Babushkinskaya

55°52′10″N 37°39′52″E / 55.8694°N 37.6644°E / 55.8694; 37.6644Owned byMoskovsky MetropolitenLine(s) Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya linePlatforms1 island platformTracks2ConstructionStructure typeShallow single-vaultDepth10 metres (33 ft)Platform levels1ParkingNoOther informationStation code087HistoryOpened29 September 1978; 45 years ago (1978-09-29)Passengers200926,963,645 Services

Preceding station	Moscow Metro			Following station
Sviblovo towards Novoyasenevskaya		Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line		Medvedkovo Terminus

Route map

Legend Medvedkovo Yauza River Babushkinskaya Sviblovo yard Sviblovo Botanichesky Sad VDNKh Alekseyevskaya Rizhskaya Prospekt Mira Sukharevskaya Turgenevskaya Kitay-gorod Moskva River Vodootvodny Canal Tretyakovskaya Oktyabrskaya Shabolovskaya () Leninsky Prospekt Akademicheskaya () Profsoyuznaya Novye Cheryomushki Kaluzhskaya (closed) Kaluzhskoye yard Kaluzhskaya Belyayevo Konkovo Tyoply Stan Yasenevo Novoyasenevskaya This diagram: view talk edit

Location

Babushkinskaya (Russian: Бабушкинская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Babushkinsky District, North-Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It was opened on September 29, 1978 as a part of the VDNKh – Medvedkovo sector. It is on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line, between Sviblovo and Medvedkovo stations after the commissioning of which there were 107 stations in the Moscow Metro.

Name

Babsuhkinskaya was named after Babushkinsky District where the station is located, which in turn was named after Mikhail Babushkin, a polar aviator.

On March 29, 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic in Russia, the management of the Moscow Metro temporarily renamed the station to "DomaBabushkinskaya" (Russian: Домабабушкинская), meaning "Grandmother at home", to remind the citizens of Moscow to keep their elderly parents at home.^[1]

Design

Babushkinskaya is a single vault-type station, elliptical in cross-section with slightly canted, grey marble side walls. All of the signs and light fixtures are attached to the ceiling, so the platform is completely open except for a few minimalist benches located along the central axis. At the end of the platform, above the exit stairs, is a sculpture by A. M. Mosichuk commemorating Babushkin's Arctic flight.

Entrances

The entrances to the station are located at the intersection of Yeniseyskaya and Menzhinskogo Streets.

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