Kindergarten, sports center and industrial park: Sergei Sobyanin talks about Nekrasovka and Kosino-Ukhtomsky districts’ development

Transport, social and industry infrastructure is being developed intensively in Nekrasovka and Kosino-Ukhtomsky districts. Sergei Sobyanin inspected facilities that both have been finished and are still under construction.

“This year, we’re finishing the first stage of Moscow High-Speed Diameter (MHSD) – the North-Eastern Chord. It will run from the Businovskaya road junction with the St.Petersburg turnpike, to Nekrasovka. But of course it will have to be extended beyond Nekrasovka, so we have already settled it with the Transport Ministry and the Road Service to extend Moscow High-Speed Diameter to the Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan highway,” Mr. Sobyanin revealed.

MHSD will be extended from Nekrasovka to Highway M12. In order to do this, some complicated structures need to be built across multiple roads: overpasses, road junctions, a tunnel and so forth.

“I hope the entire section will be ready next year. In September-December 2023, it will get connected to the Nizhny Novgorod and Kazan high-speed motorways. That, way, Muscovites will get another outbound highway to take in the Kazan and Nizhny Novgorod direction,” the Moscow Mayor said.

Construction of MHSD – the North-Eastern Chord sections from Lukhmanovskaya to Zeninskoye Motorway to be connected to the projected federal highway M12 Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan, started in August 2020. A six-lane, 5-kilometer long (not counting the exits) motorway will start from Lukhmanovskaya Metro station, cross Pokrovskaya, Sochinskaya and Maresyeva streets, turn along the Pekhorka river and join road M12 Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan.

It will include three overpasses over Lukhmanovskaya, Pokrovskaya and Maresyeva streets (total distance: 721 meters) and a bridge over the Pekhorka.

A roundabout will be set up at the Lukhmanovskaya Street junction. Side roads running along the motorway and an exit to Zeninskoye Motorway have also been designed.

Reconstruction of the adjacent road network is planned, including Krakovskaya and Pokrovskaya streets, designed streets No.265 and 6656A.

There will also be three new pedestrian tunnels around Sochinskaya Street and Zenino gardening association in Lyubertrsy.

14 kilometers of roads in total will be rebuilt or built from scratch. Landscaping will include 24.6 hectares of lawns, 772 trees (linden, birch, willow, alder and rowan trees) and 7,928 bushes (arrow-wood, nine-bark, currants, mock orange) planted.

5.8 kilometers of bike tracks will be set up.

480 meters of noise screens will be erected at the MHSD – Lukhmanovskaya Street crossing.

“Construction goes according to schedule. As of now, about 66 per cent is done. Commissioning is planned for the next September,” reported Alexei Kozlov, First Vice President, MSU-1, the contractor company.

Opening MHSD sections from Lukhmanovskaya Street to Zeninskoye Motorway will:

— provide city entry for the federal highway M12 Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan;

— improve transport situation for over 1.2 million people in Nekrasovka, Kosino-Ukhtomsky, Vykhino-Zhulebino district, Lyubertsy and Balashikha;

— reduce the load on the adjacent streets, including Kosinskoye Motorway, Lukhmanovskaya, Pokrovskaya, Maresyeva, Vertoletchikov, Sochinskaya, Dmitriyevskogo streets, thus reducing vehicle mileage needed to drive around the city;

— provide a new direct link between Moscow and Greater Moscow by connecting Kosinskoye and Zeninskoye motorways.

First stage of the Moscow High-Speed Diameter

The North-Eastern Chord, the second leg of the Moscow High-Speed Diameter, a new main road in Moscow, will connect the north, east and south areas of the city.

The base line for the first MHSD section will be about 40 kilometers long. Counting exits and reconstruction of the adjacent road network, about 120 kilometers of new roads will be built in total, including 80 artificial structures (overpasses, bridges, tunnels) that span about 38 kilometers in total, and 21 pedestrian crossings.

The new road will run from Moscow – St.Petersburg turnpike M-11 to Kosinskaya overpass (the junction between the Moscow Ring Road and the Veshnyaki-Lyubertsy Motorway), and beyond the MKAD to M12 Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan road currently under construction.

