Reconstruction of the Moscow Central Ring (MCC)- a unique project not only for Moscow, but for Russia as a whole. The MCC has become a full-fledged light metro, integrated into the metro system.

The MCC scheme is inscribed on the Moscow metro map. It shows the approximate time for ground transfers from the MCC.

In addition, the diagram shows possible transfers from the MCC to surface urban transport, traffic intervals, etc.

The movement on the ring was launched on September 10, 2016. It gave new impulse development of abandoned industrial areas of the capital, and also allowed to cut the Gordian knot of transport problems hanging over the capital.

The Moscow Central Circle is the road to the future. Thanks to the ring, the trip around the capital takes an average of 20 minutes. Another unique feature of the MCC was that it connected the garden and park ensembles of the capital: the Mikhalkovo estate, the Botanical Garden, the territory of VDNKh and National park Losiny Ostrov, Vorobyovy Gory nature reserve and others.

MCC is a new life for industrial zones in Moscow

Since 1908, the Moscow Central Circle served industrial zones and mainly performed the function of transporting goods. However, over time, many industrial areas around this ring fell into disrepair, some industries were closed. A number of industrial zones in best case used for warehouses. Now these territories are being actively reorganized, housing is being built here with social facilities, sports complexes, etc. And developing territories require convenient transport links.

The launch of passenger traffic on the MCC solves the issue of transport support for industrial zones. In addition, the ring connected suburban rail and electric trains that go to the city center with the MCC stations. Passengers can, before reaching the city center, change to MCC trains and move on practically throughout Moscow.

All stations of the MCC were built in the form of transport interchange hubs (TPU). They will include offices, shopping malls, shops and cafes. This concept meets both the interests of investors, for whom it is important to recoup investments in construction, and the needs of citizens.

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  Next Sunday, September 10, the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) will celebrate the year since the launch of the first trains. During this time, more than 93 million passengers used the line, compared to the original plan of 75 million. The project has already cost Russian Railways (RZD), the federal and Moscow budgets about 140 billion rubles. And within 15 years, the costs will reach 200 billion rubles. Investments in the project will never pay off, experts say. Why will this happen and should an infrastructure project of this magnitude necessarily pay off?

  How much does the MCC cost

  For many years, the ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov dreamed of returning the movement of passenger trains to the Moscow circular railway, canceled back in the 1930s, but his successor Sergei Sobyanin managed to implement the project. Urban planning documentation and feasibility studies for the construction of a passenger railway and its accompanying infrastructure were ready back in the 2000s, recalls the former head of the Research and Development Institute of the General Plan Sergei Tkachenko. And in 2008, the Moscow government and Russian Railways signed an agreement on the reconstruction of a freight railway into a passenger one.

  However, the lack of funds slowed down the start of work for three years, continues Tkachenko. The issue of funding was resolved only in 2011, after the appointment of a new mayor, for this Sobyanin had to go with such a request to the President of Russia, Moscow and federal officials told Vedomosti at the time.

  The government contributed 72 billion rubles from the budget to the authorized capital of Russian Railways. for the arrangement of the railway part of the MCC infrastructure. Moscow spent 20 billion rubles. for the construction of infrastructure for transport hubs and more than 25 billion rubles. for the reconstruction of the street and road network, overpasses and the liberation of territories around the MCC, says Roman Latypov, First Deputy Head for Strategic Development and Client Work of the Moscow Metro State Unitary Enterprise. This enterprise oversees the work of the Moscow Central Circle on behalf of the Moscow authorities, it provides all service personnel (except for train drivers) for the ring and provides a unified ticket program with the metro.

  The metro also acts as a customer for passenger transportation services. The 15-year contract with Russian Railways will cost the capital RUB 57.7 billion, Latypov said.

  To organize traffic on the MCC, Russian Railways bought 33 Lastochka electric trains from Ural Locomotives (JV Siemens and Sinara by Dmitry Pumpyansky). The representative of Russian Railways refused to report the amount of investments and their payback. Based on the contract, one Lastochka train of five cars cost 8.7 million euros. Consequently, 33 trains could cost Russian Railways 19.2 billion rubles. (at the weighted average rate for 2016 of 67 rubles). Since May 1, 2017, the train interval at the MCC has been reduced from 6 to 5 minutes during peak hours and from 12 to 10 minutes the rest of the time. Therefore, Russian Railways had to buy nine more trains with an estimated cost of 5.25 billion rubles.

