Kommunarka (russian: Коммунарка) is a

Moscow Metro The Moscow Metro) is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first unde ...

station on the Sokolnicheskaya line. It was opened on 20 June 2019, along with Filatov Lug, Prokshino, and Olkhovaya. and became the southwestern terminus of the line, after Olkhovaya station. Kommunarka became the 232nd station of the Moscow Metro. It is in the

Kommunarka Kommunarka is an urban-type settlement (posyolok) in Sosenskoye Settlement, Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia. The Kommunarka (Sokolnicheskaya line) station opened in 2019. History A mass burial site of the late 1930s, known as ...

area of

Sosenskoye Settlement Sosensky (masculine), Sosenskaya (feminine), or Sosenskoye (neuter) may refer to: *Sosensky Urban Settlement, a municipal formation which the town of Sosensky and three rural localities in Kozelsky District of Kaluga Oblast, Russia are incorporate ...

in the

Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug (russian: Новомосковский административный округ), is one of the twelve administrative okrugs of Moscow. The okrug was created on July 1, 2012. The administrative center ...

southwest of

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

. It has become the southern terminus of the line.

History

The city government decided to extend the line to Stolbovo in February 2016; an unexpected decision given that the city initially planned to extend the line only to Filatov Lug. The initial cost of the line was about 45 billion rubles. In July 2017, the city government confirmed that the extension would move forward, allowing construction to continue. In March 2017, the city began clearing space around the planned station to accommodate the construction. The station's working name during most of construction was Stolbovo. This derived from the former village of Stolbovo, which became part of the current settlement when it was incorporated into the City of Moscow from

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...

Design and Layout

Kommunarka is at the intersection of the Solntsevo-Butovo-Varshavskoye shosse highway and the

Ostafyevo International Airport Ostafyevo (russian: links=no, Остафьево) is a "B" class international airport, located to the south of Moscow Ring Road in Novomoskovsky administrative okrug of Moscow. The airport is owned by Gazpromavia company, a division of Gazprom. ...

section of the

Moscow Ring Road The Moscow Automobile Ring Road (russian: link=no, Московская кольцевая автомобильная дорога, Moskovskaja koltsevaya avtomobilnaya doroga), or MKAD (), is a ring road running predominantly on the city border ...

. It has two lobbies, one that exits across the highway via an underground pedestrian walkway, and a second that leads to a future station on the planned

Kommunarskaya line The Troitskaya line () (Line 16, previously ''Kommunarskaya line'', ) is a planned line of the Moscow Metro that will initially extend to the settlement of Kommunarka in the Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug, or ''New Moscow''. Future expansion p ...

References

{{Moscow Metro Sokolnicheskaya Line Moscow Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 2019 Railway stations located underground in Russia