May Day Kiev travel time. Moscow ring railway and mkzd scheme

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By creating a unique transport system, Moscow has integrated the MCC into the existing transport network of the city and, most importantly, into the Moscow metro system. The MCC has become a 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 technologies fare payment: NFC (fare payment using a mobile phone), Pay Pass / Pay Wave (contactless payment by credit card).

"Without knocking wheels"

Fast "Swallows" develop speeds of up to 160 km / h, but at the same time they do not cause "noisy inconveniences" 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 unnecessary noise
and the creation of the so-called "velvet path" - without the clatter of wheels.

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

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

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

New generation urban electric trains are equipped with

Security at the MCC

Railway transport traditionally remains one of the most dangerous all over the world. However, emergencies do not occur with trains, but with inattentive passengers who get on the rails in prohibited places.
A fence was 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 protection screens, which were installed within the boundaries of residential buildings.

Free pass
- does NOT mean uncontrolled

On the Moscow center ring implement all measures to ensure transport security used in the metro and on the railway. For example, profiling will be carried out here.

Profiling

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

Transport hubs

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

• 31

  MCC station

• 17

  transfers on 11 metro lines

• 10

  transfers on 9 radial railway directions

All stations provide a transfer to urban public transport

buses, trams, trolleybuses and autolines

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

City ground transportation now brings citizens directly to Ring Stations

In the future, TPUs will become multifunctional: they will include offices, shopping malls, shops and cafes. Investors will invest money in the construction of the commercial part, the city is using funds from the Moscow budget to build only the technological part of the unit that performs transport function... This concept meets the interests of investors who need to recoup their investments in construction, and the needs of citizens who can find work or get the services they need near their homes.

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

Intercepting parking lots

There will also be more passengers on the MCC at the expense of some motorists who will choose “seamless” movement around the city by rail. This will reduce some of the traffic on congested city highways.

You can park your car in the intercepting parking lots at 17 stations Moscow Central Ring. They are ready to accept 2 thousand cars.

These parking lots will operate in the same mode as the intercept 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 at the Annino metro station.

Moscow Central Circle will breathe life into abandoned areas around

For 90 years, the ring railway has been used for the delivery of goods.

During the Soviet era, it was given the necessary load by utilities and industrial enterprises located around. But gradually production fell into decay, and today these sites are at best used for warehouses, and more often they are simply idle.

MCC - unique project not only in terms of the development of transport infrastructure, but also in terms of creating new jobs.

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

Investors have already expressed their readiness to invest in the development of territories 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 channel it into the development of social and transport infrastructure in other areas of the city.

Former industrial zones will be transformed into new urban areas

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

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

Moscow has the right to expect that developers will be interested in investing money 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 the tidying up of 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 connections between the MCC and stops of surface urban transport.

• 2800 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 to passengers, but it will become an interesting excursion site.

  Also preserved are two residential buildings, a gatehouse, a centralization booth and a warehouse. The Kanatchikovo station has adorned the Moscow Central Circle and is of value to anyone interested in the history of Moscow railways and urban architecture.

  This decision is due to the insignificant passenger traffic in the area. "Kanatchikovo" is located between the stops "Krymskaya" and "Ploschad Gagarin" parallel to Kanatchikovsky passage. The two-storey station building from the beginning of the 20th century is a cultural heritage site.

  1903 1908 50 versts

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

Sergey Witte

History of the creation of the MCC

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

The project was initiated by a great railway transport enthusiast, Minister of Finance of the Russian Empire Sergei Witte. The ring railway was of great national importance, so 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 50 versts (54 km) was built
14 stations

2
stopping points

30
overpasses

72 bridges
(of which 4 through
Moscow River)

There were 35 pairs of trains running around the district per day. 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 transportation 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 update the infrastructure: electrify the road, shift the rails and, most importantly, reconstruct eight overpasses at the intersection with highways in order to raise them to a height that allows new trains to pass.

The first passengers drove through the circuit 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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On September 10, 2016, the Moscow Central Circle will open for passengers in the capital. True, construction work on the new highway will continue after this date: according to the head of the transport department, Maxim Liksutov, some MCC stations will be completed after the start of work. Nevertheless, officials are seriously counting on the highway and hope that within the next two years it will become popular among the townspeople. Anticipating the opening of the Central Circle, The Village answers the most popular questions about the new form of urban transport.

