On September 10, 2017, the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) celebrates the first anniversary of the launch of passenger traffic. During the year of operation, Lastochka trains, running on the MCC during peak hours with a minimum interval of 5 minutes, carried almost 100 million passengers. The opening of the Moscow Central Circle helped relieve congestion on almost all Moscow metro lines and central railway stations. On September 7, the total passenger traffic at 31 MCC stations exceeded 385 thousand people.
The launch of passenger traffic on the MCC took place exactly a year ago, on September 10, 2016. 31 stations and 14 transfers from the metro to the MCC have become available to Moscow residents. After the completion of construction of the Shelepikha, Okruzhnaya, and Nizhegorodskaya metro stations, there will already be 17 transfers.
Thanks to the new transport route, passenger traffic on busy metro lines has decreased, for example, on the Circle Line by 15%, Sokolnicheskaya - 20%, Lyublinskaya - 14%, Filevskaya - 12%. For commuter train passengers, 6 transfers to commuter trains are available from MCC stations. After the completion of the construction of railway platforms in 2018 on the Kursk, Paveletsky, Rizhsky and Gorky directions, the number of transfers will increase to 10. During the year of operation of the MCC, about 25 million passengers from 6 radial directions of railways transferred to the MCC per year, without reaching the central railways stations.
All the most innovative payment methods that exist in Europe have been introduced at the MCC. This is done so that every passenger, including foreign tourists, can pay for travel in a convenient way. When paying with a contactless Mastercard on the days of the celebration of the 870th anniversary of Moscow and the birthday of the Moscow Central Circle on September 9 and 10, as well as at night, travel on the MCC cost only one ruble. At the same time, you can pay for the trip directly at the turnstile using any medium - a plastic card, a mobile application (Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Android Pay), a wristwatch or a bracelet.
Today, as part of the celebration of the MCC's birthday, a new pilot project was presented at the Luzhniki station to pay for travel on the MCC through the AliPay payment system, which now covers five MCC stations: Luzhniki, Izmailovo, Delovoi Tsentr, Lokomotiv and "Gagarin Square". The launch of the Alipay payment system will make the MCC more attractive to tourists from China, since the new tool will allow them to buy tickets in a way that is familiar to them. It is planned that by the end of the year it will be possible to purchase travel tickets using Alipay at all MCC stations.
On the birthday of the Moscow Central Circle, a large-scale cultural and entertainment program was prepared for Muscovites and guests of the capital under the motto “1 year of the Moscow Central Circle. The city has become closer! The main events take place at the site near the Luzhniki station. At 10 am a festive concert began here, which will last until the evening. Popular artists take part in the concert, including the winner of the TV show “The Voice” on Channel One Dina Garipova, children’s groups, as well as participants in the “Music in the Metro” project. Also throughout the day, participants of the “Music in the Metro” project perform at the Lokomotiv, Delovoy Tsentr, Kutuzovskaya, Rostokino and Shosse Entuziastov stations.
All day long, competitions and intellectual games are held at the site near the Luzhniki station. The organizers prepared a playground for the children and fed them delicious ice cream. The animators handed out commemorative Troika cards, as well as special keychains and bracelets with the Troika card function, issued for the anniversary of the MCC.
Leaders of the Moscow Metro, historians, architects, specialists and experts made reports and presentations today as part of a specially organized lecture dedicated to the history of the development of the Moscow Circular Railway from the first projects to the opening of the Moscow Central Circle. Also on the main stage, guests of the celebration were shown the history of the MCC using sand animation.
The cosmonauts of the International Space Station also prepared a special video greeting for the guests of the holiday. And in order to congratulate the MCC on its anniversary, today not only officials came here, but also the robot Metrosha, already beloved by passengers.
The highlight of the day was the wedding ceremony for the couple who won the “It’s good that people came up with rings!” competition, which took place in official metro groups on social networks. At the wedding ceremony, the young people exchanged unique rings with the functionality of the Troika card. A transport solution in the form of a ring on a finger to pay for travel was implemented for the first time in the world. Now newlyweds will be able to pay for travel using these rings wherever Troika operates: in the metro, on ground transport, the Moscow Central Circle, etc.
