Vladimir Putin and Sergei Sobyanin inaugurate the first Troitskaya line section

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin have inaugurated the first 8.3-kilometer-long section of the Troitskaya Metro Line, including four stations of Novatorskaya, Universitet Druzhby Narodov, Generala Tyuleneva, and Tyutchevskaya. Moscow has got a new, the 16 th metro line with a convenient change from Novatorskaya station to the Big Circle Line (BCL).

“First of all, I would like to congratulate Muscovites, those Muscovites who will use this new metro line. Certainly, we understand well that it changes the quality of people’s lives. It is very important, indeed. Moscow is making really outstanding progress in metro construction,” says Vladimir Putin.

Sergei Sobyanin says that in recent years the metropolitan metro network has grown by 1.8 times, getting 119 stations of the metro, Moscow Central Circle (MCC), and a few Moscow Central Diameters (MCDs).

“The city is growing, so we continue to run large projects. One of such projects is construction of the Troitskaya metro line. It is 43 kilometers, with 17 stations. It goes from ZIL, from central Moscow, from the MCC, crossing the BCL and running to the science city of Troitsk,” says Sergei Sobyanin.

The first Troitskaya Line section has improved transport services for about 1 million Muscovites, including more than 800,000 residents in the Moscow districts of Obruchevsky, Konkovo, Tyoply Stan, Prospekt Vernadskogo, Lomonosovsky and Kommunarka (Mosrentgen settlement), who have got a metro station within a walking distance. In the vicinity of the new stations there are the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), Kulakov Scientific Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, other major universities, scientific and medical institutions, in addition to a large shopping mall, Mega Tyoply Stan. So, more than 200,000 students and employees can now use new, more convenient routes to get where they study or work.

By 2029, the new stations are expected to serve about 100,000 people daily, who will be able to save about 25 per cent of their time when traveling around the city; for example, the journey from Universitet Druzhby Narodov to Novatorskaya has been shortened sevenfold, taking 3 minutes vs. 20 minutes. In the future, passenger traffic is expected to increase, including due to new housing and the predicted emergence of more than 70,000 new jobs near the launched Troitskaya Line section by 2030.

“We are trying to boost New Moscow by maintaining a balance between housing and jobs, so that they are not just outskirts, but an actual economically important area,” adds the Moscow Mayor.

The launch of the first, Novatorskaya — Tyutchevskaya section is to relieve the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya and Sokolnicheskaya metro lines (by up to 20 per cent), the adjacent streets and roads (by 5 to 10 per cent), including Leninsky Prospekt, Vernadsky Prospekt, Profsoyuznaya Street, etc.

The Troitskaya Line fleet employs advanced Russia-made Moscow-2024 trains with everything for a comfortable travel, e. g., powerful air conditioning systems, wide doors and inter-car passages, USB ports and plenty of media screens. Yet, the main advantages of Moscow-2024 over Moscow-2020 are the new exterior, improved aerodynamics and trendy interior, which makes traveling even more comfortable for passengers.

The new Troitskaya Line stations are built with maximum comfort for passengers in mind as they offer 48 latest-design turnstiles for entry and exit (two turnstiles in each lobby supporting the Face Pay option), 39 ticket machines and terminals, and a user-friendly, uniform-style navigation system.

From the very first day, passengers can use 4G mobile network at the platforms and tunnels, Russia’s largest Internet providers offering 300 Mbps fast Internet and excellent voice communication services, to say nothing of free Wi-Fi that is available to passengers onboard the trains.

Passengers can also get to the new metro stations by ground public transport, as some existing routes (e. g., E10, No. 145, 485, 718, etc.) have been adjusted to reduce intervals and avoid overlap.

Construction of the new line’s transfer tunnels involved using six tunnel-boring machines as metro builders excavated more than a million cubic meters of soil, laid over 200,000 cubic meters of monolithic reinforced concrete and 3.2 million linear meters of cable, says Sergei Zhukov, CEO Mosinzhproekt. “The total area of the four stations is almost 75 thousand square meters. Construction of the Troitskaya Line is still underway,” he adds.

Before the launch, Moscow Metro builders tested and adjusted escalators, turnstiles, ticket offices, communication, ventilation, security and dozens of other systems.

The first Troitskaya Line section has created more than 650 jobs, including train drivers, station attendants, trackmen, fitters, and electricians.

