MTSK opening on September 10, which stations. MCC station "Gagarin Square" and free travel around the ring! Information about the MCC

Many Muscovites and guests of the capital have already become accustomed to the convenience of the MCC (Moscow Central Circle) or, as it was previously called the Moscow Ring Railway, the Moscow Ring Railway, the opening of which contributed to the unloading of the capital’s ring line of the Moscow Metro in particular and the entire metro in general.

MCC map with metro

MCC map with transfers to the metro, trains and suburban transport

Another popular MCC scheme with transfers to the metro, electric trains and other suburban transport will be useful for passengers who travel by electric trains, transfer to the MCC from the metro or from minibuses. The diagram shows metro stations, Russian Railways stations and MCC stations along with transitions to them.

We draw your attention to the distance of a number of MCC stations from the metro. For example, from the Nagatinskaya metro station to the MCC station Upper Fields the Yandex map shows 4 km, despite the fact that the metro map indicates 10 - 12 minutes on foot.

Schemes and maps during construction (projects) with transfer nodes:

Numerous search queries can be addressed to the only official website of the Moscow Ring Railway http://mkzd.ru/

According to preliminary sketches, it was assumed that the Moscow Ring Road on the map would look like this:

MCC hours and schedule

MCC works the same way graphics, as the Moscow metro:

from 5:30 am to 01:00 am

List of MCC (MKR) stations:

There will be 31 stations in total. It is assumed that the rolling stock will be represented by Lastochka trains, which have proven themselves on intercity routes and will certainly be convenient for such local transportation.

The opening of the Moscow Ring Railway is planned for the end of 2016, testing is planned to begin in July 2016, so we are waiting for new information and will be updated as it becomes available.

Information about the MCC:

What is the length of the MCC in km?

The small ring of the Moscow Railway, along which the movement of MCC trains is organized, has a length of 54 km.

MCC How long does it take for a train to complete a circle?

A full circle along the MCC can be completed in approximately 1 hour 30 minutes.
The same answer will be to other questions, like: circle on the MCC in time

What is MCC?

The MCC is the Moscow Central Circle and this entire article describes this Moscow facility in all types and angles, including the history of its creation.

Calculation of time between MCC stations

Because the calculator has not yet been written and is not ready, a simple way to calculate travel time between stations: the following 90 minutes / 31 stations = about 3 minutes approximate calculation of time from station to station.

What are the train intervals on the MCC?

The intervals between MCC trains are no more than 6 minutes during rush hours, which is generally not bad, especially at traditionally problematic and overloaded stations. For example, near the City, where on the days of exhibitions at the Expo Center you are taken out of the metro.

They also asked:

1. When will passenger traffic open on the Moscow Ring Railway?

According to the official website, testing will begin in July 2016, and the opening date is scheduled for the end of 2016.

21.07.2016
2. The platform did not fit the Moscow Circle train; opening and testing were disrupted, according to https://www.instagram.com/p/BIB7RpiDxv2/?taken-by=serjiopopov(apparently, a friend was asked to delete his Instagram, which is where the photo below came from, so Navalny’s record also disappeared, where there were inserts from Instagram, but the screen remained the same https://navalny.com/p/4967/:

The page remains in Google’s cache, but you won’t be able to view it in its entirety due to some tricky redirects on Instagram:

The same cyclical redirects are included when searching the web archive for July 21 of this year. http://web.archive.org/web/20160721082945/https://www.instagram.com/

27.08.2016
4. What are the fares for travel on the MCC (MKR)?
According to information on the Moscow City Hall website, fares will be the same as on the metro:
“90 minutes”, “United” and the “Troika” card.
“Unified” for 20 trips - 650 rubles, for 40 trips - 1,300 rubles, for 60 trips - 1,570 rubles.
With the Troika card, travel on the MCC will cost the same as in the metro - 32 rubles.
Tickets for 1 and 2 are also equal to the price of metro travel - 50 and 100 rubles, respectively.

