Botanichesky Sad (Kaluzhsko–Rizhskaya line)

Botanichesky Sad Ботанический сад
Moscow Metro station
Coordinates	55°50′42″N 37°38′18″E / 55.8449°N 37.6383°E / 55.8449; 37.6383Coordinates: 55°50′42″N 37°38′18″E / 55.8449°N 37.6383°E / 55.8449; 37.6383
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	6  Kaluzhsko–Rizhskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 33, 61, 71, 134, 154, 185, 195, 603, 628, 789
Construction
Depth	7 metres (23 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	089
History
Opened	30 September 1978 (1978-09-30)
Traffic
Passengers (2009)	11,971,270  13.98%
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station VDNKh toward Novoyasenevskaya Kaluzhsko–Rizhskaya line Sviblovo toward Medvedkovo   Out-of-station interchange   Vladykino anticlockwise / outer Moscow Central Circle Transfer at: Botanichesky Sad Rostokino clockwise / inner
Route map Medvedkovo Yauza River Babushkinskaya Sviblovo yard Sviblovo Botanichesky Sad  14  (OSI) VDNKh  13  (OSI) Alekseyevskaya Rizhskaya Prospekt Mira  5  Sukharevskaya Turgenevskaya  1   10  Kitay-gorod  7  Moskva River Vodootvodny Canal Tretyakovskaya  2   8  Oktyabrskaya  5  Shabolovskaya Leninsky Prospekt  14  (OSI) Akademicheskaya Profsoyuznaya Novye Cheryomushki Kaluzhskaya (closed) Kaluzhskoye yard Kaluzhskaya Belyayevo Konkovo Tyoply Stan Yasenevo Novoyasenevskaya  12
Location
Botanichesky Sad Location within Moscow Ring Road

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 a northwest ward 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 is near the entrance of the Vladykino station, but it takes a 10– 15 minute walk to get to the Botanical Garden from the Botanichesky Sad metro station.

Building

Southern entrance rotunda

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 used in facing the pillars and the walls, but the walls are also decorated with aluminium artworks on various nature-based themes (artist Z. Vetrova).

The station has two entrances; the southern entrance is a surface rotunda building on 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 possible future transfer point. The northern subterranean entrance is on the opposite side of the Moscow Little Ring Railway and is linked with subways under the Serebryakova and Snezhnaya Streets. The station is connected with the entrance by a vaulted subway under the railway. Partly because of its relatively empty surrounding area, the Botanichesky Sad station has low daily passenger traffic of 28,650.