Using the ideal of simplified singular architectural pillar-trispan station design (sorokonozhka) that was prominent at the time, construction began in the mid 1960s of extending the Metro past the Kolomenskoye nature reserve and Nagatino industrial zone up to the station of Kashirskaya and then splitting into two directions – one into the rapidly growing districts of Saburovo and Zyuzino and the other one into the future districts of Orekhovo and Borisovo.

It was the feature of the first (Kakhovskaya) branch that made the whole line appear dissimilar to the standard tangential layout that Moscow Metro radii followed.

The plan had a very ambitious project that coincided with the traditional radial layout of Moscow - to feature a second parallel ring that would allow passengers to bypass the city centre altogether, and in the future the stations of the Kakhovskaya line would become part of it.

One was the track arrangement at Kashirskaya where the southbound trains directions' separate only after the station, not before, thus preventing proper use of the cross-platform ability.

Since March 2019, Kakhovskaya station has been closed temporarily for construction of the connection with phase 2 of Bolshaya Koltsevaya line from Kashirskaya to Mnyovniki.