Nogin Square Station is called. Which Moscow metro stations were renamed and why? "Okhotny Ryad" - "Name of Kaganovich" - "Okhotny Ryad" - "Marx Avenue" - "Okhotny Ryad"

Nogin Square is one of the links in the first ring encircling the Kremlin and Kitay-Gorod. It connects Razin Street (formerly Varvarka) with Solyanka Street. The length of the area is 123.75 m, width is 118.5 m.

The square received its name in 1924 in memory of the old Bolshevik V.P. Nogin. The former name - Varvarskaya Square - was given to it in the 1820s based on the Varvarsky Gate of Kitay-Gorod overlooking it and along Varvarka Street, which ran along the southern side of the modern square.

This area has been known since the 14th century. Then there was a road from the Kremlin to the Yauzsky Bridge and from there to the Vladimirskaya and Kolomenskaya roads - along the routes of modern Ulyanovskaya and International streets.

In 1380, the troops of Dmitry Donskoy passed along the Kolomenskaya road to the Kulikovo field and back to Moscow. According to legend, Dmitry Donskoy erected a monument to the Russian soldiers who fell on the Kulikovo Field on the square - a church, the wooden building of which was replaced by a stone one in 1488, and the last one in 1687 by a new stone one, which still stands on the south side of the square.

The area around was then wooded and swampy, in the old way - “Kulishki”, which is why the church was called “All Saints on Kulishki”.

In the XV-XVI centuries. a large trade road already passed here. After the construction of the walls of Kitai-Gorod, the road became part of the bridgehead. A wooden bridge was thrown across the moat to the Varvarskaya gate tower.

On Peter's plan of Moscow 1597-1600. on the square (bridgehead) in front of the gate and bridge, a large courtyard and several small buildings are visible. From the explanation of the plan we learn that these are “barnhouse prisons” for drunkards picked up on the streets. On the Godunov plan of 1605 and the Sigismund plan of 1610, Horse Square is shown here.

On Meyerberg's plan of 1661-1662. the entire area is shown already occupied by courtyards.

The “Census of Moscow Households” of 1620 indicates the yards “at the Varvarsky Gate, near the city of China.” There were 28 courtyards, including one “Almsgiving” - the Church of All Saints, eight courtyards of the clergy, seven - clerks, two - icon makers, two - blacksmiths and eight courtyards of other persons.

In 1641, “in the White Tsarev in the stone city, behind the Varvarsky Gate, on the hill, from the bridge,” there were 35 forges. Most of them “did all sorts of blacksmith’s dirty work,” but one made “mill gear and all sorts of sovereign affairs at the Money Yard,” another did “weapons and locksmithing,” the third did knives, the fourth did horseshoes, etc. Some forges belonged to boyars, okolnichy and stolniks, and their peasants worked in them, sometimes even hired blacksmiths. Among the latter there were even gunners and blacksmiths from the Cannon Yard.

In 1701, the street from the Varvarskie Gate to the Yauzskie Gate, in addition to the courtyards of “various ranks of people,” was lined with shops. “Behind the Varvarsky Gate opposite the almshouses” there were four shops “that sell stone tskas” (boards, slabs), apparently for tombstones. Besides them, most of the shops sold food supplies; on the northern side of the street there were 20 of them (three of them sold hay), on the southern side - 15 shops (of which two were hay shops, four taverns, two huts “yes kad kvasnaya”).

In 1707-1708, during the construction of earthen bastions, all courtyards and shops on the territory of modern Nogin Square, except for those standing near the Church of All Saints on the south side, were demolished. The line of the bastion ran along the diagonal of the modern square - from Serov passage to the Varvarsky Gate. When it became clear that the bastions were not needed, the half of the modern square free from them was occupied by courtyards, and Varvarka again appeared between them and the southern side of the square. On the passage from the Varvarsky Bridge there was a stone almshouse of the Church of All Saints. In 1763, it was taken by the treasury to establish an Orphanage, which existed here until 1772, when a huge building was built for it on Moskvoretskaya Embankment.

