Mtsk diagram of transfer stations for commuter trains. New metro scheme - MKZh. Information about the MCC

Traveling by rail is interesting not only because the train is considered one of the safest modes of transport, but also because while passing you can look at the beautiful landscape. One of these places is the Moscow Circle Railway.

Moscow Circular Railway: history of development

At the beginning of the last century, the development of industry began to reach fairly large heights, and plants and factories grew. Of course, all the products they produced had to be exported on something. Railways began to develop and railroad tracks appeared in different parts of the country. There was a railway junction in the very center of the capital, its growth every year was at least 5%.

Nicholas II recognized that it was necessary to relieve Moscow, and this could be done by starting the construction of additional railway junctions. According to the designers, the road should have been at least 54 kilometers long, all adjacent nodes - 154 kilometers. The Moscow railway ring (the scheme provided for the possibility of operating 14 stations, 72 bridges) was supposed to pass through the Moscow River (4 bridges).

The ancient Moscow Ring Railway

It was interesting to create stations designed in Art Nouveau style. Once the subway was built, it became an ideal example of how it is possible to place railway tracks outside the city, with the possible outlines of the boundaries of a metropolis.

At the beginning of 1908, a large ring of the Moscow railway was built, after which the opening was made, but, according to the plan, it had only two tracks and they were intended for freight trains. At that time, no more than 4 trains passed along the ring per day. Passenger roads on the BMO railway were opened only in 1909. In 1920, the Moscow Railway was closed to passengers, and in 1934, traffic on it was resumed.

Thanks to the emergence of the Moscow Railway and the development of passenger transportation, Moscow was able to relieve congestion and it became easier to move around the city. The small ring of the Moscow railway made it possible to relieve congestion in the region.

On a note. In 2011, the railway ring was reconstructed and all work was carried out to improve the conditions for the use of passenger transportation.

How did the modern Moscow Ring Railway appear?

The Moscow ring road appeared not so long ago and it was created in order to relieve the burden on ground transport and relieve passengers from crowding. It was for this purpose that it was decided to launch the road; it was built at the beginning of the 20th century. In the form in which it was located after almost a century of abandonment, it required its complete modernization and repairs.

In 2011, it was decided to create a joint-stock company responsible for its condition. In 2015, the company left Russian Railways, and the Moscow Government became its owner. Thanks to this, it became possible to invest large sums in its development. In addition, the company was able to attract investors, whose funds were used to build several stations.

Modern Moscow Ring Railway

During the design, much attention was paid to passengers using additional means of transportation. To allow the visually impaired to move around the platform, everything inside was lined with tactile tiles. In a number of stations where transfers are possible, special elevators and turnstiles are installed, using which passengers with disabilities can move freely.

As of 2018, a large number of trains travel along the road. More than 110 trains pass through it every day, carrying many passengers. One train can accommodate up to 1,200 passengers at a time.

Electric train "Lastochka"

The main carrier is Russian Railways.

Official website of the Moscow Ring Railway

Legal address of the Moscow Circle Railway: Moscow, st. Taganskaya house 34 building 3.

Suburban passenger complex

The transport ring, built in Moscow and the Moscow region, gradually became one of the constituent parts of the city. In addition to the fact that the railway made it possible to relieve cargo transportation, it also became one of the main directions for travel by metro. This route has now become the main subway system.

The modern road has 31 stations (the Moscow Ring Railway has a station map in every metro car) and is one of the central metro systems, which has helped relieve traffic through the capital, since it is possible to use interchange cars.

When going on a trip, you have the opportunity to:

  • at 17 stations, transfer to ground transport, which is passenger;
  • at 11 stations, use the services of electric trains departing throughout the Moscow region.

Interesting! The main trains traveling along the Moscow Circle are the “Lastochka”, consisting of 5 cars. The length of the train is about 130 meters. In case of heavy load, the train composition increases to 10 cars. To move around the stations, you can buy a MCC metro card and familiarize yourself with the map in the guidebook.

