Transition from the Moscow Central Circle to the Yaroslavl direction. Electric trains and MCC stations will be connected by pedestrian crossings

The Moscow Central Circle (MCC) has been carrying passengers for more than a year. But some expressway stations are still difficult to reach. Especially for those who want to transfer to Lastochka from the metro, surface train or commuter train.

Convenient pedestrian crossings to the ring have already opened on two railway lines. In the Smolensk direction - from the Testovskaya platform to the Delovoy Tsentr and Shelepikha MCC stations. And in the Kazan direction, instead of an inconvenient single-level crossing across the railway tracks, an underground one was built. Now, without risking your life, you can cross the railway from the Freser platform to the Andronovka MCC station and back.

We continue to integrate the MCC and metro stations with the radial directions of the railway,” said Deputy Mayor of Moscow Marat Khusnullin. - By 2018, we will reduce the distance of transfers between four railway platforms and the MCC. At the same time, we will open three new transfers from commuter trains to Lastochki. To do this, we will build new platforms and terminals.

In addition, after the reconstruction of the Kiev direction of the railway in New Moscow, electric trains will begin to travel during rush hour with intervals of up to three minutes (currently 6-10 minutes). Three new stations will be built on this line. And another new station will be opened in the Kursk direction - Novokhokhlovskaya. By the end of 2018, it will be connected to the MCC via a convenient passage.

The capital's Construction Complex told us in what other places in a year the MCC will become closer to regular trains and the metro.

The platform for suburban trains Severyanin will be moved 350 meters to the Rostokino MCC station. At the same time, an underground passage from the MCC side and a new passenger terminal from the region are already being built here.

What will happen: when transferring, passengers will have to walk only 20 meters instead of 620 meters. Moreover, the transition will be made according to the “dry feet” principle, that is, pedestrians will not even need to go outside. In addition, there will be a little less crowding at the Yaroslavsky railway station and the Komsomolskaya metro station. After all, now some people have to come right here in order to quickly get to the subway and the MCC.

A railway overpass with a platform for Okruzhnaya commuter trains will be built across the MCC tracks in the area of ​​Station Street. A turnstile and cash terminal will be opened under the overpass. In the future, there will be a single passenger terminal with elevators and escalators. It will connect the stops of the MCC and the Savyolovsky direction of the Moscow Railway, as well as the Okruzhnaya station under construction on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya metro line.

What will happen: the distance between the MCC and the Okruzhnaya railway platform will be reduced from 260 to 50 meters. You don't have to go outside to transfer. Passengers will pass through a covered walkway. At the same time, the Timiryazevskaya and Savelovskaya metro stations on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line will be unloaded.

Near the Verkhnie Kotly MCC station on the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railway, a new platform for suburban trains Varshavskaya will be built. A turnstile and cash terminal will also appear here. Three railway overpasses will be built in this area and the overpass over the MCC will be reconstructed.

What will happen: a convenient transfer from Varshavskaya to the Verkhnie Kotly MCC station using the “dry feet” principle. There will be less crowding at the Nagatinskaya metro station on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line and Paveletsky station.

A new railway platform with two terminals will be built near the Streshnevo MCC station. One of them will allow you to go from a regular train to Lastochka via a covered walkway.

What will happen: to transfer between the railway and the MCC, passengers will need to walk only 50 meters instead of the current 320 meters. At the same time, the Tushinskaya and Dmitrovskaya metro stations will be unloaded.

Kursk direction

A platform of the same name for commuter trains with a passenger terminal will be built near the Novokhokhlovskaya MCC station.

What will happen: using a covered passage it will be possible to cross from the Kursk direction of the Moscow Railway to the MCC.

The Karacharovo railway platform will be moved closer to the Nizhegorodskaya MCC station. In addition, an underground passage will be built between them.

An overpass will be built between the Likhobory MCC station and the NATI platform of the Oktyabrskaya Railway using the “dry feet” principle.

What will happen: passengers will be able to get to their desired stations on average 10 minutes faster. In addition, the passage of passengers over future sections of the North-East Expressway road network will become safe.

And at this time

The first section of the Greater MetroRing is being prepared for opening

Igor PAVLOV

Five new stations will be launched in late November - early December.

