Sergei Sobyanin: a new chord motorway will be built in the north-eastern part of Moscow.
A new ambitious transport project was launched in the north-eastern part of Moscow: construction of a new chord motorway.
“We have started a new transport project, a rather big one, in the north-east. We are talking, in essence, about a new chord from the Botanical Garden to Novodachnoye motorway. The total road and street distance there will be about 16 kilometers. Some of them will be renovated, some built from scratch, some incorporated into the already existing road network. That will improve transport accessibility for about 500 thousand Muscovites. We are now working on the first stage: renovation of Selskokhozyaystvennaya Street and the adjacent road network,” said Sergei Sobyanin while inspecting the site.
The new chord motorway between the Moscow High-Speed Diameter, and the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD) is planned to be built in three stages. The first stage is renovation of the section of Selskokhozyaystvennaya Street from the MHSD to Yurlovsky Proyezd. It launched in January 2023. After it is done, the running surface there will become three times as broad. Instead of two lanes, there will be six: three in each direction. A 900 meters long link to Yurlovsky Proyezd is also in the plans.
The project also includes renovations of Olonetskaya Street from Beryozovaya Alley to Otradnaya Street (630 meters, two lanes in each direction), and Dekabristov Street from Olonetskaya to Selskokhozyaystvennaya Street (390 meters, two lanes in each direction). Plans also include building local driveways to connect Selskokhozyaystvennaya and Olonetskaya Street (1.5 kilometers, single lane in both directions).
The project includes building and renovating 5.8 kilometers of roads in total.
To make life more convenient for pedestrians, five underground tunnels will be built, including ones at the junctions of Selskokhozyaystvennaya and Dekabristov Streets, Musorgskogo Street and Yurlovsky Proyezd, and near numbers 35/1, 37, and 41 Selskokhozyaystvennaya Street.
Edgar Aramyan, Chair of the Board of Ruslan-1, said construction will also include 14 elevators, 16 shelters, and local water treatment facilities.
7.2 hectares of lawns, along with 9,700 trees and bushes will be planted to landscape the surrounding grounds. The stage is right now 40 per cent complete. It is expected to be finished in 2025.
Selskokhozyaystvennaya Street renovation will cut down the time required to drive it end to end by about half, wrote Sergei Sobyanin on his Telegram channel.
“The second stage of the project envisions a railway overpass to connect Kostromskaya Street and Yurlovsky Proyezd. The third stage will include construction of a new section of the Severny — Otradnoye highway from Cherepovetskaya Street to Altufyevskoye Motorway,” wrote Moscow Mayor.
Source: Sergei Sobyanin’s Telegram channel @mos_sobyanin
16 kilometers of roads in total will be built and repaired during all three stages.
New roads of Moscow
In 2011–2023, Moscow built 1,360 kilometers of roads, or about 25 per cent of the total existing road network. 429 tunnels, overhead roads and bridges were erected, thus increasing the number of artificial transport structures by 65 per cent. In addition, 313 off-street pedestrian crossings were built.
Construction plans for 2024 include 95 kilometers of roads, 35 artificial structures and nine pedestrian crossings. The major facilities are:
— intersections of the Moscow Ring Road with Verkhnie Polya Street (main operations completed in March 2024), and Altufyevskoye Highway;
— the MHSD section from MKAD to Varshavskoye Motorway;
— the section of the Solntsevo — Butovo — Varshavskoye Motorway road from Novomoskovskaya metro station (formerly Kommunarka, Stolbovo transport hub) to Polyana Street (stage 1);
— overpass in the area of the 24 th and 25 th kilometers of Leningradskoye Motorway (opened for traffic in March 2024);
— alternate route for Kaluzhskoye Motorway (stage 1).
In 2025–2026, 176.5 kilometers of roads, 40 artificial structures and 52 pedestrian crossings are to be built in Moscow.
Sergei Sobyanin spotlights road and interchange construction projects in Moscow