Riga station

The station building was built in 1897-1901 as part of the construction of the Moscow-Vindava-Rybinsk railway (now the Riga railway line ) according to the project of the St. Petersburg architect S. A. Brzhozovsky , the author of the Vitebsk railway station in St. Petersburg .

The construction of the station was carried out under the supervision of the architect J. F. Diderichs ^[4] , the construction was supervised by F. O. Dvorzhetsky-Bogdanovich ^[5] .

Initially, there were two separate stations: passenger and cargo. Until 1929, they were called Moscow-Passenger Baltic and Moscow-Commodity Baltic, respectively. In 1929 it was renamed Moscow-Passenger Rzhevskaya and Moscow-Commodity Rzhevskaya. In 1963, merged into one station Moscow-Rzhevskaya. In the same year, the station was renamed Moscow-Riga. In 1999 it was equipped with turnstiles.

In connection with the small loading of Riga and Savyolovsky stations in the early 2000s, it was proposed to close them, transfer suburban trains to other stations (options for creating new terminals were also considered) and eliminate access railway lines. These plans have not been implemented.

On October 24, 2008, the station was closed for freight work with a change in the ASUZHD ​​(ESR) code from 196108 to 196127 ^[6] . The station was the nature of the work of the cargo, the volume of extracurricular ^[7] , now the passenger station is class 1.

Every year during the May holidays, the Victory Train leaves from the Riga Station. On May 9, 2018, the traditional flight to the Dubosekovo platform was completed by a train with two interlocked P36 locomotives. The steam locomotives are assigned to the locomotive convoy of the Moscow Railway, based in the Museum and Production Complex “ Locomotive Depot Podmoskovnaya ” ^[8] .

Chimes are installed above the main entrance. In the 2000-2010s, at the beginning of every hour, before the clock, they selected the first two lines from the chorus of Raymond Pauls ' song “Vernissage”.

On July 31, 2004, the exposition site of the Museum of the History of the Development of Railway Transport of the Moscow Railway was opened on the reconstructed territory of the former car settler ^{[9] of} the Moscow-Riga station . At the site are more than 60 exhibits of railway equipment ^[10] .

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  Vindavsky station. View from the 1st Meshchanskaya. 1901 year.

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  Postcard with a view of the Vindava station ( no later than 1917 )

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  Postcard with a view of the Vindava station ( no later than 1917 )

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  Meeting of demobilized soldiers at the Rzhevsky station in Moscow. 1945

Two apron tracks (No. 1, 2) next to two low passenger platforms, which have a passenger building, serve long-distance trains to Riga , Velikiye Luki , Pskov. Two more apron tracks (No. 3, 4) are located at a high platform and serve part of the suburban trains of the Riga direction of the Moscow Railway . The four routes between the platforms are occupied by the exposition of the Museum of the History of Railway Transport .

At the Riga station there is a center for scientific and technical information of Russian Railways and an innovation development center, which houses the exhibition center for innovation in railway transport (entrance opposite the museum of railway equipment).

A few hundred meters from the station is the ground pavilion of the Rizhskaya metro station, and even further - the Rzhevskaya platform ( Alekseevskaya connecting line ) and Riga (platform No. 3, 4) ( Leningrad direction of the railway ). Riga Station operates around the clock with a break for cleaning the waiting rooms from 23.00 to 6.00.

Within the boundaries of the Moscow-Riga station there is not only the main route development at the Riga station, but also the double-track section of the Alekseevskaya connecting line :

• in the west - from the Moscow-Stankolit platform (not including it, the entrance traffic lights just east of the platform), including the junction with the Riga direction of the Moscow Railway and the former Sheremetyevsky (north of the junction) and Alekseevsky (east) posts (the posts were previously separate, abolished in the 2000s).
• in the southeast - to the border with the Moscow-Kalanchevskaya station at the Krestovsky overpass with a change in the parity of directions. The Rzhevskaya platform is already within the borders of Moscow-Kalanchevskaya, the input traffic lights are just west of the platform.

