The opening of the station, situated in the western part of Vasilievsky Island, was designed to coincide with the expansion of the local neighborhoods.

Like many stations built during the Cold War era, it was designed to double as a fallout shelter.

Thus, the underground portion of the station features a set of blast doors a few meters before the escalator.

The station's exit vestibule was eventually expanded to house one of the system's communication centers.

[citation needed] The extension of the line north to Novokrestovskaya and Begovaya opened on 26 May 2018.