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Creating a unique transport system, Moscow integrated the MCC into the city's existing transport network and, most importantly, into the Moscow metro system. The MCC became the ground ring line of the capital's subway.
You can pay for a ticket at the box office at any MCC station with a bank card.
In the future, it is planned to introduce modern fare payment technologies: NFC (fare payment using mobile phone), Pay Pass / Pay Wave (contactless payment by bank card).

"Without the sound of wheels"

Fast "Swallows" reach speeds of up to 160 km / h, but at the same time they do not cause "noisy inconvenience" to the townspeople.

All electrified rolling stock is noticeably quieter than diesel locomotives and meets modern environmental requirements.

Protective screens will save the citizens from excessive noise
and the creation of the so-called "velvet path" - without the sound of wheels.

This technology provides for the laying of railway tracks using special technology on separate 800-meter sections.

Why will the city train become a popular mode of transport for Muscovites?

A trip along the MCC will be many times more comfortable than in the metro. 110 “swallows” run along the railway ring, each designed for 1200 people.

New generation urban electric trains are equipped with

Security at the MCC

Rail transport traditionally remains one of the most dangerous all over the world. However, emergencies do not occur with trains, but with inattentive passengers who go onto the rails in prohibited places.
A fence has been installed along the entire perimeter of the MCC, which will prevent unauthorized access to the railway track.

The total length of the fence was 108 km

Part of the fence (16 km) is noise protective screens, which were installed within the boundaries of residential development.

Free pass
- Doesn't mean out of control

All transport security measures applied in the metro and on the railway are being implemented on the Moscow Central Circle. For example, profiling will also be carried out here.

Profiling

This method evaluates and predicts human behavior based on the analysis of the characteristics of appearance, non-verbal and verbal behavior.
There will also be a traditional screening like in the subway. Increased passenger protection will be provided through modern system turnstiles, detector frames and video surveillance, as well as by creating a separate division police.

Transport hubs

It will be possible to change one type of transport to another in a matter of minutes with the help of transport interchange hubs (TPU). They consist of terminals with ticket offices and turnstiles, as well as a system of covered pedestrian galleries - overhead and underground passages that will protect passengers from bad weather.

• 31

  MCC station

• 17

  transfers to 11 metro lines

• 10

  transfers to 9 radial railway directions

All stations provide transfer to public transport

buses, trams, trolleybuses and autolines

Passengers do not even have to go outside, so this type of transfer is called the principle of " dry feet».

Now ground urban transport brings citizens directly to the stations of the ring

In the future, transport hubs will become multifunctional: they will include offices, shopping malls, shops and cafes. Investors will invest in the construction of the commercial part, the city is building only the technological part of the hub, which performs a transport function, using funds from the Moscow budget. This concept meets the interests of investors who need to recoup their investment in construction, and the needs of citizens who can find work or receive the necessary services close to their homes.

In the future, some long-distance trains will be able to drop off passengers before reaching the station. Using the MCC, people will be able to save their time, stations in the center of Moscow will become freer.

Parking and parks

Passengers on the MCC will also increase at the expense of some motorists who will choose “corkless” movement around the city by rail. This will reduce some of the load from overcrowded city highways.

You will be able to park your car in the park-and-ride parking areas. 17 stations Moscow Central Circle. They are ready to accept 2 thousand cars.

These parking lots will operate in the same mode as the intercepting parking lots at metro stations, of which there are 31 (capacity - 6.6 thousand cars). The largest of them for 1.48 thousand cars is located near the Annino metro station.

The Moscow Central Ring will breathe life into the abandoned territories around

For 90 years, the district railway was used for the delivery of goods.

The necessary load in the days of the USSR was given to her by public utilities and industrial enterprises located around. But gradually production fell into decline, and today these sites are at best used for warehouses, and more often they are simply idle.

MCC is a unique project not only in terms of development transport infrastructure but also in terms of creating new jobs.

After the introduction of new real estate in the area of ​​MCC stations, about 40 thousand places of employment will be created.

Investors have already expressed their readiness to invest in the development of areas around 11 MCC stations. Among them:

"Botanical Garden"

"Vladykino"

"Yaroslavskaya"

"Open Highway"

"Novokhokhlovskaya"

"ZIL"

"Warsaw highway"

"Business center"

"Shelepikha"

"Novopeschanaya"

"Nikolaevskaya"

Attracting private investment will allow Moscow to save budget money and direct it to the development of social and transport infrastructure in other areas of the city.

Former industrial zones will turn into new urban areas

Around the ring, according to the calculations of the General Plan Institute, the following can be built:

750 thousand sq. m of commercial real estate.
Of them 300 thousand "squares"- hotels,
250 thousand - trading floors,
200 thousand - new offices and technology parks.