What is the MCC?

The Moscow Central Circle (formerly known as the Moscow Ring Railway) is a new interchange circuit that should unite the metro and the radial lines of suburban railways and greatly relieve the burden of Moscow city center by removing transit passengers from it.

According to its designers, the launch of the track will relieve the metro by 15%, and the average travel time will decrease by 20 minutes (for example, the travel time from Leninsky Prospekt station to Mezhdunarodnaya station will be reduced from half an hour to ten minutes). In other words, thanks to the MCC, it will be possible to transfer from one metro or electric train line to another, bypassing the center. In addition, the MCC should partly solve the so-called Vykhino problem - a situation in which trains going to the center are filled immediately at the terminal metro stations. Passengers of electric trains arriving from the Moscow region will be able to change trains to the new ring, and from there - on the metro lines and other suburban directions.

Estimate of the MCC project

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Planned passenger traffic

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Road length

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Number of stops

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Transfers on the metro line

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Transfers to electric trains

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Full circle ride

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Train intervals

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Train speed

Train capacity

human

How did the idea for the project come about?

The creation of the MCC is actually not a revolutionary idea. In most western metropolitan areas, the metro and the electric train are not separated and are one and the same transport: this practice allows passengers to move around the city much faster and easier. The designers of the ring themselves cite Berlin as an example, where the S-Bahn city train and the U-Bahn metro coexist within the same system.

The central ring was created on the basis of the Moscow district railway, the decision on the construction of which was made at the end of the 19th century on the initiative of the Minister of Finance Russian Empire Sergei Witte. They built a ring around Moscow according to the design of the engineer P.I.Rashevsky from 1903 to 1908. According to the initial project, the route was supposed to have four tracks, which would be divided between goods and passenger traffic, but due to lack of funds, only two tracks were built. In 1930, passenger traffic was closed due to the development of buses and trams, only freight trains began to walk around the ring.

The return of passenger traffic to the loop is not new idea: they wanted to launch it back in the 60s, but this was prevented by the complexity of the electrification of the ring. Yuri Luzhkov returned to this project at the end of the 2000s, but the reconstruction of the MCC began already under Sobyanin in 2012. The ring was finally electrified, in addition, a third track was built for freight traffic. The total investment in the project, which was jointly carried out by Russian Railways and the Moscow government, exceeded 200 billion rubles, of which 86 billion came from the federal budget.

MCC and the Third Interchange Circuit - the same thing?

No. The MCC is often called the third interchange circuit and the second ring of the Moscow metro, but this is not so. The second circular metro line with a length of 58 kilometers will appear in the capital by 2020, and this year its first section will open - from Delovoy Tsentr station to Petrovsky Park. The new ring will also include the Kakhovskaya line, built in the late 1960s. If the MCC route is in force historical reasons displaced to the north, then the metro ring, on the contrary, will be displaced to the south. Thus, both lines will form a huge figure eight.

How will the MCC connect with other modes of transport?

In total, the MCC will have 31 stations (24 of them will be ready by September 10, the rest will be commissioned by 2018), each of which is planned to be connected to ground transport stops. In the first few months after the official launch of the ring, it will be possible to change to the metro at 14 stations, but then they promise to add such an opportunity at three more stops. Also, six stations of the MCC (later their number will increase to ten) will have transitions to stations of suburban electric trains.

The transfer time to the MCC will differ depending on the sections: the longest transition will be from the Voykovskaya metro station to the Streshnevo and Baltiyskaya stations - it will take 12 minutes, while the shortest one will take no more than three minutes. At 11 stations, builders promise to implement the principle of "dry feet": the crossings will be completely closed, which will allow people not to go outside. Ground communication is promised between the Volgogradskiy Prospekt metro station and the Ugreshskaya platform.

How much will the fare cost?

The fares for the central ring will be the same as for the metro. It will also be possible to use tickets "Ediny", "Troika" and "90 minutes". All the benefits that apply to travel on the metro will apply when using the MCC: special conditions for travel around the ring will be provided to disabled people, schoolchildren and students.