Train interior

Distinctive features of metro stations

The metro stations in Moscow are beautiful, and if you don’t use them for their intended purpose, you can go down and look at everything that the masters of the last century left behind.

  • Considering that a large number of passengers use the railway services, everything is equipped here for their convenience, including for people with limited mobility.
  • Climate control is installed inside the cabin, so passengers will feel comfortable inside.

On a note. Train movement on the railway is allowed at temperatures from -40 to +40 degrees. The transitions between the trains are made like an accordion, so it is very convenient to move around them.

The carriages are wide enough to accommodate many people. Due to the fact that the train can reach speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour, moving from one station to another takes a minimum amount of time. At metro stations, everything is done so that passengers feel comfortable.

Among the popular transfer hubs through which a large number of passengers pass are:

  • "Khoroshchevo";
  • "Sorge";
  • "Panfilovskaya";
  • "Streshnevo";
  • "Baltic";
  • "Likhobory".

These are the most popular stations from where passengers travel around the city. The road is also convenient because people can get to their workplace faster from the residential areas of Moscow.

Terms of use

The conditions for use of railway transport are prescribed by Russian Railways employees.

  • To pay for travel, you should use your Troika card. After making the payment, you should save the card until you reach the final station.
  • On the train premises, customers are provided with Wi-Fi services, as well as sockets, which can be used to charge a phone or other device.
  • Due to the opportunity to transfer from Lastochka to the train, the city's main stations were unloaded.
  • Now the road belongs to the Moscow Government, and the area of ​​responsibility rests with Russian Railways.
  • The inside of the carriages is very comfortable, there are soft chairs, and there are quite large passages where you can sit with your bike or skis.
  • An automatic traffic control system has been introduced on the road, due to which a large number of trains pass through the station. To control the automation, each Lastochka is equipped with a GPS/GLONASS system. It was by using it that it became possible to control and adjust the train schedule from station to station.

Traffic map

The map of the Moscow Ring Railway stations is on the map. It allows you to decide how easier it is to get to a particular point. All metro stations and intersections with other main lines are marked here.

Note! If a tourist comes to the city and wants to use the services, you can purchase a card and travel through stations with transfers. A sample metro map is shown below.

Subway map

Possibility of booking train tickets on the website and at the box office

There is no provision for booking travel documents for trains on the company’s website. There is no such option at the box office either. To purchase a ticket, just go to the box office. You can make payment in any way: card, cash. You cannot transfer funds when using electronic wallets.

Car types

The cars used to transport passengers are of high quality. Everyone can find everything they need here. Considering that the trip is a short distance, the carriages are of a seated, soft type.

Using the company's services, you can get to your destination on time. That is why the staff of the Moscow Ring Railway developed a website where you can find a lot of useful and necessary information.

Surely many have heard about the imminent launch of passenger traffic on the Moscow Ring Railway. But although the abbreviation MKR has recently been heard from all the irons controlled by the mayor’s office, it is not at all easy to find in one place brief information on the main issues of interest to a potential passenger. I came across this when I was recently preparing a publication on this topic. Therefore, since I had to find and collect all this information (from the city hall portal, the websites of Russian Railways and the Moscow Ring Railway, and from messages from the city government-owned publication m24.ru), I decided to make a short review post about the Moscow Ring Railway as a whole and specifically dwell on what will change launch of passenger traffic along the ring for residents of Zelenograd and other settlements in the Leningrad direction.

Scheme of the Moscow Ring Road. Image from m24.ru

First, a few words about history. The Small Ring of the Moscow Railway (that is what the Moscow Ring Railway was correctly called until recently) was built in 1903-1908. The road was originally intended for intracity and transit freight traffic, but at first it also carried passenger traffic, which was stopped in 1934.
They started talking about the return of passenger traffic to the Moscow Ring Railway almost immediately after Sobyanin’s arrival, and initially a much earlier date for its launch was mentioned. But, apparently, the project required a significantly more serious reconstruction of the infrastructure than seemed necessary at first glance, and its implementation dragged on for more than five years. They promise to launch electric train service in September 2016.