For active users of social networks on the eve of the MCC's birthday, the Moscow Metro organized a series of competitions and quests on its VKontakte and Facebook pages. The winners were invited to a free excursion “MCC – the steel ring of Moscow”. Those who did not have time to take part in the competition can take advantage of free excursion audio guides. To do this, from eleven in the morning to six in the evening at the “Live Communication” counter located at the Luzhniki station, you need to get an audio guide with two headphones and with it go on an independent journey around the MCC. After completing the excursion and returning the audio guide to the counter, each excursionist was given a special memorable gift.
Excursions to the MCC have been held since its launch, and this year more than 9 thousand Muscovites and city guests have been able to visit them.
The Moscow Metro congratulates all Muscovites and guests of the capital on the anniversary of the launch of passenger traffic on the MCC and wishes you pleasant trips!
Many Muscovites and guests of the capital have already become accustomed to the convenience of the MCC (Moscow Central Circle) or, as it was previously called the Moscow Ring Railway, the Moscow Ring Railway, the opening of which contributed to the unloading of the capital’s ring line of the Moscow Metro in particular and the entire metro in general.
MCC map with metro
MCC map with transfers to the metro, trains and suburban transport
Another popular MCC scheme with transfers to the metro, electric trains and other suburban transport will be useful for passengers who travel by electric trains, transfer to the MCC from the metro or from 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 Upper Fields the Yandex map shows 4 km, despite the fact that the metro map indicates 10 - 12 minutes on foot.
Schemes and maps during construction (projects) with transfer nodes:
Numerous search queries can be addressed to the only official website of the Moscow Ring Railway http://mkzd.ru/
According to preliminary sketches, it was assumed that the Moscow Ring Road on the map would look like this:
MCC hours and schedule
MCC works the same way graphics, as the Moscow metro:
from 5:30 am to 01:00 am
List of MCC (MKR) 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 on intercity routes and will certainly be convenient for such local transportation.
The opening of the Moscow Ring Railway is planned 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 the 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.
MCC How long does it take for a train to complete a circle?
A full circle along the MCC can be completed in approximately 1 hour 30 minutes.
The same answer will be to other questions, like: circle on the MCC in time
What is MCC?
The MCC is the Moscow Central Circle and this entire article describes this Moscow object in all types and angles, including the history of its creation.
Calculation of time between MCC stations
Because the calculator has not yet been written and is not ready, a simple way to calculate travel time between stations: the following 90 minutes / 31 stations = about 3 minutes approximate calculation of time from station to station.
What are the train intervals on the MCC?
The intervals between MCC trains are no more than 6 minutes during rush 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 Expo Center you are taken out of the metro.
They also asked:
1. When will passenger traffic open on the Moscow Ring Railway?
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 Moscow Circle train; opening and testing were disrupted, according to https://www.instagram.com/p/BIB7RpiDxv2/?taken-by=serjiopopov(apparently, a friend was asked to delete his Instagram, which is where the photo below came from, so Navalny’s record also disappeared, where there were inserts from Instagram, but the screen remained the same https://navalny.com/p/4967/:
The page remains in Google’s cache, but you won’t be able to view it in its entirety due to some tricky redirects on Instagram:
The same cyclical 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 travel on the MCC (MKR)?
According to information on the Moscow City Hall website, fares will be the same as on the metro:
“90 minutes”, “United” and the “Troika” card.
“Unified” for 20 trips - 650 rubles, for 40 trips - 1,300 rubles, for 60 trips - 1,570 rubles.
With the Troika card, travel on the MCC will cost the same as in the metro - 32 rubles.
Tickets for 1 and 2 are also equal to the price of metro travel - 50 and 100 rubles, respectively.
10.09.2016
The opening of the MCC took place:
26 of the 31 ring stations are operational. Sokolinaya Gora, Dubrovka, Sorge, Panfilovskaya and Koptevo stations will be opened later (until the end of 2016).
Lastochka trains run every 6 minutes during peak hours, and every other time - 12 minutes. The fare payment system is integrated with the Moscow Metro and allows you to transfer from the metro to MCC trains and back without additional payment. During the first month of operation of the ring (until October 10 inclusive), travel on MCC trains is free. According to information from rasp.yandex.ru
On September 10, 2016, on the day of the 869th anniversary of Moscow, regular traffic on the Moscow Central Circle (MCR, MK MZD, MOZD) opened in Moscow, and this ring has many names. The discovery was accompanied by serious media coverage. Sobyanin and Putin opened the ring. He drove between Luzhniki and Ploshchad Gagagrina stations. On the day the MCC opened, I made a circular trip along it.
