Moscow to Build Second Metro Ring in 2017 - 2021

The Second Ring of the Moscow Metro is to be completed in 2020 - 2021, the Gudok quotes Moscow Deputy Mayor Andrey Bochkarev. The first section of the Second Ring - linking Delovoy Tsentr and Petrovsky Park stations is to be opened in spring 2017.

In 2019 the North-Eastern section (Rubtsovskaya - Nizhnyaya Maslovka), South-Western section (Aminyevskoe Shosse - Prospekt Vernadskogo), Southern section (Prospekt Vernadskogo - Kakhovskaya) and Western section (Khoroshevskaya - Mnevniki) are to be opened.

In 2020 Moscow is to complete the work in North West (Mnevniki - Mozhayskaya) and West (Mozhayskaya - Aminyevskoe Shosse).

In 2020 - 2021 the Second Ring is to be closed by building the link between Kashirskaya and Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa stations.