Moscow Ring Railway station "Luzhniki". Image from the Moscow construction complex website

As you can see in the diagrams, the Moscow Ring Road has different distances from the center in different sections: in some places the road comes almost close to the metro ring line, in others it is a considerable distance away from it. There will be 31 stations on the Moscow Ring Railway, which will provide 17 transfers to 11 metro lines (including the future second subway ring) and 10 transfers to 9 radial railway directions. The issue of the construction of the 32nd station, Presnya, which is marked on some diagrams, is planned to be resolved later. I will add that one station, “Gagarin Square” on Leninsky Prospekt, will be underground - the rest will be above ground. I’ll also note that the names of some stops, in my opinion, are still floating around, so don’t be surprised if you suddenly find some inconsistencies in the diagrams.


Scheme of transfers from the Moscow Ring Railway to the metro. Image from the Moscow construction complex website


Perspective (for 2020) metro and Moscow Ring Road map. Image from the Moscow construction complex website

In essence, the Moscow Ring Railway will become a ring line of the city train, integrated into the metro system. You can pay for travel on the above-ground ring with a metro ticket. At the same time, the transfer between the Moscow Ring Railway and the subway will be free for passengers if they do it within 15 minutes. Well, that is, apparently, both on the Moscow Ring Railway and in the metro you will have to go through the turnstiles, but if you did not go on a spree between them, the money (trips) will not be written off when you re-enter.
“Swallows” will be used as rolling stock on the ground ring. It is stated that during rush hours they will run at intervals of no more than 6 minutes, and in the future the intervals may be reduced.


High-speed electric train "Lastochka". Photo Zelenograd information portal

Now, briefly about the transfer from the Moscow Ring Railway to the Leningrad direction. It will be carried out through the NATI platform, which until recently was the deadliest stopping point between Moscow and Zelenograd. The phrase “the train runs with all stops except NATI” in the minds of passengers meant “with all stops”, because no one stopped at NATI anyway. :) Now this platform promises to live a new life.
The thing is that 350 meters from it (if you count in a straight line), there is the Nikolaevskaya station of the Moscow Ring Railway. These two stopping points will be combined into a transport hub, for the construction of which the Moscow Urban Planning and Land Commission recently allocated a plot of 0.38 hectares. According to Moskomstroyinvest, in addition to the transport terminal, there will be areas for consumer services, public catering, and vehicle maintenance. I don’t know exactly what all this will look like. I can only appeal to pictures from the Moscow Ring Railway website, the relevance of which I am not sure.

The TPU scheme, for example, dates exactly from 2013 - perhaps something has changed in the plans since then.

I also don’t know what the situation is with the construction, but I seriously doubt that by September there will be such a healthy transport hub building with transitions there, because the message about the allocation of land for construction was only a few months ago. However, no matter when and in what form this transport hub is built, the opportunity to transfer from NATI to the Moscow Ring Railway should appear in September of this year. This means that Zelenograd residents (and our neighbors in the Leningrad direction) will have new options for laying routes to many districts of Moscow.

The Moscow Central Circle (MCC) is an abbreviation that has been in use quite recently; the ring itself is used even less for passengers. On metro maps, the ring is indicated by line 14, although it looks a little different.

Metro or train

Circular railway, Small ring of the Moscow railway, Moscow ring railway, Moscow central ring - all these definitions in one form or another refer to the same object.

The first train at the Luzhniki station of the Moscow Central Circle. Photo: website/Andrey Perechitsky

In the new name - MCC - the mention of the railway has been removed, on metro maps it is indicated as line 14, transfers with the metro are free (even in the "metro - MCC - metro" option), a separate page for the MCC has been created on the metro website... So everything can be... Is the MCC a metro?