  The return on investment in the project at Russian Railways has not been calculated, says a person close to the state-owned company. The contract turned out to be unprofitable, one of the consultants of Russian Railways knows. The investment may never pay off, he adds.

  The amount that Russian Railways receives under a contract with the Moscow government for servicing the MCC is 3.8 billion rubles. per year - not tied to passenger traffic. The company must provide a certain interval of movement, says Vladimir Savchuk, deputy general director of the Institute for Natural Monopolies (IPEM). The amount of payments includes the tariff for transportation on suburban trains in Moscow, which does not depend on the size of the investment, but is calculated based on the cost of the infrastructure and now amounts to 0.1% of it. According to PwC partner Dmitry Kovalev, in order to recoup the project in at least 10-15 years, the tariff should be at least 1.5 times higher.

  Russian Railways received money for the project from the budget, the company does not need to return these investments, the mayor's office official objected. Direct costs of Russian Railways are the purchase of trains and their operation. Therefore, the profitability of transportation on the MCC is 8%, according to an official of the mayor's office.

  The return on investment is not in the first place, because this is a large infrastructure project, it follows from the words of Latypov. The main task of the MCC is to provide a transport alternative for citizens, and without subsidies for transportation, there is no subway in the world, he says. Such transport projects have "a much more important effect - comfort of movement, savings in travel time (in the MCC, passengers save 9-11 minutes compared to travel by other types of public transport) and the effect of the development of territories," Latypov said. Today, a MCC passenger costs the city 40% less than a metro passenger, according to a source in the mayor's office, due to the new infrastructure and ground location of the tracks. In addition, the MCC is currently only half of its capacity, and its occupancy rate will grow over time.

  It is hardly possible to speak about the payback in the foreseeable period of time in the MCC, agrees Tkachenko: “Such projects provide an exclusively indirect payback, turning urban areas from secondary, degrading into investment attractive ones. For this, there are budgetary funds - to promote the capitalization of the city, to increase the taxable base. " Such projects cannot be assessed only in terms of the return of funds, Savchuk agrees. Like any infrastructure project, the MCC is aimed at developing the city and adjacent territories, increasing business activity. “The project is very large-scale, analogues in the world are not of urban, but of national importance,” explains Savchuk. “The implementation of the project provided an order for the industry, designers, created an opportunity for the implementation of modern and innovative solutions, for example, in the field of transport automation”.

  Who needs a ring

  Before the start of passenger traffic, the MCC became double-tracked along its entire length (54 km), and a third track was built for 31 km for freight and technological traffic. From each station of the MCC, passengers can transfer to surface urban transport; for this, access roads, turning platforms for buses and stops for passengers are organized on both sides of the railway. There are 14 transfers from the MCC to metro stations and six to commuter trains. The new ring passes through 26 districts of Moscow with a population of 1.9 million, says a spokesman for the Moscow Department of Transport. Residents of six of them (Metrogorodok, Beskudnikovsky, Koptevo, Kotlovka, Khoroshevo-Mnevniki and Nizhegorodsky) - about 500,000 people - previously had virtually no access to the metro, he adds.

  Integration with the metro (the MCC and the metro have a single ticketing system) ensured an explosive growth in traffic on the MCC, said Savchuk from IPEM. If there are questions about the return on investment in the MCC, then from the point of view of passenger traffic this is not just a successful, but a super successful project, the Russian Railways consultant is also sure. It was planned that in the first year of operation the MCC will transport 75 million people, in 2020 - 170 million, and in 2030 - 300 million. The plan has already been exceeded. In less than a year, according to the Moscow Department of Transport, about 93 million people used the MCC.

  Have you managed to attract many new passengers to Moscow transport at the expense of the MCC? The answer to this question is not given either in the mayor's office or in the subway. Most likely, we are talking about not very large values. The MCC pulled off some of the passengers from the metro and electric trains. Although, obviously, some of the car owners preferred "Swallows" to their own cars, a source in the mayor's office said.

  The new lines "almost do not add passenger traffic, they only redistribute it," Tkachenko believes. But this is also good, since in general the level of comfort on the old lines, from which some of the passengers leave, is increasing, he points out.

