Next year, the Karacharovo stopping point of the Gorky direction of the Moscow Railway (MZD) will be moved half a kilometer to the Moscow Central Ring (MCC). There will be a convenient transfer from the railway to the Nizhny Novgorod MCC station. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow Railways.
The new Karacharovo station will replace the existing railway stop of the same name. Transferring from commuter trains to Lastochki will take only a few minutes. At the same time, passengers will not need to go outside, the crossing will be built on the principle of "dry feet". Currently, railway workers are building an underground pedestrian crossing and a platform. In total, three passenger platforms, six through tracks and two dead ends will be built at the station.
Every day, 187 thousand people use electric trains of the Gorky direction. The busiest station on the route is Moscow-Kurskaya. Every day, 50,000 people pass through the turnstiles of the Gorky dead ends at the Kursk railway station. The second in terms of passenger traffic is the Zheleznodorozhnaya station. It is used by 35 thousand people a day. The remaining stations pass on average 11,000 people each.
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A quick transfer from the train to the MCC will unload the central metro stations - Kurskaya on the Koltsevaya line, Kurskaya on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line and Chkalovskaya on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line. Passengers do not have to go to the Kursky railway station to transfer to the metro.
In addition, Russian Railways plans to make the Karacharovo station for some commuter trains the initial and final ones. This measure will reduce the passenger flow of the Kursk railway station, as well as increase the capacity of the railway in the section from the Moscow-Kurskaya station to the Karacharovo station. It is this section that is now the busiest, since the Kursk railway station also accepts passengers of the Kursk direction of the Moscow Railways and through suburban trains of the Riga and Belorussian directions.
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From the Karacharovo platform, it will be possible to transfer not only to the MCC, but also to the new radial line - Kozhukhovskaya, which the city authorities promise to build next year. From the railway there will be an opportunity 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 area.
By the way, passengers will be able to transfer to one more station - Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa, 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 interchange hub will appear, connecting suburban trains, the MCC and metro stations.
Yaroslavl direction
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Closer to the MCC in the new year will be the Severyanin station of the Yaroslavl direction of the Moscow Railway. The suburban platform will be moved 600 m to the 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.
A new comfortable transfer will reduce the load on the Yaroslavsky railway station and the Komsomolskaya metro station. More than 97,000 people travel daily to Yaroslavsky Station on commuter trains. The passenger traffic of the Yaroslavl direction 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 Marat Khusnullin, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Development Policy and Construction, passenger traffic at the Rostokino MCC station during rush hour can reach 37,000 people.
Riga direction
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For the transfer of passengers of 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 connected by a covered passage, and in order for the 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 overcome the path of 1.5 km on foot and enter the station only through Leningradsky Prospekt. Passenger traffic after the transfer of the platform will increase by about 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 suburban 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 of the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line. The new station will open to 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 "Okruzhny" will be connected by elevators and escalators.
Paveletsky direction
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The Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railways 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, in order to integrate the railway and the subway, it is planned to build a platform with a ticket office terminal, build tracks, and modernize the railway infrastructure.
Passenger transfer will reduce the load at the Paveletskaya and Nagatinskaya metro stations. The predicted passenger flow of the new hub will be about 18,000 people at rush hour. Now, in order to transfer to the MCC, passengers of the Paveletsky direction go from the Nizhnie Kotly station for about 1.2 km. Their path runs along the Warsaw highway.
Kursk direction
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At the end of next year, it is planned to unite the Novokhokhlovskaya MCC station and the station of the same name in the Kursk direction of the Moscow Railway by a covered passage. The railway station is to be built within a year. After that, changing from one station to another, the passengers will have "dry feet". In the meantime, those who have decided to transfer from the Kalitniki station of the Kursk direction of the Moscow Railway to the Novokhokhlovskaya MCC station have to overcome one and a half kilometers along an undeveloped 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 of the Moscow Central Circle in about six minutes. True, construction is currently underway here, the roadbed of the northern section of the North-Eastern Expressway is being built. A year later, a ground covered pedestrian crossing will be erected for the transfer of pedestrians.
