Kuntsevskaya (Moscow Metro)

Kuntsevskaya is an underground station of the Moscow Metro in the district Kunzewo in the Western Administrative District of Moscow. It is part of Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja and the Filjowskaja line. The subway station is about 300 meters north of the station Kunzewo.

History

Kuntsevskaya opened Ranks # 31 August 1965. Between 1965 and the end of 2007, the metro station was only Filjowskaja - line and had only one central platform, which was the same as the above-ground vestibule, built in an extremely simple, unified architecture. On January 7, 2008, a new side platform was taken with a Zugangsvestibül and a transitional bridge between the platforms in operation south of the old platform. Since then Kuntsevskaya is an interchange station between the Filjowskaja line, which now ends in Kuntsevskaya, and the direction west extended Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja line. The circulating in relatively thin with trains of Filjowskaja line drive on the northernmost of the three tracks, where they end as well as back exit direction Alexandrovski Sad. On the same platform opposite hold on the middle track trains the Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja - line direction Mitino. Trains to the city center and the Schtscholkowskaja Arbatsko - Pokrowskaja - line stop at the newly built platform on the Southern Railways.