Moscow has the right to expect that developers will be interested in investing in real estate construction, because after the launch of the MCC, the cost of land around will increase significantly. The former industrial zones around the MCC fell into disrepair: these territories required an integrated approach. And putting in order the lands around the railway ring became the largest urban improvement project in 2016. Every day, 25.9 thousand people were involved in the improvement of the MCC in the summer of 2016. At the same time, the work was not aimed only at improving the appearance of the stations; the task was also to create convenient pedestrian links between the MCC and stops of surface urban transport.

• 2,800 trees were planted at the MCC.
• Updated facades 111 56 historic buildings. Near 11 stations view zones are created.

  The historic Kanatchikovo station on the MCC will not open for passengers, but will become an interesting sightseeing site.

  Two residential buildings, a gatehouse, a centralization booth and a warehouse have also been preserved. The Kanatchikovo station adorned the Moscow Central Circle, being of value to anyone interested in the history of Moscow railways and urban architecture.

  This decision is due to the low passenger traffic in the area. "Kanatchikovo" is located between the stops "Crimean" and "Gagarina Square" parallel to Kanatchikovsky proezd. The two-story building of the station from the beginning of the 20th century is an object of cultural heritage.

  1903 1908 50 versts

  Moscow Central Circle in full
  integrated into the Moscow metro system.

Sergei Witte

History of the creation of the MCC

In 2018, the Moscow Central Ring will celebrate a kind of anniversary: ​​the decision to build the “Circumferential Railway” in Moscow was made by Emperor Nicholas II in the fall of 1897.

The initiator of the project was a great enthusiast of railway transport, the Minister of Finance of the Russian Empire, Sergei Witte. The district railway had a huge national importance Therefore, the best Russian engineers and architects were involved in the project.

For 110 years, the task of the MCC has not changed: saving passengers' time.

On the 50 verst (54 km) was built
14 stations

2
stopping points

30
viaducts

72 bridges
(of which 4 through
Moscow river)

35 pairs of trains per day ran along the district. Passenger traffic on the MCC did not last long, they were stopped due to unprofitability. For more than a century, the railway ring was used only for the transport of goods and served the industrial zones around.

The idea of ​​restoring passenger traffic never left Moscow city planners, but work began only in 2012.
It was necessary to completely upgrade the infrastructure: electrify the road, reposition the rails, and most importantly, reconstruct eight overpasses at the intersection with highways to raise them to a height that allows new trains to pass.

The first passengers drove along the district on September 10, 2016. On the eve of this event, the road was given a new name - the Moscow Central Ring (MCC).

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So, I decided not to shelve this matter, and yesterday, after work, I joined. I didn’t drive along the full ring, there was no time, but I mastered three quarters of it - from Vladykino to Izmailovo.

Well, what can I say? So far it is obvious that this is an attraction clean water, roughly, like the Moscow monorail immediately after its opening, officially working then "in a tour mode." Only the monorail was paid, but the MCC was not, which is what the vast majority of its passengers use. But first things first.

What we liked: Trains! You can laugh at me, but yesterday I rode the "Swallow" for the first time. Very smooth acceleration and quiet, in terms of sound, movement. On the move, you hear not the sound of traction engines, not the howling of gears, not the knock of compressors - but only the grinding of the wheel flange against the rails in curves. Well, even at high speed, the wobbling of the wagon is felt. But, by and large, in comparison with those ER1 ED4M, which we ride - heaven and earth. In general, comparing Siemens Desiro Rus and crafts from the Demikhov factory is like comparing black sturgeon caviar with capelin caviar.

Navigation at the stations is fully present (however, in some places they did not replace the plates with the original names, which were changed during the construction process). But, in general, everything is clear and intelligible:

Escalators work at all stations where I have been - which is important, considering that the route of the District Railway, historically, is located on high embankments for almost its entire length.

