It was designed by Victor Yegerev, M. Konstantinov, Felix Novikov, and I. Pokrovsky and opened on 14 March 1954.

The station has red granite pylons with white marble cornices and 14 bas-reliefs by N. Shcherbakov, Yu.

As the Presnya area of Moscow was the site of the Moscow Uprising of 1905 during the 1905 Russian Revolution, the station is decorated with artwork commemorating the events of the period.

[3] Statues of Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin originally stood at the end of the platform, though these had been removed by the early 1960s.

A sculpture by A. Zelinsky entitled "Combatant" is located in front.