10.09.2016
The opening of the MCC took place:
26 of the 31 ring stations are operational. Sokolinaya Gora, Dubrovka, Zorge, Panfilovskaya and Koptevo stations will be opened later (until the end of 2016).
Lastochka trains run every 6 minutes during peak hours, and every other time - 12 minutes. The fare payment system is integrated with the Moscow Metro and allows you to transfer from the metro to MCC trains and back without additional payment. During the first month of operation of the ring (until October 10 inclusive), travel on MCC trains is free. According to information from rasp.yandex.ru

On Moscow City Day – September 10 – the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) is launched. This event is expected by residents of the capital and especially residents of the Moscow region: the new transport interchange hub (TPU) will save travel time and allow comfortable travel from remote areas of Moscow to metro stations. Metro tells what is currently known about one of the most ambitious projects of the metropolitan authorities.

1. When and what will launch?

There will be three stages; along the way, new stations will be added to the MCC. The first stage - in September 2016 (14 metro transfers and six commuter train transfers will be available for residents of Moscow and the Moscow region), the second - in December 2016, when all stations will be commissioned and the third - the final commissioning of transport hubs with the possibility “warm” transfers (without leaving the metro to the street).

All stations, how and where you can go from them, will be available according to the diagram. This is the newest and most affordable option, we recommend that you check it out.

2. How much does it cost?

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin recently wrote on the microblog on Twitter that travel on the MCC will be free for the first month. Further (according to the resolution of the Moscow Government), tariffs for travel on public transport in the capital also apply to the Moscow Central Circle.

Thus, a single ticket for travel on the MCC for 20 trips will cost 650 rubles, for 60 trips - up to 1 thousand 570 rubles. At the same time, travel for Troika card users on the MCC will cost the same as on the metro - 32 rubles.

Within the framework of one trip, it is possible to make transfers without charging additional fares.

How to travel for free on the MCC for the first month - read the material.

3. How will it work? Will you have to wait long for the train?

The Moscow government reports on its website that high-speed Lastochka electric trains will run along the ring, which will move almost silently and can accelerate to 120 kilometers per hour. The trains will have wider aisles between seats and equipped seats for passengers with limited mobility in wheelchairs. USB sockets will appear for charging electronic gadgets.

During peak hours, trains will run every six minutes, at other times - at intervals of 11–15 minutes. The total duration of the trip around the ring will be about 75 minutes.

4. I am a passenger, I now have a metro pass. Do I need to register something separately for the MCC?

For those who purchased a “Unified” pass before September 1, 2016: you will have to reprogram the ticket. You will need to go to the ticket office and activate your ticket for travel on the MCC for free. For Troika tickets, a top-up of at least 1 ruble will be enough.

On September 10, 2016, on the day of the 869th anniversary of Moscow, regular traffic on the Moscow Central Circle (MCR, MK MZD, MOZD) opened in Moscow, and this ring has many names. The discovery was accompanied by serious media coverage. Sobyanin and Putin opened the ring. He drove between Luzhniki and Ploshchad Gagagrina stations. On the day the MCC opened, I made a circular trip along it.
1. Dubrovka station. Some stations did not open on the first day, including Dubrovka, so we had to explain to the confused passengers how to get to the nearest open stations.

2. From closed Dubrovka, I rode a scooter 1.7 km to the neighboring station - Ugreshskaya station. Ground transport stops are being reconstructed and equipped near all MCC stations; the work has not yet been completed everywhere. At the Ugreshskaya tram stop, located near the Ugreshskaya MCC station, there is a gate between the Moscow Ring Railway and the tram network, currently (September 2016) being reconstructed. The path on the right is a train, on the left is a tram.

3. The path to the Ugreshskaya MCC station. There are no signs. A few passengers navigate using Yandex. Maps. In the distance is a passage across the Third Transport Ring, which includes the exit from the Ugreshskaya station.

4. B - barrier-free environment. Parallel to the stairs to the passage itself there is an elevator that is working.

5. Well, let's go?

6. The clock doesn't work.

7. Typical (sort of) entrance to an island-type station. In front there are stairs, then there are escalators. Travel is free for the first month; there are not turnstiles at all stations. Booklets about the line are given out at the entrance.

8. Navigation. As on Prospekt Mira (formerly), the navigation only indicates the neighboring station, transfer stations on the metro line.