Novatorskaya Station

Located along Leninsky Prospekt at the intersection with Udaltsov and Novatorov streets (on the border of the Obruchevsky and Prospekt Vernadskogo districts) and offering a transfer to the same-name BCL station, the Troitskaya line’s Novatorskaya is a shallow, columned, three-span station with one island platform and two lobbies (one of them connected with the BCL station). It has exits on both sides of Leninsky Prospekt — to Novatorov and Udaltsov Streets, residential and public buildings, and to ground transportation stops.

In fact, it serves the Obruchevsky, Lomonosovsky and Prospekt Vernadskogo districts that are home to 250,000 people who have got another metro station within a walking distance.

Novatorskaya has become part of the same-name transport hub connecting the Troitskaya and Big Circle metro lines, plus ground public transport options. By the end of 2024, the hub is expected to serve 37,000 passengers on weekdays, including about 10,000 passengers who will use the Troitskaya line’s station.

By 2029, the daily passenger flow of the Novatorskaya transport hub will exceed 55,000 people, the Troitskaya line’s station to be a through point for more than 20,000 passengers. The increase in passenger traffic is due to construction of housing; in addition, it will become more convenient for Muscovites to get to nearby hotspots, such as the Rio Mall, Udaltsov Plaza Business Center, etc.

Novatorskaya has a distinctly individual, present-day architectural solution featuring a motif of Moscow windows that are symbolized by LED lights in perspective orange colored coffers.

The remarkable ceiling design is echoed by the top of the track walls, which, like the ceiling itself, are finished with varied-format aluminum honeycomb panels anodized to look like brushed stainless steel. Information boards with the station’s name and the line’s map are placed at the level of the train windows; below, the walls are covered with a suspended noise-attenuating system — a prefabricated structure made of orange-colored aluminum honeycomb panels, with the wall base of black gabbro-diabase stone.

Two rows of square columns are faced with light grey granite, the slabs featuring a raised pattern on the side of the central hall, because of vertical depressions, and looking smooth on the side of the trains. The floor is covered with polished light grey granite.

The ticket hall walls are faced with grey marble, with the columns featuring polished black gabbro and grey granite, and the flooring is of gabbro-diabase. The ticket hall is highlighted with cladding made of orange-colored artificial agglomerate stone.

Universitet Druzhby Narodov

Situated along Akademik Oparin Street at the intersection with Miklukho-Maklay Street, Universitet Druzhby Narodov station on the Troitskaya metro line is a shallow station with one underground lobby exiting to both sides of Akademik Oparin Street, to Miklukho-Maklay Street, residential and public buildings, and to ground transport stops.

In addition to the same-name university (in English: the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia), there are the Russian State Geological Prospecting University, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow University under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Kulakov Scientific Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, etc. in the vicinity, with more than 25,000 people working or studying near the station.

Its launch has certainly improved transport services for residents in the Obruchevsky and Konkovo districts as they, as well as people who have jobs in the adjacent areas, can now get to the metro by foot, thus, saving more than 30 minutes a day. For example, the journey from a nearby neighborhood to the BCL transfer has become seven-time shorter, whereas previously the journey took 20 minutes by ground transport. With the opening of Universitet Druzhby Narodov, one can get to Novatorskaya in a straight line without transfers in just 3 minutes.

It is expected that in 2024, the new station will be used by 25,000 passengers per weekday, and by 2029 its daily passenger flow is to exceed 30,000 people.

It will also relieve Belyaevo metro station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line and Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya line by up to 20 per cent.

Its design features a calm and soft color scheme. Its ceiling is decorated with coffers of steel profiles, which are painted light green and blue on the inside. The pattern is echoed by the track walls and the ticket hall, the built-in lights creating an uneven play of light, making the station look very dynamic.

The two rows of columns on the platform are faced with grey marble, and the floor is covered with light grey granite.

One can also see themed glass mosaic panels in the RUDN University corporate color scheme, above the escalator descent and in the pedestrian crossing, one of them honoring students, while the other symbolizes friendship between peoples. The mosaic panels were created by artist Maxim Kozlov, who won the 2023 Moscow Architecture Prize for his Nagatinsky Zaton station mosaic solution.

Generala Tyuleneva Station

Generala Tyuleneva station is located along the same-name street at the intersection with Tyoply Stan Street.

It is a shallow station with one underground lobby exiting to Tyoply Stan Street and General Tyulenev Street, residential and public buildings, and to ground transport stops.

