Kitai-Gorod - Китай-город

Kaluzhsko–Rizhskaya / Калужско-Рижская

Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya / Таганско-Краснопресненская

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Currently, there are two stops where you can get lost or even go in the wrong direction, because the platforms are organized in a different way as opposed to the majority of stations on the Moscow Metro : Kitay-Gorod and Tretyakovskaya

The most important one is Kitay-Gorod, one of the most crowded subway junctions. When arranging a meeting at Kitay-Gorod, you can’t use the usual Moscow meeting spot “in the center of the platform,” because there are two stations connected by a passage in the center and they look almost identical (thank you, designers of the Moscow Metro)!

It’s easy, however, to tell one Kitay-Gorod platform from the other, if you know one trick: the platform that has trains going south, in the direction of Tretyakovskaya on line 6 and Taganskaya on line 7, is nicknamed “krystal,” because its columns resemble crystals. The one with trains going north to Turgenevskaya on 6, and Kuznetsky Most on 7, is called “garmoshka” (“accordion”), also based on the form of the columns. Phew! Easy to remember now!

To find each other at Kitay-Gorod, make plans to meet “next to the big head,” the monument to Viktor Nogin, a Bolshevik leader. His monument in the form of a head is located on the northern side of the station, where one exits the station by the stairs (there is an escalator at the opposite end).

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