  61% of MCC passengers moved from the metro, 26% - from suburban trains, another 13% - residents of adjacent areas who get to the station on foot or by surface public transport. The end point of travel for about 30% of the MCC passengers is the territory near the stations, the rest use Lastochki instead of the Metro's Circle Line, says a representative of the Moscow Department of Transport.

  There are also many so-called tourists on the MCC, Latypov notes. Among them, he also includes passengers who choose a longer route in time compared to a shorter one by metro. For example, when a passenger travels from Luzhniki to Lokomotiv, instead of taking the metro from Sportivnaya to Cherkizovskaya. “The MCC offers a new level of service: stations with chargers for mobile phones and other conveniences, there are toilets in two carriages of each train; the trip itself has become more comfortable due to the silence and fewer people. The MCC is also more convenient for cyclists - they can enter the carriages without unhooking the front wheel, like in the metro, ”explains Latypov.

  Unloading succeeded

  Moscow authorities are pleased that the MCC has reduced the load on overloaded metro stations and city stations. Thanks to the MCC, passengers do not have to get to the ring metro stations to change trains, Latypov notes. According to him, the new transport highway reduced the load on the most intense sections of the Ring metro line by 15%, Sokolnicheskaya - by 20%, Lyublinskaya - by 14%, Filevskaya - by 12%, Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya - by 5%. For the metro, this is very important, because it increases the comfort of travel, Latypov notes.

  On the other hand, at some previously unpopular metro stations, passenger traffic increased, relieving other stations. With the advent of the MCC, the passenger traffic at the station. m. "Kutuzovskaya" has grown 3.5 times from 8,000 to 29,000 people per day. Previously, according to the Moscow metro, it was included in the 30 most unpopular metro stations in Moscow, but now it unloads the Kievskaya station.

  The load at Kazansky and Rizhsky railway stations has decreased by 30%, at Kursky - by 40%, at Yaroslavsky and Leningradsky - by 20%, says a representative of the transport department. Now passengers of the MCC can change to electric trains of the October, Savelovsky, Yaroslavl, Kazan and Smolensk directions, integration with four more directions out of the remaining five is planned to be carried out by the end of 2018, promises a representative of Russian Railways. It is also planned to move a number of platforms in radial directions closer to the MCC stations (Okruzhnaya Savelovsky direction, Severyanin Yaroslavl direction and Leningradskaya Riga direction), as well as build new stops and stations (Novokhokhlovskaya Kursk direction, Varshavskaya Paveletsky direction, Karacharovo - Gorkovsky direction).

  One of the main advantages of the MCC is that passengers do not have to get to train stations in the center to then change to the metro, Latypov says. According to him, there were 25 million such trips per year.

  The development of the MCC should convince the townspeople to give up private cars. Research by the Research and Development Institute of the General Plan, carried out in the 2000s, showed that with the appearance of a metro station, the utilization rate of public transport in the adjacent territories increases. In Moscow, only the metro and the Moscow Railways could solve this problem, the alternatives offered from time to time are not capable of this: a bicycle, a monorail, cable cars, balloons, etc., says Tkachenko. A representative of the Moscow Department of Transport gives the following example: at four stations of the MCC (Botanichesky Sad, Lokomotiv, Luzhniki, Rokossovskogo Boulevard) there are parking lots with a total capacity of more than 650 parking spaces. Since the stations opened, more than 48,000 motorists have left their cars in these intercept parking lots and transferred to the MCC, thus preventing these cars from reaching the city center.

  

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  Compared to the Moscow metro, the share of the MCC in transportation is negligible: in 2016, about 2.4 billion people used the metro, and the MCC - 25 times less. The comparison is incorrect, because the MCC is just one of the metro lines, says a representative of the Moscow Department of Transport. And in terms of daily passenger traffic, the MCC has already overtaken some branches.

  Tkachenko is confident that over time, the load on the MCC will grow. Any newly commissioned highway does not fill up immediately, he says, recalling the free Third Transport Ring in the first year of launch. Latypov cites London's DLR (Docklands Light Railway) as an example - a light underground that, among other things, connected the Docklands area with the city center. Now DLR has 45 stations, and the length of the network is 34 km. In 1987, the first year after launch, 17 million people used the line. Now more than 101.5 million passengers use it, says Latypov. Docklands used to be a port area, and today it is the business center of London.

