Bulvar Rokossovskogo

Bulvar Rokossovskogo
Moscow Metro station
Location	Bogorodskoye District Eastern Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55°48′53″N 37°44′03″E / 55.8148°N 37.7342°ECoordinates: 55°48′53″N 37°44′03″E / 55.8148°N 37.7342°E
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	1  Sokolnicheskaya Line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 3, 75, 80, 86, 265, 775, 822 Tram: 2, 4, 7, 13, 29, 33, 36, 46
Construction
Structure type	Shallow column triple-vault
Depth	8 metres (26 ft)
Platform levels	1
Other information
Station code	001
History
Opened	1 August 1990
Previous names	Ulitsa Podbelskogo
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Cherkizovskaya toward  Rumyantsevo Sokolnicheskaya Line Terminus
Route map Legend Bulvar Rokossovskogo Cherkizovo yard Cherkizovskaya Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad Preobrazhensky Bridge  Yauza River Sokolniki Krasnoselskaya Severnoye yard Komsomolskaya  5  Krasnye Vorota Chistye Prudy  6   10  Lubyanka  7  Okhotny Ryad  2  ( 3 ) Biblioteka Imeni Lenina  3   4   9  Kropotkinskaya Park Kultury  5  Frunzenskaya ( closed until March 2017 ) Sportivnaya Luzhniki Metro Bridge Vorobyovy Gory Moskva River Universitet Prospekt Vernadskogo Yugo-Zapadnaya Troparyovo Rumyantsevo Salaryevo Salaryevo yard
Location
Bulvar Rokossovskogo Location within Moscow Ring Road

Bulvar Rokossovskogo (Russian: Бульва́р Рокоссо́вского), previously Ulitsa Podbelskogo (Russian: У́лица Подбе́льского), is a Moscow Metro station in the Bogorodskoye District, Eastern Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. It is on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, serving as its eastern terminus. The station was opened in 1990.^[1]

History

Name

The station was originally named "Ulitsa Podbelskogo" after the Podbelskogo Street (itself named after Vadim Podbelsky), keeping its name even after the street was renamed in 1991 to Ivanteyevskaya Street. On 10 April 2014 Moscow City Commission on Names has announced plans to rename the station to "Bulvar Marshala Rokossovskogo",^[2] after the Rokossovsky Boulevard located nearby (named itself after Konstantin Rokossovsky). On 8 July, the station was officially renamed to "Bulvar Rokossovskogo".^[3]

Future plans

Rather than continuing the straight path of the Sokolnicheskaya Line to the northeast, Bulvar Rokossovskogo was built to the northwest of Cherkizovskaya, forming a right angle with the rest of the line. This would allow Bulvar Rokossovskogo to eventually become part of a planned second ring line around the city, at which time the Sokolnicheskaya Line could presumably be further extended in its original direction.

Beyond Bulvar Rokossovskogo are reversal sidings which are planned to become part of the future "Big Ring" line. A junction between Bulvar Rokossovskogo and Cherkizovskaya is used by southbound trains entering and leaving the Cherkizovo depot (№ 13), since the depot is directly connected only to the southbound tunnel.

Design

Station platform

Bulvar Rokossovskogo is a shallow column tri-vault station. The station was designed by architects Nina Aleshina and N. Samoylova and applied the following theme: ferroconcrete pillars faced with white marble; anodized aluminum arranged in geometric patterns on the walls and two identical entrance vestibules located on either side of Moscow's Circular Railway near the Otkrytoe Shosse.

References

1. "Ulitsa Podbelskogo station description at Moscow Metro website". Moskovsky Metropoliten. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
2. Станцию метро "Улица Подбельского" переименуют в "Бульвар Маршала Рокоссовского". Interfax (in Russian). Retrieved 24 April 2014.
3. Станция московского метро "Улица Подбельского" переименована в "Бульвар Рокоссовского" (in Russian). ИТАР-ТАСС. 2014-07-08. Retrieved 2014-07-08.