[1] The station was originally planned to open in 1938 along with the rest of the Gorkovsky radius of the second stage of the Metro.

However upon the change in the Metro development plans in the early 1960s, the city included a transfer station on the line.

The design marked a real engineering achievement, as the central hall, and the passenger platforms were built without any disruption to the service.

The decoration is dedicated to the works of the author Maxim Gorky, and architects R. Semerdzhiev, B. Thor, N. Shreter and V. Cheremin made best to simultaneously show the revolutionary constructivism shapes of flared pylons and plastered ceiling thus leaving the engineering achievement visible.

Transfer to Pushkinskaya is achieved through the two underplatform passageways, and via the vestibule under the Pushkin square which they share.