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While we were driving around the Caucasus, Transcaucasia and Iran, a miracle happened in Moscow - traffic and all the stations of the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) opened. Yesterday we drove a full circle in a new form of transport and are shocked to the core. Read under the cut why the MCC is a real miracle.

We decided to start the inspection of a new type of transport from the nearest station, Baltiyskaya, which can be reached by walking down the street from the Voykovskaya metro station.

We got out of the metro, crossed the road according to the signs and got lost a little.

Looking back, are we going exactly where we need to go? In Moscow, as a rule, pronounced streams of people move to the stations, but here, it seems, people are rushing to shop in Metropolis :) How do you like Christmas tree at the mall?

It's good that Pasha knows where the railway goes. We go straight without pointers. By the way, later it turns out that the main path lies through the shopping center.

We got to the pedestrian bridge across the road. To get to the bridge, you need to go to the shopping center through one of the entrances, where we are met by a sign.

This is not a way out shopping center, this is the most popular entrance to the bridge leading to the MCC station. There is one more, but it is located imperceptibly and almost no one walks through it. We do not know how we managed to lobby this, but the traffic of the shopping center should now increase significantly.

It's nice to walk on a new clean transition.

We pass through the turnstiles to the station, holding the Troika card, which was used in the metro, to the reader. Our trip counts as a transfer and the trip to the MCC will be free.

The Moscow railway ring has existed since the 19th century, and until the 30s of the 20th century it was used not only for freight, but also for passenger transportation... But then the metro appeared, and the project was abandoned. In those years, the word "metro" was still masculine.

See the photo, a girl with bare legs at minus 10. Where are the parents looking? Previously, they only took off their hats when they left the house, but now they also tuck their pants.

While Pasha was looking at the diagram in the center of the station, a woman came up and tried to understand how far one of the MCC stations in the south was from the metro station.

The long-awaited Swallow is a Siemens train, created by the Germans by order of Russian Railways and adapted to the requirements of our roads. Russians have been riding the Swallow for a long time in Sochi, in Nizhny Novgorod and from last year to Tver.

According to our observations, quite a lot of people use the MCC even in the middle of a weekday.

It is great that such modern trains have been procured for urban public transport. The train is warm, light, Wi-Fi works, it is clean and comfortable to sit, and there is even a toilet in the first and last carriages. Why not a miracle!

Swallow is a class of urban transport comfort never seen before in Russia. The car has excellent sound insulation, which adds "luxury". The train does not go, it flies!

We pass mainly industrial zones.

And this station is named after the street of the same name in the west of Moscow.

The display indicates not only the time and temperature, but also the speed of movement. In some areas, the Swallow accelerates to 100 km / h. We choose the MCC, and you stay at :)

There is even a shelf like this. What would you use it for? :)

We pass Moscow City and the Moscow River. Correct endings? :)

The design of the stations is mostly standard, all have a scoreboard and a roof from the rain. Of the minuses: you have to wait for the train on the street, and the interval of movement varies from about ten minutes in the early morning, afternoon and late evening to three minutes at rush hours. Not everyone likes ten minutes in the cold.

Metro map at the station from the "Lebedev Studio".

About half of the MCC stations have ground crossings to the nearest metro or railway stations. On the "Baltiyskaya", where we landed, the change took about ten minutes. The transition from the Luzhniki station to the Sportivnaya metro station will take just a couple of minutes, here the passengers are lucky.

In the distance, the towers of the "Business Center" are visible in the haze. There is also a ring station there.

The train has arrived, we are going further. The first and last carriages are equipped with bicycles. We have already figured out how we will go for a drive in Moscow parks in the summer: Izmailovsky Park and Sokolniki are in pleasant proximity to the MCC stations.

In the area of ​​the ZIL plant, a grandiose demolition of houses and the construction of new real estate are underway.

It is very unusual to see a toilet in public transport in Moscow.

Inside, the toilet is no longer the first freshness, but so far it is tolerable. We hope that the trains and stations will be constantly looked after, otherwise all this will get dirty very quickly in the literal and figurative sense.

Toilet selfie from Lena. Our first report from Gold Dome, by the way. We think what else to take pictures in Moscow, write your recommendations.

We arrived at the Izmailovo station, decided to take a break and take a walk into the city. We leave from the door of the ring station.

Tickets can be bought from vending machines, like in the subway.

We find ourselves in the building of the station, where there will soon be a shopping center.