The MCC infrastructure itself (tracks, stations, etc.) belongs to Russian Railways. The ring is physically connected to other sections of the railways; the use of the ring for freight traffic is not canceled and is quite possible. The rolling stock, "Swallows", has been traveling on other sections of Russian railways for several years now. At MCC stations you can find workers in gray Russian Railways uniforms, information boards and part of the navigation at the MCC stations themselves - according to the brand book and Russian Railways standards. Even the turnstiles are like those at many suburban stations (albeit equipped with metro validators). So, is the MCC an electric train?

Navigation in the transition between platforms of the Khoroshevo station of the Moscow Central Circle. Photo: website/Andrey Perechitsky

If we approach the issue formally, then the MCC is a real railway, however, in the mass consciousness, the use of the railway for movement within one city is still of little use, moreover, the MCC is integrated mainly with the metro, and the ring is precisely urban transport, and not suburban, which includes the green electric trains familiar to city dwellers. This is also why navigation and tariffs are designed in such a way that the passenger feels that he is on the 14th metro line, although in fact the MCC, of ​​course, is not a metro.

Turnstiles at Luzhniki station of the Moscow Central Circle. Photo: website/Andrey Perechitsky

In relation to the MCC, it is appropriate to use the term “urban train” - a type of transport in Russia that is not very common.

Abroad, this type of transport is widespread and quite popular. For example, in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland there is S-bahn, which occupies an intermediate position between urban public transport and classic commuter trains.

The MCC itself breaks the mold of many definitions, and similar debates have been going on on thematic forums for many months - “What is the new ring anyway?”

The MCC, metro, monorail and ground transport are all elements of the city’s unified transport system, so asking the question “is the MCC part of the metro?” not entirely true. To the question “Does the MCC belong to the Moscow transport system?”, it is certainly correct and correct to answer “Yes”, as well as to a similar question regarding the metro or monorail.

The Lastochka train arrives at the Khoroshevo station of the Moscow Central Circle. Photo: website/Andrey Perechitsky

The main flow to the MCC should still be a transfer from the metro; there will be fewer “pure” independent trips around the ring. At the same time, such stations as Sorge (formerly Novopeschanaya), Krymskaya (formerly Sevastopolsky Prospekt), Streshnevo (formerly Volokolamskaya) have created (in the case of Sorge, they will create) new transport hubs. Residents of nearby houses and those who work nearby will definitely appreciate the appearance of these stations. Following this, new travel routes will appear.

Due to its specifics, part of the MCC route passes through industrial zones. But is this really important, because a new transport corridor has appeared in the city. And industrial zones will not always flash through the Swallow window. Novodevichy Convent, Moscow City, Losiny Island, Moscow River - the landscapes are more than diverse.

View from the MCC train window. Photo: website/Andrey Perechitsky

From the point of view of formal definitions, the MCC is more of an electric train than a metro; in fact, it is a new full-fledged element of the transport system. How relevant it is is a question for each individual passenger. In any case, new connections that reduce travel time are always good, especially for a metropolis like Moscow.

Impressions of the first passengers

  • Curious and demanding Muscovite:“The ring creates more convenient and faster travel routes. For me personally, the Kutuzovskaya – Khoroshevo route is interesting - it’s faster and more convenient from the MCC. The ring allows you to look at Moscow from an unusual angle. For example, the Novodevichy Convent looks a little differently from the window of the Swallow "Previously, for such a view, you would have to climb an embankment, and this is unsafe. The layout of the cars, in my opinion, is not entirely successful. This arrangement of seats is more suitable for express routes to the suburbs. The escalators and display boards that do not work everywhere are a little disappointing. I hope this is all the problem temporary."

  • Muscovite hurrying to work:“Today I took the MCC from home to work for the first time. The travel time was reduced from an hour and a half to 55 minutes. I liked it. It’s convenient.”