On the Riga direction of suburban electric trains, the construction of a new platform "Leningradskaya", shifted to the Moscow Central Circle, has begun. Upon completion of the construction, it will be possible to get to the MCC through a convenient covered passage in a few minutes. But at the same time, "Leningradskaya" is moving away from the metro station "Voykovskaya", where passengers of the Riga direction transfer to go to the center. Why a transfer from the railway to the MCC is being built in the city to the detriment of the transfer to the metro, RG understood.
Let me remind you that a program is currently being implemented in Moscow to integrate MCC stations with suburban railway lines. After its completion, train trips to the city will become much more convenient. Transfers will appear on almost all radii. Stations everywhere "pull up" to each other, making convenient transport hubs, or they build new stations where possible.
With "Leningradskaya" there was a unique situation. There is already a relatively convenient transfer from the Riga direction - a little more than 400 meters - to the Voykovskaya metro station. Fifteen minutes - and the passengers of the Riga direction on the "Belorusskaya", another five - on the "Teatralnaya" near the Kremlin. After the transfer of the platform, it will be about 300 meters further to the metro, but it will be only 90 meters to the MCC through a warm transition. But not everyone needs a ring. “Why do I need the MCC, from which I can only go to the periphery?” Anastasia Mashkova from Krasnogorsk is perplexed. - "I have all the roads - to the center."
"Think about retired summer residents," echoes Alexei Mayorov, who has a summer house in Istra. “For them, an extra 300 meters with heavy bags is not an idle walk.” The difficulty of "Leningradskaya" is that between it and the next station along the Riga direction "Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo" is only a couple of kilometers. “If you add another station between them, the train will not have enough space to accelerate and decelerate between the two platforms, it will have to go slowly, and this will greatly affect the throughput of the section. Not a huge electric train more than 200 meters long, but a tram will have to be allowed here,” they explain in RZD.
As a result, until the last moment, transport workers could not decide how exactly to integrate the Riga direction with the MCC. And the passengers learned about the upcoming plans after the fact - when the workers went to the construction site this winter.
Now the first platform is almost ready. "Railway workers, together with colleagues from the profile structures of Moscow, were looking for the best option. And they came to the decision to move the Leningradskaya stop point in the Riga direction by 200 meters towards the MCC with the construction of two coastal passenger platforms," they comment on the Moscow Railway. - "Such a design solution allows you to maintain the existing link between the Leningradskaya platform and the Voykovskaya metro station, slightly increasing the distance to the metro, and also provides a convenient transfer to the Streshnevo MCC station. In addition, the transport situation for local residents will improve. Residents of Svetly proezd there will be a direct passage to Voykovskaya, and the residents of Radiatornye streets, Voykovskiye proezds will have a passage to the station "Streshnevo". Now, in fact, the Voikovsky district is cut by railroad rails and fences, and after construction a convenient bridge will appear over them."
Now you can get to "Streshnevo" from "Leningradskaya" only through Leningradsky Prospekt - it's about 1.5 km on foot.
According to the forecasts of the Moscow Department of Transport, passenger traffic on Streshnevo will double after the transfer - now there are 4.3 thousand passengers per day, after the completion of construction, 7.9 thousand are expected.
The increase is expected due to passengers from Leningradskaya and local residents - now, according to the Central Suburban Passenger Company, about 8 thousand people pass through the station every day. The remaining 4,000 will have to walk a little longer to get to the subway or take buses. The Department of Transportation promises to review the bus traffic patterns in the area after the transfer is completed.
On September 10, passenger traffic was launched along. One of its stations, Likhobory, is located near the NATI platform of the Oktyabrskaya Railway. Last week I and my colleague Zelenograd infoportal Vasily Povolnov (mostly his photos are used in the post) finally visited this and other stations, which Zelenograd residents can theoretically use to transfer to the MCC, to see how everything works there and tell our readers about it.
The MCC station "Likhobory" (until this summer it was known as "Nikolaevskaya") is in the line of sight from the NATI platform.