The shops are now closed, and this could go on for quite some time. Russian Railways has a talent for long-term construction, at the Leningradsky railway station, the installation of new pavilions takes years.

The width of the escalator is such that only one person can fit in width, you cannot quickly run to the left.

Entrance to the transition.

Russian realities: the hands have designed the passage so that it will not be possible to open the outer door.

It is cold in the crossing, but it is clear that heating the street is too expensive.

Near the building of the hotel "Izmailovo" and the Izmailovsky Kremlin.

We leave the passage, go straight, and there is some bumzho mall and they sell sausages in dough. Moscow, you are infinitely diverse :)

As an epilogue:

Never in our memory opened in Moscow the new kind transport (monorail does not count). Probably, it will never open again, not so often such miracles happen.

We ourselves tried to come up with useful routes in Moscow for the MCC, but apart from transporting bicycles to forest parks, we could not think of anything, all our routes will remain on the metro, minibuses and electric trains. We hope that Muscovites and guests of the capital will be able to adapt this type of transport to their needs, and this will at least slightly relieve the Moscow metro and commuter trains.

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September 10, City Day, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin launched traffic on Moscow center ring(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" at a test run on the Moscow Central Circle, September 2, 2016 (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

1. What was launched

On the City Day, passengers were first received by the Moscow Central Circle - the city railway with a length of 54 km. 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 crossings are called "dry feet." There will be nine transfer points from the MCC to commuter trains (without integration with the ring, only the Kiev suburban line will remain). During rush hour, trains will appear at stations every six minutes, at normal times - once every 11-15 minutes; The train will make a full circle in an hour and a half. Placards on the platforms will show the arrival time of the next train. The stations promise to install ports for recharging gadgets.

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

Moscow district railroad, connecting industrial zones on the outskirts of Moscow, began to build in 1902. It was launched in 1908, later than planned, because due to Russo-Japanese War there were financial disruptions. Freight traffic was mainly carried out along the MOZhD. Passenger trains also went, but in 1934, with the development of tram traffic in the city and the beginning of the construction of the metro, the ring was closed for people.

With the withdrawal of most of the factories outside Moscow, this freight highway was no longer needed. 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 dates were postponed several times. In fact, construction began in 2012.

3. What the trains will be

About 30 trains will run on the MCC. Lastochki, developed by Siemens at the request of Russian Railways for transporting passengers during the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, are used as “city trains”. The current head of the Moscow Metro, Dmitry Pegov, was in charge of the Lastochek launch project in Sochi when he worked for Russian Railways.

The train has five carriages (expandable to ten). All "Swallows" for the capital ring will be equipped with Wi-Fi and air conditioning, there will be special places for bicycles, which, unlike the metro on the MCC, can be transported unassembled. Each "Swallow" 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 RUB 100 billion had been spent on the project. The main investor was Russian Railways: the state 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 was unpredictably 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 to, among other things, change the windows in the ones closest to the overpass residential buildings for noise protection).

The city will annually pay RZD 3.8 billion rubles. for transport services to 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, commercial objects - shopping and business centers, hotels - were to be built near 11 TPUs at the expense of investors. Belonging to the Moscow government Management Company JSC "Moscow Railways" must issue property rights to its own subsidiaries land for commercial construction and then auctioned off to investors.

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

“All other sections for the construction of the TPU will be implemented during 2016-2017. We expect to earn at these auctions a minimum of RUB 14 billion and a maximum of RUB 19 billion, depending on the market situation. That is, we will return almost all the funds that the city has invested in the construction of the technological part of the stations, ”says the interlocutor of RBC in the Moscow City Hall, adding that the construction of the TPU will give an impetus to the development of 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 to five objects, the rest - next year.

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

6. What will a new ring give

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

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

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

“The ring is being introduced 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, ”believes Pavel Zyuzin, senior researcher at the Center for Research on Transport Problems in Megalopolises 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 ”.

Intercepting parking lots will appear near four MCC stations this year (Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC)

However, according to the expert, residents of certain districts of Moscow will find the new ring very useful. “On the Yaroslavskoye highway in the direction of Bogorodskoye and Lefortovo, it will ease the situation. It will relieve some north-western sectors, Koptevo and other areas, - the expert lists. “But as far as the south is concerned, the MCC is very close to the Koltsevaya metro line, and the difference between them is small.” Also, the launch of the MCC, in his opinion, will make routes easier for residents of certain cities of the Moscow region, especially for passengers traveling from Mytishchi and Korolev.