1. Dubrovka station. Some stations did not open on the first day, including Dubrovka, so we had to explain to the confused passengers how to get to the nearest open stations.
2. From closed Dubrovka, I rode a scooter 1.7 km to the neighboring station - Ugreshskaya station. Ground transport stops are being reconstructed and equipped near all MCC stations; the work has not yet been completed everywhere. At the Ugreshskaya tram stop, located near the Ugreshskaya MCC station, there is a gate between the Moscow Ring Railway and the tram network, currently (September 2016) being reconstructed. The path on the right is a train, on the left is a tram. 
3. The path to the Ugreshskaya MCC station. There are no signs. A few passengers navigate using Yandex. Maps. In the distance is a passage across the Third Transport Ring, which includes the exit from the Ugreshskaya station. 
4. B - barrier-free environment. Parallel to the stairs to the passage itself there is an elevator that is working. 
5. Well, let's go? 
6. The clock doesn't work. 
7. Typical (sort of) entrance to an island-type station. In front there are stairs, then there are escalators. Travel is free for the first month; there are not turnstiles at all stations. Booklets about the line are given out at the entrance. 
8. Navigation. As on Prospekt Mira (formerly), the navigation only indicates the neighboring station, transfer stations on the metro line. 
9. And on the poles there are diagrams of lines and instructions - clockwise or not. All stations are indicated as open, although 5 stations were not open: Dubrovka, Sorge, Sokolinaya Gora, Koptevo and Panfilovskaya. I drove counterclockwise. 
10. The boards informing about the next train work in some places, in others they don’t work, in others they are lit like this. Much navigation is still in polyethylene. 
11. Let's say goodbye to Ugreshskaya station and go on a journey along the MCC! 
12. Swallows are 100% full, there are almost no seats. Some are even standing. The information in the swallows is ready for the payment system to start working. 
13. Subway map hanging in a swallow. 
14. Novokhokhlovskaya station. Here I was able to sit by the window. 
15. Nizhegorodskaya station. Station of the original design. In the future there will be a large transport hub here. In the meantime, only transfer to the Karacharovo platform. 
16. The train is equipped with sockets. They are working. It seems that only the seats near the door have them, I haven’t checked the rest. Regarding the service: there is a Wi-Fi network, but it does not work. There are toilets, they work, they are clean, but the information boxes say that the toilet is for staff only). 
17. A swallow is waiting for its departure on a side route. Near Andronovka station. There are several other similar layover parks on the line. The final (return and settling) points are made very thoroughly, even underground passages to service exits go out. 
18. Andronovka station. Still, they managed to finish it and open it by September 10; on all diagrams it, and 7 more stations, are marked as under construction with the mark “opening soon.” Transfer to the Fraser platform. 
19. Station Highway Entuziastov. Transfer to the metro station of the same name. After the station we drove through the unfinished Sokolinaya Gora without stopping. 
20. The trains have hangers, as do all swallows. 
21. Izmailovo station. Almost all stations are stations in the railway sense, although officially they are platforms as part of old stations, since almost every station has ramps between the tracks. Transfer to Partizanskaya metro station. 
22. Lokomotiv station. Here a strange thing happened with the name - the Rokosovsky Boulevard station, located further from the metro station of the same name, was named as a metro station, and the Lokomotiv station, which has a “warm transfer” or “dry feet transfer,” was named not as the Cherkizovskaya station of the same name, but after the club of the nearby stadium. This fanaticism in football is starting to get boring. Already now, Dynamo, Spartak, Lokomotiv, CSKA stations are named, or will be named, in honor of clubs in the Moscow metro. 
23. The scoreboard on the Lokomotiv works. I don’t understand what the inscription 02:07 on the board means, or whether the train’s arrival is actually predicted in seconds. Apparently not (I took several photos, all at the same time). The clocks on many scoreboards are not set correctly. 
24. Station Rokossovsky Boulevard. It is located even further from the boulevard of the same name than the metro station Rokossovsky Boulevard. 
25. A fence is being actively built along the tracks. Fences come in two types - gray in the colors of the FID, for which supports are built in the photo, and transparent. Sometimes along the paths there is first a transparent (gray mesh), and then behind it there is a solid fence in the colors of the FID. But you can still get to many places along the way. 
