32 ₽

20 trips - 747 c 40 trips - 1494 c 60 trips - 1765 c

60 c

FREE transfer from the MCC to the metro
and back - within 90 minutes For a FREE transfer you need save your ticket and again attach
him on the turnstile. Not paying the fare again, you can make a triple transplant:
metro - MCC - metro

Creating a unique transport system, Moscow integrated the MCC into the city's existing transport network and, most importantly, into the Moscow metro system. The MCC became the ground ring line of the capital's subway.
You can pay for a ticket at the box office at any MCC station with a bank card.
In the future, it is planned to introduce modern technologies fare payment: NFC (fare payment using mobile phone), Pay Pass / Pay Wave (contactless payment by bank card).

"Without the sound of wheels"

Fast "Swallows" reach speeds of up to 160 km / h, but at the same time they do not cause "noisy inconvenience" to the townspeople.

All electrified rolling stock is noticeably quieter than diesel locomotives and meets modern environmental requirements.

Protective screens will save the citizens from excessive noise
and the creation of the so-called "velvet path" - without the sound of wheels.

This technology provides for the laying of railway tracks using special technology in separate 800-meter sections.

Why will the city train become a popular mode of transport for Muscovites?

A trip along the MCC will be many times more comfortable than in the metro. 110 “swallows” run along the railway ring, each designed for 1200 people.

New generation urban electric trains are equipped with

Security at the MCC

Rail transport traditionally remains one of the most dangerous all over the world. However, emergencies do not occur with trains, but with inattentive passengers who go onto the rails in prohibited places.
A fence has been installed along the entire perimeter of the MCC, which will prevent unauthorized access to the railway track.

The total length of the fence was 108 km

Part of the fence (16 km) is noise barriers, which were installed within the boundaries of residential development.

Free pass
- Doesn't mean out of control

All transport security measures applied in the metro and on the railway are being implemented on the Moscow Central Circle. For example, profiling will also be carried out here.

Profiling

This method evaluates and predicts human behavior based on the analysis of the characteristics of appearance, non-verbal and verbal behavior.
There will also be a traditional screening like in the subway. Increased passenger protection will be provided through a modern system of turnstiles, detector frames and video surveillance, as well as through the creation of a separate police unit.

Transport hubs

It will be possible to change one type of transport to another in a matter of minutes with the help of transport interchange hubs (TPU). They consist of terminals with ticket offices and turnstiles, as well as a system of covered pedestrian galleries - overhead and underground passages that will protect passengers from bad weather.

• 31

  MCC station

• 17

  transfers to 11 metro lines

• 10

  transfers to 9 radial railway directions

All stations provide transfer to public transport

buses, trams, trolleybuses and autolines

Passengers do not even have to go outside, so this type of transfer is called the principle of " dry feet».

Now ground urban transport brings citizens directly to the stations of the ring

In the future, transport hubs will become multifunctional: they will include offices, shopping malls, shops and cafes. Investors will invest in the construction of the commercial part, the city is building only the technological part of the hub, which performs a transport function, using funds from the Moscow budget. This concept meets the interests of investors who need to recoup their investment in construction, and the needs of citizens who can find work or receive the necessary services close to their homes.

In the future, some long-distance trains will be able to drop off passengers before reaching the station. Using the MCC, people will be able to save their time, stations in the center of Moscow will become freer.

Parking and parks

Passengers on the MCC will also increase at the expense of some motorists who will choose “corkless” movement around the city by rail. This will reduce some of the load from overcrowded city highways.

You will be able to park your car in the park-and-ride parking areas. 17 stations Moscow Central Circle. They are ready to accept 2 thousand cars.

These parking lots will operate in the same mode as the intercepting parking lots at metro stations, of which there are 31 (capacity - 6.6 thousand cars). The largest of them for 1.48 thousand cars is located near the Annino metro station.

The Moscow Central Ring will breathe life into the abandoned territories around

For 90 years, the district railway was used for the delivery of goods.

The necessary load in the days of the USSR was given to it by municipal and industrial enterprises located around. But gradually production fell into decline, and today these sites are at best used for warehouses, and more often they are simply idle.