The road will connect major motor roads in the city: Moscow Ring Road (MKAD), Entuziastov, Izmailovskoye, Shchyolkovskoye, Otkrytoye, Yaroslavskoye, Altufyevskoye and Dmitrovskoye motorways, as well as 15 major streets in Moscow: Festivalnaya, Selskokhozyaystvennaya, Amurskaya, Shcherbakovskaya, Perovskaya, Yunosti, Papernika streets, Beryozovaya Alleya, 3rd Nizhnelikhoborsky Proyezd, etc.

The first leg of MHSD will run over 26 Moscow districts connecting about 2.5 million people and 10 major industrial areas that will get a development boost as soon as it’s launched.

The new road will also provide access to 12 transport hubs, 21 Metro and MCC stations, MCD 1 and prospective MCD 3 platforms.

Right now, the first stage of MHSD construction is 84 per cent ready. 8 out of 11 motorway sections are ready. Their total span is 98.6 kilometers, including 63 overpasses (33.5 km), one tunnel (480 m), three bridges (204 m), 5 flyovers (915 m) and 17 pedestrian crossings.

Three sections are still under construction: from Dmitrovskoye to Yaroslavskoye Motorway, from Lukhmanovskaya Street to Zeninskoye Motorway, and the section that includes a bridge over the Pekhorka river and the connection to the Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan highway. About 25 kilometers of roads in total are planned to be commissioned by the end of 2023.

The second leg of MHSD (the South-Eastern Chord) will run from Entuziastov to Varshavskoye Motorway. Its base line distance is about 28 kilometers.

MHSD will be the final part of the Moscow Chord road system creation. Chords are new roads running through the middle part of the city and presenting an alternative option to the Moscow Ring Road, the Third Ring Road and the roads running through the historical center of Moscow.

Kindergarten on Lavrinenko Street

A kindergarten in Nekrasovka, at 9 Lavrinenko Street will soon be commissioned. Right now, they are finishing the façade, hooking up the engineering networks, installing elevators, landscaping the grounds.

“Nekrasovka is one of the most challenging areas when it comes to social, cultural and other facilities. Unfortunately, they used to build residential housing there way faster than kindergartens, schools or sports centers. We’re trying to correct that. We have built 17 of those facilities already. Those are kindergartens, schools, a huge effort all in all. Nevertheless, there are too few of them still, shortages are felt. That’s why we decided to start building six more kindergartens and schools. I hope they will all be ready by the year end, and start enrolling kids next year,” Mr. Sobyanin said.

According to Bagadir Aliev, Head of Milanstroy, the kindergarten will be commissioned in August and handed over to the city in September. The custom-design three-storey building on Lavrinenko Street is about 5,000 square meters in total. 350 kids will start their learning there in safety and comfort.

The kindergarten will have sports and music facilities as well as rooms fro developmental games. It also has psychologist’s and speech therapist’s offices and a first aid station.

Each group of kids will have their own sleeping room, a canteen, a bathroom, a locker room and a room for drying their clothes and footwear. Transformer walls make it possible to expand the game space during the day.

The kindergarten will be perfectly comfortable for children with health limitations.

The territory will have playgrounds with sun shades, shelters for sleds and strollers, modern accessories and separate entrances for each group of children.

The kindergarten on Lavrinenko Street will be joined with school No.2048. It’s supposed to open its doors in late 2022-early 2023.

Nekrasovka sports center

“Nekrasovka district, where about 100,000 people live, has no sports facilities at all. That’s unacceptable. For that reason, we made a decision to built not just a standard gym, but a real sports center with an ice rink, a swimming pool, sports facilities, etc. It will have everything for 12 sports,” Mr. Sobyanin said when inspecting the construction in progress.

The sports center tied to the Nekrasovka transport hub got off the ground in November 2019. The three-storey facility with 21,300 square meters area will feature:

 — a 25 x 16 m swimming pool, 1.2 – 1.8 m deep, with eight lanes and stands for 150 people, a pre-swimming exercise room with dry swimming exercise machines, rooms for coaches, a locker room, a massage parlor and a first-aid station, a sauna and a laboratory that will run chemical tests of the water;

— a small 10 x 6 m swimming pool where kids aged 7 to 10 will have a chance to learn swimming;

— a 30 x 60 m ice rink with stands for 500 people, a room where visitors could sharpen their skates or customize their hockey sticks, rooms for umpires and coaches, locker rooms and a first-aid station;

— an all-purpose sports arena (45 x 27 m, for basketball, futsal, handball, volleyball, tennis) with stands for 150 spectators;

— a gym with all-purpose exercise machines to build up all muscle groups and a free weights area, able to accommodate 30 people at a time;