26. Belokamennaya station. The old stations along the line have been put in order; there is no fence between them and the tracks, there is a kind of low platform - a sidewalk parallel to the tracks. Located in the middle of Losiny Island. 
27. Rostokino station. The transfer to the Severyanin platform seems to be a convenient transfer, one of the few. 
28. A booklet that is distributed at stations. 
29. MKR station (not MCC) Rostokino. 
30. Botanical Garden. Transfer to the metro station of the same name. 
31. Where there are no fences along the line, beautiful views open from the carriage window. 
32. Vladykino station. Transfer to the metro station of the same name. One of the few metro-MCC-metro routes that actually shortens the journey along Yandex is the path from the north of KRL to the north of STL. 
33. Okruzhnaya station, transfer to the platform of the same name. Russian Railways branding on a bench. 
34. Likhobory station. Transfer to the NATI platform. 
35. Koptevo without stopping, the next station is Baltiyskaya. 600 meter transfer to Voykovskaya metro station. I hope they will make a travelator here someday. But still, stations with a metro transfer are more crowded than stations without a metro transfer at all. 
36. Streshny station. It is located exactly between the Leningradskaya and Pokrovskoe-Streshniy platforms of the Riga direction of the Moscow Railway. Transplantation to any of them is not indicated on the “tabletop” diagram. Moreover, it’s even closer to Leningradskaya from Streshniy than from Baltiyskaya, where the transfer is indicated from! 
37. There are many unfinished stations in the northwest. Panfilovskaya, Sorge without stopping. Khoroshevo station. 600 meter transfer to Polezhaevskaya metro station. TKL has no luck - not a single convenient transfer to the MCC in the north and no transfer at all in the south. 
38. Shelepikha station. In the future there will be a transfer to the Shelepikha TPK station. And now at both the Shelepikha station and the Delovoy Tsentr (MCC) station there is a transfer (in the auto-informer) to the Testovskaya platform of the Belarusian direction of the Moscow Railway, which for some reason is called Smolensky in the auto-informer. 
39. We are approaching Moscow City. There are many interchanges and high-speed transport lines. 
40. Delovoy Tsentr station. Transfer to the Mezhdunarodnaya metro station, maybe now at least someone will go to the Mezhdunarodnaya). Green station. Interestingly decorated, despite the fact that it is inexpensive. Longer than the others. Why they decided out of the blue to create confusion with two Business centers without a transfer is unclear. 
41. Kutuzovskaya station. Transfer to Kutuzovskaya metro station. The metro and MCC stations are located parallel to each other, you can see the traffic lights of the parallel line behind the fence and hear the trains of the other line. The station is very busy. Behind the fence is the Filyovskaya metro line. 
42. Interesting fence near Luzhniki station. 
43. Luzhniki station. Transfer to Sportivnaya metro station. One of the shortest non-warm transfers. Built according to an individual project. There are no gray-red colors of Russian Railways here. 
44. It was from here that Putin and Sobyanin traveled one stop along the MCC during the opening. 
45. Video of what Putin and Sobyanin could see from the window.
46. Station Gagarin Square. Transfer to Leninsky Prospekt metro station. The shortest metro transfer is MCC. The only underground station of the MCC, it was built, or rather completed, by Mosmetrostroy. He is 85 years old this year. The crossing and the station are decorated with posters of metro stations made by Mosmetrostroy. 
47. There is no fence here (immediately after leaving the tunnel). Lawn and people looking at passing swallows. 
48. The building of the old Kanatchikovo station. 
49. Krymskaya station. 
50. We pass under the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railway. Near the Verkhnie Kotly MCC station. Someday they will build a platform on it, referred to on the diagrams as “Perspective”, and from the Verkhnie Kotly MCC station there will be a transfer to the Paveletskaya direction of the Moscow Railway. 
51. Verkhniye Kotly station. The station is interesting because after the introduction of turnstiles, it will be impossible to move from platform to platform without additional payment, since there is only one transition between them and it is outside the turnstile area. It was also named after a now disappeared village, which was located near the intersection of Kolomenskoye Proezd and Kashirskoye Highway, which is completely away from the MCC (the village of Nizhnie Kotly was closer to the MCC). 
52. ZIL is being reconstructed from a factory into an office and residential center. 
53. Station ZIL. The only MCC station that is not yet approached by any NOT route. There is active construction going on around the station. There are quite a lot of people at the station, because some kind of event, like a paint event, is taking place near the station. 