What did not like: The whole MCC is still very, very raw. It’s good to finish it for at least another two months - but we have assault and window dressing at the forefront, so ... Many stations have not completed the actual exits to the city - for me, for example, to get to the platform from Dmitrovsky highway, I had to walk past the Okruzhnaya platform, because the entrance to it is open only from the inside of the ring, and walk to the next Vladykino station. There is a transition to the outer side on Okruzhnaya - but it has not yet been completed, and is closed. The "wild" crossing that used to be here was blocked with fences - however, the citizens have already made holes in them ... you have to cross the piece of iron, but go around a kilometer - no fools. The same thing happened at the exit - and I went out to Izmailovo: direct access to the Partizanskaya metro station is still being completed, so citizens are forced to use the only exit towards Tkatskaya Street, and make a detour under the overpasses of the MK MZhD and the fourth ring. Three hundred meters in a straight line, and six hundred along the existing route - there is a difference.
Secondly, as many have noted, there really are not enough informant announcements on which side the platform to which the train arrives is located. On the MCC, the platforms are mainly coastal, but about a quarter are island ones. Until the train pulls up directly to the platform, it is not visible. As a result, getting out rush from one side of the car to the other. Over time, of course, they will remember where everything is located, and they will get used to it - as they are already accustomed to pressing the buttons on the doors so that they open - but now this is noticeably lacking.
The third is the title. What means Moscow Central Circle? And where is the Moscow non-central ring? There was a normal name - the Moscow District Railway, historical, and understandable to everyone: BMO is BMO, it is in the region, and Okruzhnaya is in Moscow. But no. EM CE KA. The Central Committee of some EM. The combination of three consonants is terrible.

Well, the fourth thing I don't like about the MCC - but this is my personal IMHO: the organization of a purely ring traffic. MK MZhD has a connection with all radial railway lines of the Moscow junction, including those that do not have a through diametrical passage: Kazansky, Kievsky, Paveletsky and Yaroslavsky. Nothing prevents some of the trains from these directions from running not to their dead-end stations, but in transit through the ring to another radius. Part, not all - let one train out of five - ten. Especially considering the desire of the Moscow Region authorities and Russian Railways to increase the pairing of suburban electric trains under the slogan of turning them into some kind of "light metro" (the term, in this case, is absolutely illiterate, but I will use it, in relation to the situation). Yes, this will complicate the scheduling, make it necessary to match the schedules of different directions - but nothing is impossible. After all, the New York subway has been operating on the same route pattern for many decades. Of course, someone will object to me that this is a utopia - my dears, about ten years ago, passenger traffic itself along the Small Ring was also considered a utopia. However...

Will they use: Definitely, they will. First of all, those who work or live within walking distance of the ring stations. I myself, if I still lived on Kutuzovsky Prospekt, would absolutely use it - my native home stands directly opposite the platform:

With transfer trips it is much more difficult - so far, convenient transfers to the MCC can be counted on the fingers of one hand - "Leninsky Prospekt" - Gagarin Square, "Kutuzovskaya", "Vladykino", "Cherkizovskaya" - Lokomotiv - well, perhaps that's all. With transfers to trains and ground transport, it is even more difficult. Perhaps, when all this is brought in accordance with the plans, the passenger flow will settle down. Again, using the ring for travel is convenient only if the route that runs through it is a quarter, a maximum of a third of the length of the ring. If more, then it is much more convenient to drive in a straight line, especially since there is almost always such an opportunity. Well, now 80-90% of passengers are exclusively curious citizens. Including transport freaks - freaks, loudly, for the whole car or platform, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of electric trains of the ES2G class compared to trains of the ET2M series, for example :) But someone has already fully appreciated the innovation, and uses it in a direct - transport - destination:

True, these are mostly young people, who are seven miles away from the transfer - not a detour :) Interestingly, I noticed that there are much more passengers on trains following the inner side of the ring than those that go along the outer one. Well, and - for me personally, the MCC is neither to the village nor to the city, at least at the present time.

About the views from the train window: Let's be objective: since the construction of the District Railway in 1908, it has been the center of attraction for industrial zones that have been built around it for seventy (I repeat: SEVENTY) years. And overnight they, and the entourage that accompanies them, will not go anywhere, even though they try to bashfully cover them with fences:

No, I do not argue that the railway also passes by quite beautiful places in Moscow: in Luzhniki, for example, this is the Novodevichy Convent, and the Luzhniki sports complex itself; in Izmailovo - the hotel complex of the same name, and the Izmailovo Fair, with its popular Kremlin; post-war development in the area of ​​the Oktyabrsky field; beautiful views open up from the bridges across the Moscow River, the Belokamennaya station is generally located in the forest, and not just in the forest, but in the Losiny Ostrov National Nature Park; and someone likes the skyscrapers of the City:

But, in eighty percent of cases, the surrounding landscape from the window will look like this:

So if you love aesthetics ebeney- industrial zones, garages, and multi-level transport interchanges - you will certainly enjoy a trip around the MCC. Just hurry - with the current pace of Moscow urban planning, they will soon be exhausted for the most part.

My impressions. Of course, I liked it more than I didn’t like it, judging by a five-point scale :) Already one thing - a ride on an electric train along the legendary District Railway, on which passenger trains have not run for more than eighty years - is worth a lot. Of course, the jambs are very striking. But there is no doubt that they will be corrected. The main thing is not to forget about the little things.