The number of transfers from the metro to the MCC and vice versa per trip is not limited. The only condition is that you have to have time to make all the transplants in 90 minutes. In the first month after the launch of the ring, passengers will have to reprogram the "Ediny" ticket if they bought it before September 1, 2016 to make free trips and transfers to the MCC. This can be done at the ticket offices of the subway or monorail. For those who use the Troika card, starting from September 1, it will be enough to put on the card an amount of more than one ruble.

In addition, passengers will be able to buy tickets at the stations of the ring both for cash and with cards. They also plan to introduce a contactless fare payment system, which allows payment using a mobile phone, and PayPass / PayWave, thanks to which money will be debited automatically if you attach a bank card to the validator.

What will the stations look like?

For the opening of the MCC, the stations will be equipped with navigation panels in Russian and English... For visually impaired passengers, they promise to install tactile plates on lifts, stepless escalators and Braille. Also at each station there will be information boards and displays showing the time of arrival of the train, and at five stations there will be Live Communication counters. In addition, about 70 mirrors, 470 waste bins, gadget charging points, umbrella packers and free toilets will be installed. They will put trees in tubs for decoration. Unlike the metro, the MCC will have turnstiles not only at the entrance, but also at the exit, and the platforms will be treated with an anti-ice coating.

What trains will be on the MCC?

33 Lastochka trains (five carriages each), which are produced at the Ural Locomotives plant in the town of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Region, will run around the ring. The Lastochka prototype is a German electric train from Siemens AG, which served the guests and participants of the Sochi Olympics. This summer, there was a scandal: during a test drive, the ED-4M train was too wide for the platform, but the Lastochka had to fit into the dimensions of the track.

The maximum capacity of "Lastochka" is 1,200 people, and the maximum speed is 120 kilometers per hour, but trains will move along the MCC no faster than 40-50 kilometers per hour. The MCC's opening hours are the same as those of the metro, but the interval of trains on the loop will be longer and will range from five minutes at rush hour to 15 minutes the rest of the time. Now the Yandex.Maps service is preparing to update the metro application in order to inform passengers about the train timetable not only of the metro, but also of the Moscow Central Circle.

All "Swallows" have soft seats and climate control systems. Passengers will be able to use Wi-Fi and devices for charging gadgets. Each train will have toilets at the beginning and end of the train. Unlike ordinary electric trains, Lastochka cars do not have vestibules, while the double doors are wide enough for low-mobility passengers to pass through.

Will it be possible to ride with strollers and bicycles?

Two of the five carriages of the train (second and fourth) are equipped with bicycle racks. Each carriage can hold up to six bicycles. Also, the trains will provide space for strollers and other oversized carry-on luggage. Bicycle parking and bicycle rental stations are going to be built near each transport and interchange hub of the MCC. Now rentals are available near the stations "Delovoy Tsentr", "Ploschad Gagarin", "Luzhniki", "Botanical Garden" and "Vladykino".

How to navigate the ring?

On September 1, the Moscow government detailed maps MCC, which indicate transfers from the Central Ring to land and suburban transport, as well as on the metro line. The ring itself will be listed as Metro Line 14.

The names of the MCC stations either repeat the familiar names of nearby metro stations (Dubrovka, Vladykino), or indicate the area in which they are located (Ploshchad Gagarin, Luzhniki). In the summer, on the site of the Active Citizen project, a vote was held to rename the stations of the MCC Voikovskaya and Cherkizovskaya, as a result they received new names Baltiyskaya and Lokomotiv.

How will the MCC affect the urban outskirts?

The central ring runs mainly through industrial zones. According to the authorities, the emergence of new transport will contribute to the development of these territories, for example, ZIL. The mayor's office plans to improve the land adjacent to the MCC stations: to make parking spaces for cars and bicycles, bike rentals, landscaping, as well as to build about 750 thousand square meters of commercial real estate - hotels, trading floors, offices and technology parks.

At the same time, the preserved historical buildings of the Moscow Railway stations, which were designed by architects Alexander Pomerantsev, Nikolai Markovnikov and Ivan Rybin, are now being studied to determine the security zone for each of them. And in the fall, a museum of the history of the MCC will open at the Presnya station, which will display documents, photographs and films telling about the history of the highway.