On the plan of 1806, the territory of the square is shown still built up with courtyards with wooden buildings on both sides of Varvarka and along the continuation of the modern Serov passage to it. But the street itself no longer led to the tower, but to the breached gate. To the east of the Church of All Saints, probably on its church land, there was a state drinking house.

In 1819-1823 earthen bastions were razed in other places, the ditch was filled in, and the entire area was laid out as streets and construction areas. That’s when Varvarskaya Square appeared here.

In 1831-1832 a fountain of Mytishchi water was installed on it, which was used almost until the end of the 19th century. used by local residents.

In 1841, water from the fountain was supplied to the Orphanage.

In 1850, the entire Varvarskaya Square was already paved with cobblestones. On the square, in addition to the fountain, there was also an old well and a wooden “shed for civilian laborers,” a kind of labor exchange. To the north rose Apple Square, enclosed by a wooden fence.

From the south, the stone buildings of the Church of All Saints and the houses of its clergy overlooked the square. There was a vacant lot on the corner with modern Kitaisky Proezd. On the eastern side of the square there were stone houses along modern Serov Passage.

In 1872, during the Polytechnic Exhibition, the People's Theater was built on Varvarskaya Square and opened for three months. It was wooden, with 1,803 seats, of which 1,059 seats were priced from 5 to 40 kopecks. In the theater, under the direction of the former Maly Theater actor A.F. Fedotov, wonderful provincial actors played: E. D. Linovskaya, N. X. Rybakov, M. I. Pisarev, K. F. Berg, V. A. Makshcheev and etc.

The theater opened with Gogol's "The Inspector General", before which they performed another one-act play by N. A. Polevoy "Grandfather of the Russian Fleet". The theater was very popular among Moscow democratic spectators. But when the exhibition closed, the authorities also closed the theater. Then two theater officials under the Moscow Governor General - Prince F. I. Urusov and S. V. Taneyev - took over the theater, and it continued its work under the name “Public” until 1876, when the authorities closed it allegedly because of a fire hazard.

There is a lot of traffic through Nogin Square to Taganka and other places in Zayauzye. Until recently, it was a junction of tram tracks from all the streets surrounding it. Until 1956, there was only one tram line left - from Politekhnichesky Proezd to Solyanka, and now it has been replaced by trolleybuses and buses.

• Kitay-Gorod (general outline)
  It was named after the Barbarian Gate of Kitay-Gorod, located in this area. In 1918-1924 it was called: Varvarskaya Square, in 1924-1992: Nogin Square, in honor of the Soviet statesman V.P. Nogin. Part of the square adjacent to Ilyinsky Square

  Razin Street (Varvarka)
  In the 1820s, the eastern part of Varvarka Street became part of Varvarskaya Square (now Nogin Square) formed on the site of the demolished bastions of Peter I. In the 16th century Ivan the Terrible built Aglitsky and Kupetsky courtyards on the street between the churches of Maxim and Varvara, in which people stayed

  From Manezhnaya to Varvarka. Moscow squares
  The boundary between them is not clearly defined, so it is difficult to understand where one ends and the other begins. Until 1992, it was a single Nogin square, and at the end of the 20th century it was divided, as a result of which two squares were formed. Slavyanskaya Square is located on the eastern half

  Varvarskie Gate sq. (1820s)
  It was named after the Barbarian Gate of Kitay-Gorod, located in this area. In 1918-1924 it was called: Varvarskaya Square, in 1924-1992: Nogin Square, in honor of the Soviet statesman V.P. Nogin. The part of the square adjacent to Ilyinsky Square was named

  China Town
  Until November 5, 1990, the station was called “Nogina Square”. And the current name comes from the Moscow district of the same name. "Kitay-Gorod" is a combined type station

  From Kitay-Gorod to Solyanka. Near the devil on Kulishki
  It acquired its current name quite recently, because until 1993 it was called “Nogin Square”. She received it, as well as the square of the same name, in honor of the revolutionary Viktor Pavlovich Nogin, who became famous after that

  Slavyanskaya sq. (April 28, 1992).
  Old names: Varvarskaya Square. (part of it), along Varvarka Street, to which it adjoins; and Nogina sq. (part of it) (1924), in honor of Deputy People's Commissar of Labor V.P. Nogin. At the intersection of Lubyansky Ave., Solyansky Ave.