The capital's metro is preparing to launch the first stations of the second ring, which will be fully ready in three years. IN next year sections from Petrovsky Park to Nizhnyaya Maslovka and from Nizhegorodskaya to Rubtsovskaya will be put into operation. In 2019 - from “Nizhnyaya Maslovka” to “Rubtsovskaya”, from “Mnevniki” to “Khoroshevskaya” and from “Aminevskoye Shosse” to “Kakhovskaya”. The ring will be completely closed in 2020 and will include 31 stations.

This year, “Petrovsky Park”, “Shelepikha”, “CSKA”, “Khoroshevskaya” and “Business Center” are opening (the length of the section is 10.5 km). According to Deputy Mayor for Urban Policy and Construction Marat Khusnullin, this will happen in late November - early December. These stations have been built and already tested. In September, the metro launched a technical train. Now the running-in of the tracks continues.

It is expected that the launch of the first stations of the Big Metroring will relieve congestion on the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya and Zamoskvoretskaya lines.

Next year, the Karacharovo stop on the Gorky direction of the Moscow Railway (MZD) will be moved half a kilometer to the Moscow Central Circle (MCC). There will be a convenient transfer from the railway to the Nizhegorodskaya MCC station. The press service of the Ministry of Railways reported this.

The new Karacharovo station will replace the existing railway stop of the same name. Transferring from commuter trains to Lastochka will take only a few minutes. At the same time, passengers will not need to go outside; the crossing will be built according to the “dry feet” principle. Currently, railway workers are building an underground pedestrian crossing and platform. In total, three passenger platforms, six through tracks and two dead-end tracks will be built at the station.

Every day, 187 thousand people use electric trains in the Gorky direction. The busiest station on the route is Moscow-Kurskaya. 50 thousand people pass through the turnstiles of the Gorky dead-end streets at the Kursky railway station every day. The second largest passenger traffic is Zheleznodorozhnaya station. It is used by 35 thousand people per day. The remaining stations handle an average of 11 thousand people.

Photo: portal Moscow 24/Alexander Avilov

A quick transfer from the train to the MCC will relieve congestion at the central metro stations - Kurskaya on the Circle Line, Kurskaya on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line and Chkalovskaya on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line. Passengers will not have to go to Kursky Station to change to the metro.

In addition, JSC Russian Railways plans to make the Karacharovo station the initial and final destination for some commuter trains. This measure will reduce the passenger flow of the Kursk station, as well as increase the railway capacity on the section from the Moscow-Kurskaya station to the Karacharovo station. It is this section that is now the busiest, since the Kursky station also receives passengers from the Kursk direction of the Moscow Railway and through commuter trains from the Riga and Belorussian directions.

Photo: portal Moscow 24/Alexander Avilov

From the Karacharovo platform it will be possible to transfer not only to the MCC, but also to a new radial line - Kozhukhovskaya, which the capital authorities promise to build next year. From the railway it will be possible to go underground to the Nizhegorodskaya Street station, from which the metro train will take you to the Nekrasovka station on the outskirts of Moscow in the Nekrasovka district.

By the way, passengers will be able to transfer to one more station - Nizhegorodskaya Street, located on the Third Interchange Circuit. It should also be built in 2018.

Thus, in 2018, in the area of ​​Ryazanskaya Prospekt in the south-east of Moscow, the largest transport hub will appear, connecting commuter trains, the MCC and metro stations.

Yaroslavl direction

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The Severyanin station of the Yaroslavl direction of the Moscow Railway will be closer to the MCC in the new year. The suburban platform will be moved 600 m to Rostokino station. The distance will be reduced from 620 to 20 m. An underground pedestrian crossing will connect the two stations. Three passenger platforms will be built at the station.

The new comfortable transfer will reduce the load on the Yaroslavsky railway station and the Komsomolskaya metro station. More than 97 thousand people come to Yaroslavsky Station on commuter trains every day. Passenger traffic on the Yaroslavl route is almost 450 thousand. person per day.

The launch of traffic along the MCC in 2016 reduced the load on the Komsomolskaya metro station by a quarter. The approach of the railway platform to the MCC will make the most popular metro station even freer. According to Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Development Policy and Construction Marat Khusnullin, passenger traffic at the MCC Rostokino station during rush hour could reach 37 thousand people.

