The station is named after the nearby rue de Crimée, the longest road in the arrondissement, whose name commemorates the Crimean War (1855–56), on the Crimean Peninsula of the Russian Empire on the Black Sea, where a coalition of Turkey, the United Kingdom, France, and Piedmont faced Russia.

The station opened on 5 November 1910 with the commissioning of the first section of line 7 between Opéra and Porte de la Villette with service provided by all trains on the line until 18 January 1911, when a branch opened from Louis Blanc to Pré-Saint-Gervais, resulting in 1 of every 2 trains serving this branch.

[5] The station has 3 entrances: Crimée has a standard configuration with two tracks surrounded by two side platforms and the vault is elliptical.

The advertising frames are yellow and cylindrical and the name of the station is inscribed in Parisine font on enamelled plates.

The platforms are equipped with silver sit-stand benches as well as hull seats, typical of the Motte style, whose hue, changed from yellow to blue, breaking the colorimetric uniformity of the decoration.