Dubrovka (Moscow Metro)

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Dubrovka
!B9976974149070  10 
Moscow Metro station
Station statistics
Address Yuzhnoportovy District
South-Eastern Administrative Okrug
Moscow
Coordinates 55°43′40″N 37°8′32″E / 55.72778°N 37.14222°E / 55.72778; 37.14222
Line(s) !B9976974149070  10  Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line
Connections Bus: 9, 99, 186, 701
Trolleybus: 26
Tram: 12, 20, 40, 43
Depth 62 metres (203 ft)
Levels 1
Platforms 1 island platform
Tracks 2
Parking No
Bicycle facilities No
Baggage check No
Other information
Opened December 11, 1999
Station code 161
Owned by Moskovsky Metropoliten
Formerly Sharikopodshypnikovskaya
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station
Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line
toward Zyablikovo

Dubrovka (Russian: Дубровка, English: Oakwood) is a station on the Moscow Metro's Lyublinskaya Line. Originally the station was to open along with the first stage of the Lyublinsky radius in 1995. However problems with building an escalator tunnel in tough hydrological conditions prevented it to be opened. However as the station is located in the middle of an industrial zone, due to the economic difficulties of the late 1990s that hit Russia, most of these recently privatised industries were very short of finances and their production output was likewise stalled. This was enough to prevent additional heating of the frozen earth and finally on 11 December, 1999 the Moscow's mayor Yuriy Luzhkov opened the station. At a depth of 62.5 metres the station became the deepest in Moscow (until being beaten by Park Pobedy in 2003). The station in its design is identical to its neighbour Krestyanskaya Zastava where both are wall-columned with no underplatform service spaces.

With no solid theme, the station (work of architects Ye.Barsky, V.Fillipov and S.Belyakova) is decorated with bright monochromatic marble on the columns and walls. The floor is covered in red and black granite. The station is decorated by a bright mosaic in the end of the central hall (artist Zurab Tsereteli). The vestibule of the station is interlinked with a subway network under the Sharikopodshipnikovskaya street, with modern glazed metal and concrete pavilions. The average passenger traffic is 14,400 people per day. Behind the station there is a piston junction used for emergency reversals of trains.

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  • Dubrovka metro station opposite.jpg

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Coordinates: 55°43′40″N 37°08′32″E / 55.72778°N 37.14222°E / 55.72778; 37.14222

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