If you came by train from Zelenograd, you need to get off the platform to the right side in the direction of travel and go along the path along the railway towards the Leningradsky railway station.
The exit from the platform is located at the level of the third or fourth cars. If you want to save time on transplanting, sit in them. There is also a sign in the direction of the MCC. To the left of it, the buildings of the Likhobor station are visible.
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 transition is not the entrance to the station itself.
After 120 meters, the path along the OZhD (in the photo, the view is in the opposite direction - to the NATI platform) turns right.
Around the corner of the fence, the view of the Likhobory station opens up again. The overpass is within easy reach.
But this is the most unpleasant part of the shortcut. In the vicinity of NATI and Likhobor, the North-East Chord (aka the Northern Rocade) is being built, which by the end of 2018 must tie New Leningradka with Dmitrovsky highway. Because of this, the asphalt is further covered with a layer of dirt, which is transported around the neighborhood by construction equipment. Apparently, in the future, an underground passage will be built here for passengers of electric trains. But for now, this is it. Such a cool infrastructure project as the MCC is, of course, not to the face.
Landscaping work continues around the Likhobory station itself. However, the area in front of the entrance to the transition 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 frames 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 (skids for wheelchairs) on the stairs. One can only sympathize with the one who manages to be here, for example, with a baby carriage.
From the top floor there is a view of the NATI platform and the construction site of the North-East Chord.
And in the other direction - to the platforms of the Likhobory station.
To get to the platform, you need to hit the road on the transition above the railway. Only not to the end, but approximately to the middle.
Note that the transition (at least for now) is not an insulated structure. By design, it is similar to the elevated passage through the Central Avenue near the Zelenograd prefecture, and ventilation “holes in the floor” are hidden behind the railing on the sides. You can't get warm here in the winter. Compared to the transfer from the train to the metro at the Leningradsky railway station, this, of course, is a serious minus.
After about 90 meters on the right in the passage there will be glass doors leading to the station lobby.
Opposite, you can admire the bridge at the intersection of the Moscow Central Circle and the Oktyabrskaya railway.
With navigation, the situation here is much better 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 found without difficulty. Here is a sign that will meet you when you exit the glass doors. Then along the way there will be a few more signs.
In the lobby, behind the glass doors, there are turnstiles that are not working yet (let me remind you that travel through 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 going west (along the outer side of the ring) - towards Koptevo, Baltiyskaya, Streshnevo and so on - you are on the right. If to the east (on the inside) - to the "Okruzhnaya", "Vladykino", "Botanical Garden" and further - to the left.
To help you, the MCC scheme (clickable)
The most obvious way to get down to the platform is the escalator. Unlike 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 road will take a little longer, since you will still have to cross the bridge to the far platform to NATI.
While we are waiting for our “Lastochka” to go on a trip around 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 public transport stops. The bulk of the TPU buildings will be located on the side of the Cherepanovykh passage (that is, opposite from the NATI platform). It is supposed to look like this (the image is clickable).
And this is what the place looks like now.
Road works are being carried out on the Cherepanovykh passage.
The TPU 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 electric trains of the Leningrad direction will stop even closer to the MCC, and the transfer from NATI to Likhobory will become even shorter and more convenient.
And now let's return to the Likhobory station. Both platforms have awnings and a decent amount of benches and bins. The surface is tiled, with a strip of yellow tactile tiles 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 retro.
All the design is designed in the corporate style of Russian Railways, which operates this road together with the Moscow Metro (I remind you that you can pay for travel with metro tickets, while the transfer between the metro and the MCC will be free for an hour and a half).
Electronic boards show the direction of travel (by the name of the next station) and the time until the arrival of the train. Recall that the declared intervals for trains on the MCC are 6 minutes during peak hours and 11-15 minutes during off-peak hours. If necessary, these intervals promise to reduce. And it seems that they are already thinking about the implementation of such a possibility.
The platform from which you can leave Likhobor towards Koptevo, that is, to the west, has tracks on both sides. But trains come on the left side (in the direction of travel from the escalator). "External routes" are needed, apparently, 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. It's been about 15 minutes since the previous one left. True, three electric trains proceeded in the opposite direction during this time.
