Voykovskaya (Moscow Metro)

Voykovskaya (Russian: Во́йковская) is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line.

It was opened on 31 December 1964 along with two neighbouring stations to the north, Vodny Stadion and Rechnoy Vokzal.

[1] It was built according to the standardized pillar-trispan design, which was widely used in the 1960s as a cost-saving measure.

The station is named in honor of Pyotr Voykov, a prominent Bolshevik and Soviet diplomat.

[2] The city held a vote on its “Active Citizen” platform in November 2015 to consider a name change.

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