The MCC is a unique project not only in terms of developing transport infrastructure, but also in terms of creating new jobs.

After the introduction of new real estate in the area of ​​MCC stations, about 40 thousand places of employment will be created.

Investors have already expressed their readiness to invest in the development of areas around 11 MCC stations. Among them:

"Botanical Garden"

"Vladykino"

"Yaroslavskaya"

"Open Highway"

"Novokhokhlovskaya"

"ZIL"

"Warsaw highway"

"Business center"

"Shelepikha"

"Novopeschanaya"

"Nikolaevskaya"

Attracting private investment will allow Moscow to save budget money and direct it to the development of social and transport infrastructure in other areas of the city.

Former industrial zones will turn into new urban areas

Around the ring, according to the calculations of the General Plan Institute, the following can be built:

750 thousand sq. m of commercial real estate.
Of them 300 thousand "squares"- hotels,
250 thousand - trading floors,
200 thousand - new offices and technology parks.

Moscow has the right to expect that developers will be interested in investing in real estate construction, because after the launch of the MCC, the cost of land around will increase significantly. The former industrial zones around the MCC fell into disrepair: these territories required an integrated approach. And putting in order the lands around the railway ring became the largest urban improvement project in 2016. Every day, 25.9 thousand people were involved in the improvement of the MCC in the summer of 2016. At the same time, the work was not aimed only at improving appearance stations, the task was also to create convenient pedestrian links between the MCC and ground public transport stops.

• 2,800 trees were planted at the MCC.
• Updated facades 111 56 historic buildings. Near 11 stations view zones are created.

  The historic Kanatchikovo station on the MCC will not open for passengers, but will become an interesting sightseeing site.

  There are also two preserved residential buildings, gatehouse, centralization booth and warehouse. The Kanatchikovo station adorned the Moscow Central Circle, being of value to anyone interested in the history of Moscow railways and urban architecture.

  This decision is due to the low passenger traffic in the area. "Kanatchikovo" is located between the stops "Crimean" and "Gagarina Square" parallel to Kanatchikovsky proezd. The two-story building of the station from the beginning of the 20th century is an object of cultural heritage.

  1903 1908 50 versts

  Moscow Central Circle in full
  integrated into the Moscow metro system.

Sergei Witte

History of the creation of the MCC

In 2018, the Moscow Central Ring will celebrate a kind of anniversary: ​​the decision to build the “Circumferential Railway” in Moscow was made by Emperor Nicholas II in the fall of 1897.

The initiator of the project was a great enthusiast of railway transport, the Minister of Finance of the Russian Empire, Sergei Witte. The district railway was of great national importance, so the best Russian engineers and architects were involved in the project.

For 110 years, the task of the MCC has not changed: saving passengers' time.

On 50 verst (54 km) was built
14 stations

2
stopping points

30
viaducts

72 bridges
(of which 4 through
Moscow river)

35 pairs of trains per day ran along the district. Passenger traffic on the MCC did not last long, they were stopped due to unprofitability. For more than a century, the railway ring was used only for the transport of goods and served the industrial zones around.

The idea of ​​restoring passenger traffic never left Moscow city planners, but work began only in 2012.
It was necessary to completely renew the infrastructure: electrify the road, reposition the rails, and most importantly, reconstruct eight overpasses at the intersection with highways in order to raise them to a height that would allow new trains to pass.

The first passengers drove along the district on September 10, 2016. On the eve of this event, the road was given a new name - the Moscow Central Ring (MCC).

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The MCC is the Moscow Central Ring, a new round in the development of the transport infrastructure of the capital. Convenient and fast transport for moving, especially to those microdistricts where there are no metro lines. You can deal with the complex transport interchange on a special website that has all the necessary information.

Metro and MCC map

It's located a little further down the page. Before that, you can read the text part where you can find out about the fare, stations and operating modes. The diagram itself is very detailed and easy to work with. To zoom in, click on the map.

