Cherkizovskaya

Cherkizovskaya
Moscow Metro station
Location	Okruzhnoy Proyezd Preobrazhenskoye District Eastern Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55°48′14″N 37°44′41″E / 55.8038°N 37.7448°E / 55.8038; 37.7448Coordinates: 55°48′14″N 37°44′41″E / 55.8038°N 37.7448°E / 55.8038; 37.7448
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	1  Sokolnicheskaya Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 34, 52, 171, 230, 716 Trolleybus: 32, 41, 83
Construction
Structure type	Shallow single-vault
Depth	11 metres (36 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	833 park-and-ride car places[1]
Other information
Station code	002[2]
History
Opened	1 August 1990 (1990-08-01)[2]
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad toward  Salaryevo Sokolnicheskaya Line Bulvar Rokossovskogo Terminus
Route map Legend Bulvar Rokossovskogo  14  (OSI) Cherkizovo yard Cherkizovskaya  14  (OSI) Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad Preobrazhensky Bridge  Yauza River Sokolniki Krasnoselskaya Severnoye yard Komsomolskaya  5  Krasnye Vorota Chistye Prudy  6   10  Lubyanka  7  Okhotny Ryad  2  ( 3 ) Biblioteka Imeni Lenina  3   4   9  Kropotkinskaya Park Kultury  5  Frunzenskaya ( closed until March 2017 ) Sportivnaya  14  (OSI) Luzhniki Metro Bridge Vorobyovy Gory Moskva River Universitet Prospekt Vernadskogo Yugo-Zapadnaya Troparyovo Rumyantsevo Salaryevo Salaryevo yard
Location
Cherkizovskaya Location within Moscow Ring Road

Cherkizovskaya (Russian: Черки́зовская) is a Moscow Metro station in the Preobrazhenskoye District, Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, between Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad and Ulitsa Podbelskogo stations.

Design

Cherkizovskaya opened in 1990 and was the work of architects V. Cheremin and A. Vigdorov. The station is named after the former village of Cherkizovo which is a district of Moscow nowadays. The design of the station is a single vault, with a curved ceiling and a platform free of pillars. The outer walls are faced with panels of corrugated metal. Both ends of the platform are decorated with stained-glass panels above the exit stairs.^[2]

Station platform

Entrances

The station's vestibule is located at Okruzhnoy Proyezd near the intersection with Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street. Lokomotiv Stadium is situated nearby.^[2]

References