9. And on the poles there are diagrams of lines and instructions - clockwise or not. All stations are indicated as open, although 5 stations were not open: Dubrovka, Sorge, Sokolinaya Gora, Koptevo and Panfilovskaya. I drove counterclockwise.

10. The boards informing about the next train work in some places, in others they don’t work, in others they are lit like this. Much navigation is still in polyethylene.

11. Let's say goodbye to Ugreshskaya station and go on a journey along the MCC!

12. Swallows are 100% full, there are almost no seats. Some are even standing. The information in the swallows is ready for the payment system to start working.

13. Subway map hanging in a swallow.

14. Novokhokhlovskaya station. Here I was able to sit by the window.

15. Nizhegorodskaya station. Station of the original design. In the future there will be a large transport hub here. In the meantime, only transfer to the Karacharovo platform.

16. The train is equipped with sockets. They are working. It seems that only the seats near the door have them, I haven’t checked the rest. Regarding the service: there is a Wi-Fi network, but it does not work. There are toilets, they work, they are clean, but the information boxes say that the toilet is for staff only).

17. A swallow is waiting for its departure on a side route. Near Andronovka station. There are several other similar layover parks on the line. The final (return and settling) points are made very thoroughly, even underground passages to service exits go out.

18. Andronovka station. Still, they managed to finish it and open it by September 10; on all diagrams it, and 7 more stations, are marked as under construction with the mark “opening soon.” Transfer to the Fraser platform.

19. Station Highway Entuziastov. Transfer to the metro station of the same name. After the station we drove through the unfinished Sokolinaya Gora without stopping.

20. The trains have hangers, as do all swallows.

21. Izmailovo station. Almost all stations are stations in the railway sense, although officially they are platforms as part of old stations, since almost every station has ramps between the tracks. Transfer to Partizanskaya metro station.

22. Lokomotiv station. Here a strange thing happened with the name - the Rokosovsky Boulevard station, located further from the metro station of the same name, was named as a metro station, and the Lokomotiv station, which has a “warm transfer” or “dry feet transfer,” was named not as the Cherkizovskaya station of the same name, but after the club of the nearby stadium. This fanaticism in football is starting to get boring. Already now, Dynamo, Spartak, Lokomotiv, CSKA stations are named, or will be named, in honor of clubs in the Moscow metro.

23. The scoreboard on the Lokomotiv works. I don’t understand what the inscription 02:07 on the board means, or whether the train’s arrival is actually predicted in seconds. Apparently not (I took several photos, all at the same time). The clocks on many scoreboards are not set correctly.

24. Station Rokossovsky Boulevard. It is located even further from the boulevard of the same name than the metro station Rokossovsky Boulevard.

25. A fence is being actively built along the tracks. Fences come in two types - gray in the colors of the FID, for which supports are built in the photo, and transparent. Sometimes along the paths there is first a transparent (gray mesh), and then behind it there is a solid fence in the colors of the FID. But you can still get to many places along the way.

26. Belokamennaya station. The old stations along the line have been put in order; there is no fence between them and the tracks, there is a kind of low platform - a sidewalk parallel to the tracks. Located in the middle of Losiny Island.

27. Rostokino station. The transfer to the Severyanin platform seems to be a convenient transfer, one of the few.

28. A booklet that is distributed at stations.

29. MKR station (not MCC) Rostokino.

30. Botanical Garden. Transfer to the metro station of the same name.

31. Where there are no fences along the line, beautiful views open from the carriage window.

32. Vladykino station. Transfer to the metro station of the same name. One of the few metro-MCC-metro routes that actually shortens the journey along Yandex is the path from the north of KRL to the north of STL.

33. Okruzhnaya station, transfer to the platform of the same name. Russian Railways branding on a bench.

34. Likhobory station. Transfer to the NATI platform.

35. Koptevo without stopping, the next station is Baltiyskaya. 600 meter transfer to Voykovskaya metro station. I hope they will make a travelator here someday. But still, stations with a metro transfer are more crowded than stations without a metro transfer at all.

