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Source: Moscow Government – Moscow Government –
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In 2026, the capital will open a fourth regular river electric transport route. Additionally, the third route, Novospassky-ZIL, will be extended. Sergei Sobyanin wrote about this on his channel. MAX messenger.
"The revival of regular passenger service on the Moscow River is a unique project. We were the first in the world to launch
year-round water transport “It’s completely electric,” the Moscow Mayor wrote.
Source: Sergei Sobyanin's channel inMAX messenger
The first regular route, opened in June 2023 by Russian President Vladimir Putin, connected Kyiv Railway Station with the Heart of the Capital pier near the residential complex of the same name on Shelepikhinskaya Embankment. In June 2024, it was nearly doubled in length, extending to 12 kilometers, with two additional piers: Beregovoy (on the right bank of the Moskva River, practically opposite the Heart of the Capital pier) and Fili Park (the route's new terminus). In September 2024, another pier opened on the first route: Krasnopresnensky Park (near the park of the same name and the Expocentre Central Exhibition Complex).
The second regular ZIL-Pechatniki electric vessel route, a nine-kilometer route, opened in September 2023. A year later, in September 2024, three new berths were commissioned: Nagatinsky, Zaton Novinki, and Kolomenskaya Embankment.
In June 2025, the third regular river electric transport route, Novospassky-ZIL, opened. Since then, passengers have made approximately 150,000 trips.
Thus, today there are three regular river transport routes operating on the Moscow River: Kyiv – Fili Park (nine berths), ZIL – Pechatniki (nine berths), and Novospassky – ZIL (six berths), with a total length of at least 30 kilometers.
Thirty-one vessels were purchased to operate on three routes. All were named after small Moscow rivers and have an ice class of "ice 20," meaning they can navigate through broken ice up to 20 centimeters thick. These modern electric vessels are crewed by 134 experienced captains with an average of over seven years of service on the water.
"Thanks to this new mode of transport, over 1.8 million people living in 22 Moscow districts have gained alternative transportation options. They have made over three million trips on electric boats," added Sergei Sobyanin.
Over 70,000 Trips: How Moscow's River Electric Transport Developed in 2025Audio tours are now available on the regular Novospassky-ZIL river route.
The most popular departure points are the Kyiv, Fili Park, Pechatniki, City-Central, ZIL, and Yuzhny River Terminal piers. There are 24 piers in total.
Plans for 2026 include the opening of a fourth electric river transport route, Luzhniki-Kievskiy, and the extension of the third route, Novospassky-ZIL, by more than 1.5 kilometers to the Krasnye Kholmy pier on Kosmodamianskaya Embankment. Eight new electric vessels are planned for these routes.
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