Sobyanin started tunneling in the eastern section of the BCL

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The tunneling of the Big Circle Line (BCL) of the Moscow metro will be completed in 2021. Mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin announced this on Wednesday, March 10, during the launch of a double-track running tunnel from the Nagatinsky Zaton station to the Klenovy Boulevard station of the BKL.

“Today, 94% of the penetration has already been completed. The remaining tunnels will also be built by the end of the year. Well, then there will be the construction and completion of the stations themselves, track facilities, electrical facilities, utilities and so on, “- quoted Sobyanin, the city news agency” Moscow “.

Four more tunnels are to be drilled, located on the eastern section of the BCL from the Kashirskaya station to the Nizhegorodskaya station. The total length of the section is 11.4 km. There are four stations on it: Klenovy Boulevard, Nagatinsky Zaton, Pechatniki and Tekstilshchiki. Trains will run between Klenovy Boulevard and Tekstilshchiki in a large double-track tunnel 10 m in diameter, NSN reports.

Earlier, on March 2, the head of the Moscow construction department, Rafik Zagrutdinov, said that the Biryulevskaya and Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya branches of the Moscow metro, which will begin to build in the coming years, can be connected inside the BCL.

The Biryulevskaya metro line is planned to be built from the ZIL station to the Zapadnoye Biryulevo area. The location of the stations of the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya line will become known by the end of 2022.

In January 2021, it was reported that 11 more metro stations would be opened in Moscow over the next year. It is specified that the new stations will be Karamyshevskaya, Mnevniki, Terekhovo, Kuntsevskaya, Davydkovo, Aminevskaya, Michurinsky Prospect, Vernadsky Prospekt, Novatorskaya, Kaluzhskaya (Vorontsovskaya “) And” Zyuzino “are the western, southwestern and southern sections of the ring.