Kashirskaya

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Kashirskaya is a Moscow Metro cross‑platform station complex in the south of Moscow, located at the intersection of Andropova Avenue and Kashirskoye Highway, near Nagatino-Sadovniki and Moskvorechye-Saburovo. It opened on 11 August 1969 as part of the Kakhovskaya radius and became an interchange between the Zamoskvoretskaya line and the old Kakhovskaya/Orekhovskaya branches. Since 2019, after the Kakhovskaya line was separated, it serves only the Zamoskvoretskaya line. In 2022 it became part of the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line and is its terminus. The station was closed from 12 November 2022 to 1 March 2023 for reconstruction related to the big circle line project.

The complex has two parallel halls in the 1960s “centipede” design, with two island platforms and four tracks. The eastern hall features grey marble pillars, white wall tiles, and a red granite floor; the western hall uses brown marble and grey granite with a slightly different wall shade. Both halls showcase large metal artworks by Z. Vetrova based on electrification, connected to the nearby Kashira Hydroelectric Station and the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute. The two halls are linked by a central passage, and there are two surface entrances to help handle high passenger traffic.