Kitay-gorod station is the first station of the Moscow metro with a cross-platform transfer. This is extremely convenient if you are traveling from north to south or vice versa from south to north and you need to move from the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line to the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. To do this, simply go to the other side of the platform. The fact that trains on both platforms go in the same direction fascinated me even as a child. You stand at the door, the train enters the station and on the other side the train is also traveling in the same direction at the same speed. They stop together. After this, the crowd really runs headlong to the other side of the platform to jump on the train, it feels like this is the very last train.
Essentially, “Kitai-Gorod” is two stations, two platform parts, but due to the fact that it is absolutely impossible to divide them, we will watch them as one whole, but within the framework of both the Raluzhsko-Rizhskaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines.

TTX station. It’s strange that they write about 1970, when all other sources say 1971. The station became fully operational after the opening of the Barrikadnaya - Kitai Gorod section in 1975.

Here are some interesting shots from the construction.

It is surprising that “Nogina Square”, located in the very center, was even the end of the Kaluga radius, after the section from “Oktyabrskaya” to “Nogina Square” was opened in 1971, then a year later the northern section was completed and the line acquired its current name " Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya".

The station is almost ready. Urns! Bins at the station. Eh. Now they don't do that. They put whatever they want at the new INFOSOS stations, recently they even put it on the metro station. "Prospekt Mira" is a toilet, but people are still afraid to put trash cans.

Opening of the station. Cutting the ribbon. In the "Accordion" hall

And here is the Crystal Hall. There is a very fashionable decoration here in the 70s with embossing on the top of the columns. For some reason I really remember her from childhood.

A sidewalk with cool railings along the top of the parapet. Here is the old name of not only the station, but also Varvarka Street.

The exit is at the Polytechnic Museum and the coolest Soviet banners.

1. The station has 11 (!!!) exits to the city. 6 from the north lobby and 5 from the south. We go down from the side of New Square.

2. The station has two underground lobbies. We are now heading to the north. In front of the entrance there is a hermetic seal behind these striped doors.

3. It’s funny that the station was renamed “Kitay-Gorod” in 1990, although formally all exits from the station are located outside the Kitai-Gorod wall, which fences off Kitai-Gorod directly from the White City. It would have been more logical to call the station “Varvarskie Vorota Square,” if they wanted to tie the name to the name of the area above, especially since Nogin Square at the top was renamed back to Varvarskie Vorota Square.

4. There are still old validators in the lobby itself. The floor is asphalt covered. But the ceiling is decorated very well, something in common with the st.m. .

5. We go down. Station with cross-platform transfer. If you go right here, you will exit to a platform with trains going south, and if you go further, then with trains going north. The station is the first in the Moscow metro with a cross-platform transfer from the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya to the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line. And if you are traveling from south to north or vice versa, then, as I already said, to go to the next branch you just need to go to the other side of the platform. It’s convenient, but those who don’t often use this transfer get confused. Between these two halls there is a hermetic seal.

6. At the end is a bust of Nogin. Thank God they didn’t dismantle it, but left it standing here. Good, high-quality work by architect A.P. Shlykova.

7. Descent to the platform.

8. The southern lobby is also underground. For some reason there are always a lot of pigeons here. Especially in the summer. That's why the entire floor is dirty with bird droppings. But lately I have seen that there are almost no pigeons in the passages, probably somehow we managed to discourage these birds from descending into the passage.

9. There are cash register windows that are no longer working. But moving the cash registers out of the lobby is just a fashionable trend; many modern stations do just that. The transparent windows were covered with something painted a terrible blue. Now the crossings are undergoing renovations in full swing, maybe they will do something more decent here too. Still, it’s one of the most central stations, all sorts of tourists walk by and probably wonder why it’s so terrible here.

