Polezhaevskaya

Polezhaevskaya ( _ru. Полежаевская) is a station on Metro'sTagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line. Opened on December 30, 1972 as part of the original Krasnopresnenkiy radius and Krasnopresnenskaya Line, the station is unusual in the Metro as its construction features three pathways and two platforms. Whilst it was not the first station to be built with such design (see Partizanskaya), the purpose for such a design was different. The plan called for the station to be a junction point between a branch going off to the Silver Pinewood (Serebryannyi Bor). However the plan was scrapped yet the construction of the station was already started and the station completed as planned.

Named after the metro builder and head of the Metro in the 1940's and 50's Vasiliy Dementevich Polezhaev the station is a widened pillar-trispan. With one row of pillars on in the centre of each platform, creating a wide space above the centre track. The octagonal pillars are coated with yellow marble of different tones and the walls with white ceramic tiles are accredited to the architects Fokina and Popov.

Only the northern platform is open for passengers. The southern platform is closed and the third track (with the tunnel that goes another 340 metres before a siding) is used for night time stands for the trains. Two vestibules (one with a closed escalator) are interlinked with subways under the Khoroshovo hightway.

In the future the prospect of the third path has been dim, however the recently-added mini-metro feature to the Filyovskaya Line has been called for further expansion, and Polezhaevskaya could be one of the potential junction stations and the new terminus of the mini-metro branch. Considering the high passenger rate of the Krasnopresnenskiy radius, this might be a worthy, but only if the tunnels are rebuilt with the southbound trains redirected onto the southern track and the mini-metro to the centre track, otherwise it will be a very awkward transfer point.

The station has a daily passenger traffic of 73700.Fact|date=October 2007

External links

* [http://mymetro.ru/cgi-bin/list.pl?lng=ru&a=1&b=7&c=07 Mymetro.ru]
* [http://www.kartametro.info/?hl=EN&ms=Polezhaevskaya&z=17&t=k KartaMetro.info] — Station location and exits on Moscow map (English/Russian)