Sergei Sobyanin announces successful completion of project to reconstruct Moscow Ring Road interchanges

Sergei Sobyanin has opened the reconstructed interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD) and Altufyevskoye Motorway. 

“Today is a big day - we have completed the reconstruction of the interurban roads, interchanges intersecting with MKAD, 22 interchanges in total. It is a huge structure with tunnels, overpasses and bridges. The complex and extensive work was done almost simultaneously without halting traffic but with a major relocation of engineering structures and communications. Today we are opening the last interchange on Altufyevskoye Motorway,” notes the Moscow Mayor.

Altufyevskoye Motorway interchange

Reconstruction of the MKAD interchange with Altufyevskoye Motorway was launched in 2020 and was completed in September 2024. The project involved replacing the outdated cloverleaf structure with a modern stack interchange with greater capacity.

“The work was complex as it was done almost without halting the traffic. Now travelling along the Moscow Ring Road has become faster and safer. Today we have opened the last interchange on Altufyevskoye Motorway,” Sergei Sobyanin writes on his Telegram channel. 

Source: Sergei Sobyanin’s Telegram channel @mos_sobyanin 

Specialists have built 5.4 kilometers of roads in total, including two artificial structures with a total length of more than 0.8 kilometers.

The new 300-meter-long Moscow Ring Road overcrossing ensures convenient straight traffic of Altufyevskoye Motorway. A 550-meter-long two-lane overpass has improved the exit from it to the outer side of the Moscow Ring Road towards Dmitrovskoye Motorway. Experts have also built a new exit from the outer side of the Moscow Ring Road onto Altufyevskoye Motorway towards the center, 496 meters long, including two one-way traffic lanes, and reconstructed the existing exits from and onto the Moscow Ring Road, 1.4 kilometers long. 

On the inner and outer sides of the Moscow Ring Road, side exits were built with speed change lanes in the area of the intersection with Altufyevskoye Motorway covering a total of 2.1 kilometers of roads. As part of the landscaping project, the adjacent area will get four hectares of lawns.

The interchange reconstruction improves the capacity of the northern section of the Moscow Ring Road and Altufyevskoye Motorway as well as reduces traffic congestion on the adjacent road network. The traffic of the sections of the MKAD outer side will be reduced from the Podushkinsky overpass to Altufyevskoye Motorway (up to nine per cent), Altufyevskoye Motorway from Vologodsky Proyezd to Proektiruemy Proyezd No. 6433 (up to 17 per cent) as well as the exit to MKAD from the Vesna shopping center (up to 45 per cent).

Transport accessibility of the Lianozovo and Bibirevo areas (Moscow) and Mytishchi district (Moscow Region) accommodating more than 550,000 people has been improved. The reconstruction of Altufyevskoye Motorway and Ostashkovskoye Motorway interchanges, located approximately six kilometers from each other, helps to improve transport services for approximately one million residents.

Reduced traffic congestion on the Moscow Ring Road has benefited millions of motorists and public transport passengers who regularly or occasionally travel along the northern and north-eastern sections of this motorway.

22 modern transport hubs: complex reconstruction of MKAD interchanges

In recent years, the construction and reconstruction of MKAD interchanges has been one of the priorities for the development of the capital's transport system. In addition, the Moscow Government has completed complex work to expand the Moscow Ring Road roadway by constructing side roads and speed change lanes as well as to develop the adjacent street and road network. 

The work was planned to coincide with the reconstruction of the interurban roads within the Moscow Ring Road and the Moscow Region. The project significantly improves their capacity and ensures full integration of the transport infrastructure of Moscow and the Moscow Region.

Since 2012, 22 MKAD interchanges with a total road length of over 180 kilometers have been built and reconstructed in the capital.

- interchange with Leningradskoye Motorway has ensured unimpeded access to the Moscow Ring Road and M-10 Moscow-St. Petersburg Motorway;

- interchange with Volgogradsky Prospekt has provided unimpeded access to Ural M-5 Federal Motorway, improved transport accessibility of the Zhulebino microdistrict and the cities of Kotelniki and Lyubertsy in the Moscow Region;

- interchange with Michurinsky Prospekt has improved transport accessibility to Vnukovo Airport, Solntsevo, Ramenki and other areas;

- interchange with Marshala Zhukova Prospekt has been the final stage of the reconstruction of Zvenigorodskoye Motorway providing unimpeded access to M-9 Baltic Federal Motorway.

- interchange with Podolskikh Kursantov Street has offered an additional entry and exit to the Moscow Ring Road from the Biryulyovo Zapadnoye area;

- interchange in the area of Molodogvardeyskaya Street has provided a connection to the Moscow Ring Road of the northern bypass of the city of Odintsovo in the Moscow Region and its connection with Bagrationa Prospekt;

- Businovskaya interchange has offered access to Moscow for M-11 Moscow-St. Petersburg High-Speed Motorway;

- Kosinskaya interchange has provided an exit from the Moscow High-Speed Diameter to the Moscow Ring Road;

- interchange with Mozhaiskoye Motorway has improved transport accessibility of the Skolkovo Innovation Center and the city of Odintsovo in the Moscow Region;

- interchange with Kashirskoye Motorway has improved transport accessibility of Domodedovo Airport;

- interchange with Dmitrovsloye Motorway has improved transport accessibility of the Severny district and the Fiztekh technology park;

- interchange with Profsoyuznaya Street has provided a convenient exit to Kaluzhskoye Motorway, TiNAO’s main transport artery;

- interchange with Leninsky Prospekt has provided a convenient exit from it and increased the capacity of the adjacent section of the Moscow Ring Road;

- interchange with Ryazansky Prospekt has improved the exit from Moscow to the city of Lyubertsy in the Moscow Region and increased the capacity of the adjacent section of the Moscow Ring Road;

- interchange with Besedinskoye Motorway has improved its exit to the Moscow Ring Road and transport accessibility of Maryino, Zyablikovo and Brateevo areas in Moscow and the village of Besedy in the Moscow Region;

- interchange with Generala Dorokhova Street has improved transport accessibility to the Skolkovo Innovation Center and also ensured convenient transport entry and exit from Generala Dorokhova Prospekt to the Moscow Ring Road;

- interchange at the 40th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road has improved access to the motorway from the village of Kommunarka and transport services to the village of Gazoprovod, the village of Mamyri and nearby gardeners' non-commercial partnership;

- interchange with Volokolamskoye Motorway has improved transport services to the northwestern areas of Moscow and the city of Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Region and also increased the capacity of Volokolamskoye Motorway, Pyatnitskoye Motorway and Putilkovskoye Motorway;

- interchange with Ostashkovskoye Motorway has increased the capacity of the adjacent section of the Moscow Ring Road;

- interchange with Lipetskaya Street has provided unimpeded access to M-4 Don Federal Motorway and increased the capacity of the adjacent section of the Moscow Ring Road;

- interchange with Verkhnie Polya Street has provided unimpeded exit from the Southern Lateral Road and increased the capacity of the adjacent section of the Moscow Ring Road;

- interchange with Altufyevskoye Motorway has increased the capacity of the adjacent section of the Moscow Ring Road.