Lukhmanovskaya is a station on the Nekrasovskaya line of the

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 ...

. It was opened on 3 June 2019 as a part of the inaugural stretch of the line, between Kosino and Nekrasovka.

Name

The station name was originally planned as Kosino-Ukhtomsky, after the Kosino-Ukhtomsky District in Moscow. In 2014, the municipal committee responsible for naming public buildings decided on Lyuberetsky. In February, the

Mayor of Moscow The Mayor of Moscow (russian: Мэр Москвы, Mer Moskvy) is the head and the highest-ranking official of Moscow, who leads the Government of Moscow, the main executive body of the city. Moscow is both a city and separate federal sub ...

Sergey Sobyanin Sergey Semyonovich Sobyanin (russian: link=no, Сергей Семёнович Собянин; born 21 June 1958) is a Russian politician, serving as the 3rd Mayor of Moscow since 21 October 2010. Sobyanin previously served as the Governor of ...

, issued a decree to name the station Lukhmanovskaya. The name comes from Lukhmanovskaya Street, which in turn, is named for Dmitry Lukhmanov, a 19th-century Russian merchant.

References

Moscow Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 2019 Nekrasovskaya line {{Moscow-metro-stub