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Construction of the new Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya metro line and the Narodnoye Opolchenie station, which will be part of it, continues in Moscow. The station under construction was inspected by Sergei Sobyanin.
"Construction of the first phase of the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya Line is entering its final stages. The first three stations are scheduled to open this year. All are at an advanced stage of readiness. Here, at the Narodnoye Opolchenie station, all structural work, including concrete and cast-in-place, has been completed. We are now moving on to finishing and installing the utility systems. This is complex work, and there's still a lot of work to be done, but I hope everything will be completed on time," the Moscow Mayor said.
According to Sergey Kidyaev, CEO of JSC Ingeokom Association, the station's architectural finishing is 94 percent complete, and its utilities are 50 percent complete. Preparations for its launch will begin in a month.
The new Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya line of the Moscow Metro will be 27.6 kilometers long and will feature 12 stations. It will run from the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC) "Moscow-City" to Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye beyond the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD) and on to Krasnogorsk. It will offer connections to the Moscow Central Circle (MCC), Solntsevskaya, Filevskaya, Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya, and Big Circle Lines (BKL). These connections to the MCC and BKL will offer dozens of route options for travel within the city, allowing passengers to quickly reach any point in the capital. Stations on the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya line will offer modern services for passengers.
“We expect that after the opening
People's Militia The station will be used by approximately 12,000 passengers per day, and by 2030, that number will increase to 14,000. Thanks to the first section of the new line, travel around the city will become faster and more comfortable for more than 550,000 residents of five districts: Presnensky, Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, Shchukino, Dorogomilovo, and Filevsky Park. They will be able to transfer to the Moscow Central Circle and three metro lines: Solntsevskaya, Filevskaya, and the Big Circle Line," the Moscow Mayor wrote on his channel. MAX messenger.
Source: Sergei Sobyanin's channel inMAX messenger
The line will connect two major business districts: the Moscow-City International Business Center (MIBC) and SberCity in the new Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye district. At the Delovoy Tsentr (Business Center) terminal, residents will be able to use the infrastructure of Moscow-City, one of the city's largest transport hubs.
Passengers will be transported on modern, technologically advanced, and comfortable Russian-made trains. Initially, the line will be serviced by the Solntsevo depot, with plans to build the Ilyinskoye depot later.
Improving transport services
The opening of the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya metro line will allow:
— improve transport services for approximately one million current and future residents of seven central, western, and northwestern districts of Moscow, such as Presnensky, Dorogomilovo, Filevsky Park, Shchukino, Strogino, Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, Kuntsevo, including renovation areas and integrated development areas;
— create new route options for travel within the city: passengers will be able to take advantage of convenient transfers to the Big Circle Line, Solntsevskaya, Filevskaya, Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya metro lines, and the Moscow Central Circle;
— ensure transport accessibility of the promising SberCity district in Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye with 65 thousand residents and more than 70 thousand jobs, connecting it with the Moscow-City International Business Center;
— improve transport accessibility to popular recreation areas in the Strogino district;
— reduce the load on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya metro lines;
— reduce traffic volumes on the adjacent road network. This, in turn, will improve the environmental situation in northwest Moscow: Rublevskoye Highway, Marshal Zhukov Avenue, and Novorizhskoye Highway will become 10 percent freer.
Construction stages
The first two stations of the future line, Delovoy Tsentr and Shelepikha, opened in 2018 as part of the Big Circle Line. They are currently temporarily closed for integration with the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya Line.
In 2021, construction began on a 12.7-kilometer section of the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya Line from Shelepikha Station to Lipovaya Roshcha Station, including six new stations:
— "Zvenigorodskaya" — near the intersection of Shenogina Street, Shelepikhinskoye Highway and 1st Silikatny Proezd;
— “Narodnoe Opolchenie” (transfer to the Big Circle Line station of the same name) — along Demyan Bedny Street at the intersection with Marshal Zhukov Avenue;
– “General Karbyshev Boulevard” – parallel to Marshal Tukhachevsky Street at the intersection with General Karbyshev Boulevard;
— “Serebryany Bor” — along Parshina Street near the intersection with Zhivopisnaya Street;
— "Strogino" (transfer to the station of the same name on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line) — along Stroginsky Boulevard;
— "Linden Grove" — in the Moscow region along the Moscow Ring Road, between the Novorizhskoye Highway and the residential and public development area "Sputnik".
In 2024–2025, construction began on a six-kilometer section from Lipovaya Roshcha station to Novorizhskaya station, with two new stations:
— “Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye” — on the territory of the microdistrict of the same name in the Kuntsevo area between Projected Driveways No. 7120 and 7101;
— "Novorizhskaya" — in the Kuntsevo area between Ilyinskoye Highway and the 23rd kilometer of Novorizhskoye Highway.
In the future, there are plans to extend the line to Krasnogorsk with two stations.
At present, mechanized tunnel boring has been completed on the Shelepikha – General Karbyshev Boulevard section.
In October 2025, the Liliya tunnel boring machine (TBM) completed excavation of a large tunnel with a diameter of 10 meters between the Bulvar Generala Karbysheva and Serebryany Bor stations, and on January 15, 2026, it began construction of a similar tunnel from Serebryany Bor to Strogino.
The second giant shield, "Maria," began excavating from Lipovaya Roshcha toward Strogino in July 2025. Additionally, in February–April 2025, the TBMs "Natalie" and "Viktoria" began excavating connecting tunnels between the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye and Lipovaya Roshcha stations, which were completed on February 26, 2026.