MCC and metro map

Here you can see the metro map with all transfer hubs, as well as the MCC map with stops and transfers. Below is a readable legend of all symbols, thanks to which the work with the scheme becomes even easier.

Symbols on the diagram

The map shows:

• branches and stations of the Moscow metro;
• MCC stops;
• railway and bus stations, airports;
• ride-on parking.

Scheme of the MCC with transfer hubs for suburban transport

This is the next map of the MCC, which shows the places of transfers and the route of suburban electric trains. The map indicates the current and planned transfer points between the MCC and suburban railway trains.

Scheme of transfers of the MCC and suburban electric trains

Signs and interchange stations are broken down into three phases of commissioning:

• Stage 1 - September 2016;
• Stage 2 - end of 2016
• Stage 3 - 2018.

Very detailed information on transfer actions is reflected from the distance and approximate time for a transfer to the indication additional information by station type.

Information about transfer stations

Plans for the development of this transport and the location of new interchange stations are also indicated.

Scheme of interchange nodes between the MCC and the OGT

This diagram shows connections with ground public transport. Everything is very informative and in detail here you can see for each interchange station:

• type of ground transport;
• transport route;
• movement interval.

A fragment of a map-scheme of interchange hubs of the MCC and surface urban transport

Near each station, the average time to a particular station or route is signed. The main transport facilities (stations, airports) are indicated. Working with the map is simple, but lacks more interactivity.

This information will be very useful for both guests of the city and residents of the capital. Convenient schemes worthy of being saved to your mobile phone and used to move around the city. This will significantly reduce travel time and find more relaxed and convenient travel options. This is especially important during rush hour and Friday crowds.

On September 10, 2016, the Moscow Central Circle will open for passengers in the capital. True, construction work on the new highway will continue after this date: according to the head of the transport department Maxim Liksutov, some stations of the MCC will be completed after the start of work. Nevertheless, officials are seriously counting on the highway and hope that it will become popular among the townspeople within the next two years. Anticipating the opening of the Central Ring, The Village answers the most popular questions about the new type of urban transport.

What is MCC?

The Moscow Central Ring (formerly known as the Moscow Ring Railway) is a new interchange circuit that is supposed to connect the metro and radial directions of suburban railways and greatly unload the center of Moscow, removing transit passengers from it.

According to its designers, the launch of the route will relieve the subway by 15%, and the average travel time will decrease by 20 minutes (for example, the travel time from the Leninsky Prospekt station to the Mezhdunarodnaya station will be reduced from half an hour to ten minutes). In other words, thanks to the MCC, it will be possible to transfer from one metro or train line to another, bypassing the center. In addition, the MCC should partly solve the so-called "Vykhino" problem - a situation in which trains going to the center are filled immediately at the end stations of the metro. Passengers of electric trains coming from the Moscow region will be able to change to the new ring, and from it - to the metro lines and other suburban directions.

MCC project estimate

rubles

Planned passenger traffic

person per year

Road length

kilometers

Number of stops

station

Transfers on the metro line

stations

Transfers to trains

stations

Full circle ride

minutes

Train intervals

minutes

Train speed

Train capacity

Human

How did the idea for the project come about?

The creation of the MCC is not really any revolutionary idea. In most western cities, the metro and the train are not separated and are the same transport: this practice allows passengers to move around the city much faster and easier. The ring designers themselves cite Berlin as an example, where the S-Bahn city train and the U-Bahn metro coexist within the same system.

The Central Ring was created on the basis of the Moscow District Railway, the decision to build which was made in late XIX century at the initiative of the Minister of Finance Russian Empire Sergei Witte. They built a ring around Moscow according to the project of engineer P. I. Rashevsky from 1903 to 1908. According to the original project, the route was supposed to have four tracks, which would be divided between goods and passenger traffic, but due to lack of funds, only two tracks were built. In 1930, passenger traffic was closed due to the development of buses and trams, only freight trains began to run along the ring.