36. Streshny station. It is located exactly between the Leningradskaya and Pokrovskoe-Streshniy platforms of the Riga direction of the Moscow Railway. Transplantation to any of them is not indicated on the “tabletop” diagram. Moreover, it’s even closer to Leningradskaya from Streshniy than from Baltiyskaya, where the transfer is indicated from!

37. There are many unfinished stations in the northwest. Panfilovskaya, Sorge without stopping. Khoroshevo station. 600 meter transfer to Polezhaevskaya metro station. TKL has no luck - not a single convenient transfer to the MCC in the north and no transfer at all in the south.

38. Shelepikha station. In the future there will be a transfer to the Shelepikha TPK station. And now at both the Shelepikha station and the Delovoy Tsentr (MCC) station there is a transfer (in the auto-informer) to the Testovskaya platform of the Belarusian direction of the Moscow Railway, which for some reason is called Smolensky in the auto-informer.

39. We are approaching Moscow City. There are many interchanges and high-speed transport lines.

40. Delovoy Tsentr station. Transfer to the Mezhdunarodnaya metro station, maybe now at least someone will go to the Mezhdunarodnaya). Green station. Interestingly decorated, despite the fact that it is inexpensive. Longer than the others. Why they decided out of the blue to create confusion with two Business centers without a transfer is unclear.

41. Kutuzovskaya station. Transfer to Kutuzovskaya metro station. The metro and MCC stations are located parallel to each other, you can see the traffic lights of the parallel line behind the fence and hear the trains of the other line. The station is very busy. Behind the fence is the Filyovskaya metro line.

42. Interesting fence near Luzhniki station.

43. Luzhniki station. Transfer to Sportivnaya metro station. One of the shortest non-warm transfers. Built according to an individual project. There are no gray-red colors of Russian Railways here.

44. It was from here that Putin and Sobyanin traveled one stop along the MCC during the opening.

45. Video of what Putin and Sobyanin could see from the window.

46. Station Gagarin Square. Transfer to Leninsky Prospekt metro station. The shortest metro transfer is MCC. The only underground station on the MCC, it was built, or rather completed, by Mosmetrostroy. He is 85 years old this year. The crossing and the station are decorated with posters of metro stations made by Mosmetrostroy.

47. There is no fence here (immediately after leaving the tunnel). Lawn and people looking at passing swallows.

48. The building of the old Kanatchikovo station.

49. Krymskaya station.

50. We pass under the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railway. Near the Verkhnie Kotly MCC station. Someday, a platform will be built on it, referred to on the diagrams as “Perspective”, and from the Verkhnie Kotly MCC station there will be a transfer to the Paveletskaya direction of the Moscow Railway.

51. Verkhniye Kotly station. The station is interesting because after the introduction of turnstiles, it will be impossible to move from platform to platform without additional payment, since there is only one transition between them and it is outside the turnstile area. It was also named after a now disappeared village, which was located near the intersection of Kolomenskoye Proezd and Kashirskoye Highway, which is completely away from the MCC (the village of Nizhnie Kotly was closer to the MCC).

52. ZIL is being reconstructed from a factory into an office and residential center.

53. Station ZIL. The only MCC station that is not yet approached by any NOT route. There is active construction going on around the station. There are quite a lot of people at the station, because some kind of event, like a paint event, is taking place near the station.

54. Kozhukhovo MKR station.

55. Avtozavodskaya station. Transfer to the metro station of the same name. There are a lot of people, the photo is not from the train, but from a walk along the Moscow Ring Railway. An interesting place to photograph swallows overtaking a traffic jam.

56. And... Having passed Dubrovka station without stopping, we again arrive at Ugreshskaya station! The circle was completed from 15:44 to 16:58 and took 1 hour 14 minutes.

Dear passengers, the train is no longer moving, please vacate the carriages.

The first stage of the Moscow Central Circle will take place on September 10. The online publication site answered the most important questions about the new type of urban transport.

What it is?

The Moscow Central Circle is a network that connects the metro and radial lines of suburban railways. It used to be called the Moscow Ring Railway. The MCC runs near the Third Ring Road in the southeast and west of the city and in the middle between the Third Transport Ring and the Moscow Ring Road in the north of the capital.