It has improved transport services for residents of the Tyoply Stan district, who can now save about 30 minutes a day on traveling around the city.

For instance, the journey from General Tyulenev Street to the nearest BCL station has become approximately three times shorter, while before passengers had to use ground transport, so the journey took more than 20 minutes. With the opening of Generala Tyuleneva station, one can get to Novatorskaya in a straight line without transfers in just 8 minutes.

It is expected that in 2024, the new station will be used by 16,000 passengers per weekday, and by 2029 its daily passenger flow is to exceed 25,000 people.

It will also relieve Tyoply Stan metro station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line and Troparyovo metro station on the Sokolnicheskaya line by up to 20 per cent.

The station has a trendy look, featuring dynamic oblique lines and asymmetric arrangement. Information boards with the station’s name and the line’s map are placed at the level of the train windows, as usual; below, the walls are covered with a suspended noise-attenuating system, which is a prefabricated structure made of 1.2-meter-high aluminum honeycomb panels. The wall base is lined with black gabbro-diabase stone.

The suspended ceiling and track walls are faced with triangular aluminum panels of varying sizes, anodized to look like titanium, the triangular modules merging into strips, echoing the column spacing to repeat every two span. Pendant linear lights are installed on the ceiling.

The two rows of circular columns are faced with circular gabbro ornamentation. The floor is covered with diagonally laid grey granite and gabbro-diabase, its oblique lines echoing the ceiling’s pattern.

Above the escalator, there is a perforated aluminum panel portraying General Ivan Vladimirovich Tyulenev, the Full Cavalier of St George Cross and Hero of the Soviet Union, who gave the name to the new station.

Tyutchevskaya station

Located in the settlement of Mosrentgen (TiNAO), along the 42 nd kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road from the outside, the Troitskaya line’s Tyutchevskaya station is a columned, three-span, shallow-level station with an island platform and one ground-level lobby.

Its launch has improved transport accessibility in Kommunarka and Tyoply Stan districts, as more than 100,000 people have got a nearby metro station for the first time ever and can easier get to Moscow’s largest shopping quarters with Slavyansky Mir Mall, Mega, Auchan and OBI located on the other side of the Kaluzhskoye Motorway.

Moreover, Tyutchevskaya made the journey to the BCL interchange three times faster, indeed, since passengers can reach Novatorskaya and change to the same-name BCL station in 10 minutes instead of 30 minutes.

It is expected that in 2024 the new station will be used about 9,000 passengers per weekday, and by 2029 its daily passenger flow is to exceed 15,000 people.

With the launch of Tyutchevskaya station, Tyoply Stan of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line will have up to 7 per cent less traffic.

In order to make it look remarkably vibrant, architects chose the contemporary aesthetic with dynamic shapes, inclined lines and planes, glass and metal surfaces contrasting with those of natural stone. Lines from Fyodor Tyutchev’s poems scattered around the platform are the station’s prominent decorations.

In the rectangular platform section, the main theme is set by the surfaces of the columns and track walls. The latter are made of monolithic reinforced concrete and faced with transparent, slightly smoked triplex panels; behind the transparent cladding, there are hidden steel pipes with power cables inside.

The floor is decorated with oblique lines of black gabbro. The walls are also crossed by inclined lines separating the light, polished poem-bearing planes of the aluminum honeycomb panels from the dark background of the zinc-anodized panels. Information boards with the station’s name are placed at the level of the train windows.

The station has a suspended ceiling made of aluminum honeycomb panels and decorative slatted lamellas, with linear lights installed between the panels.

The station’s lobby is lined with light-grey dolomite slabs, its entrance and exit got canopied to shelter passengers from rain and snow.

The 16 th Moscow Metro line

The new Troitskaya metro line will run from MCC ZIL station in Danilovsky district to Troitsk, providing high-speed rail transport for residents of Moscow‘s new areas, the neighborhoods adjacent to Leninsky Prospekt to get one more metro line, too.

Over 1.5 million people live next to Troitskaya line stations, the figure to grow, given new real estate projects, the metro also stimulating creation of many thousands of new jobs.

Once fully operational, the Troitskaya Line will relieve the southern sections of the Sokolnicheskaya and Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya lines, in addition to the Butovskaya metro line, and will reduce vehicle traffic on the adjacent streets and roads, which, in turn, would be good for the environment. In particular, the Sokolnicheskaya and Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro lines will be relieved up to 20 per cent, the Butovskaya line to have up to 15 per cent less traffic.

