Ploshchad Gagarina

Ploshchad Gagarina (Russian: Площадь Гагарина, Gagarin's Square) is a station on the Moscow Central Circle of the Moscow Metro. The station offers a free direct transfer to Leninsky Prospekt of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line. Ploshchad Gagarina is the only underground station on the Moscow Central Circle line.^[1]

Ploshchad Gagarina Площадь Гагарина
Moscow Metro station
General information
Coordinates	55.7071°N 37.5858°E / 55.7071; 37.5858
Line(s)	Moscow Central Circle
Platforms	2 side platforms
Tracks	2
Construction
Platform levels	1
History
Opened	10 September 2016; 8 years ago (10 September 2016)
Services
Preceding station Moscow Metro Following station Krymskaya anticlockwise / outer Moscow Central Circle Luzhniki clockwise / inner Out-of-station interchange Akademicheskaya towards Novoyasenevskaya Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line transfer at Leninsky Prospekt Shabolovskaya towards Medvedkovo
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Location Ploshchad Gagarina Location within Moscow Metro

After its first month of service, the station was the most used on the line with daily ridership of 25,800 passengers. The second most heavily used station was Vladykino with 18,300 passengers.^[1] As of January 2017, the station remains the most heavily trafficked on the line.^[2]

Gallery

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  Underground interchange to Leninsky Prospekt station (Line 6)
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  Standalone entrance to the station
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  Park-like setup of benches near the entrance (the park is elevated above the surrounding streets)