Bolshaya Koltsevaya line

Large Circle line
Geographic map showing the approximate path of the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line (in red) in the whole Moscow Metro network (in dark gray) including Central Circle and Monorail
Overview
Type	Rapid transit
System	Moscow Metro
Locale	Moscow
Stations	31 (incl. 3 of Kakhovskaya Line)
Operation
Opened	2018–2022 (expected)[1][2]
Operator(s)	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Character	Underground
Technical
Line length	69 kilometres (43 mi)[1]
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in)
Electrification	Third rail
Route map Savyolovskaya  9  Petrovsky Park ( 11  terminus)  8A   2  (OSI) CSKA  8A   14  (OSI) Khoroshyovskaya  8A   7   14  (OSI) Shelepikha  8A   14  (OSI) Delovoy Tsentr ( 11  terminus)  4  Line 8A continues to Park Pobedy. Ulitsa Narodnogo Opolcheniya Mnyovniki Terekhovo Mozhayskaya  3   4  Davydkovo Aminyevskoye Shosse Michurinsky Prospekt  8A  Prospekt Vernadskogo  1  Ulitsa Novatorov Vorontsovskaya  6  Sevastopolsky Prospekt Kakhovskaya ( 11A  terminus)  9  to Varshavskoye yard Varshavskaya Kashirskaya ( 11A  terminus)  2  Klenovy Bulvar Yuzhnoportovaya  10  Tekstilshchiki  7  Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa  15   14  (OSI) Nizhegorodskoye yard to Kozhukhovskaya Line Aviamotornaya  8  Lefortovo Rubtsovskaya  3  Stromynka  1  Rzhevskaya  6  Sheremetyevskaya  10

Bolshaya Koltsevaya line (Russian: Большая кольцевая линия), literally Large Circle Line, designated Line 11^[3] is a rapid transit line of the Moscow Metro. It is planned to be a third circle line running outside of the existing circle Koltsevaya and Moscow Central Circle lines, with a temporary branch to Delovoy Tsentr station in Moscow International Business Center.

The first section of the line opened on 26 February 2018 with expected completion of the final stage in 2022. When complete, the line will include 31 stations including three from the existing Kakhovskaya line over 66 kilometers of track. The city in November 2017 estimated the total cost of the project at 501 billion rubles. This was up from earlier estimates of 378.9 billion rubles.^[4]

Formerly known as the Third Interchange Contour, the city adopted "Large Circle Line" as the official name of the line after a vote via the “Active Citizen” web portal.^[5]

Name

The working name of the project since inception was the Third Interchange Contour; however, prior to the opening of the line, the city of Moscow reached out to the citizens to help decide on the name. In an initial survey on the “Active Citizen” survey website in October 2017, only 34% of the city’s residents voted to keep the name. ^[6]

Although retaining the working name was the most popular option, members of the city’s council on transportation infrastructure suggested another vote. Two reasons cited by Kirill Yankov were that all of the line’s names to this point were in the feminine grammatical gender and that all of the other line names were generally understood from a point of view of geography.^[7] The city held another vote on its website to allow citizens to choose between the existing name or the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line (Large Circle line). Of the alternate names suggested by voters in the first vote, Bolshaya Koltsevaya was the most popular, with 9,000 votes.

In the second vote, Bolshaya Koltsevaya was selected with 53.3% of the votes versus 36.5% for the Third Interchange Contour.^[8]

Development

Bolshaya Koltsevaya line

The entire project is supposed to be completed by 2020-2021.^{[1][9][10][11][12]}

First sections

First section with a temporal branch with five stations from Delovoy Tsentr to Petrovsky Park.

The existing, short, three-station Kakhovskaya Line will be incorporated into the line. The five stations from Petrovsky Park to Delovoy Tsentr opened on 26 February 2018.^[13]

Maps

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  schematic inc. MCC
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  true location, no MCC (outdated scheme)

References

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