Cherkizovskaya Explained

Cherkizovskaya
Type:Moscow Metro station
Address:

Borough:Moscow
Country:Russia
Coordinates:55.8038°N 37.7448°W
Other:Bus

34, 52, 171, 230, 716
Trolleybus: 32, 41, 83

Structure:Shallow single-vault
Platform:1 island platform
Levels:1
Tracks:2
Parking:833 park-and-ride car places[1]
Opened:[2]
Code:002
Owned:Moskovsky Metropoliten
Map Type:Moscow Metro
Map State:collapsed

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.

Entrances

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: http://stroi.mos.ru/d17dr622647.html . ru:На востоке столицы открылись две перехватывающие парковки . Строительный мир . 26 December 2011 . 26 December 2012 . ru . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120610143510/http://stroi.mos.ru/d17dr622647.html . 10 June 2012 .
  2. Web site: Черкизовская . Moskovsky Metropoliten . 2012-12-26 . ru . https://web.archive.org/web/20130423223630/http://www.mosmetro.ru/stations/sokolnicheskaya/cherkizovskaya/ . 2013-04-23 . dead .