Zorge (Moscow Central Circle)

Zorge (Russian: Зорге) is a station on the Moscow Central Circle of the Moscow Metro. It became the 30th station on the line when it opened in November 2016.[1]

Zorge

Зорге
Moscow Metro station
General information
LocationKhoroshyovsky District, Northern Administrative Okrug
Coordinates55.7878°N 37.5045°E / 55.7878; 37.5045
Line(s)#14 Moscow Central Circle Moscow Central Circle
Platforms2 side platforms
Tracks3
Construction
Platform levels1
History
Opened4 November 2016 (4 November 2016)
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station
Khoroshyovo
anticlockwise / outer
Moscow Central Circle Panfilovskaya
clockwise / inner
Out-of-station interchange
Shchukinskaya
towards Planernaya
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line
transfer at Oktyabrskoye Pole
Polezhayevskaya
towards Kotelniki
Location
Zorge is located in Moscow Metro
Zorge
Zorge
Location within Moscow Metro

Zorge is near the Khodynskoye Pole area in northwestern Moscow. The station's name comes from the name of the street, Ulitsa Zorge, on which the station is situated. Ulitsa Zorge is named for Richard Sorge, a decorated Soviet intelligence officer who served in Nazi Germany and Japan.[2]

Zorg, as well as Panfilovskaya station to the north, provides an out-of-station transfer to Oktyabrskoye Pole station of Moscow Metro's Line 7.

References

  1. "В Москве открыли новую станцию МЦК "Зорге"". TV Tsentr. 2016-11-04.
  2. Anatoly Pegov (1985). Имена московских улиц (in Russian).


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