The project for the reconstruction of the Central Ring Road scheme of concrete (the central automobile ring road). Livejournal of the Moscow region

The traffic situation in Moscow and on its outskirts is becoming more and more tense every year. Due to the huge influx of cars, many routes cannot cope with the traffic, so knowledge about all the alternative ways to bypass traffic jams is very relevant today more than ever. The fact that a small concrete ring around the capital is one of them is known today by most drivers traveling outside the city. However, not everyone knows about its history and why it is called "concrete".

Road history

In the 1950s, a great race for space dominance broke out between Russia and the United States. Each of the countries sought to be the first to send a satellite into orbit. Missile technology improved rapidly, and the question arose of air defense against long-range projectiles.

Mobile missile systems appeared in these years in the USSR. For quick transportation and change of location, special roads were needed. For this reason, decisions were made by the Soviet government to build two concrete roads around Moscow.

In the 1950s, the first concrete ring appeared around Moscow. It was impossible to find it on the map in those years: the route was closed. It consisted of several layers of concrete slabs and could easily withstand loads of up to 40 tons. It was this weight that the first Soviet rocket carriers equipped with missiles had.

Following the Small Ring, the Big Ring appeared. It was built for the same purpose, so this concrete road around Moscow was also not indicated on the map until the 80s of the last century.

Long years both roads served the military and were kept secret. However, it is not so easy to hide good roads around the capital, so many Muscovites used concrete for their needs long before it was made an official federal highway.

Modern furnishings

At present, it is not difficult even for a schoolboy to find the Small Concrete on the map. This federal highway is included in the register of roads under the number A107. Despite the fact that it has long been covered with asphalt, the name "concrete" is firmly entrenched in the track among drivers and nearby residents.

From the center of Moscow to this road about 50 km. The total length of the small concrete ring is about 330 km. It passes through the following settlements and territories:

• Bronnitsy;
• Elektrostal;
• Noginsk;
• Chernogolovka;
• Selyatin;
• Zvenigorod;
• Domodedovo;
• Large and Small Vyazyoma;
• Durykino;
• Radumlya;
• Ermolino;
• Frost.

There are still a number of important strategic air defense facilities along the route. It still plays a big role in the defense strategy of the Russian capital.

In recent years, much attention has been paid to improving the capacity of the federal highway. New interchanges are being built, coverage is improving. In some places, the road is being widened. For example, There are multi-level interchanges with the following routes:

The route is equipped with overpass crossings through most of the railway lines from Moscow. However, directions from Kursky, Ryazansky, Belorussky and Yaroslavsky stations still use controlled railway crossings.

Bridges were built across the Moscow River and the Moscow Canal. All facilities are maintained in good order.

Advantages and disadvantages

In connection with the ban on the passage of freight vehicles along the Moscow Ring Road, an additional burden of the load fell on the Small Moscow Concrete Ring. Many, wishing to quickly bypass the Moscow junction, use this route. In this regard, there are a number of disadvantages:

• Track width. It's still mostly two-lane, so bandwidth isn't great.
• Low movement speed. Most of the track has speed limits and overtaking is prohibited in many sections, so you can’t accelerate much along the track.
• Big workload. Unfortunately, traffic jams are also characteristic of MBC. Especially often they occur at railway crossings and at intersections with cities and large settlements during rush hours.

But shortcomings, if desired, can be found in the most modern roads. MBK, despite all its shortcomings, can greatly alleviate the driver's problems with driving through the metropolitan area. The highway is still one of the main arteries, which can significantly reduce the load on the Moscow Ring Road and other vital transport lines of the capital.

Still, this old road is a strategically important object for the defense of the capital. She is constantly improving. In many places, the expansion of the route and the equipment of new modern interchanges have begun for even more efficient use of the concrete ring.

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TsKAD - a new partially paid ring road around Moscow. The road under construction is divided into five launch complexes, four of which will be completely new toll highways built parallel to the Small Moscow Ring (A107 "Small Concrete"). One launch complex from M10 "Russia" to M1 "Belarus" will be an 89-kilometer modernized section of the A107 highway. This section will be free and will not be a motorway.

In this publication, I will talk about the third start-up complex, which, after opening, will become a toll highway with a speed limit of 110 or 130 km/h.

1. The third launch complex is marked in red.

TsKAD-3 starts at M10 "Russia" and ends at M7 "Volga", crosses the M11 highway, Dmitrovskoe shosse, M8 "Kholmogory", connecting the Leningrad and Gorky directions.

This is the fourth article about this object. Links to previous materials and an interactive map can be found at the end of this publication.

2. Literally one and a half kilometers away, work is underway to prepare for the construction of a junction at the intersection with the M11 toll highway. The Central Ring Road will cross Novaya Leningradka a little south of the interchange with Malaya Betonka.