It is good that the ring was not turned into a purely passenger one, a complete analogue of the metro, as some radical comrades suggested: after all, the original purpose of the District Railway - to connect all Moscow railway radii - is a strategic thing, and should have remained untouched. Again, variety for the railroad fans ;)

More from what I've seen. The MCC has its own Moscow time:

Business center station, with its vigorous green color:

The canopy over the platform is connected to the walls in such a way that during rain, water will be poured into the station. Is that how it's meant to be?

When I was at the Kutuzovskaya station, two hard workers dragged, right across the tracks, some hefty electric box, and threw it onto the platform, in its narrowest place. A minute later, the Swallow arrived on the same path, disembarking passengers who had to step over this box, or squeeze between it and the wall. That is, with the security of both employees and passengers at the MCC, so far, complete seams. I would like to hope that this will not lead to serious consequences.

Something like that. Of course, I plan to drive around the MCC more thoughtfully, and during daylight hours. And then in the dark around you can’t see anything at all :)

In the meantime, I voiced my first impressions from his visit. So all of the above is just my personal subjective opinion.

Yes, and: a note for those who are in the subject;) In my passport in the column "Place of birth" is written "city of Moscow". And on my father's side, I'm a Muscovite in the third generation;)

(today - 24 operating MCC stations) - a new Moscow transport designed to make travel in Moscow even more convenient. The first stage was opened on September 10. At the moment, twenty-four stations out of thirty-one are open for use by passengers. Five stations have a covered subway passage, six have a subway passage across the street. By the end of October, 6 more stations will open.
24 open MCC stations - see the list below...

List of operating MCC stations:

• Okruzhnaya (SVAO and SAO). Transfer to the same name railway station(Savelovskoye direction of Moscow Railways), and in the future - to the new metro station "Okruzhnaya". There is also a transfer to the city ground transport - the bus.

• Baltic (SAO). Provides a transfer to the Voykovskaya metro station or urban ground transport. Baltiyskaya station is connected by overpass with shopping mall"Metropolis", and on the other hand, next to it, almost right next to it is the Pokrovskoye - Streshnevo park.

• Streshnevo (SAO and SZAO). Transfer to tram, trolleybus, bus. According to the plan - a transfer to the railway line of the Riga direction (a new stopping station). P. S: by the way, we have a topic about.

• Shelepikha (CAO). Provides a transfer to the railway platform "Testovskaya".

• Business center (southwestern part of the Central Administrative District). Major station on the MCC. Transfer to the metro station "Mezhdunarodnaya". It is located within walking distance from the railway station "Testovskaya". According to the plan - parking and underground passage to Moscow City.

• Kutuzovskaya (CJSC), next to Kutuzovsky Prospekt. It is possible to transfer to the Kutuzovskaya metro station and to ground transport: a trolleybus and a bus.

• Luzhniki (CAO). Station with "coastal" platforms and a vestibule. Provides a transfer to the metro station "Sportivnaya" or to a city bus. According to the plans, it is the Sportivnaya MCC station that will be the most in demand during the event.

• Gagarin Square (CJSC). Connected to the metro station "Leninsky Prospekt" (through an underpass). Transfer to buses, trolleybuses and trams. This is the only MCC station that is underground.

• Crimean (South and South-West). Transfer to the Sevastopolskaya railway station and city transport - bus.

• Upper boilers (YuAO). It is located between the Nagatinskaya and Tulskaya metro stations. Connected with city buses, trolleybuses and trams. And also - through a new platform with the railway of the Paveletsky direction.

• ZIL (northern part of South Administrative District). Access to the Ice Palace on the inside of the MCC and to ground public transport - on the outside of the MCC.

• Avtozavodskaya (YuAO). Here you can transfer to the Avtozavodskaya metro station (along the street) and to ground transport (bus, trolleybus).

• Belokamennaya (VAO). It is located within the boundaries of the Losiny Ostrov National Park. Transfer to ground transport - bus. And by bus to the nearest metro station - Rokossovsky Boulevard.

• Botanical Garden (SVAO). It is connected to the metro station of the same name by an underground pedestrian crossing. You can transfer to land transport - bus.

• Rokossovsky Boulevard (VAO). It provides for a transition to the metro station of the same name (Sokolnicheskaya line) and transfer to a bus or tram.

• Likhobory (SAO). It is connected with the railway, with the NATI platform (Leningrad direction). You can transfer to the bus.

• Lokomotiv (VAO). Transfer (warm) to Cherkizovskaya metro station (covered passage). It is possible to transfer to a trolleybus or a bus.