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It is a railway ring, laid along the outskirts of Moscow. In the diagram, the small ring of the Moscow railway line has the form closed line... The construction of the ring was completed in 1908. Until 1934 the railway was used for freight and passenger traffic, and after 1934 - only for freight. It is a connecting link between ten federal railways departing from the city in all directions. Since September 2016, it has also been used for intercity passenger traffic associated with the functioning of the Moscow Metro, which is reflected in the layout of the Moscow Railway stations.

Modern reconstruction of the Moscow Railway

From 2012 to 2016, the Moscow Ring Railway was adapted for domestic passenger traffic, which led to a significant change in the Moscow Ring Railway scheme. The work was carried out with federal funds, as well as with funds from Russian Railways, private companies and the Moscow government. In the course of the reconstruction, the railway tracks were replaced with new ones, the bridges were overhauled, stops for electric trains were built, and another track was laid for freight traffic. At the end of 2016, the work was almost completed.

In total, 31 stopping stations were reconstructed (the scheme of the Moscow Railway with stations under construction is presented above). For each station, its own individual project was developed, platforms were built.

Launch of the first electric trains

The first launch of the electric train in order to check the readiness of the railway was carried out in May 2016 at one of the sections of the Moscow Railway, and in July 2016, after the completion of construction, along the entire length of the railway. ES2G Lastochka became the main electric train running along the route. Also, ordinary electric trains of Russian production were involved. With their use, some problems arose associated with the discrepancy between the width of the cars and the electric locomotive of classical models with the distance between the tracks and the platform at the Moscow Railway. As a result, the platform at Streshnev station even had to be shifted slightly to the side.

The first passenger electric train passed the line on September 10, 2016, after which passenger trains began to run regularly. The movement of freight trains has been reduced, especially during the daytime, when electric trains are active. The line is also used for the movement of individual long-distance trains that bypass Moscow. The movement of excursion trains on a steam locomotive was discontinued.

Infrastructure and scheme of the Moscow Railway

The railway ring of the Moscow Railway includes 2 main railway lines classified as electrified. Another third railway track runs along the north of the ring, which is used for freight traffic. The total length of the railway ring is 54 km. Some sections of other tracks are still not electrified.

The scheme of the Moscow Railway is designed in such a way that it has connecting branches that allow the movement of trains between the ring railway and the radial branches of federal railways. They consist of either one or two tracks (see the Moscow Railways transfer scheme). Not all of them are equipped with feeder power lines. There are branches from the freight tracks of the railway ring to industrial production facilities. There is also one branch for communication with the tram depot.

In total, there are 31 operating platforms for domestic passenger traffic and 12 freight stations on the Moscow Railway scheme. There is 1 tunnel 900 m long.

Stations and platforms on the Moscow Railway scheme

The stations were founded in 1908 and were originally used for freight transport operations. Separate halts were located between them.

In the inner part of the railway ring, there are now not used classical stations with station-type buildings, built at the beginning of the 20th century. Previously, the railway track running along them was used for passenger traffic. Modern stations can be viewed on the Moscow Railways diagram with stations under construction.

On the outer side of the Moscow Railway, ramps for the parking of freight trains and buildings intended for railway work were built. All this is used to form freight trains.

In 2017, the total number of stations used (see the scheme of the Moscow Railway Station) was 12 units. Of these, 4 are located in the sections of the branches from the Moscow Railway. These include: Novoproletarskaya, Severny post.

There are 31 stop points for urban electric trains on the railway ring. These stations are passenger platforms that were built between 2012 and 2016 during the modern reconstruction of the Moscow Railway. Unlike stops belonging to the radial main lines of the railway, these have the status of intracity ones and are equipped accordingly. They work as stops for public transport with uniform tickets for them.

Bridges on the Moscow Railway

In total, there are 6 active bridges, 4 of which cross. Also, the Moscow Railway is crossed by 32 highways and railways.

Movement along the Moscow Railway

On this moment movement along the Moscow Railway is carried out at the expense of electric trains ES2G "Lastochka". It consists of 5 passenger cars of a modern design, and with a coupled version - of 10 cars. In the future, the use of other locomotives (domestic production) is not excluded.

Diesel locomotives are still used for freight transportation. However, the main railway lines are now electrified and allow the use of electric locomotives for transit traffic. Thanks to this, it is possible to move passenger and freight trains from one transit radial line of railways to another.

