It is on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, between Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad and Ulitsa Podbelskogo stations.

The station is named after the former village of Cherkizovo which is a district of Moscow nowadays.

The design of the station is a single vault, with a curved ceiling and a platform free of pillars.

Both ends of the platform are decorated with stained-glass panels above the exit stairs.

[2] The station's vestibule is located at Okruzhnoy Proyezd near the intersection with Bolshaya Cherkizovskaya Street.