What did not have time

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 without stopping "Koptevo", "Panfilovskaya", "Zorge", "Horoshevo", "Izmailovo", "Andronovka" and "Dubrovka". This information was confirmed by RBC's own source in the project management company OJSC Moscow Railways.

A month and a half before City Day, a high-ranking RBC source in the Moscow government asserted that "at launch, 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,” the interlocutor of RBC 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 on the ring "is in doubt," promising that a week before the grand opening will be announced full list stations that will start functioning immediately.

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

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

Which trains won't go

Initially, other trains with the bird's name - "Ivolgi" were supposed to run along the MCC. The tender for the organization of the movement of electric trains on the Moscow Railway for 15 years for 57 billion rubles. the winner was TsPPK, a commuter train operator, co-owned by the Deputy Mayor of Moscow, Head of the Transport Department Maxim Liksutov. In an interview with RBC, Liksutov stated that the CPPK won the tender due to a more favorable offer for Moscow, and assured that he himself, after switching to the civil service, does not follow the business of his former companies. “Three companies took part in the competition, including Russian Railways themselves, which offered conditions less favorable for the city and therefore lost,” Liksutov explained to RBC in February 2015.

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

But Ivolga could not pass certification, and without it it was impossible to deliver trains of this model to the MCC. A representative of VNIIZhT JSC, which is testing the Ivolga prototype, refused to tell RBC why the train was not certified.

In January 2016, a few months after Oleg Belozerov became the head of Russian Railways instead of Vladimir Yakunin, it turned out that the rights to service 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 on its own money the entire infrastructure, on which Liksutov's business partners would make money, who would supply trains and receive money for transportation. In mid-January 2016, CPPK unexpectedly decided to assign the contract for transport services to Russian Railways. "

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

General Director of TsPPK Mikhail Khromov said that the initiators of the transfer of the agreement were Russian Railways and the city authorities - "they were convincing enough for us to agree." Officially, Russian Railways also admit that they received the contract after "multilateral consultations with the participation of the Moscow government." From now on, Russian Railways will carry passengers to the MCC in its Lastochkas.

RBC's source in the Moscow government, however, claims that Ivolgi may still return to the project. “If Ivolga is certified, then Russian Railways will be able to replace Lastochka with it,” says the interlocutor of RBC. - Our contract does not stipulate that all 15 years will be only "Lastochka". In my opinion, this is a question of the efficiency of rolling stock, cost of maintenance, etc. "

In the end, TsPPK only got a contract for 2.1 billion rubles. for the organization of ticket sales and the work of inspectors for a period of four years. However, the ticketing system of the new ring will also be fully integrated into the system of urban, rather than suburban transport, in which the CPPK specializes.

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Traffic on the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) was launched on September 10. The first month travel was made free. However, from October 11, you have to pay for the services of the new transport system of the capital. In this article, we will tell you what changes from today how and how to pay and how to transfer to the metro for free.

"United", "90 minutes" and "Troika": what tickets do we use?

Are there any travel benefits?

The existing Moscow city transport fare benefits are also valid for the MCC: for children under the age of seven, a trip around the ring is free, and they can also purchase tickets on preferential terms. These are war veterans and participants in hostilities, as well as members of their families, disabled people of I, II and III groups, disabled children, heroes of Russia, heroes Soviet Union and labor veterans. Students, schoolchildren, pensioners, orphans, parents and children from large families also have the right to concessionary travel on the MCC.

26 stations, 6 transfers to electric trains and 12 to the metro: how not to get lost on the MCC?

Now 26 out of 31 stations are open at the MCC. They can be used for six transfers to commuter trains and 12 to the metro. In October, there are five more stations of the ring: Koptevo, Sorge, Dubrovka, Panfilovskaya and Sokolinaya Gora. By the end of the year, there will be 14 transfers to the metro and six to electric trains. Transfers between metro and MCC stations take no more than 10-12 minutes. The shortest and most comfortable ones do not require going outside - these are the transitions to " warm contours"From the stations Mezhdunarodnaya, Leninsky Prospekt, Cherkizovskaya, Vladykino, Kutuzovskaya.

