Kommunarka (Sokolnicheskaya line)

Kommunarka (Russian: Коммунарка) is a Moscow Metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya line. It was opened on June 20, 2019, along with Filatov Lug, Prokshino, and Olkhovaya.[1][2] and became the southwestern terminus of the line, after Olkhovaya station. Kommunarka became the 232nd station of the Moscow Metro.

Kommunarka
Moscow Metro station
Location	Kommunarka, Sosenskoye Settlement, Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug Russia
Coordinates	55.5605°N 37.4696°E
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Sokolnicheskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Platform levels	1
History
Opened	20 June 2019
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Terminus Sokolnicheskaya line Olkhovaya toward Bulvar Rokossovskogo
Route map Bulvar Rokossovskogo Cherkizovo yard Cherkizovskaya Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad Preobrazhensky Bridge  Yauza River Sokolniki Krasnoselskaya Severnoye yard Komsomolskaya Krasnye Vorota Chistye Prudy Lubyanka Okhotny Ryad () Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Kropotkinskaya Park Kultury Frunzenskaya Sportivnaya Luzhniki Metro Bridge Vorobyovy Gory Moskva River Universitet Prospekt Vernadskogo Yugo-Zapadnaya Troparyovo Rumyantsevo Salaryevo Solntsevo–Butovo–Warsaw Highway Filatov Lug Prokshino Olkhovaya Kommunarka () Stolbovo yard Potapovo
Location
Kommunarka Location within Moscow Metro

It is in the Kommunarka area of Sosenskoye Settlement in the Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug southwest of Moscow. It is became the southern terminus of the line.

History

The city government decided to extend the line to Stolbovo in February 2016; an unexpected decision given that the city initially planned to extend the line only to Filatov Lug. The initial cost of the line was about 45 billion rubles.[3] In July 2017, the city government confirmed that the extension would move forward, allowing construction to continue.[4]

In March 2017, the city began clearing space around the planned station to accommodate the construction.[5]

The station's working name during most of construction was Stolbovo. This derived from the former village of Stolbovo, which became part of the current settlement when it was incorporated into the City of Moscow from Moscow Oblast.[6]

Design and Layout

Kommunarka is at the intersection of the Solntsevo-Butovo-Varshavskoye shosse highway and the Ostafyevo International Airport section of the Moscow Ring Road. It has two lobbies, one that exits across the highway via an underground pedestrian walkway, and a second that leads to a future station on the planned Kommunarskaya line.[6]

References

1. "Собянин провел технический запуск поездов на участке метро до Коммунарки в ТиНАО" (in Russian). Moscow Complex for Construction and Urban Development. 2019-01-14.
2. "Новый участок «красной» ветки метро в Москве построят к октябрю 2019 года" (in Russian). Izvestia. 2018-03-17.
3. "Метро-2019 в Коммунарку" (in Russian). MosGazeta. 2017-06-08.
4. "Утвержден проект продления линии метро в Коммунарку" (in Russian). City of Moscow. 2017-07-18.
5. "Участок Сокольнической линии метро «Саларьево» — «Столбово» построят в 2019 году" (in Russian). City of Moscow. 2017-03-29.
6. "Коммунарка" (in Russian). Moscow Complex for Construction and Urban Development. Retrieved 2018-03-04.