• Nizhny Novgorod (YuVAO). It is connected with the railway station "Karacharovo" (from the Kursk railway station) and the city bus. In 2018, a transition to the Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa metro station will be available.

• Novokhokhlovskaya (South-Eastern Administrative Okrug). It is possible to transfer to a city bus and from 2017 - through a new platform, you can transfer to the railway (Kursk direction).

• Okruzhnaya (SVAO and SAO). Transfer to the railway station of the same name (Savelovskoye direction of the Moscow Railway), and in the future - to the new metro station Okruzhnaya. There is also a transfer to the city ground transport - the bus.

• Ugreshskaya (SEAD). From the station you can transfer to a bus, tram or trolleybus. With the help of ground transport (bus or tram) you can get to two metro stations - "Kozhukhovskaya" or "Dubrovka".

• Izmailovo (VAO). It is connected with the metro station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line - "Partizanskaya". It is possible to transfer to a bus, trolleybus and tram.

• Rostokino (SVAO). Transfer to the railway station "Severyanin" (Yaroslavl direction). Transfer to ground transport is also available - tram, bus, trolleybus.

• Vladykino (SVAO). Transfer to the metro station of the same name through the elevated passage. You can transfer to a bus or trolleybus.

Several more stations will be opened at the end of October 2016

List of currently closed MCC stations:

• Panfilovskaya- complex from an engineering point of view, the station due to space constraints. It is removed from the metro station (Oktyabrskoye Pole station) by about seven hundred meters.

• Zorge street

• Koptevo

• Falcon Hill

• Dubrovka

What is known about one of the largest transport projects in Russia

On September 10, on City Day, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin launched traffic on the Moscow Central Circle (MCC). More than 100 billion rubles have been invested in one of the most ambitious Russian transport projects, but much has not yet been completed. RBC presents a dossier on the MCC

High-speed electric train "Lastochka" on a test run on the MCC, September 2, 2016 (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

1. What was launched

On the Day of the City, for the first time, the Moscow Central Ring, a city railway with a length of 54 km, accepted passengers. In total, the MCC will have 31 stations (the exact name is a transport interchange hub, TPU). 17 of them will be connected to metro stations, including covered galleries from the MCC to the metro at 11 stations; in the mayor's office, such transitions are called "dry feet". There will be nine transfer points from the MCC to commuter trains (only the Kyiv commuter line will remain without integration with the ring). During rush hour, trains will arrive at stations every six minutes, regular time- once every 11-15 minutes; The train will make a full circle in an hour and a half. Boards on the platforms will show the arrival time of the next train. At the stations, they promise to install ports for recharging gadgets.

After the launch of the Russian Railways project, the entire railway infrastructure will depart, and the city delegates the ownership of the platforms and transport hubs (TPU) to the State Unitary Enterprise Moscow Metro. In the first month of the MCC's operation, travel on it will be free, then it will be possible to enter the MCC station using cards that are the same for Moscow public transport.

Construction of a covered gallery from the MCC to the Vladykino metro station; in the city hall such transitions are called “dry feet”, July 2016 (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

2. Who invented

The construction of the Moscow circular railway connecting the industrial zones on the outskirts of Moscow began in 1902. It was launched in 1908, later than planned, because there were interruptions in funding due to the Russo-Japanese War. Mostly freight traffic was carried along the MOZHD. Passenger trains also went, but in 1934, with the development of tram traffic in the city and the start of construction of the metro, the ring was closed for people.

With the withdrawal of most factories outside of Moscow, this cargo line became unnecessary. At the end of 2007, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin signed an agreement to work on a project to convert the freight ring into a passenger line. It was planned that all work will be completed in 2010-2011. The deadline has been pushed back several times. In fact, construction began in 2012.

3. What will the trains be like?

The MCC will run about 30 trains. As "city trains" use "Swallows", developed by Siemens on the order of the Russian Railways for the transport of passengers during the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi. The current head of the Moscow Metro, Dmitry Pegov, led the project to launch Lastochka in Sochi when he worked for Russian Railways.

The train has five cars (expandable to ten). All “Lastochka” for the metropolitan ring will be equipped with Wi-Fi and air conditioning, there will be special places for bicycles, which, unlike the metro, can be transported unassembled along the MCC. Each Lastochka will have two toilets.

High-speed electric train "Lastochka" in the operational depot, November 2015 (Photo: Sergey Gusev)

4. How much did you spend

By the time the MCC was launched, more than 100 billion rubles had been spent on the project. Russian Railways became the main investor: the state-owned company invested 74 billion rubles in the construction of railway infrastructure. (they planned to spend 54 billion rubles, but the demolition of facilities and the transfer of communications cost unexpectedly expensive, a source familiar with the construction of the MCC told RBC).

