Tsaritsyno railway station

Tsaritsyno
Moscow Railway platform
General information
LocationTsaritsyno District, Moscow
Russia
Coordinates55°37′06″N 37°40′07″E / 55.618472°N 37.668611°E / 55.618472; 37.668611
Owned byRussian Railways
Operated byMoscow Railway
Platforms4
Connections
Construction
Structure typeAt-grade
History
Opened1865
Services
Preceding station Moscow Railway
(commuter service)
Following station
Moskvorechye Kurskoye line Pokrovskoe
towards Tula
Preceding station Moscow Central Diameters Following station
Moskvorechye
towards Nakhabino
Line D2 Pokrovskoye
towards Podolsk
Proposed
Moskvorechye
towards Pushkino
Line D5 Kotlyakovo
towards Domodedovo

Tsaritsyno is a railway station of Line D2 of the Moscow Central Diameters in Moscow. It was opened in 1865.[1] The current station was built in 1908 according to the project of the architect V.K. Fillipov.

Leo Tolstoy in his novel "Anna Karenina" describes the celebration of the volunteers traveling to the Russo-Turkish War at the Tsaritsyno station.[2]

  1. ^ Железнодорожные станции СССР. Справочник [Directory of Railway stations of the USSR]. М. Транспорт. 1981.
  2. ^ Л. Н. Толстой. Анна Каренина.