As a rolling stock on the Moscow Central Ring, "Swallows" are used. I made a big post about how are these trains
. Inside the "Lastochka" on the MCC, they are no different from those that run to Kryukovo and Tver and are already well known to many Zelenograd residents, except for pasted diagrams and announcements.
Scheme of the MCC in the car:
MCC and metro map:
Bicycles are allowed on the MCC, and there are appropriate stickers on the trains, but we did not find special fastenings 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 fulfilled.
Empty trains do not seem to run on the MCC. We were on the ring from about 17:00 to 18:30, that is, almost in the evening "rush hour", and in all the "Swallows" we saw, some of the passengers rode standing up.
The nearest stop to Likhobory, if you go west, is Koptevo. However, it turned out to be among the five stations that did not manage to open even in draft form before the launch 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 metro station located nearby.
The transfer between Baltiyskaya and Voykovskaya is considered one of the longest on the MCC. The vestibules of the two stations are located more than 700 meters apart. In order for a subway 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 Leningradskoe shosse towards the region - to the Metropolis shopping center .
"Baltiyskaya" is located at the intersection of the MCC with the Leningrad highway. The station has two exits: one towards Admiral Makarov Street, the other towards Novopetrovsky proezd, Metropolis and Voykovskaya metro station.
Moreover, the branch of the transition, which leads from the MCC station towards Voykovskaya, is docked with the Metropolis building. And although the signs send you to the subway on the street, in fact, a significant part of the way can be done in the warmth, passing through the entire building of the shopping center. Then, only about 200 meters will remain to be overcome 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 on the Baltic and, accordingly, it is wider.
Escalators and stairs for descent / ascent between the platform and the transition are located in one place. There are also elevators, but, like on Likhobory, they are not working yet.
If you, having a baby stroller with you, decide to leave Baltiyskaya in the direction opposite to Metropolis, you will face the same problem as at the transfer at NATI - there is no alternative to descend the stairs without channels.
View from the MCC platform to the side facade of the Metropolis.
If the Metrostroy website contains current sketches of TPU projects on the Moscow Central Circle, then the final form of the Baltiyskaya station will look like this. There will be another transition in both directions from the other edge of the platform.
The next station after the "Baltic" - "Streshnevo". Previously, it was called "Volokolamskaya" because it is located at the intersection of the MCC with the Volokolamsk highway. Theoretically, one of Zelenograd residents could come here by car, and then go on their way along the MCC. However, this option is unlikely to become widespread. Not only will it suit few people by itself, it’s also not clear where to leave the car in this case - there is no semblance of an intercepting parking here.
Moreover, a transition has not yet been completed at Streshnevo, which could lead to the 1st Krasnogorsky passage, which is potentially the most convenient way to get to this station from Zelenograd.
As part of the creation of a transport interchange hub here, the Streshnevo MCC station will be connected by a transition to the platform of the Riga Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo direction, which will be moved several hundred meters for this. However, this has nothing to do with trips to / from Zelenograd (only if it’s for trips to my country house :)).
Visualization of the Streshnevo transport hub project (image from the MCC website)
Scheme of the Streshnevo transport hub (clickable image from the Metrostroy website)
In the meantime, the Streshnevo station looks almost like the twin Likhobor: the same two platforms on the sides of the main passage...
And a typical (but at the same time, in my opinion, stylish) lobby building with escalators, adjacent to the transition.
There are also combined “ring” metro and MCC schemes everywhere. For some reason, there were no such schemes at Likhobory.
As in all other places, active construction and finishing work is still going on at the Streshnevo station.
Unfortunately, I have not had time to drive around the entire ring yet, although it would be very interesting to do this. Well, I hope it still does. However, from the point of view of Zelenograd residents, of course, the visited stations are of the greatest interest.
At the end of the story, I summarize a few key points.
1. The MCC has started — and it's wonderful. In fact, a new type of public transport appeared in Moscow, 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 by the townspeople.