The Moscow government spent 19 billion rubles. for the construction of 31 ring stations and their integration with metro stations. Another 10.6 billion rubles. spent on the reconstruction of overpasses (the Volokolamsk overpass became the most expensive, it cost 5 billion rubles - the authorities had, among other things, to change the windows in the residential buildings closest to the overpass for noise protection).

The city will pay RZD 3.8 billion rubles a year. for transport services for passengers on the new ring. The parties have already signed a 15-year contract.

Luzhniki station, July 2016 (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

In the approved project, near 11 transfer hubs, commercial facilities were to be built at the expense of investors - shopping and business centers, hotels. The management company of OAO MKZhD, owned by the Moscow government, must issue property rights to its own subsidiaries for land for commercial construction and then auctioned off to investors.

By the time the traffic on the ring was launched, only one such section had gone under the hammer: for 1.14 billion rubles. Pioneer Group received a 100% stake in Botanichesky Sad LLC and the right to develop the territory near the Botanichesky Sad transport hub. The company, which is implementing the LIFE Botanical Garden residential project nearby, is going to build a shopping and office center and an apart-hotel there.

“All other sites for the construction of the transfer hub will be implemented during 2016-2017. We expect to earn at these auctions at least 14 billion rubles, a maximum of 19 billion rubles, depending on the situation. That is, we will return almost all the funds that the city invested in the construction of the technological part of the stations, ”says RBC’s interlocutor in the Moscow City Hall, adding that the construction of the transfer hub will give impetus to the development of the territories around the MCC by developers. According to the interlocutor of RBC, by the end of 2016 it is planned to put up for auction four or five objects, the rest - next year.

Construction of the Botanical Garden station, July 2016 (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

6. What will give a new ring

“By 2020, when all projects for integration with the metro and electric trains are completed, projects for shopping and office centers are implemented, we plan that passenger traffic will amount to 300 million people a year,” a source in the Moscow City Hall told RBC, adding that the same the number of passengers per year is transported by the operating Metro Circle Line. In the meantime, the new ring will carry about 75 million people a year, the City Hall calculated.

The launch of the MCC will unload the metro, especially in the center, and increase the accessibility of a number of areas where there have been no metro stations so far, the mayor's office is sure. The head of the Moscow Construction Complex, Marat Khusnullin, shared estimates that the busy Koltsevaya metro line would become 15% freer - people would not have to travel from the outskirts to the center to change trains at Koltsevaya. The MCC website provides calculations: the trip for the average metro passenger will be 20 minutes shorter.

Egor Muleev, a researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics and Transport Policy at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, emphasizes the ambiguity of such calculations: according to him, the benefits of launching the MCC are like bike lanes in Moscow: for some this will really make it easier to move around, but for many it will not change anything.

“The ring is inserted without full-fledged transfer nodes. I strongly doubt that even in the coming years it will be in demand by passengers to the extent that the authorities are counting on,” says Pavel Zyuzin, senior researcher at the Center for Research on Transport Problems in Megacities at the Higher School of Economics. - There are questions about transfers at many radii. They are located at a distance of 500-700 m from the MCC stations.”

Parking-and-ride parking will appear near four MCC stations this year (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

However, according to the expert, the new ring will be very useful for residents of certain areas of Moscow. “On the Yaroslavl highway in the direction of Bogorodskoye and Lefortovo, it will ease the situation. It will unload some northwestern sectors, Koptevo and other areas,” the expert lists. “But as for the south, here the MCC is very close to the Metro Circle Line, and the difference between them is small.” Also, the launch of the MCC, in his opinion, will make it easier for residents of individual cities in the Moscow region, especially for passengers traveling from Mytishchi and Korolev.

What didn't get done

By the day of the official launch of the MCC, the builders did not have time to prepare seven stations for operation. Their list was published by TASS, citing a source in the Moscow government. The first trains of the ring will pass Koptevo, Panfilovskaya, Zorge, Khoroshevo, Izmailovo, Andronovka and Dubrovka without stopping. This information was confirmed to RBC by its own source in the project management company OAO MKZhD.

A month and a half before City Day, a high-ranking RBC source in the Moscow government claimed that “when launching, the entire infrastructure will be ready, all platforms at 31 stopping points.” “This is a must-have, and there is no doubt that it will be ready for launch,” RBC’s interlocutor assured. However, on September 2, the first deputy head of the transport department, Hamid Bulatov, told reporters that the opening of seven MCC stations on the day of the start of traffic along the ring "is in doubt", promising that a week before the grand opening full list stations that will start functioning immediately.

