Spontaneous tour of the MCC: a life hack for the curious. Excursions around the Moscow Central Circle MCC excursions schedule sign up

Free excursions around Moscow central ring(MCC) will be held for passengers daily on weekdays until October 10, 2016.

An excursion route for passengers has been launched on the Moscow Central Circle. Muscovites and guests of the capital will be able to learn about the sights of Moscow while traveling around the MCC on the Lastochka train. First free excursions took place on the day of the launch of passenger traffic and were in great demand among the townspeople. On September 12, a free excursion starts from the Luzhniki transport hub at 16:00. Such educational walks on the “Swallows” will be held regularly throughout the month, from Monday to Friday.”

Driving along the MCC, Muscovites and guests of the capital will be able to see Frunzenskaya Embankment, the Moscow City complex, VDNKh, the Luzhniki sports arena, as well as the Vorobyovy Gory nature reserve. During the trip, tourists will be told about the history of the Moscow District railway, since its launch at the beginning of the 20th century. In total, there are about 86 architectural monuments of the Moscow Circular Railway, and all of these objects can be observed from the windows of the “Swallows”. The tour lasts approximately 84 minutes. This is the travel time of the Lastochka along the MCC, taking into account stops.

The ceremonial launch of passenger traffic on the MCC took place on September 10, 2016, City Day. The ceremony was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Muscovites and guests of the capital will be able to use 26 stopping points MCC, the remaining five stops are planned to be launched before the end of 2016. According to expert estimates, the MCC will allow the transportation of about 75 million passengers in the first year of operation and 120 million people by 2020. In 2025, passenger traffic will increase to 300 million people. In total, there will be 31 stations on the ring, at 17 stations you can change to 11 metro lines, at 10 stations you can change to commuter trains. Of the 75 million people who are planned to be transported to the MCC in the first year, almost half will be metro passengers (34.5 million people), 20.2 million people - railway transport, 12.7 million - buses, 7.5 million passengers - residents of nearby houses.

MCC passengers will travel on Lastochka trains; train intervals will range from six minutes during peak hours and 11-15 minutes during off-peak times. The MCC will be fully integrated into the capital's metro system with unified ticket and tariff systems, navigation and travel rules for preferential categories of citizens: to travel on the ring, passengers will be able to use “United”, “90 minutes” and “Troika” tickets.

According to the decision of Moscow Mayor S. Sobyanin, during the first month of operation of the MCC, travel along the ring will be free. That is, you can go into the metro, transfer to the central ring, and then go back down to the subway, spending just one trip. To do this, passengers need to reprogram travel tickets purchased before September 1. This can be done at the metro and monorail ticket offices, as well as at the Metro Passenger Agency and the Moscow Transport service center. The validity period of the ticket and the balance of funds will not change.

P.S. Attention, rRegistration for excursions is closed!

Russian Railways together with the Museum of Moscow have launched excursions around the MCC. The excursion requires you to register on the website or by phone - this is how the first problems arise for me. The link provided on the official website of the subway does not work, and the phone number for the appointment is continuously busy for the entire three hours that I try to call. “Well, I’ll go without registering,” I decide and go to the transport hub Luzhniki.

Here a second surprise awaits me. At the information desk, a huge crowd of losers like me are arguing furiously with the metro employee and proving that registering for the excursion is simply impossible. The girl politely tries to explain that registration ended yesterday and the next free day is Monday. But who in Moscow cares about the rules?

“Where is the guide, we’ll go, let me go!” - some shout. “Urgently give me the book of complaints! We arrived in half an hour from Mitino, by the way, do you even know how far it is?” - others do not calm down.

The problem cannot be solved - the number of places is limited.

Audio guide

You cannot go on a tour without registration. But I have no choice, I have to submit the text tomorrow, so I still go without registering. At the exit from the metro, two groups of 30 people each gather, the guide reads out the list of those present by name and issues audio guides (you need to leave documents or 1 thousand rubles as deposit). As it turns out later, all 60 people registered without problems, just in a different place - on the website of the Museum of Moscow, which conducts the tour. We also received an SMS notification indicating the time and place of the meeting. Lucky for them. I will have to stand behind the guide for an hour and a half and receive comments from disgruntled passengers whose exit I will block.

The journey along the MCC begins in the first carriage on the platform towards the station Gagarin Square. The tour is led by historian Larisa Skrypnik, and the second group is traveling in the next carriage.

This is my first time on the central ring, so I immediately begin to carefully study the situation. There are no complaints about the train: comfortable seats, not stuffy, large windows, only the promised Wi-Fi is missing, however, now this doesn’t bother me much.

The excursion involves almost an hour and a half journey, including industrial zones. And this is perhaps the most interesting thing.

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Despite the fact that I was born in Moscow and have lived here all my life, I have never been to industrial zones. Cultural events on the same Ugreshskaya, about which later, they don’t pass, there are no good restaurants there either. So a trip around the MCC is an interesting opportunity to look at Moscow from a side that is unfamiliar to me.

Let's go. Outside the window you can see the building and the dome of the temple. Larisa begins her story about St. Andrew's Bridge and Komsomolsky Prospekt, where there were vegetable gardens back in the 50s of the last century. We pass an underground tunnel, a monument, and then the hospital named after. ON THE. Alekseeva, better known among the people as Kashchenko.

