The Marxistskaya metro station received the first passengers in the last days of December 1979. It was a kind of New Year's gift to Muscovites. She went into operation operating as part of the new metro line. The latter was laid in the eastern part of the city to the Novogireevo station. The line was called "Kalinin" and was marked in yellow on the diagram. Construction was carried out at an accelerated pace to the start of the Moscow Olympics. In 1980, the Marxist metro station completed the Kalinin line. It became part of the interchange hub near Taganskaya Square, where from Kalininskaya it was possible to go to Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya or Koltsevaya.
The first interchange stations did not have the first line of the Kalinin line. It is interesting to note that all 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 struggle against excesses. Some Moscow metro stations built in the sixties were badly affected by such a policy.
Moscow, metro Marksistskaya
The station is at a fairly great depth. It is deprived of a ground lobby, you can get to the surface through the underpass under Taganskaya Square. The Marxist metro station itself is quite expressive in architectural terms. Structurally, it is made as a three-vaulted column type.
The interior decoration is dominated by granite of pink and red colors. Both in geometric shapes and in color scheme, two rows of columns harmoniously harmonize 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 ornamental inserts made of the same material. The latter resemble clove flowers in their contours. In the end parts of the hall, two
decorative panels are located under the ceiling
. Their theme is traditional and is in the general context of the whole design decision. It is given by the name of the station. It is interesting to note that the Marxistskaya metro station did not fall under the general wave of renaming when changing historical eras in the early nineties.
She retained her ideological name. Her toponym is a kind of monument to bygone times. In 1986, the Marxistskaya metro station ceased to be the terminal station of the Kalinin line, which was continued to the Tretyakovskaya line in Zamoskvorechye. But it remains one of the busiest throughout the Moscow Metro in terms of passenger traffic passing through it daily. Projects for the further construction of the Kalinin line have been reviewed repeatedly. The decision has now been made. Construction is being carried out in a westerly direction.
On the surface of the earth
From the Marxistskaya metro station, we exit through the underpass to the street of the same name, and then we get to the famous Taganskaya Square and the Garden Ring. This is a very lively place in Moscow, a kind of crossroads of many ways and directions. One of the centers of business and commercial activity and interchange hub for other modes of transport.