Polezhayevskaya

Polezhayevskaya
Полежаевская
Moscow Metro station
Location Khoroshyovsky District
Northern Administrative Okrug
Coordinates 55°46′39″N 37°31′09″E / 55.7775°N 37.5192°E / 55.7775; 37.5192Coordinates: 55°46′39″N 37°31′09″E / 55.7775°N 37.5192°E / 55.7775; 37.5192
Owned by Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)  7  Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line
Platforms 2 island platforms
Tracks 3
Connections Bus: 38, 39, 48, 64, 155, 271, 294, 800
Trolleybus: 20, 20к, 21, 35, 43, 65, 86
Construction
Platform levels 1
Parking No
Other information
Station code 123
History
Opened 30 December 1972
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station
toward  Planernaya
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line
toward  Kotelniki
Location
Polezhayevskaya
Location within Moscow Ring Road

Polezhayevskaya (Russian: Полежаевская) is a station on the Moscow Metro's Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line. It opened on 30 December 1972 as part of the original Krasnopresnenkiy radius and Krasnopresnenskaya Line, and is unusual in having three through tracks (although it was not the first such station, see Partizanskaya). The station was initially intended to be at a junction to a branch toward Serebryanny Bor. However, the plan was branch was scrapped after construction had already started, and the station was completed as originally planned.

The station is named after Vasily Polezhayev, who was the head of the Metro in the 1940s and 1950s. Its widened column tri-span design has a row of pillars in the centre of each of the two platforms, creating a wide space above the centre track. The octagonal pillars are coated with yellow marble of different tones and the walls covered with white ceramic tiles are accredited to the architects A. Fokina and L. Popov.

Only one of the platforms (and thus two of the tracks) is used by passengers. The second platform has been opened at 14th November 2015 (due to construction) and the third track (with the tunnel that goes another 340 metres before a siding) is used for the night-time standing of trains. Two vestibules (one with a closed escalator) are interlinked with subways under the Khoroshovo highway.

The future prospects of the third track are dim, despite the construction of an adjoining station (Khoroshovskaya) on the Third Interchange Contour. Some plans for the interchange passages include switching the traffic from the central track to the unused one to fill it up and construct a staircase in its place.

The station has a daily passenger traffic total of 73,700.

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