10. Entrance doors. The line of the stained glass window runs as a continuous thread. In the middle is the entrance to the lobby.

11. On the left is the exit from the hall of the western platform "Crystal".

12. The doors are old, maybe during the reconstruction they will be replaced with new stainless steel ones.

13. Cash desks are located just opposite the entrance doors.

14. The validators are old, but the duty officer’s booth is new, made of shiny stainless steel.

15. On the other side is the exit from the hall of the eastern platform "Accordion".

16. There is an escalator leading to each platform from the south concourse.

17. Once again, very nice ceiling lighting.

18. Going down to the accordion platform, you can see the old-school duty booth at the escalator.

19. The booth on the crystal platform is no longer so cool. There are old escalators here and there. Although passengers should not have any problems when it comes to replacing them. You can block one descent, change equipment, and then carry out work on another descent. There is a traditional hermetic seal in front of the platform entrance.

20. Interestingly, the station has two halls (essentially two stations) with different architecture. Structurally, both column stations are deep. But the decoration is different. Moreover, it is not devoted to any special topic. Let's start from the western station. Platform "Crystal". It got its name because of the characteristic shape of the columns’ finishing and the embossing of the cornice design. The inserts on the track wall are also embossed.

21. Finishing of the track wall, floor and columns is a light stone that is pleasing to the eye. The columns are really very coolly made, such a complex shape that really evokes the idea of ​​some kind of crystalline structures.

22. In fact, the passenger flow through the Kitay-Gorod station is quite significant, but there are also times when there is almost no one on the platform.

23. Among other things, the coolest chased cornice hides the lamps that provide light at the station. As always, this technique allows you to avoid dangling lamps on the ceiling.

24. The space between the columns is filled with such gratings.

25. Lamps are visible through them.

26. Let’s take another look at the “crystalline” hall.

27. The adjacent platform “Accordion”, to get to it from the previous one you can use the passage in the center of the hall, as well as the passage at the end from the northern vestibule. This is the view from the escalators. There is also a hermetic seal in front of the platform part.

28. Here the columns are decorated in a style that really is somewhat reminiscent of accordion bellows. There is no cornice above the columns, and accordingly there are no lamps behind them, here there are lamps on the ceiling. In the middle of the platform, transition to the western platform, to trains heading south.

29. The lamps above the tracks in the side parts of the platform are not symmetrical; they shine only in one direction.

30. The columns, by the way, are decorated with stones of different colors, look at the previous couple of photos.

31. In general, this platform is certainly inferior in terms of the steepness of the finishing to the neighboring one.

32. By the way, on the track wall there are torches with Soviet symbols. I always thought it was in honor of the Olympics, but that’s not true at all. The stations opened long before the 1980 Olympics.

33. On the track wall you can distinguish the remaining holes from the letters with the previous name of the station “Nogina Square”.

34. That's it, let's move on. Since we are in the hall of the eastern platform, we will accordingly go north.

P.S.
All archival photos were found on a wonderful website

Nogin Square

The station is located on the border of Zhdanovsky, Kalininsky and Moskvoretsky districts. Opened in 1970 - 1971. Architects L. Malashonok, V. Litvinov, L. Millier, M. Markovsky, I. Taranov, I. Petukhova.

This is the only Moscow metro station from which you can leave on different lines from the same boarding hall. The solution for this underground structure is original. On the same level and in close proximity to one another there are two halls connected by pedestrian bridges over the tracks.

In the first hall, electric trains from the Zhdanovskaya line arrive on one platform. From another platform, trains depart along the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line to the stations "Turgenevskaya", "Kolkhoznaya", "Prospekt Mira", "Rizhskaya", "Shcherbakovskaya", "VDNKh".

The vault is supported by two rows of faceted pylons (based on their shape, the designers gave the hall the name “Crystal”), lined with light gray and yellowish marble. The track walls are decorated with polished marble in light colors. The floor is laid with gray granite slabs.

In the center of the hall there is a transition to the second landing hall (named “Accordion” based on the shape of the pylons), which can also be accessed through a passage corridor.