Riga direction

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To transfer passengers on the Riga direction of the Moscow Railway, a new station is being built - Leningradskaya. The integration of the Streshnevo MCC station and the railway will take place next year. The stations will be united by a covered walkway, and in order for residents of nearby areas to use the ring road, pedestrian bridges will be built on each side of the stopping point.

Now, in order to get from Leningradskaya to the second ring of the metro, you have to cover a 1.5 km path on foot and enter the station only through Leningradsky Prospekt. Passenger traffic after moving the platform will increase approximately 2 times - from 4.3 thousand people to 7.9 thousand.

Savelovskoe direction

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The Okruzhnaya station of the Savelovsky direction of the Moscow Railway will be built on a railway overpass. The distance between the Okruzhnaya MCC station and the commuter train stop will be reduced from 260 to 50 m. The transfer will be quick and warm.

Those who need to go to the center will be able to take the elevator underground to the Okruzhnaya station on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line. The new station will open for traffic at the end of this year. It will be a continuation of the light green line from the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya metro station. All three "Districts" will be connected by elevators and escalators.

Paveletskaya direction

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The Paveletskaya direction of the Moscow Railway and the Verkhnie Kotly station of the MCC will be connected by the new Varshavskaya platform at the end of 2018. According to Marat Khusnullin, to integrate the railway and metro, it is planned to build a platform with a turnstile and cash register terminal, build tracks, and modernize the railway infrastructure.

The passenger transfer will reduce the load on the Paveletskaya and Nagatinskaya metro stations. The predicted passenger flow of the new hub will be about 18 thousand people during rush hour. Now, in order to transfer to the MCC, passengers in the Paveletsky direction walk approximately 1.2 km from the Nizhnie Kotly station. Their path passes along the Warsaw highway.

Kursk direction

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Finally next year It is planned to combine the Novokhokhlovskaya MCC station and the Kursk direction station of the Moscow Railway with a covered walkway. The railway station is to be built within a year. After this, when transferring from one station to another, passengers will have “dry feet”. In the meantime, those who decide to transfer from the Kalitniki station of the Kursk direction of the Moscow Railway to the Novokhokhlovskaya MCC station have to travel one and a half kilometers along an unimproved road.

NATI station of the Oktyabrskaya railway

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The NATI station of the Oktyabrskaya Railway will not be moved closer to the MCC. Passengers walk from the commuter train to the Likhobory station on the MCC for about six minutes. True, construction is currently underway here, the roadbed of the northern section of the North-Eastern Expressway is being built. And in a year, an above-ground covered pedestrian crossing will be built to transfer pedestrians.

“The Okruzhnaya platform already operates today as a serious transfer hub for residents of the Severny, Lianozovo, Degunino, Beskudnikovo and other districts. Thanks to the new lobby, transfers from Okruzhnaya to the metro and the Moscow Central Circle will become more comfortable,” said S. Sobyanin.

According to him, today the city is implementing eight projects to integrate the radial directions of the Moscow Railway with the MCC. Three projects have already been completed, five more will be completed in 2018-2019.

One of the largest projects in the program for integrating radial directions of the railway with the MCC is the formation of the Okruzhnaya transport hub. It unites the platforms of the same name of the Moscow Central Circle, the Savelovsky direction of the Moscow Railway and the station of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya metro line.

In 2019, on the basis of the Savyolovsky direction of the Moscow Railway, it is planned to organize one of the lines of the Moscow Central Diameters - MCD-1 "Odintsovo-Lobnya". TPU "Okruzhnaya" will become the most important factor attractiveness of this line for future passengers.

Thanks to the construction of new railway overpasses, it became possible to build a section of the North-Eastern Expressway from Yaroslavskoye to Dmitrovskoe Highway and a section of the North-Western Expressway from Signal passage to the 3rd Nizhnelikhoborsky passage.

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

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

If you arrived by train from Zelenograd, you need to exit the platform at right side in the direction of travel and follow the path along the railway towards the Leningradsky station.

The exit from the platform is located at the level of the third or fourth cars. If you want to save time on transfers, take them. There is also a sign towards the MCC. To the left of it you can see the buildings of the Likhobor station.

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 passage is not yet the entrance to the station itself.

After 120 meters there is a path along the railway (the photo shows a view in reverse side— to the NATI platform) turns right.

Around the corner of the fence, the view of the Likhobory station opens up again. The overpass is just a stone's throw away.

