From the very beginning, the station was named after the Soviet scientist and explorer Khabib Abdullaev. But on June 16, 2015, it was renamed to the Shahristan stop, at the direction of the capital's khokimiyat. "Shahristan" is the historical name of the district, which is translated as "comfortable city". Before the appearance of the Dustlik-2 stop, Shahristan was a unique station with two coastal platforms. It is considered to be a kind of museum of geology, since a lot of marble, granite, as