The new Petrovsko-Razumovskaya MCD-1 railway station has opened in Moscow.

A new Petrovsko-Razumovskaya MCD-1 railway station has been opened in the north-east of the capital, where trains of the first Moscow diameter began to stop for the first time. This was announced by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin in the MACH messenger.

According to him, the opening of the city railway station is "an important stage in one of the most priority transport construction projects in the city." Together with Oleg Belozerov, Chairman of the Russian Railways Board, the mayor inspected the new transfer hub.

The station has a platform with canopies, a passenger concourse with exits to the metro and to Komdiva Orlova Street. The environment is completely barrier—free - it is convenient for passengers with strollers, bicycles and scooters to move around here.

The transport hub has combined Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya and Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya metro lines with MCD-1 and MCD-3. The transfer between the metro station and the train station will take less than five minutes. With the opening of the transfer hub, more than 250,000 residents of Timiryazevsky, Butyrsky, Ostankinsky and Marfinsky districts received "additional safe pedestrian access via railway tracks and many new options for traveling around the city that will allow them to save up to 25 minutes on the road," Sobyanin stressed. The load at Timiryazevskaya and Okruzhnaya metro stations will also decrease.

In a few years, the Moscow—St. Petersburg high-speed railway station and the modern Petrovsko-Razumovskaya MCD-3 city railway station will appear on this site. As a result, passengers will be able to transfer between five rail transport lines at once without going outside.

It is expected that by 2030 the passenger traffic of the transport hub will grow more than one and a half times — from 65 thousand to 100 thousand people per day.

All important news is on the Izvestia channel in the MAX messenger.