But this is the most unpleasant part of the short journey. In the vicinity of NATI and Likhobor, the North-Eastern Expressway (also known as the Northern Road) is being built, which by the end of 2018 must tie New Leningradka with Dmitrovskoe highway. Because of this, the asphalt is further covered with a layer of dirt, which is carried around the surrounding area by construction equipment. Apparently, in the future, an underground passage will be built here for commuter train passengers. But for now, that's it. Such a cool infrastructure project as the MCC is, of course, unbecoming.

Landscaping work continues around the Likhobory station itself. However, the area in front of the entrance to the passage 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 frame 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 (runners for strollers) on the stairs. One can only sympathize with anyone who happens to end up here, for example, with a baby stroller.

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

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

To get to the platform, you need to travel along the passage over the railway. Just not to the end, but approximately to the middle.
Note that the transition (at least for now) is not an insulated structure. In design, it is similar to the overpass across Central Avenue near the Zelenograd Prefecture, and ventilation “holes in the floor” are hidden behind the railings on the sides. You won't be able to stay warm here in winter. Compared to transferring from train to metro at Leningradsky Station, this is, of course, a serious disadvantage.

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

Opposite you can admire the bridge at the intersection of the MCC and the Oktyabrskaya Railway.

With navigation, things are much better here 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 easily found. This is the sign that will greet you when you exit the glass doors. Then along the way there will be several more signs.

In the lobby, behind glass doors, there are turnstiles that are not yet working (let me remind you that travel on 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 driving west (along the outer side of the ring) - towards "Koptevo", "Baltiyskaya", "Streshnevo" and so on - you go to the right. If you go east (on the inside) - to "Okruzhnaya", "Vladykino", "Botanical Garden" and then to the left.

MCC diagram to help you (clickable)

The most obvious option for getting down to the platform is an escalator. Unlike the 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 journey will take a little longer, since you will still need to cross the bridge to the far platform at NATI.

While we are waiting for our Lastochka to go on a trip along 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 stops public transport. The main volume of transport hub buildings will be located on the side of Cherepanov passage (that is, on the opposite side from the NATI platform). It is supposed to look like this (clickable image).

And this is what the place looks like now.

Road work is underway on Cherepanov Passage.

The transport hub 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 trains in the Leningrad direction will stop even closer to the MCC, and the transfer from NATI to Likhobory will become even shorter and more convenient.
Now let's return to the Likhobory station. Both platforms have canopies and a decent number of benches and bins. The surface is paved with tiles, and a strip of yellow tactile tiles is 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 in a retro style.

All the design is in the corporate style of Russian Railways, which operates this road jointly with the Moscow Metro (let me remind you that you can pay for travel with metro tickets, and the transfer between the metro and the MCC will be free for one and a half hours).

Electronic boards show the direction of travel (by the name of the next station) and the time until the train arrives. Let us remind you that the stated intervals for trains on the MCC are 6 minutes during peak hours and 11-15 minutes during off-peak times. If necessary, these intervals are promised to be shortened. And it seems like they are already thinking about implementing such an opportunity.

The platform from which you can leave Likhobor towards Koptevo, that is, to the west, has paths on both sides. But trains come on the left side (in the direction of travel from the escalator). “External tracks” are apparently needed 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. About 15 minutes have passed since the previous one left. True, three electric trains passed in the opposite direction during this time.

Lastochki are used as rolling stock on the Moscow Central Circle. I made a big post about how these trains work . Inside the Lastochka on the MCC, except for the posted diagrams and advertisements, they are no different from those that run to Kryukovo and Tver and are already well known to many Zelenograd residents.
Scheme of the MCC in the carriage:

MCC and metro map:

It is allowed to carry bicycles on the MCC, and there are corresponding stickers on the trains, but we did not find any special mounts 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 implemented.

It seems that trains to the MCC do not run empty. We were on the ring from approximately 17:00 to 18:30, that is, practically during the evening rush hour, and in all the “Swallows” we saw, some of the passengers rode standing.

The closest stop to Likhobory, if you go west, is Koptevo. However, it was among the five stations that did not manage to open even in draft form before the start 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 nearby metro station.
The transfer between Baltiyskaya and Voykovskaya is considered one of the longest on the MCC. The two station concourses are located more than 700 meters apart. In order for a metro 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 the Leningradskoye Shosse towards the region - to the Metropolis shopping complex. .