Wide hammered metal cornices extending over the pylons conceal the light fixtures. The track walls are lined with polished marble in white and gray colors. They are reinforced with chased metal patterns depicting a hammer and sickle. The floor is paved with light marble slabs.

From one platform of this hall, trains depart along the Zhdanovskaya line, from the other along the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line to the stations "Novokuznetskaya", "Oktyabrskaya", "Leninsky Prospekt", "Akademicheskaya", "Profsoyuznaya", "Novye Cheryomushki" and "Kaluzhskaya" ".

The station has two exits: one - to Kuibyshev and Bogdan Khmelnitsky streets, to the Polytechnic Museum and towards Dzerzhinsky Square, the other - to Nogin Square, to Kitaisky Proezd and Razin Street, from where it is convenient to go to the Rossiya Hotel and Solyanka Street.

Solyansky Proezd, Solyanka Street, Kitaisky Proezd, Razin Street, Serov Proezd begin from Nogin Square. The square was named in 1924 after the old Bolshevik, one of the first chairmen of the Moscow Council of Workers' Deputies V.P. Nogin. It houses the State Planning Commission of the RSFSR (building 4, t. 220-96-00), the Ministry of Construction Materials Industry (building 2/5, t. 220-72-21), the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy (building 2/5 , vol. 223-80-25, 220-81-80). Not far from here are the Ministry of Justice of the RSFSR (Kitaysky Ave., t. 220-46-70), the Cinematography Committee under the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR (Kitaysky Ave., 7, t. 220-46-61, 220-48-83), the Ministry culture of the RSFSR (Kitaysky Ave., 7, t. 220-47-47).

Solyanka Street is one of the ancient streets of our city. It received its name from the royal salt yard, which was located here in the 17th-18th centuries. Dmitry Donskoy drove along it in 1380 to Kulikovo Field.

On Solyanka there is the building of the Academy of Medical Sciences (no. 14, t. 297-05-04), shops: textiles "Baltika" (no. 1/2, no. 228-87-28), sporting goods (no. 1/ 2, t. 228-70-70), electrical goods (d. 2/6, t. 294-66-52), shoes (d. 8, t. 295-66-48), food, bakery and confectionery, studio (building 8, t. 295-48-41), pharmacy (building 1/2, t. 295-98-42). Not far from the metro, in Starosadsky Lane, 9, there is the Historical State Public Library (tel. 295-48-31, 228-05-22).

At the exit from the metro to Solyanka there is the Church of All Saints on Kulishki - an architectural monument of the 17th century.

In Solyansky Proezd there is a photo studio, a flower shop (2/6, tel. 294-80-19), and a sausage shop (tel. 294-35-96, 223-96-79). On the opposite side of Nogin Square, Razin Street begins. There are many interesting monuments of ancient architecture, for example, the boyar chambers of the 17th century, which house the museum of boyar life (no. 10, t. 298-32-35) and periodically host exhibitions of household items. Not far from Razin Street, in Nikitnikov Lane, one of the most remarkable monuments of the first half of the 17th century has been preserved - the Trinity Church “in Nikitniki”. It belongs to those few monuments of Russian antiquity that represent an example of the art of Russian architects, painters, wood and stone carvers, blacksmiths and give a picture of the artistic culture of Rus' in the 17th century. Now there is a museum here (no. 3, t. 298-34-51).

At the exit from the metro towards Kitaisky Proezd, one can notice the remains of a powerful brick wall that surrounded Kitay-Gorod in ancient times. Nearby is the huge building of the Rossiya Hotel (6 Razina St., telephone numbers 298-54-02, 298-54-01, 298-54-00, 298-14-42). The first-class hotel appears in the form of a 12-story rectangle, a quarter of a kilometer long and 160 meters wide. The hotel has more than 3 thousand rooms. It can accommodate about 6 thousand people at the same time. There are restaurants (tel. 298-53-84), the Zaryadye cinema (tel. 298-56-86, 298-65-87), and a concert hall with 2.5 thousand seats (tel. 298-14-42). In this hall, for the first time in the Soviet Union, a rolling curtain and a luminous ceiling were used. With the help of special mechanisms, the seats for spectators or any part of the hall can be rotated in accordance with the program being shown.

