Spartak (Moscow Metro)

Spartak Спартак
Moscow Metro station
General information
Location	Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo District North-Western Administrative Okrug
Coordinates	55.8182°N 37.4352°E / 55.8182; 37.4352
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Shallow column triple-span station
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	27 August 2014 (2014-08-27)
Previous names	Volokolamskaya
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Template:MOSMETRO stations toward Template:MOSMETRO stations Template:MOSMETRO lines Template:MOSMETRO stations toward Template:MOSMETRO stations
Route map Planernoye yard Planernaya Skhodnenskaya Tushinskaya Spartak Moscow Canal Shchukinskaya Oktyabrskoye Pole Polezhayevskaya Begovaya to Krasnaya Presnya yard Ulitsa 1905 Goda Barrikadnaya Pushkinskaya Kuznetsky Most Kitay-gorod connection to Line 5 Taganskaya Proletarskaya Volgogradsky Prospekt  3502  Shosseynaya Street Tekstilshchiki Kuzminki Ryazansky Prospekt Vykhino Vykhino yard MKAD Moscow Ring Road connection to Line 15 Lermontovsky Prospekt Zhulebino Kotelniki
Location Spartak Location within Moscow Ring Road

Spartak (Template:Lang-ru), previously named Volokolamskaya (Template:Lang-ru) 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. 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.

External links

• Metro.molot.ru - Description of the station Template:Ru icon