The main task of the road is to shorten the path from one point remote from the city center to another. According to experts, the launch of the railway should reduce travel time by an average of 20 minutes, relieve congestion on the Circle Subway Line by 15 percent, and the city’s central stations by 20 percent.

How many stations will open on the MCC?

The ring includes 31 stations, each of which provides transfers to other types of public transport. 17 stations will be connected to 11 metro lines, 10 to radial railway lines.

At the first stage, 26 stations will be available to passengers, reports the press service of the Moscow Construction Complex, citing Deputy Mayor for Urban Development Policy Marat Khusnullin. The rest will begin work before the end of the year.

Until 2018, the connection between MCC stations and metro stations, radial railway lines and surface urban transport will gradually improve.

Photo: MCC press center in the Moscow metro

Where can I transfer from the MCC?

In total, with the launch of the MCC, Muscovites and guests of the capital can make more than 350 transfers, and travel time when moving around the capital will be reduced by three times.

Passengers will be able to freely change trains when traveling on the following routes: Metro – MCC – Metro; Metro – MCC; MCC – Metro – Monorail; Monorail – Metro – MCC – Metro.

There are also transfers from trains to buses, trolleybuses and trams. The surface transport schedule will be adjusted to the MCC schedule.

The intervals of ground transport routes serving the ring have been approximately 10 minutes since September 8. In the future, they are planned to be reduced to 6–8 minutes, so that passengers can almost immediately transfer from the MCC to ground transport.

Territory maps have been updated for more than four thousand ground transport stops, and 15 stops now have stations on the new ring.

It will also be possible to get to the new railway line by personal transport: special parking lots will be installed at 13 stops.

How to navigate the MCC?

In total, several versions of the MCC scheme have been prepared. On one of them, it is plotted on a map of the city with the designation of suburban railway lines, as well as metro lines, including the Third Interchange Circuit under construction.

In the second, the MCC map is included in the currently used metro map and is indicated there as the 14th metro line. In total, 50 thousand new schemes will be posted in the subway. The updated maps will also contain information about how long it will take to transfer from the metro station to the MCC station.

The ring stations themselves are equipped with navigation panels in Russian and English. Braille will be installed for visually impaired passengers. Also at each station there will be boards with train arrival times. Several of them will have “Live Communication” counters.

Where can I find detailed information about the MCC?

A section dedicated to the Moscow Central Circle has appeared on the official website of the capital's metro.

The new page contains information about the history of the creation of the MCC and the modern Lastochka trains running around the ring. Also, site visitors can familiarize themselves with the map of transfers from the metro to the MCC and select convenient routes.

In addition, a page for the central ring was opened on the Unified Transport Portal. Here you can also get detailed information about the routes taken and the time spent on the road.

What tickets will be valid on the MCC?

The tickets for the MCC are the same as for the metro. In the first month after opening, travel will be free.

Passengers using a Unified or Troika card purchased before September 1 need to renew their travel cards. Single can be renewed at the metro ticket office, Troika can be renewed through a machine by topping up the card with any amount.

Social cards do not require updating. The same applies to passes purchased in September.

It will be possible to buy tickets at the ring stations both in cash and by cards. They also plan to introduce a contactless fare payment system, which will allow you to pay for travel using a mobile phone, as well as the PayPass/PayWave system - money will be debited automatically if you attach a bank card to the validator.

The same tariffs will apply on the MCC as in the metro.

one trip – 50 rubles;
one train with a Troika card – 32 rubles;
90 minutes – 60 rubles.

Within 90 minutes, passengers will be able to transfer from the ring to the subway and back for free.

Will there be any benefits at the MCC?

All benefits valid in the metro will remain. More than three million capital beneficiaries will receive the right to free travel along the second ring, including:

pensioners;
disabled people and participants of the Great Patriotic War;
participants in the defense of Moscow;
home front workers;
residents of besieged Leningrad;
former prisoners of Nazi camps, prisons and ghettos;
Heroes of the Soviet Union;
Heroes of the Russian Federation;
Heroes of Socialist Labor and full holders of the Orders of Glory and Labor Glory of three degrees;
labor veterans;
honorary donors (USSR, Russia or Moscow);
one of the parents and children from large families;
orphans and children left without parental care, and their guardians (trustees);
schoolchildren and students.