Not in the foreground, the construction of a bridge across the Chernavka River is underway, a little further they are building an overpass at the intersection with the local road to Verevskoye, and a little further an interesting overpass from forest to forest.

3. On the bridge across Chernavka, all beams of superstructures have been installed. Builders are preparing for the concreting of the roadway slab. Work is also underway on the cabinet walls and crossbars of the outer supports. On the overpass, the progress is about the same.

4. And here is the same overpass from forest to forest. This will be the second eco-duct in Russia. The first one was built a few years ago on the M3 "Ukraine" in the Kaluga region. This eco-duct is a little different - it has no slopes and is about twice as narrow.

5. View back from under the eco-duct. The overpass and the bridge were not included in the frame from the first photos - they are down there. The forest into which the road rests is already behind the M11 motorway.

6. In the area of ​​​​the intersection with Malaya Betonka, they are preparing for asphalt laying. A grader with automatic 3D leveling levels the layer of slag rubble on which the asphalt will be laid.

The use of such high-tech equipment at all stages of work not only speeds up construction, but also allows you to make a perfectly smooth road. When driving at high speed, you should not feel even small wiggles.

The ideal road is when you close your eyes while walking, and it seems to you that you are standing still. Just don't experiment behind the wheel. There are few such roads in Russia, but they exist. And it's not M11.

7. At the intersection with the local road near the village of Staro, they plan to build an interchange. Even in the summer it was impossible to drive here, and in early October, when I took these photos, I was already calmly driving on asphalt. Surprisingly quickly everything changes at this facility.

8. Part of the third start-up complex of the Central Ring Road between M11 and the Moscow Canal is replete with difficult terrain, which is why the site is especially beautiful.

9. I could not resist and post the second photo from this place. This is a view towards the Yaroslavl highway, down there is the Klubysh stream.

10. On that October day, the weather changed every ten minutes. This is the same place and the same time as in the previous two photos. Only the view back towards the M11.

11. Construction of an overpass at the intersection with Technological street. There is a large number of garden associations that formally belong to Iksha. Here, work is underway to equip the grillage of the extreme support. This is the very initial stage of the construction of an artificial structure.

12. A huge excavation in front of the Moscow Canal is my favorite place not only on the Central Ring Road, but also on all road construction projects in the country. And she has some serious competition. On the bypass of Losevo and Pavlovsk in the Voronezh region, where the construction of the M4 Don highway is underway, the terrain is very serious and there are many similar places. Does not lag behind.

13. A huge excavation worked part-time as a quarry. Sand was mined here, which was used in other construction sites. The extraction of sand was stopped and now they were supposed to start excavation work related to the construction of the road.

At least one overpass will be built above the cut in this place, which will connect the suburban areas separated by a new road.

14. A deep recess should logically pass into a high bridge. But this is not the case. The flyover across the floodplain of the Moscow Canal is relatively low with a longitudinal slope towards the central part. According to the project and visualization, the building seemed much higher. The builders will have to assemble and install a large channel span of the original form. Maybe then visually something will change.

15. From the Moscow Canal to the village of Mitropolie, the relief is still quite complex, with a large number of hills and ravines. Starting from this point, the new motorway will pass in close proximity to the Malaya Betonka. She is on the left in the photo.

16. "Small concrete" is not only a road that is overgrown with villages and summer cottages, but also a large number of communications that had to be taken out before construction work began. There are several high-voltage electrical substations in this area, to which power lines converge from all sides.

17. The best photos are taken in the most unstable weather, when the rain gives way to the sun, and the wind tears the clouds.

At the third start-up complex of the Central Ring Road, the general contractor, the AVTOBAN group of companies, has completed 90% of all earthworks, which is more than 14 million cubic meters of soil. For a length of 72 kilometers, the bottom layer of the base was laid from a slag mixture, at 67 kilometers - the top layer of the base from a dense coarse-grained asphalt concrete mixture. By eye, asphalt is almost everywhere, with the exception of approaches to artificial structures and difficult places where work is underway to remove communications.

18. The same slag rubble, which I spoke about in detail in a previous publication. I took one for myself as a souvenir, brought it to the office and did a little survey. Of course, no one could explain what it is. However, many were close, noting the similarity to volcanic rock.

19. The new road will have motorway status and category IA, which imposes serious restrictions on slopes and curve radii. Where there were slides and problems with overtaking on the Malaya Concrete Road, there will be a straight road on the Central Ring Road with two lanes in each direction. This photo captures the difference especially well.

20. Detour of the village and the cottage village Mitropolie. In terms of length, the Central Ring Road-3 is second only to the sixth stage of the M11 motorway that was commissioned at a time.