2. Many residents of Zelenograd have new options for building routes when traveling to Moscow. But a lot here depends on the number of electric trains stopping at NATI. For example, on September 20, it was impossible to leave Kryukovo for 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
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3. The road was opened with a lot of minor imperfections - work is still underway almost everywhere. For the majority of passengers, this is not scary, but the MCC is practically not suitable for people with limited mobility. If for some reason you experience difficulties with movement, you should think very carefully about how you will storm the numerous stairs, even devoid of wheelchair skids.
The long-awaited new line of urban transport has earned. The Moscow Central Ring (MCC) received its first passengers on the afternoon of September 10. On the first day, 26 out of 31 ring stations were opened. The correspondent of "SZ" visited the stations of our district.
Stations and transfers
If you drive along the inner ring of the MCC, that is, clockwise, the first station in the SZAO is Khoroshovo. It is located on Khoroshovsky highway approximately in the middle between Zorge street and the beginning of Mnevniki street. There have been a lot of passengers here since the first days of the MCC: many change here to the Polezhaevskaya metro station. Walk to the subway a little more than 600 meters, which takes 7-8 minutes for most passengers.
The next two stations - "Zorge" and "Panfilovskaya" - trains still pass without stops. They, as well as three other stations of the MCC, which are not yet operating (Koptevo, Sokolinaia Gora and Dubrovka), are planned to open before the end of the year. At Panfilovskaya there will be one more transfer to the "burgundy" metro line - to the Oktyabrskoye Pole station.
The next operating MCC station in SZAO is Streshnevo. True, the exit here is open so far only on one side - to the Light Passage. Many passengers, getting off at this station, ask its employees how to get to the Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo railway platform (the possibility of such a transfer is indicated on some variants of the MCC map). It is really possible to get to this platform from here, but, firstly, it is long, and secondly, you need to know the road well. To do this, you will have to cross the path of the MCC. This can only be done along the sidewalk of the automobile bridge along which Volokolamka passes, and you still have to walk to it. It is easier to get to the neighboring platform Leningradskaya of the same Riga direction, since it is located on the other side of the MCC, the exit to which works. This path takes 8-9 minutes for a pedestrian.
But as soon as the second exit from the Streshnevo station opens (to the 1st Krasnogorsky proezd), transferring to electric trains of the Riga direction will become much more convenient. According to the station staff, this will happen in a couple of months, or even earlier.
The next MCC station, Baltiyskaya, is located in the neighboring Northern District, near the border of the Northwestern Administrative District. Here you can go to the Voykovskaya metro station. The transition is comparable in distance with the transfer "Khoroshevo" - "Polezhaevskaya".
Transfers to the MCC take an average of 2-3 minutes. But taking into account the fact that the intermediate stations in the North-West Administrative District are still closed, I rushed from the Khoroshevo station to Streshnevo in 5 minutes!
Where to put the bike?
The MCC could become popular with cyclists. But there is a problem: entering the car through the door with the icon depicting a bicycle, you find that it leads to the narrowest place in the car opposite the toilet. There are reclining seats here. When they are not busy, you can still put a couple of Veliks, but if people are sitting here, even one bicycle creates inconvenience in the aisle.
But these are temporary difficulties. "Swallows", received in the factory, promise to remake.
“All cars at the depot will be gradually re-equipped during the year,” said Nadezhda Dorzhieva, head of the MCC press center in the Moscow Metro. - For cyclists, places will be equipped in the 2nd and 4th cars, each of which will have racks for six bicycles.
In addition, the “extra” seats will be removed, leaving 2 on each side of the aisle, which will make it much wider (in some cars this has already been done). Metal cages for suitcases, which take up a lot of space, are being dismantled, and handrails will be built for standing passengers.
Near the building of the Russian Geological Fund a small exhibition of stones
There is a small open section of the Tarakanovka River near the railway tracks, which in the old days was not polluted by industrial waste. In the 18th century, five dams were built along the river, and local residents fished in the resulting ponds. Behind the residential buildings of the Khoroshevsky Highway, a large-scale construction of the Third Interchange Circuit of the Metro was launched.