Also on the Moscow Central Circle there will be a social card for a Muscovite and social cards for students and schoolchildren.

What schedule will the MCC operate on?

The MCC will operate according to the same schedule as the metro – from 5:30 to 01:00.

During peak hours, trains will run at intervals of six minutes; at normal times, trains will have to wait 15 minutes.

How long will it take to travel along the MCC?

Time in which you can travel the entire ring: 84 minutes, including stops. Passengers will not have to go to the Circle Line of the metro to get, say, from Mezhdunarodnaya to Leninsky Prospekt or from Vladykino to Rokossovsky Boulevard. With the opening of the road, covering these sections will take 10-12 minutes instead of 28-39, respectively.

What trains will travel on the MCC?

They will carry passengers. It is planned to equip all rolling stock with energy-saving electrical equipment, video cameras, air conditioning, phone chargers and free Wi-Fi.

Each "Swallow" will have five carriages. The two head cars will have two toilets, which are adapted for people with limited mobility, and there will be bins at the exits of the train.

In the first months, passengers will open the doors of Lastochkas on the MCC on their own. For this purpose, special buttons will be installed on the door leaves outside and inside the car. They will only be active when the train is completely stopped. A nearby green indicator will indicate that the button is working.

Will trains indicate the travel time to the next station?

All MCC trains will have video screens on which they will broadcast a display counting down the travel time to the next station. Passengers will be able to see how many minutes are left before arriving at the platform. The monitors will also show the speed of the train and changes in the metro schedule.

The first two trains with video information will be launched immediately in September, all trains will be equipped with screens by next fall. It is planned to install four screens in each carriage.

Is the MCC adapted for people with limited mobility?

Yes. All platforms are equipped with tactile tiles for ease of movement for visually impaired passengers. Elevators and escalators are installed at 26 transport hubs, and special lifts are installed at 5 transport hubs.

Will it be possible to travel with a bicycle or a stroller?

Yes. You can carry it on MCC trains; there are fasteners in the second and fourth cars. The first carriage of the trains will have seats for people with limited mobility. There is floor navigation inside the trains, it will tell you where to go for cyclists and where for people with mobility restrictions.

This information is also indicated on the outside of the trains. And next to each MCC transport hub, bicycle parking and bike sharing stations will be installed.

Are the MCC and the Third Interchange Circuit the same thing?

No. Many people confuse the Moscow Central Circle with, but they are not the same thing. The main difference is that the MCC is a railway connection, and the TPK is a subway ring.

TPK will become a new large ring of the Moscow metro. Its total length will be 59.5 kilometers with 28 stations. The first section of the circuit will be opened this year, and the entire line is planned to be launched within the next four years.

When did the idea of creating the MCC appear?

Construction of the road in 1903 under the personal supervision of the Moscow Governor-General, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich.

Five years later, the first train was launched on the new railway; in just one day, four trains passed along the line. And while freight transportation has fully justified itself, passenger transportation has not.

At first, Muscovites were embarrassed by the high price of tickets, and in the late 20s - early 30s, bus and tram services were improved in the areas where the ring road ran, the popularity of trains fell, and in 1934 passenger service had to be closed.

They wanted to renew them in the 60s, but the proposal was never implemented, and in the late 80s the railway decided to restore the historical buildings and run passenger trains.

The modern idea of turning the road into a highway with metro connections appeared in 2001. And reconstruction began under Sergei Sobyanin in 2012.

On September 10, 2017, the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) celebrates the first anniversary of the launch of passenger traffic. During the year of operation, Lastochka trains, running on the MCC during peak hours with a minimum interval of 5 minutes, carried almost 100 million passengers. The opening of the Moscow Central Circle helped relieve congestion on almost all Moscow metro lines and central railway stations. On September 7, the total passenger traffic at 31 MCC stations exceeded 385 thousand people.

The launch of passenger traffic on the MCC took place exactly a year ago, on September 10, 2016. 31 stations and 14 transfers from the metro to the MCC have become available to Moscow residents. After the completion of construction of the Shelepikha, Okruzhnaya, and Nizhegorodskaya metro stations, there will already be 17 transfers.