The return of passenger traffic to the ring is not a new idea: they wanted to launch it back in the 60s, but this was prevented by the difficulty of electrifying the ring. Yuri Luzhkov returned to this project again in the late 2000s, but the reconstruction of the MCC was already under Sobyanin in 2012. The ring was finally electrified, in addition, a third track was built for freight traffic. The total investment in the project, which was jointly carried out by Russian Railways and the government of Moscow, exceeded 200 billion rubles, and 86 billion of them came from the federal budget.

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

No. The MCC is often called the third interchange circuit and the second ring of the Moscow Metro, but this is not so. The second circular metro line, 58 kilometers long, will appear in the capital by 2020, and this year its first section will open - from the Delovoi Tsentr station to Petrovsky Park. The new ring will also include the Kakhovskaya line, built back in the late 1960s. If the MCC route is shifted to the north due to historical reasons, then the metro ring, on the contrary, will be shifted to the south. Thus, both lines will form a huge eight.

How will the MCC connect with other modes of transport?

In total, the MCC will have 31 stations (by September 10, 24 of them will be ready, the rest will be put into operation before 2018), each of which is planned to be connected to ground transport stops. In the first few months after the official launch of the ring, it will be possible to transfer to the metro at 14 stations, but then they promise to add such an opportunity at three more stops. Also, six MCC stations (later their number will increase to ten) will have transitions to commuter train stations.

The transfer time to the MCC will vary depending on the sections: the longest transition will be from the Voykovskaya metro station to the Streshnevo and Baltiyskaya stations - you will have to walk for 12 minutes, while the shortest one will take no more than three minutes. At 11 stations, the builders promise to implement the “dry feet” principle: the crossings will be completely closed, which will allow people not to go outside. Between the metro station "Volgogradsky Prospekt" and the platform "Ugreshskaya" they promise to carry out ground communication.

How much will the fare cost?

Fares for travel on the central ring will be the same as in the metro. It will also be possible to use tickets "Single", "Troika" and "90 minutes". All benefits that apply to travel in the metro will be valid when using the MCC: special conditions for traveling around the ring will be provided to disabled people, schoolchildren and students.

The number of transfers from the metro to the MCC and vice versa for one trip is not limited. The only condition is that you need to have time to make all the transfers in 90 minutes. In the first month after the launch of the ring, passengers to make free trips and transfers to the MCC will have to reprogram the Unified ticket if it was purchased before September 1, 2016. This can be done at the box office of the subway or monorail. For those who use the Troika card, starting from September 1, it will be enough to deposit more than one ruble on the card.

In addition, passengers will be able to buy tickets at the stations of the ring both in cash and by cards. They also plan to introduce a contactless fare payment system that allows you to pay using a mobile phone, and PayPass / PayWave, thanks to which money will be debited automatically if you attach a bank card to the validator.

What will the stations look like?

By the opening of the MCC, stations will be equipped with navigation panels in Russian and English. For visually impaired passengers, they promise to install tactile plates on lifts, stepless escalators and Braille. Also, at each station there will be information and boards showing the time of arrival of the train, and at five stations there will be “Live communication” racks. In addition, about 70 mirrors, 470 rubbish bins, gadget charging points, umbrella packers and free toilets will be installed. Trees in tubs will be placed for decoration. Unlike the metro, in the MCC there will be turnstiles not only at the entrance, but also at the exit, and the platforms will be treated with anti-icing coating.

What trains will be on the MCC?

33 Lastochka trains (five cars each), which are produced at the Ural Locomotives plant in the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Region, will run along the ring. The Lastochka prototype is a German electric train from Siemens AG, which served guests and participants of the Sochi Olympics. This summer there was a scandal: during the test run, the electric train of the ED-4M series is too wide for the platform, but the Lastochka must fit into the dimensions of the track.

The maximum capacity of Lastochka is 1,200 people, and the maximum speed is 120 kilometers per hour, but trains will not move faster than 40–50 kilometers per hour along the MCC. The MCC's operating hours are the same as those of the metro, but the interval of train traffic on the ring will be longer and will range from five minutes during rush hour to 15 minutes at other times. Now the Yandex.Maps service is preparing to update the metro application in order to inform passengers about the train schedule not only for the metro, but also for the Moscow Central Circle.