— a 12 x 12 m gymnasium for eurhythmics or dancing;

— a 9 x 18 m dance hall with warming up and stretching areas, mirror panels and wall ladders;

— a 15 x 24 m martial arts hall with two carpets (7 m in diameter each) for freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, sambo and martial arts;

— a climbing and extreme sports hall (30 x 24 m). It will feature a rock-climbing wall with three tracks, each with climbing holds, foot supports, fingerboards and safety nets, a frame skate park imitating urban environment for skateboarders, BMX bikers, rollerbladers and kickscooter fans (with a 35 m long pump track, a mini-ramp, a push-off wave with a wallride and a three-level wall with a siderail);

— a chess club with tournament halls, practice classes and a coach room.

The building will also have a conference hall and a cafe.

The surrounding grounds will have workout areas, a football field, basketball and volleyball courts, a skate park and a stretch for track&field.

The parking lot for 148 cars will be able to accommodate buses carrying sports teams.

Right now, the facility is 80 per cent complete. “As of today, the sports center has the majority of façade works and load bearing structures complete; the process equipment assembly is underway,” says Ilgiz Khairutdinov, Head of Sport and Infrastructure Facilities Development AIO.

The Moscow Sports Committee plans to use the Nekrasovka sports center to set up professional training in ice hockey, swimming, short track, volleyball, handball, chess and martial arts. When athletes are not practicing there, the sports center will be open to general public. That way, the new and unique sporting facility will become a gravity point for all the people who live in the south-east of Moscow.

It will open its doors to young athletes and locals in 2023.

Rudnevo Industrial Park

Rudnevo Industrial Park is being built in the east of Moscow, close to Lukhmanovskaya Metro station. Its 14.7 hectares large territory is listed in the Federal Industrial Park Registry as the sixth prospective site of the Technopolis Moscow Special Economic Zone.

Therefore, Rudnevo will offer the best business conditions for modern high-tech companies. In particular, the residents will be relieved of the property, transport and land tax payments. Their property tax rate will be just two per cent. The free customs zone mode and preferential land lease conditions are also in effect.

“Nekrasovka was built as the worst kind of residential neighborhood of our past: with no jobs, social or culture facilities. “We’re trying to correct that now. On top of Metro and road construction, new kindergartens, schools, social and culture facilities are being built in Nekrasovka. Of course, new jobs are also vital. That’s why we transformed parts of the land that used to be given to residential development, to industry use. Here, next to Nekrasovka, one of the largest industry clusters in Moscow is being built,” Mr. Sobyanin revealed.

According to him, 120,000 square meters of real estate will be commissioned this year for high-tech industries: from drone companies to producers of medical devices. The plans are to create over 3,000 new jobs there.

“Down the road, we’re going to design the next stages in this industrial park construction, to create as many high-tech jobs as possible for people living in Nekrasovka, so they can find employment virtually next door, not only downtown far away,” Moscow Mayor pointed out.

The industrial park offers Rudnevo residents the following benefits:

— lease of modern production facilities (brownfields);

— facility construction to suit the demand of specific customers (Built-to-Suit);

— broadband internet access (up to 1 Gbps) and a data processing center connection;

— one-stop shop for interactions with authorities such as the Federal Agency for State Registration, Cadastre, and Cartography (Rosreestr), the Federal State Agency for Health and Consumer Rights (Rospotrebnadzor), the Russian Federal Service for Ecological, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostechnadzor), the Tax Service;

— good transport connections : the area is located close to Moscow Ring Road, M5 Ural (Novoryazanskoye Motorway), M7 Volga (Gorkovskoye Motorway), the soon-to-be MHSD and M12 Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan road, Nekrasovka and Lukhmanovskoye Metro stations, Zhukovsky and Domodedovo airports;

— extensive road network: 5.5 kilometers of roads, turning circles and a terminal station for public transport designed;

— comfortable working conditions: public spaces (including conference and negotiations rooms), a canteen, cafes, parking spaces.

The industrial park construction got underway in late 2020. The plan is to build 16 production facilities with a total area of about 120,000 square meters. Cutting-edge technologies are used in construction: modules are factory-produced then assembled like Lego blocks onsite. That cuts construction time down to 35-50 per cent, the cost – 10-15 per cent.

Rudnevo is being built of Russian-made construction materials (some items are already 100 per cent import substituted).