Thanks to the new transport route, passenger traffic on busy metro lines has decreased, for example, on the Circle Line by 15%, Sokolnicheskaya - 20%, Lyublinskaya - 14%, Filevskaya - 12%. For commuter train passengers, 6 transfers to commuter trains are available from MCC stations. After the completion of the construction of railway platforms in 2018 on the Kursk, Paveletsky, Rizhsky and Gorky directions, the number of transfers will increase to 10. During the year of operation of the MCC, about 25 million passengers from 6 radial directions of railways transferred to the MCC per year, without reaching the central railways stations.

All the most innovative payment methods that exist in Europe have been introduced at the MCC. This is done so that every passenger, including foreign tourists, can pay for travel in a convenient way. When paying with a contactless Mastercard on the days of the celebration of the 870th anniversary of Moscow and the birthday of the Moscow Central Circle on September 9 and 10, as well as at night, travel on the MCC cost only one ruble. At the same time, you can pay for the trip directly at the turnstile using any medium - a plastic card, a mobile application (Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Android Pay), a wristwatch or a bracelet.

Today, as part of the celebration of the MCC's birthday, a new pilot project was presented at the Luzhniki station to pay for travel on the MCC through the AliPay payment system, which now covers five MCC stations: Luzhniki, Izmailovo, Delovoy Tsentr, Lokomotiv and "Gagarin Square". The launch of the Alipay payment system will make the MCC more attractive to tourists from China, since the new tool will allow them to buy tickets in a way that is familiar to them. It is planned that by the end of the year it will be possible to purchase travel tickets using Alipay at all MCC stations.

On the birthday of the Moscow Central Circle, a large-scale cultural and entertainment program was prepared for Muscovites and guests of the capital under the motto “1 year of the Moscow Central Circle. The city has become closer! The main events take place on the site near the Luzhniki station. At 10 am a festive concert began here, which will last until the evening. Popular artists take part in the concert, including the winner of the TV show “The Voice” on Channel One Dina Garipova, children’s groups, as well as participants in the “Music in the Metro” project. Also throughout the day, participants of the “Music in the Metro” project perform at the Lokomotiv, Delovoy Tsentr, Kutuzovskaya, Rostokino and Shosse Entuziastov stations.

All day long, competitions and intellectual games are held at the site near the Luzhniki station. The organizers prepared a playground for the children and fed them delicious ice cream. The animators handed out commemorative Troika cards, as well as special keychains and bracelets with the Troika card function, issued for the anniversary of the MCC.

Leaders of the Moscow Metro, historians, architects, specialists and experts made reports and presentations today as part of a specially organized lecture dedicated to the history of the development of the Moscow Circular Railway from the first projects to the opening of the Moscow Central Circle. Also on the main stage, guests of the celebration were shown the history of the MCC using sand animation.

The cosmonauts of the International Space Station also prepared a special video greeting for the guests of the holiday. And in order to congratulate the MCC on its anniversary, today not only officials came here, but also the robot Metrosha, already beloved by passengers.

The highlight of the day was the wedding ceremony for the couple who won the “It’s good that people came up with rings!” competition, which took place in official metro groups on social networks. At the wedding ceremony, the young people exchanged unique rings with the functionality of the Troika card. A transport solution in the form of a ring on a finger to pay for travel was implemented for the first time in the world. Now newlyweds will be able to pay for travel using these rings wherever Troika operates: in the metro, on ground transport, the Moscow Central Circle, etc.

For active users of social networks on the eve of the MCC's birthday, the Moscow Metro organized a series of competitions and quests on its VKontakte and Facebook pages. The winners were invited to a free excursion “MCC – the steel ring of Moscow”. Those who did not have time to take part in the competition can take advantage of free excursion audio guides. To do this, from eleven in the morning to six in the evening at the “Live Communication” counter located at the Luzhniki station, you need to get an audio guide with two headphones and with it go on an independent journey around the MCC. After completing the excursion and returning the audio guide to the counter, each excursionist was given a special memorable gift.