The first stop of the industrial zone is the station Verkhniye Kotly.

During the time of Peter I, a fourth defensive fortification appeared here, Kamer-Kollezhsky Val - a customs border that protected Moscow from the import of smuggled goods - for example, vodka.

Since quite a lot of industrial enterprises were formed around Kamer-Kollezhsky Val, where people not only worked, but also lived, they were included in the number of Muscovites, the road became much longer.

By the way, in Soviet times, a large number of enterprises were also built along this road, one of the largest was the Plant named after. Likhacheva. Construction began back in 1916, when entrepreneurs the Ryabushinsky brothers realized that cars were the future. But it was not possible to bring the matter to completion, and the plant was completed during Soviet times. In the 30s, it received the name of Stalin and began to be called “ZIS”, but after the debunking of the personality cult it was renamed the Plant named after. Likhacheva - . The view outside the window is terrifying. It’s hard to believe that this is Moscow. Larisa talks about plans for the development of this place - about the construction of new residential complexes, cultural and sports facilities. I approve.

Meanwhile I'm approaching Dubrovka. Outside the window is an industrial landscape. Once upon a time there were no high-rise buildings and industrial enterprises here, but there was the village of Kozhukhovo, famous for the famous Kozhukhovo campaign of Peter I - here the tsar tested and trained the Streletsky troops.

Here Ugreshskaya. The name seemed scary to me even when studying the list of stations. And for good reason. The place, frankly speaking, is unattractive - solid buildings of train stations.

Ugreshskaya

The buildings located on the left have been restored - they serve the needs of the railway services, so it is impossible to get there.

The station received this name because of the Ugreshskoye highway, which leads to the Nikolo-Ugreshsky monastery. According to legend, it was here that, moving with his army to the Kulikovo field, he saw the image of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, which instilled in him faith in victory.

We arrive at Novokhokhlovskaya and we move to the side Nizhny Novgorod. To the left and right the landscapes are gloomy. There were once industrial zones here, some of which still exist.

Interesting fact: the territories adjacent to the Moscow Circular Railway were built up with factory enterprises, which accounted for 17% of the city's territories. Now they are being actively developed.

Because the factories have been here for decades and produced heavy machine tools, air defense equipment and refrigeration units, the ground on which they are located is saturated with mercury, phosphorus and other waste several meters deep.

Nizhny Novgorod

Just in time, Larisa begins a new story about the wind rose. It turns out that due to the fact that in Moscow the winds blow mainly from the northwest to the southeast, industrial enterprises were built in the south so that the winds would not drive exhaust from the chimneys throughout the capital.

Crossing Highway Enthusiasts, I remember history lessons about the times of the Decembrists - the Vladimirka road begins, along which prisoners were driven to hard labor in Siberia. The spectacle was very difficult - people walked for several thousand kilometers, chained to each other. At approximately the place where the station is located, they were seen off on their way when they left the city. “In Soviet times, in memory of the fact that they suffered here for the freedom of the people, moving to Siberia, the highway was named Enthusiasts,” adds the guide.

Highway Enthusiasts

Let's move on. From the station window Locomotive I see the stadium. The history of the building is interesting: in the 30s there was a “Stalinist” here, which existed until the cult of personality was debunked, then it was demolished and “Lokomotiv” was built - it was taken over and existed for almost 50 years. In 2000 it was built new stadium, which is now considered the most modern among existing ones.

Next stop - Vladykino. I remember my school history course again. The name goes back to the reign of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Patriarch Nikon. Here, on the territory of the Epiphany Monastery, apple orchards once grew, which were greatly loved by the bishop. This is how the station got its name.

Vladykino

Nothing reminds us that there was once a rural area here, but behind the metal fence you can see the old buildings of the ring railway.

By the way, when the road first opened, Muscovites used it as an excursion. At this station you want to get out and study the situation in detail; there are a lot of interesting buildings. Previously, there were houses for railway employees, signalmen and lamp workers. There were water towers for refueling trains, ticket offices, and waiting rooms for 3rd class passengers.

When approaching Likhoboram Larisa talks about the appearance of the Moscow ring road, and I conclude that the MCC could have taken place earlier. The last point of the “industrial route” is the station Shelepikha. The panoramas, frankly speaking, are creepy, but they are definitely worth seeing, at least to know that Moscow is not limited only to the restored Tverskaya and the Patriarchal bars.

On a tour of the Moscow Central Circle you will learn about the history of the construction of the Circular Railway, the origin of the station names, the events that took place in the areas adjacent to the Moscow Central Circle: the childhood of Peter the Great and his famous Kozhukhov campaign, what happened before on the territory of the ZIL plant, and what we will see there in the near future, about where M. N. Ermolova was buried, why the Rostokinsky aqueduct was called the “millionth bridge,” and what Tanka Rostokinskaya became famous for.

The excursion is free (travel costs are not included in the excursion). Travel to the MCC can be paid using tickets (“United”, “90 minutes”, “Troika”). There is a free transfer between the Moscow metro, the Moscow monorail and the MCC for 90 minutes after the first passage through the turnstile.

Until the spring of 2017, excursions were held free of charge, now the cost is 300 rubles, preferential* - 250 rubles.
Each participant is given a radio guide for excellent audibility. We recommend bringing your own headphones. You must have a deposit of 1000 rubles with you. or an identity document. Equipment must be returned after the excursion.