Some high-tech companies have already stated their desire to rent over 80 per cent of the industrial park’s facilities. Future residents include producers of medical implants, laboratory chemicals, printed boards, power condensers, transformers, ATM machines, etc.

Generally, Rudnevo production facilities are 90 per cent complete now. Construction goes on in two shifts, with up to 1,700 people working onsite every day.

The industrial park is planned to be complete by the end of 2022.

My District Nekrasovka and Kosino-Ukhtomsky

The My District program initiated by the Moscow Mayor is focused on setting up comfortable living condition in all districts of Moscow, regardless of how far from the city center they are located.

About 170,000 Muscovites live in Nekrasovka and Kosino-Ukhtomsky districts. A lot has been done there in recent years to improve the quality of their life.

Now the area is covered by Metro, with three new Nekrasovskaya line stations opening: Nekrasovka, Lukhmanovskaya and Ulitsa Dmitriyevskogo.

Modernization of Lyubertsy water treatment facilities changed the environmental conditions for the better. That improved the living standards for over 2 million people in Moscow and Moscow region.

Several projects focused on comfortable living environment have been implemented. The Kupecheskiye Ugodya park, the park around the memorial to soldiers from Nekrasovka settlement killed during the Great Patriotic War, Nekrasovsky Boulevard, the urban forest around Nekrasovsky park, Fairytale Alley, etc., have all had makeovers. Over 50 courtyards have been landscaped, around 50,000 trees and bushes planted.

Kindergartens for 2,000 kids and a school for 1,100 students have been built to improve the public infrastructure. Branch No.4 of municipal polyclinic No.23 and branch No.5 of municipal children’s polyclinic No.143 (3/1 1st Volskaya St.) opened after comprehensive renovation. An ambulance substation for 20 vehicles has been built in Nekrasovka.

For fans of sports, there’s a newly opened gym with a swimming pool (8a Nikolaya Starostina St.) and an artificial-turf football field (at the crossroads of Nikolaya Starostina and Saltykovskaya streets). Sporting school No.4 (16/2 2nd Volskaya St.) and Snow Leopards sporting school (8 Nikolaya Starostina St.) had their facilities overhauled.

The Nekrasovka social services center opened at 9 1st Volskaya St. The facility intended for My Documents public services center of Kosino-Ukhtomsky district (12 Svyatoozerskaya St.) got an overhaul too.

An all-year-round trade fair with a fest venue opened in Nekrasovka, on Rozhdestvenskaya St.

The Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin on Lyubertsy Fields (24 Pokrovskaya St.) and the Church of the Icon of Virgin Mary Surety of Sinners (2a Kamova St.) have been built.

Comprehensive development of Nekrasovka and Kosino-Ukhtomsky areas will continue in 2022-2023. In particular, 14 courtyards will be landscaped.

A comprehensive reconstruction will create comfortable conditions for patients and staff of branch No.3 of municipal polyclinic No.66 (40a Krasnosolnechnaya St.). Construction of kindergartens for 1,450 kids and schools for 2,050 students is also planned.

Renovation program

No apartment blocks in Nekrasovka, one of the newest districts in Moscow, are covered by the renovation program.

In Kosino-Ukhtomsky, inhabitants of 55 apartment blocks (6,100 people) are going to be moved to new apartments. After their inhabitants move out, six of the apartment blocks will be preserved as unique pieces of architecture (on the Architectural Supervision Service list).

28 apartment blocks will be targeted during the 1st stage (2020-2024), 9 – during the 2nd stage (2025 – 2028), 18 – during the 3rd (2029 – 2032).

Eleven sites have been selected for their incremental relocation:

— 3 Orenburgskaya St. — construction completed, people started moving in on March 30, 2021;

— 4 Chyornoye Ozero St. — construction completed, people started moving in on March 30, 2021;

— 20a/1 Kaskadnaya St. — construction completed, preparation for relocation is underway;

— 20a/2 Kaskadnaya St. — construction completed, preparation for relocation is underway;

— Property 24 Kamova St. — construction underway;

— Property 7 Chyornoye Ozero St. (second stage) — construction underway;

— Property 8 Chyornoye Ozero St. (second stage) — construction underway;

— Property 26 Orenburgskaya St. — design underway;

— Property 1 Kamova St. (second stage) — design underway;

— Property 4 Orenburgskaya St. (second stage) — design underway;

— Property 30 Orenburgskaya St. — urban planning documents are being drafted.