In Moscow, work is nearing completion on the commissioning of the Moscow Railways stations. The movement will start along the updated small ring in next year... Several objects have already been integrated into the city's transport infrastructure. It is assumed that the road will become a single whole with the metropolitan subway. This information was announced by the deputy head of the transport department Hamid Bulatov. According to the official, the passengers themselves will not even feel the difference, because they will be able to use a single ticket.

The Moscow Railway will include 31 stops, of which a full-fledged network of transport interchanges will operate at 21 points, and at 17 stop pavilions, passengers will be able to switch to their usual line. At 9 stops, the possibility of transferring to all operating directions of suburban trains, except for Kiev, will be organized. The small ring of MKZh will significantly reduce all flows of metro lines and provide the possibility of delivering passengers to the main metropolitan highways.

Moscow Railway scheme

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The Moscow ring railway stations will be added to the metro map in September 2016. A map may also appear indicating the radial directions of railway tracks, such an innovation does not exclude the director of the Moscow Railway, Alexei Zotov.

According to preliminary estimates, the planned passenger traffic of the Moscow ring road in 2017 will be 75 million people, and by 2020 it will grow 2.3 times to 170 million passengers. The interval in the movement of railway transport will depend on the demand for the townspeople. If the Moscow Railway becomes popular with passengers, the interval is planned to be reduced to two minutes.

Vasily Povolnov (his photos are mainly used in the post), finally, visited this and other stations that Zelenograd residents could theoretically use to transfer to the MCC to see how everything works there and tell our readers about it.

MCC station "Likhobory" (until this summer it was known as "Nikolaevskaya") is in the line of sight from the NATI platform.

If you come by train from Zelenograd, you need to get off the platform to right side in the direction of travel and follow the track along the railway towards the Leningradsky railway station.

The exit from the platform is located at the level of the third or fourth carriages. If you want to save time for a transplant, sit in them. There is also a signpost towards the MCC. To the left of it you can see the buildings of the Likhobor station.

The distance from the exit from the NATI platform to the entrance to the overground passage of the Likhobory station is just over 200 meters. However, keep in mind that the entrance to the passage is not yet the entrance to the station itself.

After 120 meters, the path along the OZhD (in the photo is a view in the opposite direction - to the NATI platform) turns to the right.

Around the corner of the fence, a view of the Likhobory station opens again. The overhead passage is already a stone's throw away.

But this is the most unpleasant part of the shortcut. In the vicinity of NATI and Likhobor, the North-East Expressway (also known as the North Road) is being built, which by the end of 2018 should tie New Leningradka with Dmitrovskoe highway. Because of this, the asphalt is further covered with a layer of mud, which is transported around the neighborhood by construction equipment. Apparently, in the future, for passengers of electric trains, they will build here underground crossing... But for now, like that. Such a cool infrastructure project like the MCC is, of course, not suitable.

Improvement work continues around the Likhobory station itself. However, the area in front of the entrance to the passage is already paved with "ceremonial" tiles.

Now we have to climb to the height of a three-story building with high ceilings. There is an elevator in the passage, but so far it, like the metal detector frame at the entrance, does not work (all data in the material are given as of September 20). Therefore, you have to go on foot. At the same time, there are no channels (runners for strollers) on the stairs. Whoever manages to be here, for example, with a baby carriage, you can only sympathize with.

The top floor offers a view of the NATI platform and the construction site of the North-East Expressway.

And in the other direction - to the platforms of the Likhobory station.

To get to the platform, you need to hit the road along the crossing over the railway. Only not to the end, but approximately to the middle.
Note that the crossing (at least for now) is not an insulated structure. By design, it looks like an overhead passage across Central Avenue near Zelenograd prefecture, and there are ventilation holes in the floor on the sides of the railings. You won't be able to get warm here in winter. Compared to the transfer from the train to the metro at the Leningradsky railway station, this is, of course, a serious disadvantage.

After about 90 meters, there will be glass doors on the right in the passage leading to the station lobby.

Opposite you can admire the bridge at the intersection of the MCC with the Oktyabrskaya railway.