All Lastochkas have soft seats and climate control systems. Passengers will be able to use Wi-Fi and devices for charging gadgets. Each train will have toilets at the beginning and end of the train. Unlike ordinary electric trains, there are no vestibules in the Lastochka carriages, while the double-leaf doors are wide enough for the passage of passengers with limited mobility.

Will it be possible to travel with strollers and bicycles?

Two of the five train cars (second and fourth) are equipped with bike carriers. No more than six bicycles can fit in each carriage. There will also be space for wheelchairs and other oversized hand luggage on the trains. Bicycle parking and bike rental stations are going to be built next to each transport interchange hub of the MCC. Rentals are now available near Delovoy Tsentr, Gagarin Square, Luzhniki, Botanichesky Sad and Vladykino stations.

How to navigate the ring?

On September 1, the government of Moscow detailed maps MCC, which shows transfers from the Central Ring to ground and suburban transport, as well as to the metro line. The ring itself will be listed as the 14th metro line.

The names of MCC stations either repeat the usual names of nearby metro stations (Dubrovka, Vladykino), or indicate the area in which they are located (Gagarin Square, Luzhniki). In the summer, on the website of the Active Citizen project, a vote was held to rename the MCC stations Voykovskaya and Cherkizovskaya, as a result they received new names Baltiyskaya and Lokomotiv.

How will the MCC affect urban outskirts?

The central ring runs mainly through industrial areas. According to the authorities, the emergence of new transport will contribute to the development of these territories, such as ZIL. The mayor’s office plans to improve the land adjacent to the MCC stations: make parking spaces for cars and bicycles, bike rental, landscaping, and also build about 750 thousand square meters commercial real estate - hotels, trading floors, offices and technology parks.

At the same time, the preserved historical buildings of the MOZhD stations, designed by architects Alexander Pomerantsev, Nikolai Markovnikov and Ivan Rybin, are now being studied to determine the security zone for each of them. And in autumn, a museum of the history of the MCC will open at the Presnya station, where documents, photographs and films telling about the history of the railway will be displayed.

Photos: cover, 1–4, 7 –

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

MCC map with metro

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

Another popular MCC scheme with transfers to the metro, trains and other suburban transport will be useful for passengers who travel by trains, switch to the MCC from the metro or 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, the top fields of Yandex maps show 4 km, despite the fact that the map in the metro indicates 10-12 minutes on foot.

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

Numerous queries in the search can be addressed to the only official website of the MKZD http://mkzd.ru/

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

Hours and schedule of the MCC

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

from 5:30 am to 01:00 am

List of MCC (MKZHD) 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 well on intercity routes and, for sure, will be convenient for such local transportation.

The opening of the Moscow Ring Road is scheduled 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 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.

How long does it take for a train to make a full circle around the MCC?

You can drive a full circle around the MCC in about 1 hour and 30 minutes.
The same answer will be given to other questions, like: MCC lap in time

What is MCC?

The MCC is the Moscow Central Ring and this entire article describes this object of Moscow in all forms and angles, including the history of its creation.

Calculation of time between MCC stations

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

What are the intervals of trains on the MCC

Intervals between MCC trains are no more than 6 minutes during peak 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 Expocentre you are taken out of the subway.

Also asked:

1. When will MKZHD open passenger traffic?

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 MKZD train, the opening and testing turned out to be disrupted, according to https://www.instagram.com/p/BIB7RpiDxv2/?taken-by=serjiopopov(apparently, a friend was asked to delete his instagram, from where the photo below came from, so Navalny also disappeared from the record, where there were inserts from instagram, but the screen remained the same https://navalny.com/p/4967/ :

The page remained in the Google cache, but it will not be possible to view it in its entirety due to some tricky redirects on Instagram:

The same cyclic 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 the MCC (MKZHD)?
According to information on the website of the Moscow City Hall, fares will be the same as for the metro:
"90 minutes", "Single" and the card "Troika".
"Single" for 20 trips - 650 rubles, for 40 trips - 1300 rubles, for 60 trips - 1570 rubles.
Using the Troika card, travel along the MCC will cost 32 rubles, as in the metro.
A ticket for 1 and 2 is also equated to the price of a metro ticket - 50 and 100 rubles, respectively.