In the future, the Troitskaya Line will significantly improve transport accessibility of Krasnaya Pakhra and its critical facilities, such as Europe’s largest electric bus garage, a traction batteries plant and KamAZ maintenance center for public and commercial transport.

The 43-kilometer-long Troitskaya line with 17 stations is to become one of the longest Moscow Metro radial routes and the largest beyond the Moscow Ring Road. ZIL and Krymskaya will provide transfer to the same-name MCC stations, with changes from Novatorskaya to the Big Circle Line and from Akademicheskaya to the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line. Novomoskovskaya station will be a transfer hub for passengers to change to the Sokolnicheskaya Line, a transfer from ZIL to the Biryulyovskaya metro line to be arranged in the future.

Passengers will be able to choose from dozens of new route options to travel around the city, thus, saving a lot of time, indeed; for example, residents of Troitsk will be able to get to the BCL and MCC twice as fast — in 35 and 45 minutes, respectively. The line’s expected passenger flow at the entrance is more than 320,000 passengers per day.

Currently, they are building the 26.6 km Troitskaya Line segment between ZIL and Kommunarka (Stage I), including 11 stations, namely ZIL, Krymskaya, Akademicheskaya, Vavilovskaya, Novatorskaya, Universitet Druzhby Narodov, Generala Tyuleneva, Tyutchevskaya, Kornilovskaya, Kommunarka, and Novomoskovskaya.

The technical launch of the first Novatorskaya —Tyutchevskaya section (8.3 kilometers, 4 stations) took place on June 21, and it was opened for passengers on September 7. Meanwhile, the Tyutchevskaya-Novomoskovskaya section is to be completed in 2024, with the Novatorskaya — ZIL section to follow in 2025.

As for Novomoskovskaya — Troitsk (Stage II) is concerned, they are developing design documentation at the moment.

The highest traffic intensity after the line is fully launched could be up to 36 pairs of trains per hour with time intervals between trains of up to 1 minute and 40 seconds.

At first, the new line’s fleet will be serviced by the Zamoskvoretskoye train depot and then by the Stolbovo depot. In 2028–2029, the authorities will also build the Troitskoye train depot.

Moscow Metro program outcomes

Since 2011, the Moscow Government has constructed or reconstructed 248.6 kilometers of lines, 119 stations, 4 extra lobbies and 12 train depots for Moscow Metro and MCC.

In addition, together with Russian Railways, the municipality put into operation four lines of the Moscow Central Diameters with 303 kilometers of tracks and 137 stations.

Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line:

— Maryino-Zyablikovo section (3 stations);

— Maryina Roscha-Phystech section (9 stations);

— 2 nd lobby (exit) for Maryina Roscha station;

— 2 nd lobby for Petrovsko-Razumovskaya station;

— 2 nd lobby for Okruzhnaya station.

Kalininskaya and Solntsevskaya lines:

— Novogireevo-Novokosino section (1 station);

— Delovoy Tsentr-Vnukovo Airport section (14 stations);

Zamoskvoretskaya line:

— Krasnogvardeyskaya-Alma-Atinskaya section (1 station);

— Technopark station;

— Rechnoy Vokzal-Khovrino station (2 stations).

Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line:

— Mitino-Pyatnitskoye Shosse section (1 station).

Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line:

— Vykhino-Kotelniki section (3 stations);

— Spartak station.

Butovskaya line:

— Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya-Bitsevsky Park section (2 stations).

Sokolnicheskaya line:

— Yugo-Zapadnaya-Potapovo section (8 stations).

Nekrasovskaya line:

— 7 stations.

Big Circle Line:

— 31 stations.

Filyovskaya line:

— 2 nd lobby for Mezhdunarodnaya station (Moscow City).

Troitskaya line:

— Novatorskaya — Tyutchevskaya section (4 stations).

Moscow Central Circle:

— 31 stations.

Moscow Central Diameters (D1, D2, D3, and D4): — 137 stations, including 53 interchanges to Moscow Metro, MCC and MCD lines.

Train depots (including reconstruction): Mitino, Brateevo, Pechatniki, Vykhino, Planernoye, Nizhegorodskoye, Likhobory, Solntsevo, Vladykino, Rudnevo, Sokol, and Aminyevskoye.