Spartak (Moscow Metro)

Spartak Спартак
Moscow Metro station
Location	Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo District North-Western Administrative Okrug
Coordinates	55°49′06″N 37°26′07″E / 55.8182°N 37.4352°ECoordinates: 55°49′06″N 37°26′07″E / 55.8182°N 37.4352°E
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	7  Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Shallow column triple-span station
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Disabled access	Yes
History
Opened	27 August 2014
Previous names	Volokolamskaya
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Tushinskaya toward  Planernaya Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line Shchukinskaya toward  Kotelniki
Route map Legend Planernoye yard Planernaya Skhodnenskaya Tushinskaya Spartak Moscow Canal Shchukinskaya Oktyabrskoye Pole Polezhayevskaya Begovaya to Krasnaya Presnya yard Ulitsa 1905 Goda Barrikadnaya  5  Pushkinskaya  2   9  Kuznetsky Most  1  Kitay-gorod  6  Taganskaya  5   8  Proletarskaya  10  Volgogradsky Prospekt Tekstilshchiki Kuzminki Ryazansky Prospekt Vykhino Vykhino yard Lermontovsky Prospekt Zhulebino Kotelniki
Location
Spartak Location within Moscow Ring Road

Spartak (Russian: Спартак), previously named Volokolamskaya (Russian: Волоколамская) while on conservation, is a station on the Moscow Metro's Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line, located under the Tushino airfield. It was constructed in 1975 as part of the northern extension of the Krasnopresnensky radius but only opened on 27 August 2014.^[1] The station serves the newly built Otkrytiye Arena Stadium, the home ground of FC Spartak Moscow.

Moscow's 1960s expansion plans called for a construction of a municipal housing district on the old Tushino airfield, and the station was to serve it. However, the planned estate was never built and the station was left unfinished, though it is structurally complete. Metro travellers could spot the station out the window of the train between Shchukinskaya and Tushinskaya, especially when it was illuminated by a train travelling in the opposite direction.

Spartak is a typical pillar-trispan "Novaya Sorokonozhka" (Новая Сороконожка, new centipede) design with staircases at opposite ends. The vestibules were built only by 2014, with the northern one being above-ground and the southern one underground.

References

1. В Москве открылась станция метро «Спартак» (in Russian). Komsomolskaya Pravda. 2014-08-27. Retrieved 2014-08-27.

External links

• Metro.molot.ru - Description of the station (Russian)