Third Interchange Contour

Third Interchange Contour
Geographic map showing the approximate path of the Third Interchange Contour (in turquoise) and its connections to existing lines
Overview
Type	Rapid transit
System	Moscow Metro
Locale	Moscow
Stations	30 (incl. 3 of Kakhovskaya Line)
Operation
Opened	2016–2019 (expected)[1]
Operator(s)	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Character	Underground
Technical
Line length	58.3 kilometres (36.2 mi)[2]
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in)
Electrification	Third rail
Route map Nizhnyaya Maslovka  9  Petrovsky Park  2  Khodynskoye Pole Khoroshovskaya  7   14  (OSI) Shelepikha Delovoy Tsentr  4   8A  to Park Pobedy Ulitsa Narodnogo Opolcheniya Mnyovniki Terekhovo Mozhayskaya  3   4  Davydkovo Aminyevskoye Shosse Michurinsky Prospekt  8A  Prospekt Vernadskogo  1  Ulitsa Novatorov Vorontsovskaya  6  Zyuzino Kakhovskaya  9  to Varshavskoye yard Varshavskaya Kashirskaya  2  Klenovy Bulvar Yuzhnoportovaya  10  Tekstilshchiki  7  Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa     14  (OSI) Nizhegorodskoye yard to Kozhukhovskaya Line Aviamotornaya  8  Lefortovo Rubtsovskaya  3  Stromynka  1  Rzhevskaya  6  Sheremetyevskaya  10

The Third Interchange Contour (Russian: Третий пересадочный контур,^[1] Trety peresadochny kontur, IPA: [ˈtrʲetʲɪj pʲɪrʲɪˈsadətɕnɨj ˈkontʊr]) (Line 11)^[3] is a rapid transit line of Moscow Metro under construction. It is planned to be a second circle line running outside of the existing Koltsevaya (Ring) Line, with a branch to Moscow-City.

First sections

Third Interchange Contour Map

Map showing a spur of the Third Interchange Contour connecting it to Moscow International Business Center. The five stations from Delovoy Tsentr to Petrovsky Park will be the first of the new stations on the Contour to open.

The existing, short, three-station Kakhovskaya Line will be incorporated into the Third Interchange Contour. Besides this, the first new stations were expected to be opened by December 2015.^[1] However, as of November 2015, 2018 is being reported as a more likely for the completion of the whole project.^[4][5][6][7] The five stations from Petrovsky Park to Delovoy Tsentr were scheduled to open first, in 2016.^[5]

Continuing the ring

In 2017, the Northeastern section is scheduled to be completed. This section includes the part of the line from Nizhnyaya Maslovka to Aviamotornaya. The Third Interchange Contour will run from Aviamotornaya to Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa along the same routing as the Kozhukhovskaya Line, which is also scheduled to open in 2017.^[1]

By 2017, the Eastern section from Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa to Kashirskaya is scheduled to be complete. This will connect the Third Interchange Contour to the present-day Kakhovskaya Line, the first part of the outer ring line to open in 1969.^[1]

Completing the ring

Old plans^[1] called for the rest of the Third Interchange Contour to be opened in November 2018. The remainder of the ring is split into two projects:

• Southwestern Section - from Kuntsevskaya to Prospekt Vernadskogo
• Southern Section - from Prospekt Vernadskogo to Kakhovskaya

Aminyevskoye Shosse, Michurinsky Prospekt and Prospekt Vernadskogo will be built by Chinese contractors.^[8] Ring completion has been postponed to 2021.

References

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