The area adjacent to the hotel has been landscaped and landscaped, and architectural monuments have been restored.

On Razin Street there are the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the RSFSR (no. 7, t. 298-33-68, 220-02-05), the Ministry of Trade of the USSR (no. 14, t. 298-48-64), and a grocery store. Not far from Kitaisky Proezd on the Moscow River there is a pier for passenger river ships.

At the exit from the metro to the Polytechnic Museum, at the beginning of the boulevard, there is a chapel. This is a monument to the grenadiers who fell near Plevna in the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878 for the liberation of Bulgaria from the Turkish yoke (sculptor V. Sherwood). It was erected in 1877 with funds raised by fellow soldiers who died. Bogdan Khmelnytsky Street begins from here. The former name of the street - Maroseyka - was given by the Malorossiysk courtyard that stood on it in the 18th century, on the corner with the modern Bolshoi Komsomolsky Lane (no. 9), in which official representatives of Ukraine who came to Moscow stayed. In 1953, to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the reunification of Ukraine with Russia, the street was renamed.

On Bohdan Khmelnytsky Street there are shops: food (no. 9), household goods (no. 10, t. 223-60-90), gardening equipment (no. 6/8, t. 221-18-18), seeds (building 9, t. 228-41-64), studio (building 6/8, t. 223-67-26; building 7/8, t. 294-59-67), cafe "Maroseyka" (D. 2).

In Petroverigsky Lane there is house No. 4, where the Decembrist N. Turgenev spent his childhood, and V. Belinsky lived for some time. In 1840-1850, T. Granovsky lived in this house, as evidenced by the memorial plaque.

Not far from the metro there are editorial offices of various magazines, permanent missions of the Armenian SSR (Armeniansky Lane, 2, t. 294-12-69), the Belarusian SSR (Bogdana Khmelnitsky St., 17/6, t. 294-70-31), the Ministry Culture of the USSR (Kuibysheva St., 10, t. 298-87-12, 298-87-00), Ministry of Finance of the USSR (Kuibysheva St., 9, t. 228-56-40).

At the corner of Serov passage and Bogdan Khmelnitsky street there is the building of the Komsomol Central Committee (t. 206-83-03, 206-85-03, 206-85-04).

Transport: Buses: No. 18 (Kotelnicheskaya embankment - Yablochkova St.), No. 24 (Red Square - VDNKh Hotel), No. 25 (Nagorny Boulevard), No. 55 (Dzerzhinsky Square - Perovo), No. 89 (Gerasim Kurin St.) , No. 98 (Pavel Korchagin St.), K (circular); Trolleybuses: No. 2 (General Ermolov St.), No. 19 (Dzerzhinsky Square - 1st Vladimirskaya St.), No. 25 (Meyerovsky Ave. - Danilovsky Market), No. 45 (Baumanskaya Square - 4th Kabelnaya St.) ; Near the metro on Nogina Square - taxi rank.

The Ulitsa Podbelskogo metro station was renamed to Rokossovskogo Boulevard. At one time, the station received its name from Podbelsky Street, on which its above-ground vestibules are located. However, already in 1994 Podbelsky Street was renamed Ivanteevskaya. The new name “Rokossovsky Boulevard” was given to the station due to its location in close proximity to the street of the same name and in memory of the outstanding commander of the Great Patriotic War, Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Rokossovsky.

There are more than a dozen stations in Moscow whose names no longer correspond to the toponymy on the surface. AiF.ru tells which stations have already changed their names and what was the reason for this.

“Rokossovsky Boulevard” - “Podbelsky Street”

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The Ulitsa Podbelskogo station got its name in 1990, when it was opened. At that time, on the surface there was a street of the same name, which in 1994 was renamed Ivanteevskaya, from the village of Ivanteevka near Moscow, located in the northeast of the capital. Vadim Podbelsky, whose name the station currently bears, was one of the leaders of the armed uprising in Moscow in October 1917, and then the commissar of post and telegraph of Moscow and the RSFSR.

