The station was originally planned to be a bi-vault design similar to many London Underground stations, but Lazar Kaganovich, who was in charge of the Moscow Metro project at the time, insisted that the station be changed to a tri-vault design after 20 metres (66 ft) of tunnel had already been bored.
Stationen var ursprungligen planerad som en tvåvalvsstation liknande många av Londons tunnelbanestationer, men Lazar Kaganovitj, som var ansvarig för Metroprojektet vid denna tidpunkt, insisterade på att designen skulle ändras till en trevalvsstation efter att 20 meter tunnel redan hade borrats.