  • Romantic resident of the capital:“For me, the opening of the MCC was the main gift for Moscow’s birthday. It seems to me that our city has not seen this for a long time. Just like that, a completely new type of transport has appeared, competing with the metro. Now, at a minimum, you can create an alternative route to work, at most - reduce the time spent on the daily journey. I already know where I’ll take my foreign friends first. From the window of the “Swallow”, stunning views of Moscow open up that even the Muscovites themselves didn’t even suspect! The Business Center alone is worth it. When crossing from the metro to the MCC, you can get lost impossible - the new transport fits very harmoniously into the existing one. Well, the free transfer of 90 minutes was also very pleasing! Unlike the metro, there are soft seats and there are toilets. So the opportunity to ride around Moscow for free with beautiful views in 84 minutes is very pleasing.

    • Andrey Perechitsky


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    While we were driving around the Caucasus, Transcaucasia and Iran, a miracle happened in Moscow - traffic and all stations of the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) opened. Yesterday we drove a full circle on a new type of transport and were shocked to the core. Below the cut, read why the MCC is a real miracle.

    We decided to start the inspection of the new type of transport from the station closest to us, Baltiyskaya, which can be reached by walking down the street from the Voikovskaya metro station.

    We left the metro, followed the signs and crossed the road and got a little lost.

    We look back, are we going exactly where we need to go? In Moscow, as a rule, there are pronounced flows of people moving to the stations, but here, it seems, people are rushing to go shopping at Metropolis :) How do you like the New Year tree at the shopping center?

    It’s good that Pasha knows where the railway runs. We go straight without signs. By the way, it turns out later that the main path lies through the shopping center.

    We reached a pedestrian bridge across the road. To get to the bridge, you need to enter the shopping center through one of the entrances, where a sign greets us.

    This is not an exit from the shopping center, it is the most popular entrance to the bridge leading to the MCC station. There is another one, but it is located inconspicuously and almost no one walks through it. We don’t know how we managed to lobby for this, but the traffic flow of the shopping center should now increase significantly.

    It's nice to walk along a new clean passage.

    We go through the turnstiles to the station, holding the Troika card that we used in the metro to the reader. Our trip counts as a transfer, and the trip to the MCC will be free.

    The Moscow railway ring has existed since the 19th century, and until the 30s of the 20th century it was used not only for freight, but also for passenger transportation. But then the metro appeared, and the project was abandoned. In those years, the word “metro” was still masculine.

    Look at the photo, a girl with bare legs at minus 10. Where are the parents looking? Previously, they only took off their hats when leaving the house, but now they also roll up their pants.

    While Pasha was looking at the diagram in the center of the station, a woman approached and tried to understand how far one of the MCC stations in the south was from the metro station.

    The long-awaited Swallow is a Siemens train, created by the Germans at the request of Russian Railways and adapted to the requirements of our roads. Russians have been riding Lastochka for a long time in Sochi, Nizhny Novgorod and, since last year, in Tver.

    According to our observations, quite a lot of people use the MCC even in the middle of a weekday.

    It’s great that we managed to purchase such modern trains for urban public transport. The train is warm, light, Wi-Fi works, it’s clean and comfortable to sit in, and there’s even a toilet in the first and last cars. Well, what a miracle!

    Lastochka is a class of urban transport comfort never seen before in Russia. The carriage has excellent sound insulation, which adds a “luxury” feel. The train doesn't move, it flies!

    We drive mainly through industrial zones.

    And this station is named after the street of the same name in the west of Moscow.

    The display indicates not only the time and temperature, but also the speed of movement. In some sections, the Swallow accelerates to 100 km/h. We choose the MCC, and you stand there :)

    There is even a shelf like this. What would it be used for? :)

    We pass Moscow City and the Moscow River. Correct endings? :)

    The design of the stations is mostly standard, all have a scoreboard and a rain roof. The downside: you have to wait outside for the train, and the interval varies from about ten minutes in the early morning, afternoon and late evening to three minutes during rush hours. Ten minutes in the cold is not everyone's cup of tea.

    Metro map at the station from Lebedev Studio.

    Approximately half of the MCC stations have surface passages to the nearest metro or railway stations. At Baltiyskaya, where we boarded, the transfer took about ten minutes. The transition from Luzhniki station to Sportivnaya metro station will take only a couple of minutes, passengers are in luck here.

