Bratislavskaya is a Moscow Metro

Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system serving Moscow and the neighbouring town of Krasnogorsk. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. As of 2011, the Moscow Metro has 182 stations and its route length is . The system is...

 station in the Maryino District

Maryino District

Maryino is a district of South-Eastern Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. Population: It is the most populated district of Moscow.-History:...

, South-Eastern Administrative Okrug

South-Eastern Administrative Okrug

South-Eastern Administrative Okrug, or Yugo-Vostochny Administrative Okrug , is one of ten administrative okrugs of Moscow. It was founded in 1991 and has an area of...

, Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

. It is on the Lyublinskaya Line

Lyublinskaya Line

Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line is the line of the Moscow Metro. First opened in 1995 as a semi-chordial radius it is at present in process of being extended through the centre and northwards...

, between Lyublino and Maryino stations. Bratislavskaya opened on 25 December 1996 as a part of the South-Eastern extension of the Lyublinsky radius.

Named after the Slovak

Slovakia

The Slovak Republic is a landlocked state in Central Europe. It has a population of over five million and an area of about . Slovakia is bordered by the Czech Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south...

 capital Bratislava

Bratislava

Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and, with a population of about 431,000, also the country's largest city. Bratislava is in southwestern Slovakia on both banks of the Danube River. Bordering Austria and Hungary, it is the only national capital that borders two independent countries.Bratislava...

 in honour of the Russo-Slovak friendship, the station is a pillar bi-span. The station's main theme is designed accordingly (architects A.Orlov and A.Nekrasov). The station's length is interrupted with a central square vacuum space that was to serve as a future transfer for the large ring beginning from the Kakhovskaya Line

Kakhovskaya Line

Kakhovskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. Although the line was formed in 1995, all of the stations date to 1969 when they opened as part of the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. The Kakhovskaya Line is the only conventional line that lacks a full transfer to the ring...

. However the large ring programme has been redesigned and as a result the future transfer will take place at Pechatniki

Pechatniki

Pechatniki is a station of the Moscow Metro's Lyublinskaya Line. The station was opened on 28 December, 1995 as part of the first stage of the Lyublinsky radius, and is named after the district that it is situated in...

. It is expected that this vaulted space will be covered up as the rest of the station is.

The current architectural decoration is that the two spans are vaulted with suspended lighting hanging from the apexes of the vault. The middle pillar row drops from the joining point of the vaults. The pillars are faced with wavy turquoise marble as are the walls. The floor is out of checkered black and grey granite, except in the future transfer poin where the floor is wholly grey. Also decorating the station are four medallions located in the four points above the pillar rows with views of Moscow and Bratislava (Bratislava Castle

Bratislava Castle

Bratislava Castle is the main castle of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.The massive rectangular building with four corner towers stands on a quite isolated rocky hill of the Little Carpathians directly above the Danube river in the middle of Bratislava...

, Devín Castle

Devín Castle

Devín Castle is a castle in Devín, which is a borough of Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia....

, the residence of the Mayor of Moscow, and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour

Cathedral of Christ the Saviour (Moscow)

The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour is a Church in Moscow, Russia, on the northern bank of the Moskva River, a few blocks south-west of the Kremlin...

.

The station has two underground vestibules located under the Pererva street and Myachkovsky boulevard.

External links

• Mosmetro.ru
• Metro.ru
• Mymetro.ru
• News.metro.ru
• KartaMetro.info — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)