Ulitsa Podbelskogo is a Moscow Metro

Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system serving Moscow and the neighbouring town of Krasnogorsk. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. As of 2011, the Moscow Metro has 182 stations and its route length is . The system is...

 station in the Bogorodskoye District

Bogorodskoye District

Bogorodskoye District is an administrative district of Eastern Administrative Okrug, and one of the 125 raions of Moscow, Russia....

, Eastern Administrative Okrug

Eastern Administrative Okrug

Eastern Administrative Okrug, or Vostochny Administrative Okrug is one of the ten administrative okrugs of Moscow, Russia. It was founded in 1991 and has an area of...

, Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

. It is on the Sokolnicheskaya Line

Sokolnicheskaya Line

The Sokolnicheskaya Line is the first line of the Moscow Metro, dating back to 1935 when the system opened. Presently the line has 19 stations with a total of of track...

, serving as its eastern terminus. Ulitsa Podbelskogo was opened in 1990.

Name

The station was named after the Podbelskogo Street, keeping its original name even after the street was renamed in 1991. At the end of the station is a bust of Vadim Podbelsky

Vadim Podbelsky

Vadim Nikolayevich Podbelsky was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik statesman following the Russian Revolution.Podbelsky joined the Bolshevik Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1905. During the 1905 uprising he was involved in anti-government demonstrations and meetings...

, for whom the street was named.

Future plans

Rather than continuing the straight path of the Sokolnicheskaya Line to the northeast, Ulitsa Podbelskogo was built to the northwest of Cherkizovskaya, forming a right angle with the rest of the line. This would allow Ulitsa Podbelskogo to eventually become part of a planned second ring line around the city, at which time the Sokolnicheskaya Line could presumably be further extended in its original direction.

Beyond Ulitsa Podbelskogo are reversal sidings which are planned to become part of the future "Big Ring" line. A junction between Ulitsa Podbelskogo and Cherkizovskaya is used by southbound trains entering and leaving the Cherkizovo depot (№ 13), since the depot is directly connected only to the southbound tunnel.

Design

Ulitsa Podbelskogo is a shallow column tri-vault station. The station was designed by architects Nina Aleshina and N. Samoilova and applied the following theme: ferroconcrete pillars faced with white marble; anodized aluminum arranged in geometric patterns on the walls and two identical entrance vestibules located on either side of Moscow's Circular Railway near the Otkrytoe Shosse.