Maps and signs help passengers learn how to change to metro and suburban trains, as well as quickly find an exit to the desired buses, trolleybuses and trams. Diagrams of the ring, transfers to electric trains and metro stations, as well as signs indicating the exit to stops, route numbers for surface urban passenger transport are posted at the stations.

Consultants will advise passengers on how to navigate the new type of transport. They stand at the entrance to the metro stations of the Circle Line, as well as those adjacent to the MCC. Consultants will tell you the easiest way to get to your destination, where to change trains, and what sights to see near the ring stations.

How to transfer from the metro to the MCC for free?

A single ride ticket allows you to change to the metro or monorail for free for 90 minutes.
If you plan to travel only along the MCC or are going to make one change - from the metro to the loop or vice versa - the passes can be applied to any turnstiles.
You can change trains free of charge when traveling on the following routes: Metro - MCC; metro - MCC - metro; MCC - metro - monorail; monorail - metro - MCC - metro.
You can use the free transfer only with tickets purchased after September 1, 2016. In all other cases, travel documents must be activated. To do this, it is enough to replenish the account in the amount of one ruble or more.

When does the MCC work?

The first trains of the MCC pick up passengers at 05:45 from ZIL and Botanichesky Sad stations, the last train arrives at Andronovka station at exactly one in the morning. In general, the MCC's work schedule coincides with the Moscow metro - the ring is open to passengers from 05:30 to 01:00.

The first trains leave the line at 05:27; they start moving with passengers at 05:45. Empty electric trains pick up people almost simultaneously from eight stations:

- ZIL - 05:45;

- Shelepikha - 05:49;

- Gagarin Square - 05:48;

- Baltic - 05:48;

- Botanical Garden - 05:45;

- District - 05:50;

- Enthusiasts Highway - 05:50;

- Ugreshskaya - 05:49.

At the same time, their journey along the "Swallows" ring begins at the same time both on weekdays and on weekends.

The last trains at night will carry passengers to the following stations:

- Nizhny Novgorod - 00:51;

- Baltic - 00:58;

- Andronovka - 01:00.

The interval of train traffic on the MCC in the morning and evening rush hours is on average six minutes. The rest of the time - 12 minutes.

What trains run on the MCC?

High-speed electric trains "Lastochka" of increased comfort go around the ring. Their maximum speed is 120 kilometers per hour, they travel around the MCC from average speed 50 kilometers per hour. The trains are equipped with air conditioning, dry closets, information panels, free Wi-Fi, sockets and bicycle racks.

The carriage doors open in manual mode: to enter or exit, you need to press the special button installed on the doors. It works only during a complete stop of the train on the platform. When the doors are ready to open, a green signal lights up. At other times, due to security requirements, the doors are locked.

Unlike commuter trains, Lastochki has no vestibules. This allows passengers to quickly enter or leave the cabin at the desired stop.

The passengers of the Moscow Central Circle are protected from the cold by thermal curtain. Smart system climate control releases streams warm air in front of the doors in the carriages automatically, protecting against temperature extremes. In addition, the climate control system disinfects the air, destroying possible infections and viruses.

Bicycles, dogs, rollers and cats: all about driving rules

When using the MCC, you need to remember the safety requirements and obey the accepted rules of travel. They have already been developed by the Department of Transport and the Moscow Metro. At some points, they are not as strict as the rules for using the city subway. Moscow cyclists have probably already appreciated this, since a bicycle can be transported unassembled on a special platform in the carriages of MCC trains. In the metropolitan subway, the requirements are stricter: bicycles can only be transported unassembled, and children's bicycles - in a case.

Also, large baggage is allowed in the MCC. Its maximum size, with which you can travel around the ring without additional payment, should not exceed 180 centimeters in total dimensions. It should be placed on special luggage racks, which are in the Swallow cars.

For the free transportation of small breed dogs to the MCC, you do not need to take a container or basket if the pet is on a leash and muzzled. The ring passengers can also transport cats free of charge and even without a special carrying bag. The main condition is constant monitoring of the pet.

Please note that for dogs large breeds you have to buy a ticket on both commuter trains and the MCC. They must be muzzled and on a leash. You do not need a ticket for all types of transport, including the MCC, only for guide dogs.

According to the rules of travel to the MCC, it is forbidden to be in the carriage or at the station with any products that may stain fellow travelers. On the platforms of the MCC, as well as in carriages, it is prohibited to ride rollerblades, scooters, bicycles and other sports vehicles.