Bolshaya Koltsevaya line

The Bolshaya Koltsevaya line (Russian: Большая кольцевая линия), known in English as the Big Circle Line,^[3] designated Line 11^[4] is a rapid transit line of the Moscow Metro. It is the third circle line on the system, running outside of the existing circle Koltsevaya line and interlocking with the Moscow Central Circle.

Bolshaya Koltsevaya line
Geographic map showing the approximate path of the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line (in teal) in the whole Moscow Metro network (in dark grey) including Central Circle, MCD and Monorail
Overview
Other name(s)	Large Circle Line
Native name	Большая Кольцевая линия
Locale	Moscow
Stations	29
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Moscow Metro
Operator(s)	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Rolling stock	81-775/776/777
History
Opened	11 August 1969 (Kakhovskaya line stations) 26 February 2018 (Bolshaya Koltsevaya stations) 1 March 2023 (circle completed)
Technical
Line length	57.538 km (35.752 mi)[1][2]
Character	Underground
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)
Electrification	Third rail
Route map Legend Savyolovskaya Petrovsky Park CSKA Khoroshyovskaya Narodnoye Opolcheniye () Mnyovniki Terekhovo Kuntsevskaya Davydkovo Aminyevskoye yard Aminyevskaya Michurinsky Prospekt Prospekt Vernadskogo Novatorskaya Vorontsovskaya Zyuzino Kakhovskaya Zamoskvoretskoye yard Varshavskaya Kashirskaya Klenovy Bulvar () Nagatinsky Zaton Pechatniki Tekstilshchiki to Nekrasovskaya line Nizhegorodskaya Nizhegorodskoye yard Aviamotornaya Lefortovo Elektrozavodskaya Sokolniki Rizhskaya Maryina Roshcha This diagram: view talk edit

The first section of the line opened on 26 February 2018 with the remaining stations opened on 1 March 2023.^[5] The line includes 29 stations, including three from the former Kakhovskaya line, and is 57.5 km (35.7 mi) long, which makes it the longest metro circle line in the world, surpassing Line 10 of Beijing Subway by 514 m (1,686 ft).^[6] In November 2017 the city estimated the total cost of the project at 501 billion rubles, up from earlier estimates of 378.9 billion rubles.^[7]

Formerly known as the Third Interchange Contour, the city adopted "Bolshaya koltsevaya liniya" as the official name of the line after a vote via the "Active Citizen" web portal.^[8]

Name

The working name of the project since inception was the Third Interchange Contour; however, prior to the opening of the line, the city authorities consulted residents 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 working name.^[9]

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 transport expert Kirill Yankov were that all of the lines’ names to this point were in the feminine grammatical gender and that all the other line names were generally understood from a point of view of geography.^[10] 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 Line was selected with 53.3% of the votes versus 36.5% for the Third Interchange Contour.^[8]

Development

Initial construction timetable for the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line

The original plans called for a line that is 58 kilometres (36 mi) with 27 new stations.^[11]

The entire project was supposed to be completed by 2020–2021.^{[12][13][14][15][16]} By 2018, the completion date had been postponed until 2023.^[17]

First sections

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

Video of stations of first section on the first day of operation

The five stations from Petrovsky Park to Delovoy Tsentr opened on 26 February 2018.^[18] Savyolovskaya was opened on 30 December 2018.

Further extension

The northeastern section was initially scheduled to be completed in 2018, but was delayed for two years until it was opened on 27 March 2020 and 31 December 2020. On 1 April 2021, the section between Khoroshyovskaya and Mnyovniki was opened. This section includes the part of the line from Elektrozavodskaya to Nizhegorodskaya.^[19] The existing, short, three-station Kakhovskaya line was incorporated into the line. Kakhovskaya was reopened on 7 December 2021 after reconstruction within the segment to Mnyovniki. The sections from Savyolovskaya to Elektrozavodskaya and from Kakhovskaya to Nizhegorodskaya opened on 1 March 2023.

Stations

Station Name		Transfers	Notes
English	Russian
↑ Loop line towards Maryina Roshcha ↑
Savyolovskaya	Савёловскаяpronunciationⓘ	Savyolovskaya  Moscow Savyolovskaya
Petrovsky Park	Петровский паркpronunciationⓘ	Dinamo
CSKA	ЦСКАpronunciationⓘ
Khoroshyovskaya	Хорошёвскаяpronunciationⓘ	Polezhayevskaya  Khoroshyovo	↓ Through service to  Delovoy Tsentr via branch line
Narodnoye Opolcheniye	Народное Ополчениеpronunciationⓘ	Narodnoye Opolcheniye
Mnyovniki	Мнёвникиpronunciationⓘ
Terekhovo	Тереховоpronunciationⓘ
Kuntsevskaya	Кунцевскаяpronunciationⓘ	Kuntsevskaya Kuntsevskaya
Davydkovo	Давыдковоpronunciationⓘ
Aminyevskaya	Аминьевскаяpronunciationⓘ	Aminyevskaya
Michurinsky Prospekt	Мичуринский проспектpronunciationⓘ	Michurinsky Prospekt
Prospekt Vernadskogo	Проспект Вернадскогоpronunciationⓘ	Prospekt Vernadskogo
Novatorskaya	Новаторскаяpronunciationⓘ	Novatorskaya
Vorontsovskaya	Воронцовскаяpronunciationⓘ	Kaluzhskaya
Zyuzino	Зюзиноpronunciationⓘ
Kakhovskaya	Каховскаяpronunciationⓘ	Sevastopolskaya
Varshavskaya	Варшавскаяpronunciationⓘ
Kashirskaya	Каширскаяpronunciationⓘ	Kashirskaya
Klenovy Bulvar	Кленовый бульварpronunciationⓘ	Klenovy Bulvar
Nagatinsky Zaton	Нагатинский Затонpronunciationⓘ
Pechatniki	Печатникиpronunciationⓘ	Pechatniki  Pechatniki
Tekstilshchiki	Текстильщикиpronunciationⓘ	Tekstilshchiki Tekstilshchiki
Nizhegorodskaya	Нижегородскаяpronunciationⓘ	Nizhegorodskaya  Nizhegorodskaya  Nizhegorodskaya	↑ Through service to  Nekrasovka
Aviamotornaya	Авиамоторнаяpronunciationⓘ	Aviamotornaya Aviamotornaya
Lefortovo	Лефортовоpronunciationⓘ
Elektrozavodskaya	Электрозаводскаяpronunciationⓘ	Elektrozavodskaya
Sokolniki	Сокольникиpronunciationⓘ	Sokolniki Mitkovo
Rizhskaya	Рижскаяpronunciationⓘ	Rizhskaya  Rizhskaya
Maryina Roshcha	Марьина Рощаpronunciationⓘ	Maryina Roshcha Maryina Roshcha
↓ Loop line towards Savyolovskaya ↓

Rolling stock

Subway car types used on the line over the years:

Type	Dates
Series 81-760/761	2018 - 2021
Series 81-760А/761А/763А	2018 - 2021
Series 81-765.3/766.3/767.3	2018 - 2021, 2023
Series 81-765.4/766.4/767.4	2019 - 2021, 2023
Series 81-765/766/767	2020 - 2021, 2023
Series 81-775/776/777	2021—present

Maps

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

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