Moscow's 188th metro station to open on December 28
MOSCOW. Dec 28 (Interfax) - The Pyatnitskoye Shosse subway station, the northwestern terminus of Moscow's Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya metro line, will open to passengers on Friday.
"The ribbon cutting ceremony has been set for December 28," a Moscow Construction Department spokesman told Interfax,
The new subway station is located in the Mitino district, at an intersection of Mitinskaya and Muravskaya Streets and Pyatnitskoye Highway, he said.
It will become the 188th metro station in Moscow and the 22nd station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.
Moscow's 187th subway station, which was named Alma-Atinskaya at the request of the Kazakh leadership, opened on Monday.
The Novokosino metro station started to operate in the east of the Russian capital in autumn.
As many as 8.5 kilometers of metro lines were put into operation in Moscow in 2012, setting a record for the city's subway network. The authorities plan to build another 14 kilometers next year. The average daily passenger traffic of the Moscow metro stands at over seven million, exceeding nine million on weekdays.