The metro station Marxist took the first passengers in the last days of December 1979. It was a kind of New Year's gift to Muscovites. It entered into operation as part of a new subway 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 in the diagram. The construction was carried out at a rapid pace at the beginning of the Moscow Olympics. The metro station Marksistskaya in 1980 completed the Kalinin line. She became part of the interchange node at Taganskaya Square, where Kalininskaya could be transferred to Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya or Koltsevaya. The first line of the Kalinin line had no other transplant stations. It is interesting to note that all the stops on it are made according to individual architectural projects. This circumstance marks the final completion of a certain period in the history of Soviet architecture, known as the fight against excesses. Some Moscow metro stations, erected in the sixties, suffered from this policy.
Moscow, Metro Marxist
The station is at a rather deep depth. It is devoid of a ground vestibule, on the surface from it you can go through the underground passage near Taganskaya Square. The metro station Marksistskaya is quite expressive in architectural terms. Structurally it is designed as a three-vaulted, column type. The interior decoration is dominated by granite pink and red. Both geometrical forms and coloristic solutions combine the two rows of columns with the black stone of the basement of the track walls and the gray finish of the station floor. In the axial direction the gray granite floor is decorated with red, made of the same material ornamental inserts. The latter resemble clove 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 decision. It is given by the name of the station. It is interesting to note that the metro station Marksistskaya did not fall under the general wave of renaming when historical epochs changed in the early nineties.
It retained its ideological name. Its toponym is a kind of monument to the past times. In 1986, the Metro Marxist stopped being the terminal station of the Kalinin line, which was continued to Tretyakovskaya in Zamoskvorechye. But it remains one of the busiest on the entire Moscow subway in terms of passenger traffic, passing daily through it. Projects for the further construction of the Kalininskaya line were repeatedly revised. At present, the decision has been taken. Construction is in the west.
On the surface of the earth
From the metro station Marksistskaya we go through the underground passage to the same street, and then we get to the famous Taganskaya square and the Garden Ring. This is a very lively place in Moscow, a kind of intersection of many ways and directions. One of the centers of business and commercial activity and a transfer hub for other modes of transport.