    The towers of the “Business Center” are visible in the distance in the haze. There is also a ring station there.

    The train has arrived, let's move on. The first and last carriages are equipped with places for transporting bicycles. We’ve already figured out how we’ll go for a ride in Moscow parks in the summer: Izmailovsky Park and Sokolniki are located in pleasant proximity to the MCC stations.

    In the area of ​​the ZIL plant, a grand demolition of houses and the construction of new real estate are taking place.

    It is very unusual to see a toilet on public transport in Moscow.

    The inside of the toilet is no longer as fresh as it used to be, but it’s tolerable for now. We hope that the trains and stations will be constantly looked after, otherwise it will all get clogged up very quickly, literally and figuratively.

    Toilet selfie from Lena. Our first report from Zlatoglavaya, by the way. We are thinking about what else to photograph in Moscow, write your recommendations.

    We arrived at the Izmailovo station, decided to take a break and walk into the city. We leave the doors of the ring station.

    Tickets can be bought from vending machines, just like in the subway.

    We find ourselves in the station building, where there will soon be a shopping center.

    Now the stores are closed, and this may continue for quite some time. Russian Railways has a talent for long-term construction; the installation of new pavilions at Leningradsky Station takes years.

    The width of the escalator is such that only one person can fit in the width; you cannot run quickly on the left.

    Entrance to the transition.

    Russian realities: the hacks designed the passage in such a way that it would be impossible to open the outer door.

    It’s cold in the passage, but it’s clear that heating the street is too expensive.

    Nearby are the buildings of the Izmailovo Hotel and the Izmailovo Kremlin.

    We come out of the passage, go straight, and there is some kind of homeless shopping center selling sausages in dough. Moscow, you are infinitely diverse :)

    As an epilogue:

    Never in our memory has a new type of transport been opened in Moscow (the monorail does not count). It will probably never open again; such miracles don’t happen very often.

    We ourselves tried to come up with useful routes around Moscow for the MCC, but we couldn’t come up with anything other than transporting bikes to forest parks; all our routes will remain on the metro, minibuses and electric trains. We hope that Muscovites and guests of the capital will be able to adapt this type of transport to their needs, and this will at least slightly relieve the congestion on the Moscow metro and commuter trains.

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    Launch stages

    The opening of the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) took place on September 10, 2016. At the first stage, 24 stations will be available to passengers, and seven more MCC platforms will open in December. A RIAMO correspondent learned how to use a new type of urban transport.

    The opening of MCC stations will take place in three stages.

    The first one is scheduled for September 10, already this Saturday 24 stations will be put into operation: Okruzhnaya, Likhobory, Baltiyskaya, Streshnevo, Shelepikha, Delovoy Tsentr, Kutuzovskaya, Luzhniki, " Gagarin Square”, “Crimean”, “Upper Boilers”, “Vladykino”, “Botanical Garden”, “Rostokino”, “Belokamennaya”, “Rokossovsky Boulevard”, “Lokomotiv”, “Falcon Mountain”, “Entuziastov Highway”, “ Nizhegorodskaya", "Novokhokhlovskaya", "Ugreshskaya", "Avtozavodskaya" and "ZIL".

    In December 2016, 7 more stations will become available to passengers: Koptevo, Panfilovskaya, Zorge, Khoroshevo, Izmailovo, Andronovka and Dubrovka.

    And in 2018, the construction of warm crossings will be completed: it will be possible to make transfers without going outside. A total of 350 transfers will be available for passengers, so travel time should be reduced by 3 times.

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    Fare

    From September 10 to October 10, 2016, travel to the MCC will be free for everyone. Some of the turnstiles will be open, and others will open automatically when approaching them. Thus, tickets will need to be applied to the turnstile only in transitions to railway stations and the metro.

    After October 10, any Moscow Metro travel card (Troika, Ediny, 90 Minutes), as well as social cards, will be used to access the MCC station. Within 90 minutes from the moment the ticket is validated, the transition from the metro to the MCC and back will be free. Payment for travel by bank cards is also provided.

