Minskaya, Lomonosovsky Prospekt and Ramenki are the three new metro stations opened in Moscow, on Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line (Line 8).
The new section of the line was completed in January, when Moscow Metro held test train traveling between the Delovoi Tsentr and Ramenki stations.
The authorities decided to decorate the Minskaya, Lomonosovsky Prospekt and Ramenki stations with related patterns. All of them feature 3D images on columns in the halls’ central sections. By looking at the column rows from one end of the platform to the other, viewers can see how these images merge into one single composition. Each station has its own unique image.
The three new metro stations will help people in four districts (Ramenki, Prospekt Vernadskogo, Ochakovo-Matveyvskoye and Dorogomilovo) reach central Moscow more quickly. This will save many of them between 30 and 60 minutes, the time they usually spend to reach the nearest metro station by bus. Moscow State University students will also find it quite convenient to use the nearby Lomonosovsky Prospekt station, located not far from the University’s main building.
People living in the Troitsky and Novomoskovsky administrative areas will also gain from seven more stations, due to open between Ramenki and Rasskazovka. This will become the second metro line after Sokolnicheskaya to link Old and New Moscow. The entire Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line will make things easier for over 600,000 city residents.
The Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line is being built stage by stage. The first stations were opened in 1979, in 2014 line’s Delovoi Tsentr-Park Pobedy section started operating and the second section linking the Park Pobedy and Ramenki stations was completed in late 2016. The third and fourth stages include the Ramenki-Solntsevo and Solntsevo-Rasskazovka sections, plus electric train maintenance facilities. In all, seven stations will be located here. The line’s new section will eventually merge with the existing Kalininskaya Line. Five kilometres of new track will link the Delovoi Tsentr and Tretyakovskaya stations. Three stations (Volkhonka, Plyushchikha and Dorogomilovskaya) will open along this section snaking through central Moscow.
This year, there are plans to lay about 35 km of metro line and build 18 metro stations, to open sections of the metro’s Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya and Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya lines, the first section of the Third Interchange Circuit, as well as Khovrino station on the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. Some stations are scheduled to open in 2018.
The city is to open 50 metro stations and build 120 km of new lines over the next few years. Ultimately, 93 percent of city residents will be within walking distance of a metro station.
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