But official list Ready stations were not announced on Thursday, when less than two days remained before the solemn ceremony. RBC's source at Moscow Railways OJSC said that the final decision on the number of stations that will be available to passengers on the first day of the MCC will be made only a day before the opening of the ring. At the same time, the interlocutor said that seven out of 31 stations “will definitely not open”, and there are “doubts” about two more. necessary equipment. Maybe we will open 24 stations at once, and then we will close two for a short time for finishing work, ”a RBC source at the Moscow Ring Railway told RBC, adding that before the end of the year, “all MCC stations will definitely be available to passengers.”

Most of the covered galleries are not ready for transfer to platforms for metro trains and three transfer points from the MCC to the metro. But these facilities, unlike the stations themselves, were originally planned to be built after the launch of traffic along the MCC.

Which trains will not run

Initially, other trains with a bird's name - Ivolgi - were supposed to run along the MCC. Tender for the organization of the movement of electric trains along the Moscow Ring Road for 15 years for 57 billion rubles. won the company TsPPK - an operator of commuter trains, co-owned by the vice-mayor of Moscow, head of the transport department Maxim Liksutov. In an interview with RBC, Liksutov stated that the TsPPK won the tender due to a more favorable offer for Moscow, and assured that after switching to the civil service, he himself did not follow the business of his former companies. “Three companies took part in the competition, including Russian Railways themselves, which offered less favorable conditions for the city and therefore lost,” Liksutov explained to RBC in February 2015.

The TsPPK company planned to conclude a contract with Transmashholding (the company's co-owners are Iskander Makhmudov and Andrey Bokarev, until 2011 Liksutov was also a co-owner of this company) for the production of Ivolga electric trains. The trains were positioned as competitors of the Lastochka, while being completely made of domestic materials and cheaper by 40-50%.

But Ivolga was unable to pass certification, and without it it was impossible to put trains of this model on the MCC. Representative of VNIIZhT JSC, which conducts tests prototype Orioles refused to tell RBC why the train was not certified.

In January 2016, a few months after Oleg Belozerov replaced Vladimir Yakunin as head of Russian Railways, it turned out that the rights to serve passengers and the $56 billion contract would also go to Russian Railways. As a source in Russian Railways explains, Oleg Belozerov considered the situation unfair for Russian Railways: “It turned out that the state built the entire infrastructure with its own money, on which Liksutov’s business partners would earn money, who would supply trains and receive money for transportation. In mid-January 2016, the CPPK unexpectedly decided to assign the contract for transport services to Russian Railways.”

City electric train EG2Tv "Ivolga" (Photo: Sergey Fadeichev/TASS)

Mikhail Khromov, director general of the CPPK, said that Russian Railways and the city authorities were the initiators of the assignment of the agreement - "they were convincing enough for us to agree." Officially, Russian Railways also admits that they received the contract after "multilateral consultations with the participation of the Moscow government." Now Russian Railways will carry MCC passengers on their Lastochkas.

RBC's source in the Moscow government, however, claims that the Ivolga can still return to the project. “If Ivolga passes certification, then Russian Railways will be able to replace Lastochka with it,” says RBC’s interlocutor. - In our contract it is not fixed that for all 15 years there will be only "Swallow". In my opinion, this is a question of the efficiency of the rolling stock, the cost of maintenance, etc.”

TsPPK eventually got only a contract for 2.1 billion rubles. to organize the sale of tickets and the work of controllers for a period of four years. However, the ticketing system of the new ring will also be fully integrated into the urban transport system, rather than the suburban transport, which is the focus of the CPPK.

The Moscow Central Ring of the MCC is a global and largest project in recent years related to the urban development of Moscow. The Moscow Central Ring of the MCC is another type of public transport in Moscow. The MCC is called the road of the future, able to breathe new life in the industrial districts of Moscow.

The Moscow Central Ring is a city ring railway that will connect the metropolitan subway, rail and surface transport in Moscow into a single transport system. important function The MCC will remove the load from public transport, in particular from the metro. There is a version that the construction of the MCC is an alternative to the construction of another circular metro line. It has already been calculated that with the full implementation of the MCC system, the average Muscovite will reduce the average travel time to work by twenty minutes. Some routes will become as optimized as possible. For example, from the Vladykino metro station to the Botanichesky Sad station, you now need to travel ten stations and make two transfers. new system- it will be one stop and travel time - three minutes. There are many such examples.