"Baltiyskaya" is located at the intersection of the MCC with Leningradskoye Shosse. The station has two exits: one towards Admiral Makarov Street, the other towards Novopetrovsky Proezd, Metropolis and Voikovskaya metro station.

Moreover, the branch of the passage that leads from the MCC station towards Voykovskaya is connected to the Metropolis building. And although the signs point to the street for access to the metro, in fact, a significant part of the journey can be done in the warmth, passing through the entire building shopping center. Then you only have to walk about 200 meters 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 at Baltiyskaya and, accordingly, it is wider.

Escalators and stairs for descending/ascending between the platform and the passage are located in one place. There are also elevators, but, like at Likhobory, they are not yet working.

If you, having a baby stroller with you, decide to leave the Baltiyskaya in the direction opposite to the Metropolis, you will encounter the same problem as at the transfer at NATI - there is no alternative to descending the stairs without channels.

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

If the Metrostroy website contains current sketches of transport hub projects on the Moscow Central Circle, then in its final form the Baltiyskaya station will look like this. Another passage will appear in both directions from the other edge of the platform.

The next station after Baltiyskaya is Streshnevo. Previously, it was called “Volokolamskaya”, because it is located at the intersection of the MCC with the Volokolamsk highway. Theoretically, some of the Zelenograd residents could come here by car and then set off on a further journey along the MCC. However, this option is unlikely to become widespread. Not only is it suitable for few people, but it is also unclear where to leave the car in this case - there is no semblance of intercept parking here.

Moreover, the passage at Streshnevo has not yet been completed, which could lead to the 1st Krasnogorsky passage - potentially the most convenient for accessing this station from Zelenograd.

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

Diagram 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 on either side of the main passage...

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

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

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

Unfortunately, I haven’t had time to drive around the entire ring yet, although it would be very interesting to do so. Well, I hope he still has time. However, from the point of view of Zelenograd residents, the stations visited are, of course, of greatest interest.

To conclude the story, I will summarize a few key points.
1. MCC went - and it’s wonderful. In fact, in Moscow there appeared the new kind public transport, 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 among the townspeople.
2. Many residents of Zelenograd have new options for constructing routes when traveling to Moscow. But a lot here depends on the number of trains stopping at NATI. For example, on September 20, it was impossible to leave Kryukovo by 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 minor imperfections - work is still underway almost everywhere. For most passengers this is not a big deal, but the MCC is still practically unsuitable for people with limited mobility. If for some reason you have difficulty moving, you should think very carefully about how you will climb the numerous stairs that do not even have runners for strollers.

MCC station "Okruzhnaya". November 1st, 2016

Okruzhnaya station is another station with convenient transfer on commuter trains. The transfer here made it possible to unload the metro station. "Timiryazevskaya", now some passengers get off and transfer to the ring. There is always a consistently high passenger flow here, and soon there will also be a metro station here and passengers will be able to transfer here to the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line. Let's take a look at the station, see what is there now, and what they plan to build in the future. Let’s also see why it was here, on Okruzhnaya, that an incident occurred with a person who was hit by a train, and whether this tragedy could have been avoided.

Let's start with the renderings, especially since there is something interesting here. In general, it was planned to make the Okruzhnaya station a large transport hub. The MCC, metro and train will intersect here. The idea is very cool.
So the passenger terminal as the architects saw it. Here again there is a concourse with a stained glass window that turns into a translucent ceiling, which of course was not implemented. The transition to the cover above the roof platform of the staircase descent was also made interestingly, and the cover itself was not drawn using the standard Russian Railways design. Here the terminal is drawn without any overpasses. The same theme, if you remember, was at the Luzhniki station; there were no transitions there in the early renderings.

And at some point a color accent appeared, a light green color appeared in the decoration, the color of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line.

Then a road crossing and a ramp to the locomotive passage appeared.

Something like that.

Well, the coolest option is the option with the integration of all types of transport into a single transport hub. In the background is the station and passenger terminal of the MCC, on the right Railway with the Okruzhnaya platform, and the staircase tower from the previous version turned into a combined pavilion for the MCC and the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line station under construction.

The pavilion is designed in the same style as other standard MCC buildings.