The commission decided to assign a new name - "Rokossovsky Boulevard" - to both the station and the transport hub. This is due to the fact that on the surface there is a boulevard named after one of the main commanders of the Great Patriotic War, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky.

"Bitsevsky Park" - "Novoyasenevskaya"

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Opened on January 17, 1990. Until June 3, 2008, the station was called Bitsevsky Park. The name of the station is associated with the natural and historical park “Bitsevsky Forest” located in close proximity to it. The forest itself is named after the Bitsa River, which originates from springs on the slope of the Teplostanskaya Upland near the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and Profsoyuznaya Street.

In 2008, the Bitsevsky Park station was renamed Novoyasenevskaya in order to transfer the old name of the Butovskaya Line station under construction. The station received its new name after the Yasenevo district, at the end of Novoyasenevsky Prospekt, on the border of a residential area and the Bitsevsky forest.

The area got its name from the former village of Yasenevo, known in the 13th century as a grand ducal estate, and then as a royal estate.

In 1960, the territory of the village became part of the city of Moscow. Since the late 1970s it has been a housing development area.

"Plant named after Stalin" - "Avtozavodskaya"

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The station was opened on January 1, 1943. Until July 5, 1956, it was called the “Stalin Plant”, after the ZIS plant (now ZIL) located nearby. After the debunking of Stalin’s personality cult and the renaming of the ZIS plant in honor of I. A. Likhachev, the name of the station was also changed to “Avtozavodskaya” (upon careful examination on the walls of the station you can see holes left from attaching the letters of the original name of the station). Avtozavodskaya remained the final southern station of the Zamoskvoretskaya line for 26 years, until the line was extended in 1969 to Kakhovskaya.

"Comintern Street" - "Kalininskaya" - "Vozdvizhenka" - "Alexandrovsky Garden"

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The final station of the Filyovskaya line of the Moscow metro “Alexandrovsky Garden” got its name because of the Alexander Garden located at the western wall of the Kremlin, which is entered by a passage from the station. Until December 24, 1946, the station was called “Ulitsa Kominterna,” and until November 5, 1990, “Kalininskaya.” In 1990, for several days it received the official name “Vozdvizhenka”. The station is located under the southern part of Vozdvizhenki Street, between the building of the Russian State Library and the roadway.

Be 5 seconds late and be considered a snail. Machinist about the work of the subway.

"Gorkovskaya" - "Tverskaya"

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The station was opened on July 20, 1979. Until November 5, 1990, the station was called “Gorkovskaya”, after the former name of Tverskaya Street and in honor of the writer Maxim Gorky, whose monument stands in the passage between this station and the Chekhovskaya station.

"Okhotny Ryad" - "Name of Kaganovich" - "Okhotny Ryad" - "Marx Avenue" - "Okhotny Ryad"

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During the existence of the Okhotny Ryad station, it was renamed 4 times. At first, as now, it was called “Okhotny Ryad” - the name was given after one of the Moscow shopping arcades (XVII century), in which it was allowed to sell game brought by hunters near Moscow.

On November 25, 1955, when the entire metro, which previously bore the name of Lazar Kaganovich, was deprived of this name, giving it the name of Lenin, the name of Kaganovich was assigned to the Okhotny Ryad station, and it began to be called the station named after Kaganovich. Two years later, when Kaganovich himself became one of the participants in the so-called anti-party group, the station returned its former name “Okhotny Ryad”. The name lasted until November 30, 1961, when the station was renamed Prospect Marx. And on November 5, 1990, the station was again renamed “Okhotny Ryad”.

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"Kirovskaya" - "Chistye Prudy"

The station was opened on May 15, 1935 and was called “Kirovskaya”. The station was renamed on November 5, 1990, after the name of the Kirov street located here (now Myasnitskaya), named in honor of the USSR state and party leader Sergei Mironovich Kirov (1886-1934), was changed. The new name of the station was given after Chistoprudny Boulevard, as well as Chistye Pond, to which its exits lead. Until 1703, the pond was called Pogany, as waste from nearby butcher shops and slaughterhouses was dumped into it. Then it was cleared and, accordingly, renamed.