21. Waiting for good weather by the sea. By the end of September, the bypass of the Metropolis was almost entirely paved.

22. In the construction of road bases, soil compaction plays a very important role. The quality of the work depends on how smooth the road will remain and how often the asphalt will have to be changed.

23. In some places, the new highway will pass at a distance from the Malaya Concrete. This is due to the need to bypass difficult areas and closely adjacent settlements. So, the motorway will bypass Mitropolie, Vvedenskoye, Yamkino, Noginsk and will pass away from the intersection of Malaya Concrete and Shchelkovo Highway. In the photo, just bypassing the village of Mitropolie.

24. Almost on the entire bypass of Mitropolie, the motorway runs in a recess, which is good from the point of view of noise reduction.

25. New blue transmission towers were installed due to the transfer of communications associated with the construction of a new road.

26. Immediately behind the Metropolis, an overpass is being built across the railway of the Yaroslavl direction. Railway crossings are one of the main problems of the existing ring road.

27. Behind the railway crossing there is an interchange with the Yaroslavl highway. Designers and builders had to add another road to the already complex transport hub. The interchange begins at the intersection of the Central Ring Road and A107. There are several such crossings throughout the third launch complex, and all of them are made according to a similar scheme.

28. Crossing of the main course of the Central Ring Road and the highway M8 "Kholmogory" (Yaroslavskoe highway).

29. The new motorway will have sweeping ramps. A large overpass is being built here, which will pass over the main course of the Yaroslavl highway and the interchange exits.

30. In many places along the axis of the highway, a road barrier made of concrete with a New Jersey profile has already been installed.

31. Unlike the M11, there will be no need to remove communications underground along the axis of the highway. Cable channels will be mounted between blocks of concrete fencing and covered with sand.

32. Bypass the village of Vvedenskoye and the intersection with the Krasnoarmeiskoye highway. Due to construction work in the area, several temporary roads had to be built and traffic patterns completely changed.

In order to visually see exactly where the route will pass, and to see which sections will be under construction, I asked my friend Nikolai Okhotnikov to mark the Central Ring Road on the map. Here is the result of his work

“The map was prepared on the basis of a detailed description of the planned area for the location of the Central Ring Road, given in section 3.1.1 “Schemes of territorial planning of the Moscow Region”, approved by the Decree of the Government of the Moscow Region dated July 11, 2007 No. 517/23. There are at least three more decrees of the Government of the Moscow Region on the same topic, but they have now lost their force, and it is the “Scheme of Territorial Planning” that is relevant.

The map is easy to understand. Here the thick red line is the line connecting the key points described in the “Spatial Planning Scheme”. The area where the route is located is highlighted in orange around it. On this map, you can evaluate how much the construction of the Central Ring Road will affect you. In doing so, the following should be borne in mind.

Marks on the map may have an error of several tens of meters due to inaccurate reference, distortion of satellite images, etc. Therefore, if you see that the construction zone lay exactly on the neighbor’s site, but it didn’t affect yours, this is no reason to calm down and chuckle maliciously at the neighbor. In addition, individual points could not be tied accurately due to inaccuracy or even inconsistency in the description of their location, or because of the indistinguishability of the landmarks to which they are tied. For such points (fortunately, there are not many of them), the location error can reach several hundred meters, so these points are marked on the map with blue marks. By clicking on one of these labels, you can read why the point is marked inaccurately, and what is the approximate value of the error of its location.

And one more feature. The construction zone in different places has a different width, but the description does not say how exactly its sections are mated with each other. Therefore, near the key points, the zone may be marked somewhat incorrectly.

That's all I wanted to say. The map itself is available at:

Keep in mind that the construction zone is not the track itself. The road has a deliberately smaller width and will pass inside the marked “corridor”, and what will happen to the rest of the territory: will it remain untouched, or will it be used for the construction of roadside and industrial facilities (which in my opinion is more likely) is still unknown. Therefore, if your property is in the “orange zone”, or is located close to it, I advise you to do the following.

It marks all the plots put on the cadastre, and if the land allocation for the Central Ring Road in your area is completed, you will see the exact boundaries of the corresponding land plot.

Find out if your settlement has approved a master plan. If yes, then the Central Ring Road route will also be plotted on the maps.

Find out in which newspapers the official announcements and documents of your settlement and municipal area are published. Regularly look through these publications: they will publish an announcement about holding public hearings, which you must definitely come to - there you can not only clarify exactly how they are going to pave the road, but also express your disagreement with the project.

Without waiting for public hearings, unite with your neighbors - after all, if the road passes through your locality, it will be bad for everyone. Organize an initiative group, enlist the support of a competent lawyer, write appeals to the regional government, attract the attention of the press with mass actions - and you will have good chances to “move” the track away from your homes. Good luck!

