vetrova).
The station has two entrances with the southern one being a surface rotunda building on the Leonova street which is internally lit by sculptural lamps (work of N. Masterpulo) and is linked by escalators to the main platform. As the station is located under Moscow's circular railway, the station was foreseen as a perspective future transfer point. The northern subterranial entrance is located on the opposite side of the Moscow Little Ring Railway and is interlinked with subways under the Serebryakova and Snezhnaya Streets. The station is connected with the entrance via a vaulted subway under the railway. Partly because of its relatively empty surrounding area, Botanichesky Sad station has a low daily passenger traffic of 28,650.