At the intersection of Khoroshevsky highway and Zorge street, a monument to the Soviet intelligence officer was erected. In 1929, Richard Sorge began to cooperate with the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army and was soon sent to Japan. Most often, the name of the intelligence officer, who worked under the pseudonym Ramsay, is mentioned in connection with the preparations for the invasion of Nazi Germany in the USSR. Japan was an ally of Germany and valuable information about preparations for war came here. Thanks to the professionalism of Sorge, secret information was transmitted in encryption to Moscow. In particular, Ramsay reported Japan's unwillingness to participate in the war against the Soviet Union, which allowed the Headquarters in the fall of 1941 to transfer fresh and well-trained Siberian divisions to the defense of Moscow.
In October 1941, Sorge was arrested by the Japanese police and sentenced to death by a court. At the end of the war, Japanese intelligence documents on the activities of Sorge and his residency fell into the hands of the Americans and became public. In the USSR, the first publications about the exploit of Richard Sorge appeared in 1964 and he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).
The name of Richard Sorge is immortalized in the name of the next MCC station (the original version was Novopeschannaya), which was somewhat late with the opening. During the first month of the ring's operation, trains pass by without stopping.
One of the branches of the Moscow District, laid along Berzarina Street, and on the People's Militia, the railway crossing still seems to be preserved.
Sorge Street can be conditionally divided in two: the even side consists of residential quarters of panel and brick houses, and the odd side, along the railway, is occupied by garages, car services, car washes, dealerships. A pedestrian bridge will be built for passengers from Zorge Street to the MCC station.
Among the stalinok, decorated with "architectural extravagances", the unkempt facade of the Research Institute "Medstatistika" was caught
On the odd side of Sorge Street, along the railway, there is a lot of space that is slowly being developed for residential and office development. What goods and services are available - graffiti will tell.
The orientation of the industrial zone to the maintenance of vehicles has developed back in the Soviet years. 1986: https://pastvu.com/p/26341 In the background are the mighty buildings of CHPP-16, the foundation of which was ready in 1941, and construction was completed in the late 1950s.
Passenger building at the military field stop. 1907-1908: https://pastvu.com/p/85357
The same building, which can be identified only by the inscription on the facade. 1987: https://pastvu.com/p/27622 (not preserved)
These places are most directly related to the history of the Moscow District Railway - historian Yuri Egorov tells about this on the Archnadzor website http://www.archnadzor.ru/2016/09/05/voennoe-pole/: the Zorge station "is located exactly on the site of the Voyennoye Pole stopping point that existed here, built together with the District Railway in 1905-1907. The name Military Field is an old Moscow toponym that has existed in this place for many decades. Since the middle of the 19th century, a part of the vast Khodynka field along the current District Railway has been occupied by military camps - infantry, artillery, cadet schools, several Cossacks and others. In addition to the camps themselves, that is, the barracks, there were training grounds and even shooting ranges, including a “shooting shaft” for training artillerymen.
To serve the military camps and convenient transportation of soldiers to them, a stopping point was built, which was called the Military Field. If necessary, access roads from the camps could easily be brought to it - all the buildings and structures needed for this were built in advance, along with the rest of the road. Military camps were located here until the end of the 1950s, now there are residential areas on this site.
The author of the buildings on the Military Field was the chief architect of the Okruzhnaya Railway - the famous Alexander Pomerantsev: it is his signature that is on the surviving historical drawings. The building of the Voyennoye Pole station was outstanding not only among the buildings of the Okruzhnaya - it was one of the most interesting Moscow stations with a bright and unusual architectural design. The building was a complex multi-volume composition of variable height and number of storeys, with a rich and varied decor, and was associated primarily with a fairy-tale tower. The entrance to the building from the side of the city was made in the form of a porch with a hipped roof and a spire crowning it, graceful pilasters. Unfortunately, the Military Field is one of the few places on the Ring Road where the historical buildings have been completely lost.”
