Over 20 stations in three years: Where else will the metro run?

Over the next three years, Moscow plans to build 21 metro stations, lay about 50 km of new lines and add three depots,Deputy Mayor for Urban Development and Construction Marat Khusnullin said.

One of the most pressing tasks, according to Khusnullin, is to make the Nekrasovka-Aviamotornaya section of Line 15 fully operational.

“In three years, we actually have to link Line 15 with the Large Circle Line (Line 11) and with the Solntsevsky Radial,” Marat Khusnullin explained.

This will result in the longest metro line in the Moscow system.

Specialists are also considering issues to do with the construction of Vnukovo station and the extension of Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line (Line 10) to Severny district. As for the development of Line 1, Marat Khusnullin said it would run to Kommunarka. “We hope to implement a technical launch this year, and open it to passengers next year,” he said.

He added that they plan to build the main part of the Large Circle Line in the near future.

“In fact, we hope that by 2023, we will technically close the loop, but the eastern section is really difficult, and we started on it later, and there are a lot of utility systems that need to be moved,” the Deputy mayor said, noting that construction is going on around the clock.

The Moscow Metro construction programme implemented in recent years is the most ambitious in its 80-year history. Moscow has never developed the metro on such a scale. Since 2011, it has built 136 km of new lines, 71 stations, three entrance halls and eight metro depots as well as the Moscow Central Circle.

Line 10 was extended to include nine more stations: three on the Maryino-Zyablikovo section and six more from Maryina Roshcha to Seligerskaya. Additional lobbies have been built at Maryina Roshcha and Petrovsko-Razumovskaya.

On 30 August, seven new stations were opened on the Solntsevskaya Line: Michurinsky Prospekt, Ozyornaya, Govorovo, Solntsevo, Borovskoye Shosse, Novoperedelkino and Rasskazovka. Public transport has become more convenient for residents in eight districts.

Nekrasovskaya Line (Line 15), 18.6 km long with nine stations, is to start operating in 2019. The Nizhegorodskaya and Aviamotornaya stations will later link Line 15 with the Large Circle Line (Line 11).

Line 11 is the Moscow metro’s most ambitious project. The first section of the line in northwestern Moscow was opened in February 2018 with five stations: Delovoi Tsentr, Shelepikha, Khoroshevskaya, CSKA and Petrovsky Park. The length of the line will be 70 km.