There are two transfer turnout exits to the Moscow-Tovarnaya station of the main passage of the October Railway (Leningrad direction): one at the Krestovsky overpass (moving from Moscow-Kalanchevskaya to the north), the second at the former Alekseevsky post to one of the lateral routes of Moscow-Tovarnaya (traffic from the western part of the station towards Moscow-Pass., that is, the Leningrad station). Thus, Moscow-Riga borders with the OZhD along with Nikolaevka , the exit from which is also located at the Krestovsky overpass from the north of the OZD tracks, the transfer station for both borders is Moscow-Tovarnaya.

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  Electric train EP2D- 0005 at the Moscow-Riga station

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  Entrance to the platforms (platforms 3, 4) of commuter trains.

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  Tourist retro-train with steam locomotive E ^p -97-41 at Riga Station

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  Interiors of the waiting room

Passenger

The passenger terminal of the Riga Station serves about 4000 people daily. Every month in 2018, 296,103 people were handled by the passenger terminal of the Moscow-Riga station, of which 266,783 passengers were in suburban traffic and 29,320 people were transported by long-distance trains ^[11] .

Destinations, carriers, and schedule

Fast Track

  Comment: To clarify the location of the stop of the necessary transport on the map, click on the colored icon of the route number in the table.
902 - express trains; 119 B - regular city bus routes; 454 - regular suburban bus routes, H7 - night routes, 34 - regular trolleybus routes, 42 - electric buses; 7 - trams; 1011 - fixed-route taxis ^{[12] [13] [14]}

See also: Register of municipal routes for the regular transportation of passengers and baggage by road and ground electric transport in the city of Moscow

Monuments and Monuments

• Bronze bust of the architect S. A. Brzhozovsky ( 1863 - date of death unknown, 1930s ), the author of the project for the building of the Vindavsky (now Riga) station in Moscow. The work of the sculptor S. A. Shcherbakov ^[15] is located on a pedestal made of red granite with a bronze cartouche attached to it with the inscription “Architect Brzozovsky Stanislav Antonovich. The author of the Riga Station building. ” The monument was installed to the left of the main entrance to the station building at the end of 2014 simultaneously with the memorial sign “Moscow Railway Stations” on the opposite side ^[16] .
• The memorial sign “Moscow Railway Stations” - a monument made of red granite on a pedestal in the form of a stylized scroll of a geographical map ( cartouche ), in the center of which is a bronze bas-relief depicting nine Moscow stations located around the Moscow Kremlin ; the monument’s composition is crowned with a sculpture of George the Victorious on a horse, striking a serpent with a spear - a symbol of the coat of arms of Moscow . On the pedestal in bronze letters the inscription “Railway stations of Moscow” is laid out. The monument to the work of the sculptor S. A. Shcherbakov ^[17] was unveiled at the end of 2014 ^{[18] [19]} . The monument is located to the right of the main entrance to the station building.
• Monument to the soldiers of the railway - a bronze stele on a granite pedestal with the names of forty Heroes of the Soviet Union , sixteen full holders of the Order of Glory , seven Heroes of socialist labor and the title "1941-1945. To the Heroes of the Railway Workers ”made in the bas-relief technique against the background of a composition of railway tracks and railway equipment; the composition of the monument is crowned with the Order of Victory , framed by a bronze wreath of glory; on the reverse side of the obelisk is a composition of moving railway equipment against the background of the city and a ribbon with the inscription "1941-1945". At the base of the monument is a capsule with earth, which was delivered from seven regions of the Moscow Railway ^[20] . The monument to the sculptor S. A. Shcherbakov was unveiled on May 5, 2011 . The monument is located on the territory of the exhibition site of the Museum of the History of the Development of Railway Transport of the Moscow Railway of Russian Railways .

• Riga Station portrayed the train station in Bern in the television movie Seventeen Moments of Spring .
• For family reasons
• Station for two
• Takeoff death
• Admiral
• Inner circle
• Grandfather Mazaev and Zaitsev
• Open Book (1977) , Episode 6
• The television series " Brigade "
• Youth

• List of Moscow railway stations and platforms