Kommunarskaya line


The Kommunarskaya line is a planned line of the Moscow Metro that will initially extend to the settlement of Kommunarka in the Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug, or New Moscow. Future expansion plans could extend the line to the town of Troitsk. The city plans to begin construction on the line in 2018.

Current Timeline

The initial stage of the line will cover from Moscow to Kommunarka and have seven stations. The city projects completion in 2021 at a cost of 49.8 billion rubles.

Development

Following the expansion of the city of Moscow, which doubled the city’s size, the city administration sought to increase public transit into the area, known as New Moscow. In 2014, the Mayor of Moscow, Sergey Sobyanin, undertook a visit to China where he signed an agreement with the China Railway Construction Corporation and China International Fund to build a line to New Moscow and finance construction by developing real estate at the stations. With the fall of the ruble in late 2014, negotiations over costs were held up and the Deputy Mayor for Construction Marat Khusnullin announced that the city would continue development using its own funds.
By 2016, the city was again negotiating with CRCC for construction of the line. Rather than CRCC handing the whole project, the city wanted to split the work between Russian and Chinese workers. The parties agreed not only on construction of the Kommunarskaya line, but also three stations of the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line, Michurinsky Prospekt, Aminyevskoye Shosse, and Prospekt Vernadskogo.

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