CSKA | |
Native Name: | ЦСКА |
Type: | Moscow Metro station |
Address: | Khoroshyovsky District, Northern Administrative Okrug |
Borough: | Moscow |
Country: | Russia |
Coordinates: | 55.7866°N 37.5333°W |
Structure: | Shallow column station[1] |
Platform: | 1 island platform |
Levels: | 1 |
Tracks: | 2 |
Opened: | 26 February 2018[2] |
Owned: | Moskovsky Metropoliten |
Map Type: | Moscow Metro |
Route Map: | |
Map State: | collapsed |
CSKA (Russian: ЦСКА) is a station on the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line of the Moscow Metro. It opened on 26 February 2018 as one of five initial stations on the new line.[3]
Passengers can make out-of-station transfers to Zorge on the Moscow Central Circle Line. The Metro plans to build a walkway between the stations which would make the connection time about 20 minutes.[4]
The original name of the station was slated to be Khodynskoe Pole, after the open area where the station is located; however, fans of CSKA Moscow requested that the station be renamed “CSKA” after the sports clubs whose facilities are nearby.[5] In April 2016, the Mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin issued a decree to rename the station.[6] To further recognize CSKA, the station lobby includes sculptures of well-known CSKA athletes across the club's three major sports: Vsevolod Bobrov, Denis Denisov, and Victor Khryapa.[7]