10.09.2016
The opening of the MCC took place:
26 out of 31 stations of the ring are operating. Sokolinaya Gora, Dubrovka, Zorge, Panfilovskaya and Koptevo stations will be opened later (until the end of 2016).
Trains "Lastochka" run during peak hours with an interval of 6 minutes, the rest of the time - 12 minutes. The fare payment system is integrated with the Moscow Metro and allows you to transfer from the metro to the MCC trains and back without additional payment. In the first month of the ring's operation (through October 10), travel by MCC trains is free. According to rasp.yandex.ru

On September 10, passenger traffic was launched along. One of its stations, Likhobory, is located near the NATI platform of the Oktyabrskaya Railway. Last week I and my colleague Zelenograd infoportal Vasily Povolnov (mostly his photos are used in the post) finally visited this and other stations, which Zelenograd residents can theoretically use to transfer to the MCC, to see how everything works there and tell our readers about it.

The MCC station "Likhobory" (until this summer it was known as "Nikolaevskaya") is in the line of sight from the NATI platform.

If you came by train from Zelenograd, you need to get off the platform to the right side in the direction of travel and go along the path along the railway towards the Leningradsky railway station.

The exit from the platform is located at the level of the third or fourth cars. If you want to save time on transplanting, sit in them. There is also a sign in the direction of the MCC. To the left of it, the buildings of the Likhobor station are visible.

The distance from the exit from the NATI platform to the entrance to the overpass of the Likhobory station is just over 200 meters. However, keep in mind that the entrance to the transition is not the entrance to the station itself.

After 120 meters, the path along the railway (in the photo is a view in reverse side- onto the NATI platform) turns right.

Around the corner of the fence, the view of the Likhobory station opens up again. The overpass is within easy reach.

But this is the most unpleasant part of the shortcut. In the vicinity of NATI and Likhobor, the North-East Chord (aka the Northern Rocade) is being built, which by the end of 2018 must tie New Leningradka with Dmitrovsky highway. Because of this, the asphalt is further covered with a layer of dirt, which is transported around the neighborhood by construction equipment. Apparently, in the future, an underground passage will be built here for passengers of electric trains. But for now, this is it. Such a cool infrastructure project as the MCC is, of course, not to the face.

Landscaping work continues around the Likhobory station itself. However, the area in front of the entrance to the transition is already paved with “ceremonial” tiles.

Now we have to climb to the height of a three-story house with high ceilings. There is an elevator in the passage, but so far it, like the metal detector frames at the entrance, is not working (all data in the material is given as of September 20). Therefore, you have to go on foot. At the same time, there are no channels (skids for wheelchairs) on the stairs. One can only sympathize with the one who manages to be here, for example, with a baby carriage.

From the top floor there is a view of the NATI platform and the construction site of the North-East Chord.

And in the other direction - to the platforms of the Likhobory station.

To get to the platform, you need to hit the road on the transition above the railway. Only not to the end, but approximately to the middle.
Note that the transition (at least for now) is not an insulated structure. By design, it is similar to the elevated passage through the Central Avenue near the Zelenograd prefecture, and ventilation “holes in the floor” are hidden behind the railing on the sides. You can't get warm here in the winter. Compared to the transfer from the train to the metro at the Leningradsky railway station, this, of course, is a serious minus.

After about 90 meters on the right in the passage there will be glass doors leading to the station lobby.

Opposite, you can admire the bridge at the intersection of the Moscow Central Circle and the Oktyabrskaya railway.

With navigation, the situation here is much better than at the Butyrskaya metro station, which recently opened near the Ostankino platform (for transfers from the railway to the new stations of the Lyublino-Dmitrovskaya metro line, see separate post ). In any case, the way back to the NATI platform can be found without difficulty. Here is a sign that will meet you when you exit the glass doors. Then along the way there will be a few more signs.

