Arbatskaya metro stations are located on two lines of the Moscow Metro: the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line and the Filevskaya Line. The stations are located in the center of Moscow, approximately 1 kilometer from Red Square and the Moscow Kremlin. The station ground-level concourses are located near Arbatskaya Square and famous Moscow streets: Arbat, Novy Arbat, and Vozdvizhenka.
Arbatskaya Metro Station (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line)
Arbatskaya metro station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro is located between Ploshchad Revolyutsii and Smolenskaya stations. The station opened on April 5, 1953. The station’s underground hall is 220 meters long (one of the longest halls in the Moscow Metro). The station’s depth is 41 meters.
Arbatskaya metro station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line of the Moscow Metro is part of Moscow’s largest transfer hub (connecting four stations on four metro lines). From this station, you can transfer to Biblioteka Imeni Lenina on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, Aleksandrovsky Sad on the Filevskaya Line, and Borovitskaya on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line.
The station’s ground-level vestibule is located near the intersection of Vozdvizhenka Street and Krestovozdvizhensky Lane. The vestibule is integrated into the building of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Transfers to the Sokolnicheskaya (Biblioteka imeni Lenina station) and Filevskaya (Aleksandrovsky Sad station) lines are via an escalator located at the eastern end of the vestibule (from there, you can also exit to the city at Aleksandrovsky Sad and Mokhovaya Street). A staircase located in the center of the vestibule leads to Borovitskaya station (Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line). There is no transfer to Arbatskaya station on the Filevskaya line (2014).
Arbatskaya Metro Station (Filyovskaya Line)
Arbatskaya station on the Moscow Metro’s Filevskaya line is located between Aleksandrovsky Sad and Smolenskaya stations. Built on the site of a 17th-century church, the station opened on May 15, 1935. The station is 8 meters deep. The station’s ground-level vestibule is located on Arbatskaya Square, near Znamenka, Gogolevsky Boulevard, Arbat, and Novy Arbat streets. The ground-level vestibule is a separate building shaped like a five-pointed star. The station’s vestibule became one of the first symbols of the Moscow Metro.
Near the Arbatskaya metro station in Moscow are:
Pedestrian Arbat Street (one of Moscow’s landmarks).
The Vakhtangov Theater.
The distance to the Kremlin is approximately 750 meters.