With navigation, the situation is much better here than at the Butyrskaya metro station, recently opened at the Ostankino platform (for transfers from the railway to the new stations of the Lyublino-Dmitrovskaya metro line, see separate post ). In any case, the way back to the NATI platform can be found without difficulty. Here is a sign that will meet you when you exit the glass doors. Then along the way there will be a few more plates.

In the lobby, behind glass doors, there are turnstiles that are not working so far (let me remind you that travel through the MCC is free in the first month) and descents to two platforms (there are elevators, stairs, and escalators). Here you need to decide which platform you want to get to. If you are going west (along the outer side of the ring) - towards Koptevo, Baltiyskaya, Streshnevo, and so on - you are on the right. If to the east (along the inner side) - to Okruzhnaya, Vladykino, Botanical Garden and further - to the left.

To help you, the MCC scheme (clickable)

The most obvious option for descending to the platform is an escalator. Unlike the elevators, they are running. Each platform is connected to the lobby by two escalators: one going up, the other down.

Estimating the travel time on foot is not an easy task, but according to our estimates, it will take 6-8 minutes to get from the train door on the NATI platform to the platform at the Likhobory station. In the opposite direction, the road will take a little more time, since you will still have to cross the bridge to the distant platform on NATI.

While we are waiting for our "Swallow" to go on a trip around the MCC, we recall that in the future, a large transport hub - with shops, parking lots and even a hockey rink. And, of course, public transport stops. The bulk of the TPU buildings will be located on the side of the Cherepanovs passage (that is, on the opposite side from the NATI platform). It is supposed to look like this (clickable image).

And this is how this place looks now.

Road works are underway on the Cherepanovs Driveway.

They are going to build the TPU by 2025 approximately. As part of this project, it is planned to reconstruct and extend towards the center of Moscow and the NATI platform. This means that the electric trains of the Leningrad direction will stop even closer to the MCC, and the transfer from NATI to Likhobory will become even shorter and more convenient.
And now let's return to the Likhobory station. Both platforms have awnings and a decent amount of benches and urns. The surface is tiled with a strip of yellow tactile tiles along the edge of the platform.

In general, everything is stylish, neat and, if we talk about platforms, and not about transitions, then, in my opinion, a little retro.

All design is designed in the corporate style of Russian Railways, which operates this road in conjunction with the Moscow metro (I remind you that you can pay for travel with metro tickets, while the transfer between the metro and the MCC will be free for an hour and a half).

Electronic displays show the direction of travel (by the name of the next station) and the time until the arrival of the train. Let us remind you that the declared intervals of train traffic on the MCC are 6 minutes during peak hours and 11-15 minutes during off-peak times. These intervals are promised to be shortened if necessary. And it seems that they are already thinking about the implementation of such a possibility.

The platform from which you can leave Likhobor in the direction of Koptevo, that is, to the west, has paths on both sides. But trains arrive on the left side (in the direction of travel from the escalator). "External tracks" are needed, apparently, for service purposes and freight traffic, which will remain on the ring. Back view, towards the passage leading to NATI.

And here is our train. About 15 minutes have passed since the previous one left. True, three electric trains followed in the opposite direction during this time.

The Swallows are used as rolling stock on the Moscow Central Circle. I did a great post about how are these trains ... Inside the “Lastochka” on the MCC nothing, except for pasted schemes and advertisements, do not differ from those that run to Kryukovo and Tver and are already well known to many Zelenograd residents.
Scheme of the MCC in a carriage:

Scheme of the MCC and metro:

Bicycles are allowed on the MCC, and there are appropriate stickers on the trains, but we did not find any special mounts for two-wheeled vehicles in the local Lastochki. As well as the intention to twist the "extra" third seats so that all cars have a 2 + 2 layout has not yet been fulfilled.

Trains do not seem to run empty at the MCC. We were on the loop from about 17:00 to 18:30, that is, practically in the evening rush hour, and in all the Lastochki we saw, some of the passengers rode standing.