In the lobby, behind the glass doors, there are turnstiles that are not working yet (let me remind you that travel through the MCC is free for the first month) and descents to two platforms (there are elevators, stairs, and escalators). Here you need to decide which platform you want to get on. If you are going west (along the outer side of the ring) - towards Koptevo, Baltiyskaya, Streshnevo and so on - you are on the right. If to the east (on the inside) - to the "Okruzhnaya", "Vladykino", "Botanical Garden" and further - to the left.

To help you, the MCC scheme (clickable)

The most obvious way to get down to the platform is the escalator. Unlike elevators, they are running. Each platform is connected to the lobby by two escalators: one goes up, the other goes down.

Estimating travel time on foot is not an easy task, but according to our estimates, you can get from the door of the train on the NATI platform to the platform at the Likhobory station in 6-8 minutes. In the opposite direction, the road will take a little longer, since you will still have to cross the bridge to the far platform to NATI.

While we are waiting for our “Lastochka” to go on a trip around the MCC, let us remind you that in the future, a large transport hub - with shops, parking lots and even a hockey rink. And, of course, ground public transport stops. The bulk of the TPU buildings will be located on the side of the Cherepanovykh passage (that is, opposite from the NATI platform). It is supposed to look like this (the image is clickable).

And this is what the place looks like now.

Road works are being carried out on the Cherepanovykh passage.

The TPU is planned to be built approximately by 2025. As part of this project, it is planned to reconstruct and extend the NATI platform towards the center of Moscow. This means that electric trains of the Leningrad direction will stop even closer to the MCC, and the transfer from NATI to Likhobory will become even shorter and more convenient.
And now let's return to the Likhobory station. Both platforms have awnings and a decent amount of benches and bins. The surface is tiled, with a strip of yellow tactile tiles laid along the edge of the platform.

In general, everything is stylish, neat and, if we talk about platforms, and not about transitions, then, in my opinion, a little retro.

All the design is designed in the corporate style of Russian Railways, which operates this road together with the Moscow Metro (I remind you that you can pay for travel with metro tickets, while the transfer between the metro and the MCC will be free for an hour and a half).

Electronic boards show the direction of travel (by the name of the next station) and the time until the arrival of the train. Recall that the declared intervals for trains on the MCC are 6 minutes during peak hours and 11-15 minutes during off-peak hours. If necessary, these intervals promise to reduce. And it seems that they are already thinking about the implementation of such a possibility.

The platform from which you can leave Likhobor towards Koptevo, that is, to the west, has tracks on both sides. But trains come on the left side (in the direction of travel from the escalator). "External routes" are needed, apparently, for service purposes and freight traffic, which will remain on the ring. View back towards the passage leading to NATI.

And here is our train. It's been about 15 minutes since the previous one left. True, three electric trains proceeded in the opposite direction during this time.

As a rolling stock on the Moscow Central Ring, "Swallows" are used. I made a big post about how are these trains . Inside the "Lastochka" on the MCC, they are no different from those that run to Kryukovo and Tver and are already well known to many Zelenograd residents, except for pasted diagrams and announcements.
Scheme of the MCC in the car:

MCC and metro map:

Bicycles are allowed on the MCC, and there are appropriate stickers on the trains, but we did not find special fastenings for two-wheeled transport in the local Lastochki. As well as the intention to twist the “extra”, third seats, so that all cars have a 2 + 2 layout, has not yet been fulfilled.

Empty trains do not seem to run on the MCC. We were on the ring from about 17:00 to 18:30, that is, almost in the evening "rush hour", and in all the "Swallows" we saw, some of the passengers rode standing up.

The nearest stop to Likhobory, if you go west, is Koptevo. However, it turned out to be among the five stations that did not manage to open even in draft form before the launch of traffic on the MCC. Therefore, for now, the next stop after Likhobor is Baltiyskaya. Until the summer of this year, it was called "Voikovskaya" - after the metro station located nearby.
The transfer between Baltiyskaya and Voykovskaya is considered one of the longest on the MCC. The vestibules of the two stations are located more than 700 meters apart. In order for a subway passenger to transfer here to the Moscow Central Circle, he should exit the subway through exit No. 1 (from the last car when moving towards the center, then from the glass doors to the right) and go along Leningradskoe shosse towards the region - to the Metropolis shopping center .

