Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya (, ) is a

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station in the

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. It is on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line, between

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and Annino (Moscow Metro) stations. The station is located at the crossing of

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with Akademika Yangelya Street (west) and

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(east). It takes the name from Akademika Yangelya Street, which, in turn, was named after

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, a leading missile designer. One of the proposed names for the station was also Rossoshanskaya, from another street at the crossing. Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya was opened on 31 August 2000 and remained a terminal station until December 2001. The project was designed by architects Vladimir Filippov and Svetlana Belyakova.

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