Polezhayevskaya

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 branch was scrapped after construction had already started, and the station was completed as originally planned.

Polezhayevskaya

Полежаевская
Moscow Metro station
LocationKhoroshyovsky District
Northern Administrative Okrug
Moscow
Russia
Coordinates55.7775°N 37.5192°E / 55.7775; 37.5192
Owned byMoskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s) Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya line
Platforms2 island platforms
Tracks3
ConnectionsBus: 38, 39, 48, 64, 155, 271, 294, 800
Trolleybus: 20, 20к, 21, 35, 43, 65, 86
Construction
Platform levels1
ParkingNo
Other information
Station code123
History
Opened30 December 1972 (1972-12-30)
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station
Oktyabrskoye Pole
toward Planernaya
Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya line
toward Kotelniki
Bolshaya Koltsevaya line
Transfer at: Khoroshyovskaya
toward Rasskazovka
Solntsevskaya line
Solntsevsky radius
Transfer at: Khoroshyovskaya
  Out-of-station interchange  
anticlockwise / outer
Moscow Central Circle
Transfer at: Khoroshyovo
clockwise / inner
Location
Polezhayevskaya
Location within Moscow Metro

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 14 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 (Khoroshyovskaya) on the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line. 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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