"Red Gate" - "Lermontovskaya" - "Red Gate"

The Krasnye Vorota station was named in honor of the Red Gate in 1935, and in 1962 it was renamed Lermontovskaya - not far from the station lobby there used to be a house where the great Russian poet was born. At the dawn of perestroika, in 1986, the station returned its former name “Red Gate”.

"Mir" - "Shcherbakovskaya" - "Alekseevskaya"

It was opened on May 1, 1958 under the name "Peace". On October 26, 1966, it was renamed “Shcherbakovskaya” in honor of the party and statesman of the Stalin era, Alexander Shcherbakov. On November 5, 1990, the Shcherbakovskaya station was renamed Alekseevskaya. The station received this name in honor of the village of Alekseevskoye, which belonged to Prince Dmitry Timofeevich Trubetskoy. The history of the village of Alekseevskoye dates back to the end of the 14th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, the village of Alekseevskoye became part of Moscow; in the late 20s - early 30s, the Alekseevsky student town and the first multi-story residential buildings were built here. Since the 1950s Mass residential development began in the area.

"Dzerzhinskaya" - "Lubyanka"

The metro station was opened on May 15, 1935. Until November 1990, it was called “Dzerzhinskaya”. The name of the station directly indicated its location: the square on which it is located was at that time called Dzerzhinsky Square, in honor of Felix Dzerzhinsky, a Soviet figure, founder of the Cheka. In 1990, the square was returned to its historical name - Lubyanskaya, and the metro station was renamed Lubyanka. The name "Lubyanka" is a transferred toponym. It was first mentioned in the chronicle of 1480, when Ivan III ordered the Novgorodians, evicted to Moscow after the fall of the republic, to settle in this place.

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​"Kolkhoznaya" - "Sukharevskaya"

The station was opened on January 5, 1972. Initially, it was called “Kolkhoznaya”, in honor of the 1st All-Union Congress of Collective Farmers and Shock Workers and to commemorate the collectivization of agriculture. On November 5, 1990, the station was renamed “Sukharevskaya” along with the renaming of the nearby Kolkhoznaya Square to Bolshaya and Malaya Sukharevskaya Squares. The station received its new name in honor of the Sukharev Tower, which was built in 1692-1695 on the initiative of Peter I. The tower received its name in honor of Lavrenty Sukharev, whose rifle regiment guarded the Sretensky Gate at the end of the 17th century.

"Zhdanovskaya" - "Vykhino"

The station was opened on December 31, 1966. The current name is given after the Moscow district of Vykhino, on whose territory the station is located. The original name of the station was “Zhdanovskaya” - in honor of party leader Andrei Zhdanov. The district of Moscow in which the station was located at the time of its opening bore his name.

"Lenino" - "Tsaritsyno"

Before the renaming on November 5, 1990, the Tsaritsyno station was called Lenino (after the name of the Lenino-Dachnoe residential area). The station received its modern name from the nearby Tsaritsynsky Park and the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve. The station was opened on December 30, 1984.

"Sverdlov Square" - "Teatralnaya"

The station was opened on September 11, 1938 and was called “Sverdlov Square”, in honor of the square of the same name. The square was named after one of the leaders of the Bolshevik Party, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Yakov Sverdlov. In 1990, Sverdlov Square returned its historical name - Teatralnaya Square (the Bolshoi and Maly theaters are located on it), and the metro station was also renamed Teatralnaya.

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“Nogin Square” - “China Town”

Until November 5, 1990, the station was called “Nogin Square”, in honor of the Soviet party leader Viktor Nogin. The current name comes from the name of the Moscow historical district, on the eastern border of which the station is located. At the same time, Nogin Square (until 1924 - Varvarskaya Square), on which the station was located, was renamed Slavyanskaya Square, where a monument to the Slavic enlighteners Cyril and Methodius was erected.

"Stalinskaya" - "Semyonovskaya"

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