Sobyanin: The excavation of two tunnels on the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya metro line has been completed.The tunnel between Lipovaya Roshcha and Strogino stations is more than 40 percent complete.
In July 2025, the Alexandra TBM began construction of the left-hand tunnel between the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye and Novorizhskaya stations, and in October of the same year, the Sofia TBM began excavating the right-hand tunnel.
Construction is currently underway on all stations of the three launch complexes: Zvenigorodskaya, Narodnoye Opolcheniya, Bulvar Generala Karbysheva, Serebryany Bor, Strogino, Lipovaya Roshcha, Rublevo-Arkhangelskoye, and Novorizhskaya.
The first section of the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya metro line is scheduled for completion in 2026. Modern Russian-made trains will begin service from Delovoy Tsentr station to Bulvar Generala Karbysheva station. The first section of the new line will improve transportation services for over 550,000 residents of the Presnensky, Khoroshevo-Mnevniki, Shchukino, Dorogomilovo, and Filevsky Park districts. Residents will be able to transfer to the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) and three metro lines: Solntsevskaya, Filevskaya, and the Big Circle. Upon opening, the first section is expected to carry 90,000 passengers per day.
The second and third sections will be opened in 2027. By 2033, passenger traffic on the line is expected to almost triple, reaching 250,000 people per day.
People's Militia Station
The future Narodnoye Opolchenie station on the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya metro line will be located along Demyan Bedny Street at the intersection with Marshal Zhukov Avenue. It is a shallow station with two underground vestibules with exits on both sides of Demyan Bedny Street and Marshal Zhukov Avenue. Six elevators will be installed for passengers with limited mobility.
The new metro station will improve transportation services in one of the most densely populated areas, making travel more convenient for more than 180,000 residents of Khoroshevo-Mnevniki. For example, they will be able to reach the Moscow-City business center twice as fast. Furthermore, for those living near the future station, travel time to the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) will be reduced by 10 minutes and to Red Square by 20 minutes. At the Narodnoye Opolchenie station, passengers on the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya Line will also have a convenient transfer to the Big Circle Line (BKL) station of the same name, taking no more than two minutes.
Following its opening, the new station is expected to handle approximately 12,000 passengers per day, increasing to 14,000 by 2030. It is estimated that approximately 40,000 passengers will transfer daily between the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya Line and the Big Circle Line, a number that could double by 2030.
The main element of the station's architectural design will be two rows of brightly lit columns of complex shape, smoothly flowing into the vaults of the station hall.
The floors will be clad in light gray granite, the bases of the track walls and columns will be clad in black granite, and the track walls will be clad in black and red aluminum honeycomb panels. The columns will be clad in steel. The floors and walls of the vestibules will be finished in light tones and clad in polished granite slabs. The suspended ceiling will consist of three-layer aluminum panels with a white honeycomb core and a black aluminum slat with integrated LED strips.
Like all new stations, Narodnoye Opolchenie is being built with maximum passenger comfort in mind. It will feature ticket vending machines and turnstiles manufactured in Moscow, accepting all available payment methods, including biometrics. Around 60 staff members will ensure the comfort and safety of passengers.
The station's main structures and excavation pit backfilling have now been completed. Architectural finishing work and installation of utility systems are underway. Construction completion of the facility is 86 percent.
Results of the Moscow Metro construction program
Since 2011, the Moscow Government has completed the construction and reconstruction of more than 260 kilometers of lines, 127 stations, 14 depots (including the Brateevo car repair plant) of the metro and the Moscow Central Circle.
In cooperation with Russian Railways, the first, second, third and fourth Moscow Central Diameters (MCD) were also put into operation – this is 303 kilometers of track and 138 stations.
New lines and stations of the Moscow Metro, the Moscow Central Circle (MCC), and the Moscow Central Diameters (MCD)
Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line:
— section from Maryino station to Zyablikovo station (three stations);
— the section from Maryina Roshcha station to Fiztekh station (nine stations).
Kalininskaya and Solntsevskaya lines:
— section from Novogireevo station to Novokosino station (one station);
— the section from the Delovoy Tsentr station to the Vnukovo Airport station (14 stations).
Zamoskvoretskaya line:
— section from Krasnogvardeyskaya station to Alma-Atinskaya station (one station);
— Technopark station;
— the section from the Rechnoy Vokzal station to the Khovrino station (two stations).
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line:
— the section from the Mitino station to the Pyatnitskoye Shosse station (one station).
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line:
— section from Vykhino station to Kotelniki station (three stations);
— Spartak station.
Butovskaya line:
— the section from the station "Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya" to the station "Bitsevsky Park" (two stations).
Sokolnicheskaya line:
— the section from the Yugo-Zapadnaya station to the Potapovo station (eight stations).
Nekrasovskaya line:
– eight stations.
Big Circle Line:
— 31 stations.
Trinity Line:
— the section from the ZIL station to the Novomoskovskaya station (11 stations).
There are 31 stations open on the Moscow Central Circle, and 138 on the four Moscow Central Diameters, 54 of which are transfer stations to metro stations, the Moscow Central Circle, and the Moscow Central Diameters.
In addition, the following depots have been opened (including after reconstruction): Mitino, Brateevo (car repair plant), Pechatniki, Vykhino, Planernoye, Nizhegorodskoye, Likhobory, Solntsevo, Vladykino, Rudnevo, Sokol, Aminyevskoye, Yuzhnoye (Brateevo-2), and Stolbovo.
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