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To Seligerskaya and beyond: How the metro advanced to the north of Moscow

15 January 2018

Three stations on the Dmitrvosky radial line, Line 10, will be opened soon. Today the technical aspects of this section were finilised. Northern Moscow residents have been waiting for the metro for more than 50 years.

The plans to build a metro line along Dmitrovskoye Motorway are over half a century old. In 1960, Moscow was expanded to include the entire area inside the Moscow Ring Road. This included Beskudnikovo, Degunino, Korovino and other villages in the north. Some of them gave their names to new districts.

Residential buildings were constructed there, but there was no outbound route. Dmitrovskoye Motorway remained the main road. Originally, it was built as an inter-district street for local traffic.

Beskudnikovo and Degunino residents had a problem. The narrow motorway was the main route connecting a large number of new development areas with the centre of Moscow. There was no metro. Surface transit on the motorway was overcrowded as early as in the 1960s and 1970s.

There was a railway running along the eastern boundaries of the residential area, but it did not relieve the traffic burden. There was no metro near Savyolovsky Railway Station where commuter trains arrived. People had to reach Novoslobodskaya metro station.


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