29 September в 07:01

Sergei Sobyanin: Construction of Moskvorechye metro station begins

Photo by: Press Service of the Moscow Mayor and Moscow Government

The new station will make the Moskvorechye-Saburovo District more accessible and enhance the transport framework in the south of the capital.

Construction of Moskvorechye station on the Biryulyovskaya Line has been launched in Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin writes on his MAX channel.

“It is located in the Moskvorechye-Saburovo District, which is bounded by the Moskva River, railway tracks and major motorways. This hinders links with neighboring districts. The new station will make Moskvorechye-Saburovo more accessible and enhance the transport framework in the south of the capital,” the Moscow Mayor writes.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin’s Max channel

Two entrance halls will be built here, with exits to both sides of Kashirskoye Motorway and to residential areas on Koshkina Street. It will be a station with side platforms: the tracks will run through the center, with passenger platforms on either side.

Moskvorechye is the ninth of 10 stations on the new Biryulyovskaya Line where construction is already underway. Preparations at the construction site are underway at the final station, Biryulyovo. The line will connect the Big Circle Line, Moscow Central Circle, Troitskaya and Zamoskvoretskaya lines and the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railway.

Tunneling on this section of the Biryulyovskaya Line will be done with giant tunnel boring machines 10 meters in diameter. In 2027, one will begin tunneling from Moskvorechye toward Kuryanovo, while another will travel from Luganskaya to the dismantling chamber at Moskvorechye.

“The section from ZIL to Kuryanovo is scheduled to open in 2028. The second section, from Kuryanovo to Biryulyovo, including Moskvorechye station, is to open in 2029. Moskvorechye station is expected to serve 16,000 passengers a day,” Sergei Sobyanin notes.

Source: Sergei Sobyanin’s Max channel

Once the Biryulyovskaya Line is fully operational, more than one million Moscow residents in eight districts of the capital will have new metro stations within a walking distance. By 2030, the line is expected to carry 165,000 passengers a day. Tsaritsyno and Klenovy Bulvar metro stations will be 30 per cent less crowded, and Tekhnopark 15 per cent less crowded. Modern Russian-made trains will operate on the line.