Third Interchange Contour

Third Interchange Contour

Geographic map showing the approximate path of the Third Interchange Contour (in turquoise) and its connections to existing lines
Overview
Type Rapid transit
System Moscow Metro
Locale Moscow
Stations 30
(incl. 3 of Kakhovskaya Line)
Operation
Opened 2016–2019 (expected)[1]
Operator(s) Moskovsky Metropoliten
Character Underground
Technical
Line length 58.3 kilometres (36.2 mi)[2]
Track gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in)
Electrification Third rail
Route map

Legend
Nizhnyaya Maslovka Savyolovsky railway stationSavyolovskaya railway station  9 
 Petrovsky Park  2 
 Khodynskoye Pole
 Khoroshovskaya  7 
Shelepikha
Delovoy Tsentr  4   8 
to Park Pobedy
 Ulitsa Narodnogo Opolcheniya
 Mnyovniki
 Terekhovo
 Mozhayskaya Kuntsevo I railway station  3   4 
 Davydkovo
 Aminyevskoye Shosse
 Michurinsky Prospekt  8 
 Prospekt Vernadskogo  1 
 Ulitsa Novatorov
 Vorontsovskaya  6 
 Zyuzino
 Kakhovskaya  9 
to Varshavskoye yard
 Varshavskaya Kolomenskoye railway station
 Kashirskaya  2 
 Klenovy Bulvar
 Yuzhnoportovaya  10 
 Tekstilshchiki Tekstilshchiki railway station  7 
 Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa Karacharovo railway station     
 Nizhegorodskoye yard
to Kozhukhovskaya Line
 Aviamotornaya Novaya railway station  8 
 Lefortovo
 Rubtsovskaya Elektrozavodskaya railway station  3 
 Stromynka  1 
 Rzhevskaya Rizhsky railway stationRzhevskaya railway station  6 
 Sheremetyevskaya  10 

The Third Interchange Contour (Russian: Третий пересадочный контур,[1] Trety peresadochny kontur, IPA: [ˈtrʲetʲɪj pʲɪrʲɪˈsadətɕnɨj ˈkontʊr]) is a rapid transit line of Moscow Metro under construction. It is planned to be a second circle line running outside of the existing Koltsevaya (Ring) Line, with a branch to Moscow-City.

First sections

Map showing a spur of the Third Interchange Contour connecting it to Moscow International Business Center. The five stations from Delovoy Tsentr to Petrovsky Park will be the first of the new stations on the Contour to open.

The existing, short, three-station Kakhovskaya Line will be incorporated into the Third Interchange Contour. Besides this, the first new stations were expected to be opened by December 2015.[1] However, as of November 2015 2018 is being reported as a more likely for the completion of the whole project.[3][4][5][6] The five stations from Petrovsky Park to Delovoy Tsentr are scheduled to open first, in 2016.[4]

Continuing the ring

In 2016, the Northeastern section is scheduled to be completed. This section includes the part of the line from Nizhnyaya Maslovka to Aviamotornaya. The Third Interchange Contour will run from Aviamotornaya to Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa along the same routing as the Kozhukhovskaya Line, which is also scheduled to open in 2016.[1]

By 2017, the Eastern section from Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa to Kashirskaya is scheduled to be complete. This will connect the Third Interchange Contour to the present-day Kakhovskaya Line, the first part of the outer ring line to open in 1969.[1]

Completing the ring

Current plans[1] call for the rest of the Third Interchange Contour to be opened in November 2018. The remainder of the ring is split into two projects:

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Перспективы развития (in Russian). Moscow Metro. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
  2. ↑ 30 километров тоннелей Второго кольца метро будут двухпутными (in Russian). Moscow Complex of City Planning Policies and Construction. 2014-08-21. Retrieved 2014-11-24.
  3. ↑ "New Metro Ring Line On Track for 2018 | Business". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
  4. 1 2 "Метро". stroi.mos.ru. Retrieved 2015-11-01.
  5. ↑ Метро до «Нижней Масловки» дойдет в 2018 году
  6. ↑ http://stroi.mos.ru/news/pyat-stancii-vtorogo-kolca-metro-mogut-otkryt-v-2017-godu-bochkarev
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