The closest stop to "Likhobory", if you go to the west, is "Koptevo". However, it turned out to be one of five stations that did not manage to open even in draft form before the start of traffic on the MCC. Therefore, for now, the next stop after Likhobor is Baltiyskaya. Until the summer of this year, it was called "Voykovskaya" - after the nearby metro station.
The transfer between Baltiyskaya and Voikovskaya is considered one of the longest on the MCC. The lobbies of the two stations are located more than 700 meters from each other. In order for a metro passenger to transfer here to the Moscow Central Ring, he should get out of the subway through exit number 1 (from the last car when moving towards the center, then from the glass doors to the right) and go along the Leningradskoye Highway towards the region - to the Metropolis shopping mall ...

Baltiyskaya is located at the intersection of the MCC with the Leningradskoe highway. The station has two exits: one in the direction of Admiral Makarov Street, the other in the direction of Novopetrovsky Proezd, Metropolis and Voikovskaya metro station.

Moreover, the branch of the passage that leads from the MCC station towards Voikovskaya is docked with the Metropolis building. And although the signs are sent for the passage to the metro to the street, in fact, a significant part of the path can be done in the warmth, going through the entire building of the shopping center. Then, along the street to the entrance to the subway, there will be only about 200 meters to overcome. Of course, this advice is also relevant for those who go from the metro to the MCC.

There is only one platform at Baltiyskaya and, accordingly, it is wider.

Escalators and stairs for descent / ascent between the platform and the walkway are in one place. There are also elevators, but, like in Likhobory, they do not work yet.

If you, having a baby carriage with you, decide to leave Baltiyskaya in the direction opposite to Metropolis, you will face the same problem as at the transfer at NATI - there is no alternative to descend the stairs without channel bars.

View from the MCC platform to the side facade of the Metropolis.

If the Metrostroy website contains up-to-date sketches of TPU projects on the Moscow Central Circle, then the final form of the Baltiyskaya station will look like this. Another transition will appear in both directions from the other end of the platform.

The next station behind Baltiyskaya is Streshnevo. Previously, it was called "Volokolamskaya" because it is located at the intersection of the MCC with Volokolamskoye highway. Theoretically, someone from Zelenograd could come here by car and then set off on a further journey along the MCC. However, this option is unlikely to become widespread. Not only is it suitable for few by itself, it is also unclear where to leave the car in this case - there is no semblance of an intercepting parking lot here.

Moreover, the passage to "Streshnevo" has not yet been completed, which could lead to 1st Krasnogorsky passage - potentially the most convenient for approaching this station from Zelenograd.

As part of the creation of a transport and interchange hub here, the station of the MCC "Streshnevo" will be connected by a passage to the platform of the Riga direction Pokrovskoe-Streshnevo, which for this will be moved several hundred meters. However, this has nothing to do with trips to / from Zelenograd (only if it’s about trips to my dacha :)).
Visualization of the project of TPU "Streshnevo" (image from the MCC website)

Scheme of TPU "Streshnevo" (clickable image from the Metrostroy website)

In the meantime, the station "Streshnevo" looks almost like a twin of "Likhobor": the same two platforms on the sides of the main passage ...

And a typical (but at the same time, in my opinion, stylish) lobby building with escalators, adjacent to the passage.

There are also combined “ring” metro and MCC schemes everywhere. For some reason, there were no such schemes on "Likhobory".

As in all other locations, active construction and finishing work continues at Streshnevo station.

Unfortunately, I have not yet had time to drive around the entire ring, although it would be very interesting to do so. Well, I hope there is still time. However, from the point of view of Zelenograd residents, the most interesting, of course, are the stations visited.

At the end of the story, I will summarize a few key points.
1. The MCC has gone - and it's great. In fact, a new type of public transport has appeared in Moscow, which has significantly increased the connectivity of existing lines and routes. It is already obvious that, contrary to the gloomy forecasts of skeptics, the ring is in demand by the townspeople.
2. Many residents of Zelenograd have new options for building routes when traveling to Moscow. But a lot here depends on the number of trains stopping at NATI. For example, on September 20, it was impossible to leave Kryukovo for NATI from 8:56 to 16:05 - more than 7 hours! But the situation should change in the coming days: the number of trains stopping at NATI doubled .
3. The road was opened with a large number of minor imperfections - work is still underway almost everywhere. For most passengers, this is not scary, but for people with limited mobility, the MCC is practically not suitable for the time being. If, for some reason, you have difficulties with movement, it is worth considering very carefully how you will storm the numerous stairs, devoid of even wheelchair runners.