16.01.09

About ten new stations will be built in the Moscow metro system by 2015, Moscow City's chief architect, Alexander Kazmin told a news conference Tuesday.

In addition to the four stations due to be opened this year - Dostoyevskaya and Maryina Roshcha in the downtown and Volokolamskaya and Mitino in the northwest suburbs - a new station, Seligerskaya, will appear in the city's mid-north in an area located close to the busy Dmitrovskoye Shosse avenue.

Seligerskaya will be a depot and is due to be commissioned sometime between 2013 and 2015 and will become a northwards extension of the Lyublino line.

To a vast relief of the thousands of people living in the district of Brateyevo in the southeast, the existing Zamoskvorechye line will be extended there in 2011 and 2012.

Construction of a "transition contour" that in the future will start at the Moskva City business center and will skirt the downtown to the northwest, north and northeast towards Nizhegorodskaya street, a major eastern transport artery, is due to begin between 2013 and 2015.

Three new stations will be built on the already existing lines. The Circle Line that roughly goes around the Garden Ring streets will get Suvorovksaya station, nearby the huge Russian Army Theater and Catherine's Park.

Tekhnopark station will appear to the southeast of the city' s downtown on Zamoskvorechya line and Spartak Stadium will be built on the Taganka line between the densely populated Tushino and Shchukino districts of the northwest.

Improvements in the Moscow metro system that carries about 9 million passengers daily include construction of new exits/entries at the stations that opened many decades ago. Their list includes Baumanskaya, which is located next to the city's famous Epiphany Cathedral and by the compounds of several major colleges and universities, and Komsomolskaya that services three major railway terminals, the Leningradsky terminal where from trains start to St Petersburg also in that number.

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Source: Itar-Tass