Military field. House. 1907: https://pastvu.com/p/26415
Immediately behind the Peschany overpass there is the Panfilovskaya MCC station (the original version was Khodynka), named after Panfilov Street, which runs parallel. Ivan Panfilov was a veteran of the First World War, in the Civil War he fought in the Chapaev division, and in the fall of 1941, already with the rank of major general, he held the defense on the outskirts of Moscow. His 316th rifle division, manned mainly by fighters called up from the Kazakh and Kirghiz SSR, turned out to be one of the most combat-ready due to good training in the exercises and Panfilov's tactics. He used a system of in-depth artillery anti-tank defense and mobile barrier detachments. The defeated German General Erich Hoepner called the Panfilovites "a wild division, fighting in violation of all charters and rules of warfare, whose soldiers do not surrender, are extremely fanatical and are not afraid of death." Ivan Panfilov died under mortar fire near Volokolamsk in November 1941.
"Panfilovskaya" - one of the five MCC stations that opened late
Behind the brick houses of Panfilov Street, Sokol hid - the first cooperative residential village in Moscow, founded in 1923. The Sokol partnership included employees of the people's commissariats, economists, artists, teachers, agronomists, and technical intelligentsia. Share contributions were quite high, it is good to have a house in a village on the outskirts of the capital, but it is expensive.
Houses on an area of 21 hectares were built according to individual projects of architects Nikolai Markovnikov, brothers Alexander, Victor and Leonid Vesnin, Ivan Kondakov, Alexei Shchusev. Each plot had about nine acres. By the beginning of the 1930s, 114 residential buildings, two grocery stores, a kindergarten, a canteen and a library were built. The village streets were named after Russian painters, which is why the unofficial name arose - the Village of Artists.
Since 1936, as part of the concept of building workers' camps, apartment buildings began to appear on Sokol, diluting the colorful rural nature. Now the village is completely losing its uniqueness: the owners are actively demolishing the wooden "junk", erecting modern haciendas to their taste.
MGUPP dormitory fence
One of the exits of the Panfilovskaya station is oriented towards Marshal Rybalko Street, where a large cream "cake" with icing and a tower candle appeared on the site of the former armored repair plant of the Ministry of Defense - the Marshal residential complex, designed by architect Mikhail Filippov. From the enterprise there were rich gates and a T-34-85 tank, installed on the factory territory on May 9, 1985 and moved to the square near the Yunost cinema (the cinema operates on the first floor of a residential building built in 1955).
The decoration of these places is the ensemble of the junction railway station of the Moscow Railways "Serebryany Bor": a passenger building (architect Alexander Pomerantsev), a luggage compartment, a traveling barracks, a gatehouse and two switch posts. In the station there were passenger halls of I, II and III classes, the office of the head of the station, a telegraph office. Residential buildings of the 2nd and 3rd types for employees and small buildings have not been preserved. The station was named after the age-old pine forest that stood around it, which in the old days was called Serebryany Bor, and later - the Big All Saints Grove. It was from here that on July 19, 1908, a festive train with an official delegation set off, opening regular traffic along the MOZHD.
A list of all station facilities is known: passenger platforms, a passenger building, a luggage room, a latrine, a kerosene cellar, a garbage pit, a fire shed, central control booths, a water-lifting building, a water building, a residential building of type No. 2, a residential building of type No. 3 , a barracks, three watch houses, goods platforms and a warehouse, a goods office and a weighing platform, wells, switch boxes. Station diagram: http://mozd.livejournal.com/13940.html
Silver Forest. 1907-1908: https://pastvu.com/p/85708
The building with columns was built later, either next to a small warehouse, or on its foundation.
House. 1907: https://pastvu.com/p/53677
Arrow centralization post. 1907: https://pastvu.com/p/85710
The same place, but in 1963-1964: https://pastvu.com/p/21586
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On the opposite side of the Serebryany Bor station there was a food station for feeding soldiers from military echelons, designed for 1200 people. The item included: a dining room, a kitchen, a glacier, a pantry with a cellar, a shed for firewood, a latrine, a garbage pit, a house for the team, a commandant's house with services.