54. Kozhukhovo MKR station. 
55. Avtozavodskaya station. Transfer to the metro station of the same name. There are a lot of people, the photo is not from the train, but from a walk along the Moscow Ring Railway. An interesting place to photograph swallows overtaking a traffic jam. 
56. And... Having passed Dubrovka station without stopping, we again arrive at Ugreshskaya station! The circle was completed from 15:44 to 16:58 and took 1 hour 14 minutes. 
Dear passengers, the train is not going any further, please vacate the carriages.
: “so far the list of stations that will be launched on September 10 (this date, one might say, is circled in red) has not been formed; according to Alexey Zhigalin (Deputy General Director for Design of Moscow Ring Railway JSC, the exact “list” of what will open (will not open) will be announced on September 9"
On August 26, I looked at how things were going at the Gagarin Square station and I can say that this station will be open. Unfortunately, due to the severe backlog of filming, I’m posting photos only now.
And yesterday I received interesting news from the metro press service.
On September 10, the first stage of the launch of traffic on the Moscow Central Circle will take place. On behalf of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the first month of operation of the new highway will be free- passengers will be able to appreciate the advantages and convenience of the new ring, as well as the quality and level of services.
Free rides will help introduce citizens to a new type of urban public transport. They can be carried out from September 10 to October 10 inclusive. During this time, passengers will be able to evaluate the Moscow Central Circle, get acquainted with the stations, and build new convenient routes for themselves that can significantly reduce travel time.
Passengers can also use one ticket to leave the metro, travel to the MCC, and then return to the metro again absolutely free of charge. To do this, you just need to attach your used metro travel document to the reader with a special yellow sticker when passing through the turnstile at stations of the Moscow Central Circle. Passing only through the designated turnstiles will allow you to make a transfer according to the scheme: “metro - MCC - metro” free of charge. The free transfer system begins to operate from the launch of the Moscow Central Circle on September 10.
Passengers who plan to travel only on the MCC, or those who transferred from the metro to the MCC and do not plan to return to the metro within 90 minutes, can safely pass through turnstiles that are not marked with a special sticker. It is important to note that free return to the metro after traveling to the MCC will be possible only with specially activated tickets. These include all types of travel documents, including “Single” and “90 minutes”, purchased after September 1.
Tickets purchased before this date, including those written to the Troika card, can be activated free of charge at the metro and monorail ticket offices, as well as at the Metro Passenger Agency and the Moscow Transport Service Center from September 1. Activation is carried out without changing the balance of trips and the validity period of the ticket, while new, reprogrammed travel documents will allow you to make free transfers to the Moscow Central Circle and experience a new, convenient and comfortable way to travel around the capital.
It will be possible to activate free transfers on a “Wallet” ticket on a “Troika” card by topping it up with an amount of 1 ruble or more, at ticket offices and ticket machines of the metro, as well as through the agent network. Passengers who do not plan to use MCC services do not require ticket activation. Also, Muscovite social cards do not need reprogramming.
1. Entrance to the Gagarin Square station through the ground pavilion. 
2. Everything was ready here a week ago. 
3. Exit to the station platform. 
4. Cash desks. . 
5. The finishing of the platform is almost complete. As you can see, there is very little left. Now it's all finished. 
6. Pay attention to the metro and Russian Railways logos on the glass doors. 
7. Go to the metro station. The appendix is straight - the old groundwork for a transfer to a promising metro station. Hello blind people, if you miss your grooved intersection, you will run into a wall. Why was it necessary to make this strip there? 
8. Bridge on the station platform. Stained glass windows are installed here. 
9. And they completely updated the marble and decoration of this area. 
10. Ticket offices for going from the metro to the MCC and back. 
11. Platform of the Gagarin Square station. 
12. Lobby. 
13. Beauty! By the way, such a contrast with other MCC stations in fact. 
14. The area above has already been put in order. 
15. Day X - September 10. We wait. 
16. And today, after reconstruction, the southern vestibule of the Leninsky Prospekt station opens. 
17. I’ll go there now. And then underground to one of the stations in the northern section. Details later :) 
18. Well, one of the latest versions of the MCC and metro map with the numbers of ground NOTE near the stations of the ring. The diagram shows which stations open in September and which ones open later. But experience suggests that minor changes are possible. In general, there will be a launch. This is the main thing! 