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Over time, at seventeen stations it will be possible to transfer to the metro, at thirty-one stations - to land transport (bus), and crossings at ten stations will allow you to transfer to suburban trains. Moreover, all transitions by 2018 will be classified as “dry feet”, that is, you will not need to go outside for a transplant. Even figures are given: the average time for a transfer will be twelve minutes, and the minimum - only thirty seconds.

History of the Moscow Central Ring

At the beginning of the 20th century, on the orders of the tsar (Nicholas II), the District Railway was built around Moscow. The task at that time was to establish uninterrupted and timely movement of cargo flows, because the main burden of transporting goods around the city at that time fell on ordinary cab drivers who ran from railway stations throughout Moscow. Railway radial lines did not solve the problem of ever-increasing freight traffic, and on the railways of that time freight trains were forced to stand in line for several hours. During the design and construction, a single format for the design of the buildings of the stations of the Okruzhnaya Railway was developed, everything looked very decent and fit into general style cities. The construction was personally supervised by the Moscow governor-general. The district railway was used to transport goods, the passengers were mainly workers from adjacent factories. Since 1934, the District Railway has been used only for the transport of goods. Gradually, entire industrial zones formed around the railway, some of them in recent times used as warehouses or rented out for a variety of purposes. General state Moscow industrial zones was also not satisfactory. The launch of traffic along the Moscow Central Ring will also stimulate the development of many former industrial zones, they will be integrated into the overall architectural and economic system of the city.

Where is the Moscow Central Ring

Moscow is getting closer to remote areas. The MCC passes through twenty-six districts of Moscow. In some areas where there is no metro, new MCC stations will appear - Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, Kotlovka, Beskudnikovsky, Koptevo, Nizhegorodsky, Metrogorodok. In addition, the Moscow Central Ring covers the so-called academic ring, on which the famous universities of the capital are located.

Moscow Central Ring scheme

On September 10, 2016, on the Day of the City of Moscow, the first stage of the launch of the Moscow Central Ring took place. Our President became the first passenger. The first stage of the MCC has been opened - twenty-six stations, at ten of them you can transfer to the metro. By the end of the year, the plan is to launch the second stage and seven more stations. There will be thirty-one stations in total. Commercial real estate, shops, cafes, shopping malls will appear in the nearest industrial zones. The MCC will be marked on the Moscow metro map as the 14th metro line.

From the unusual - passengers will see trees, chargers for phones, benches. Entrance - through turnstiles, it is possible to pass through a bank card.

High-speed Lastochka trains will run on the MCC. Each train has five wagons. The average waiting time is six minutes. For comfortable movement, all trains will have toilets, sockets, Wi-Fi, an air conditioning system, video cameras, ramps for passengers with limited mobility. There are also bike racks available. To open the car door for entry and exit, passengers will need to press a button that is active after a complete stop of movement.

On financing the MCC project Moscow Central Ring

Half of the funds for the construction and reorganization of the Moscow Railway allocated from the federal budget, the second half - from the Moscow treasury.

To attract Muscovites and guests of the city to use a new type of public transport, the Moscow authorities have made free pass along the Moscow Central Ring within one month from September 10, 2016. This action is designed to show and prove the convenience and efficiency of the new road system.

Moscow Central Ring fare

Travel along the Moscow Central Ring should be economical, namely: without transfers to other modes of transport - here is a one-time payment. If the journey is combined with the metro, then, suppose, the passenger pays for the passage at the entrance to the metro, then pays nothing - transfers to one of the MCC stations, then pays nothing again, returns to the metro and exits the city. There is some clarification. When entering the subway for the second time, you just need to attach the ticket used at the first entry to the turnstile, if less than ninety minutes have passed since the first entry, you don’t have to pay, if more, sorry, but here you will have to pay for the entrance again.

Moscow Central Ring what are the tariffs and what about the tickets? The tariff system of the MCC will be identical to the metro. Metro tickets that can be used according to the above scheme must be purchased no earlier than September 01, 2016. If a ticket was purchased earlier, then it must be reprogrammed at the metro ticket office. The subway is constantly talking about it. The most trouble-free way is to use the TROIKA card, there is nothing to restart or reconfigure. Usability bank card promise by the end of 2016 with the launch of the second stage.

About pleasant

During the first free month - exactly, further - is still unknown, but MCC passengers, sitting in comfortable chairs, will be able to listen to the story of the electronic guide, about the history of the MCC and the sights of the city that flicker outside the window.

Consolidation of all types of public urban transport in single system in Moscow - this is so far the only example in Russia. But far from the only one in the world. In particular, many cite a similar system in Berlin, Barcelona and other European cities as an example. The unified and harmonized public transport scheme "MCC Scheme" is already available on new scheme Moscow metro.