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    MCC schemes

    Three variants of MCC schemes have been developed for passengers. The first, in addition to the metro lines and MCC stations, indicates the stages of opening stations and transitions, the distance between transfer stations and the time it will take to transfer.

    The second version of the diagram will help commuters find their way: the map shows railway stations, existing metro lines, as well as MCC stations and “warm” metro transfers.

    The third diagram shows the stops of ground urban transport near the MCC stations, as well as the interval of its movement during rush hour. For example, from the Luzhniki platform of the MCC you can go to the Sportivnaya metro station in 2 minutes. Buses number 806, 64, 132 and 255 regularly run there, so getting to the right place will not be difficult.

    In addition, the map shows all the main attractions of the city, forest parks and nature reserves. Many of them are within walking distance from the MCC, for example, Losiny Ostrov Park and the Vorobyovy Gory Nature Reserve.

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    Transplants

    The MCC is integrated into the Moscow public transport system with the possibility of transfer to the metro, Moscow Railway trains and ground public transport.

    From September 10, it will be possible to transfer from the MCC to the metro at 11 stations (Business Center, Kutuzovskaya, Luzhniki, Lokomotiv, Gagarin Square, Vladykino, Botanical Garden, Rokossovsky Boulevard, "Voikovskaya", "Shosse Entuziastov", "Avtozavodskaya"), by train - on five ("Rostokino", "Andronovka", "Okruzhnaya", "Business Center", "Likhobory").

    By the end of 2016, the number of transfer hubs will increase to 14 and 6, respectively, and in 2018 there will be 17 transfers from the MCC to the metro and 10 to the train.

    To make a free metro-MCC-metro transfer (within an interval of 90 minutes), you need to attach your metro travel document to the turnstile with a special yellow sticker at the entrance to the MCC station.

    Passengers who are planning a trip only on the MCC or intend to make one metro transfer - MCC or vice versa, can apply their tickets to any turnstiles, including those without yellow stickers.

    If you do not meet the 1.5 hour time limit, you will need to pay for the fare again when making a transfer.

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    Trains and intervals

    New luxury trains “Lastochka” with a capacity of 1,200 people will run on the MCC. Their maximum speed is 160 kilometers per hour, and they will travel along the MCC at an average speed of 50 kilometers per hour.

    The trains are equipped with air conditioning, dry closets, information panels, free Wi-Fi, sockets and bicycle racks.

    The cars will open manually: to enter or exit, you will need to press a special button installed on the doors. The buttons will be active (green backlight) only after the train has stopped on the platform; at other times, the doors will be locked for safety reasons.

    During morning and evening rush hours, the traffic interval will be only 6 minutes. The rest of the time, “Swallow” will need to wait from 10 to 15 minutes.

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    Updating (activating) travel cards

    In order to access the MCC using “90 minutes”, “United” for 20, 40 and 60 trips, “Troika” tickets purchased or topped up before September 1, 2016, you need to renew them. To do this, you can contact the metro or monorail ticket office, as well as the metro passenger agency (Boyarsky Lane, 6) or the Moscow Transport service center (Staraya Basmannaya St., 20, building 1).

    Holders of a Strelka card to travel by train must exchange it at the metro ticket office for a card with the Troika application.

    Activation is carried out without changing the balance of trips and the validity period of the ticket, while the new reprogrammed travel documents will allow free transfers from the metro to the MCC and back.

    You can also update your Troika electronic card yourself by topping up your balance at ticket machines at stations, on the website troika.mos.ru, via SMS or at payment terminals. As for social cards, their activation is not required.

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    Help and navigation

    You can find out detailed information about updating tickets, transfer hubs and navigation on the MCC from consultants at the entrance to the ring metro stations or at metro stations adjacent to the MCC. Volunteers will also help passengers navigate the new transport. A special mobile application is also being developed, with which you can choose the optimal route.

    Here you can see new convenient routes through the MCC.