It was assumed that after entering the pavilion, passengers would go up the escalator to the MCC station, and down to the metro station lobby. A cool solution, and even the design of this pavilion was completed at the preliminary design stage. However, now all this will not happen, but an ordinary standard pavilion will stand here above the stairwell, like at the three new LDL stations. It is not yet clear whether there will be an integrated transfer to the train from the MCC.

1. Currently there is only one entrance to the station, through this large pavilion. It looks almost like it was not rendered. Not bad. Here you can see, by the way, that people are rushing from the train to transfer to the MCC. They cross the road and the traffic light for pedestrians works quite little, and the phase for cars is quite long. The piece of iron passes over that bridge in the background. A pedestrian bridge runs parallel to it from the terminal; we saw it in the renderings a little higher.

2. This bridge does not end with anything. Moreover, where it suddenly breaks off, no work is being carried out. It is unclear what will eventually be built there. Since they have already given up beautiful idea a combined entrance pavilion to the MCC and metro, then probably a staircase tower will be built here. In this case, it will only be used in the downward direction, since going up to the second floor will be a waste for everyone and people will continue to run across the street. The second option is if this passage is made into a passage to the railway platform, so that people can directly transfer from the train to the MCC.

3. Two bridges.

4. Entrance to the station. Unusually narrow. It’s strange that they decided to put only 4 doors at the entrance and exit. And in general, the entrance lobby was built up somehow carelessly, the sides were sewn up with something unclear, although logically the paneling with which the pylon on the left should have been covered should have continued. One thing is good, the doors here are normal capital ones. The end door is wider for wheelchair access.

5. But then a surprise awaits wheelchair users - a staircase, although a lift is provided for access. However, it would be simpler and more logical to make a ramp, especially since there is more space here both in width and in length.

6. We find ourselves in the cash register. Those traveling clockwise immediately go through the turnstiles and go left to the platform.

7. If you need to go in the opposite direction, go up. Interesting feature. If the station had initially been designed for one entrance, then a second string of turnstiles would have been installed below, where the ticket offices are. It would be cheaper and easier. Some wires are visible on the slats of the false ceiling; maybe not all the lamps are installed yet.

8. Behind the escalators there are stairs, and even further there is an elevator. He wasn't working when I was here.

9. We go upstairs to the concourse. The elevator shaft is glazed - not bad.

10. Few people use the stairs; navigation has been done rather illogically so far.

11. General form hall There are also turnstiles here. Perhaps, when more train passengers come to this hall, Russian Railways turnstiles will also be installed here, although it is possible that ticket control will be carried out on the platform behind the street guard, because otherwise it will be necessary to install ticket offices here that sell train tickets.

12. You can see the bridge outside the windows.

13. Here is another exit from the terminal, but it is closed for now.

14. Here you can stand and admire the trains. Both by electric trains and by “Swallows” running below. As luck would have it... no one.

15. On the other side there is also a stairwell, an elevator and an escalator behind me.

16. But outside the windows there is a descent towards Signalny Proezd, the entrance to which is in photo 13.

17. Ordinary escalators. One for the descent, the other for the ascent.

18. There are doors at the exit to the platform. Great. All the same, the thermal circuit is closed here. These doors are missing, for example, at Vladykino. Again the entrance group is inserted anyhow. And it’s unclear why there is a sign with the name of the station, and not with the names of the streets where the exits lead. Notice that there are two doors at the entrance. As if hinting that you can go down the stairs.

19. It is located behind the escalators, there are no doors - the cold will blow into the terminal - this is not correct.

20. The canopy around the staircase is not lined with anything underneath and doesn’t look very nice.

21. And here is the descent towards Signalny. It is not open and it is quite difficult for people from that side to get to the station.

22. Please note that there is no fencing here. Only when I was here two people crossed paths. As it turned out, this is not so safe. It was on Okruzhnaya that a man died while crossing the tracks. Whether he crossed here or not is not important, but the absence of a barrier and the absence of a normal transition to the other side provokes people to risk their lives.

23. The platform is moved as close as possible to the Savelovsky tracks.

24. This is what I thought. The elevator is located at the very end of the platform and a disabled person in a wheelchair needs to roll there along the edge of the platform. Quite unpleasant. Especially in winter.

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26. Let's take a closer look at how the finishing was done here. At first glance, everything is quite neat, except for the visor.

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28. And here I go