"Baltiyskaya" is located at the intersection of the MCC with the Leningrad highway. The station has two exits: one towards Admiral Makarov Street, the other towards Novopetrovsky proezd, Metropolis and Voykovskaya metro station.

Moreover, the branch of the transition, which leads from the MCC station towards Voykovskaya, is docked with the Metropolis building. And although the signs send you to the subway on the street, in fact, a significant part of the way can be done in the warmth, passing through the entire building of the shopping center. Then, only about 200 meters will remain to be overcome along the street to the entrance to the subway. Of course, this advice is also relevant for those who go from the metro to the MCC.

There is only one platform on the Baltic and, accordingly, it is wider.

Escalators and stairs for descent / ascent between the platform and the transition are located in one place. There are also elevators, but, like on Likhobory, they are not working yet.

If you, having a baby stroller with you, decide to leave Baltiyskaya in the direction opposite to Metropolis, you will face the same problem as at the transfer at NATI - an uncontested descent down the stairs without channels.

View from the MCC platform to the side facade of the Metropolis.

If the Metrostroy website contains current sketches of TPU projects on the Moscow Central Circle, then the final form of the Baltiyskaya station will look like this. There will be another transition in both directions from the other edge of the platform.

The next station after the "Baltic" - "Streshnevo". Previously, it was called "Volokolamskaya", as it is located at the intersection of the MCC with the Volokolamsk highway. Theoretically, one of Zelenograd residents could come here by car, and then go on their way along the MCC. However, this option is unlikely to become widespread. Not only will it suit few people by itself, it’s also not clear where to leave the car in this case - there is no semblance of an intercepting parking here.

Moreover, a transition has not yet been completed at Streshnevo, which could lead to the 1st Krasnogorsky passage, which is potentially the most convenient way to get to this station from Zelenograd.

As part of the creation of a transport hub here, the Streshnevo MCC station will be connected by a transition to the platform of the Riga Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo direction, which will be moved several hundred meters for this. However, this has nothing to do with trips to / from Zelenograd (only if it’s for trips to my country house :)).
Visualization of the Streshnevo transport hub project (image from the MCC website)

Scheme of the Streshnevo transport hub (clickable image from the Metrostroy website)

In the meantime, the Streshnevo station looks almost like a twin of Likhobor: the same two platforms are on the sides of the main passage...

And a typical (but at the same time, in my opinion, stylish) lobby building with escalators, adjacent to the transition.

There are also combined “ring” metro and MCC schemes everywhere. For some reason, there were no such schemes at Likhobory.

As in all other places, active construction and finishing work is still going on at the Streshnevo station.

Unfortunately, I have not had time to drive around the entire ring yet, although it would be very interesting to do this. Well, I hope it still does. However, from the point of view of Zelenograd residents, of course, the visited stations are of the greatest interest.

At the end of the story, I summarize a few key points.
1. The MCC has started — and it's wonderful. In fact, a new type of public transport appeared in Moscow, which significantly increased the connectivity of existing lines and routes. It is already obvious that, contrary to the gloomy forecasts of skeptics, the ring is in demand by the townspeople.
2. Many residents of Zelenograd have new options for building routes when traveling to Moscow. But a lot here depends on the number of electric trains stopping at NATI. For example, on September 20, it was impossible to leave Kryukovo for NATI from 8:56 to 16:05 - more than 7 hours! But in the coming days, the situation should change: the number of electric trains stopping at NATI doubled .
3. The road was opened with big amount small imperfections - work is still underway almost everywhere. For the majority of passengers, this is not scary, but the MCC is practically not suitable for people with limited mobility. If for some reason you experience difficulties with movement, you should think very carefully about how you will storm the numerous stairs, even devoid of wheelchair skids.