Until recently, the Central Ring Road (TsKAD) was considered a long-term project, but today the highway is already beginning to take on real shape. Last year, the first section of the Central Ring Road on the bypass of Zvenigorod was opened to traffic. The remaining launch complexes are being actively built - asphalt has been laid in many places, the outlines of new interchanges are visible. About how work is going on the Central Ring Road - in the partnership project of Kommersant and the state company Avtodor.

The new ring highway (index A-113) will pass through the territory of the Moscow Region. The future route is divided into 4 sections: 1st (southern), 3rd (northern), 4th (eastern) and 5th (western). The 2nd exists so far in the form of a promising project. The 5th, 3rd and 1st sections are currently being built most actively.

Central Ring Road-West: Section 5 between Kievskoe and Leningradskoe highways

Compared to the rest of the sections of the future ring highway, the 5th section of the Central Ring Road is, for the most part, a reconstructed "Small Concrete": A107 will be expanded to 4 lanes, many traffic lights will be removed from it, new interchanges will appear.

Scheme of passage of the 5th section of the Central Ring Road

The option of building a new highway from scratch in this place was considered, but even at the design stage it became clear that for this it would be necessary to demolish too many residential buildings. After weighing all the pros and cons (including the financial costs of paying compensation for the purchase of land), we decided not to create unnecessary inconvenience for citizens and expand A107, bypassing settlements in many places. The total length of sections of new roads in the 5th section is 28.3 km, reconstructed - 41.5 km. This section will be the only free section throughout the entire Central Ring Road - the law prohibits taking a toll in the absence of a free alternative detour.

The only section on the Central Ring Road that has already been put into operation is located precisely as part of the 5th section. We are talking about a 3.6-kilometer bypass of Zvenigorod, the movement on which in early November 2017. The transport effect is already visible to the naked eye: significantly fewer cars began to pass through the historical center of Zvenigorod. Previously, due to the fact that the A-107 passes right through the city, a large number of trucks accumulated at the intersections, which had an extremely negative impact on the environment and the state of ancient monasteries, estates and museum complexes.

Future denouement of the Central Ring Road with M1 "Belarus"

To get an idea of ​​what is happening in the section, you need to make a kind of "virtual" tour, moving from south to north along the "concrete". On the section between the village of Zhedochi (here the 5th section begins) and the Kyiv highway along the A107, two new traffic lanes with a length of about 7 km have been built - cars are already driving along them. The “concrete” itself is closed for reconstruction here - this is a standard scheme for bypassing traffic during repairs.

On the section between Kievskoe highway and M1 "Belarus", drivers have already seen a new bridge across the Desna and a new 1.6-kilometer Yushkovo bypass. Next, a complex reconstruction section begins in a densely built-up area - contractors have already been identified for this work, and construction will begin soon. Already after the intersection with M1, a new road will be built along the Petrovsky highway, which should merge into a new overpass (project of FKU "Tsentravtomagistral", a structural division of Rosavtodor), through which drivers will get to Mozhayskoye highway. There will be a new road (the subgrade has already been laid, asphalt laying began in April), which will bypass the settlements to the flyover over the Zvenigorod railway station - its construction began last fall.

Future denouement of the Central Ring Road with the M10 "Russia"

Through this overpass, drivers will get to the bypass of Zvenigorod, which has already been built and put into operation. Then the movement will again go along the expandable "concrete". Right behind the Ilyinsky Highway, on a stretch of about 2.5 km, traffic has already been transferred to two new lanes, and two old ones have been closed for repairs. The situation is similar on the section from M9 to M10: here the cars are already driving on the new carriageway. At the intersection with the M10, the 5th section ends.

The main work is now being carried out on the construction of artificial structures - bridges, overpasses and overpasses, their readiness is estimated by contractors at about 80%. "Ready" in this case means that the structures are ready for asphalt laying - the coating itself will be applied immediately before the start of the movement of cars.

Technical characteristics of the 5th section of the Central Ring Road:

Central Ring Road-north: 3rd section between Leningradskoe shosse and M7 "Volga"

As part of the 3rd section of the Central Ring Road, a completely new route is being built, which will operate in a paid mode. The 105-kilometer launch complex will be the longest in the ring highway. The road will allow you to move from the north-west of the Moscow region to the south-east of the Moscow region in just an hour.

The scheme of passage of the 3rd section of the Central Ring Road

The main local attraction is a huge 1.5-kilometer bridge on 23 pillars, which will stretch over the Dmitrovsky highway, the Moscow Canal and the railway line of the Savelovsky direction. This is one of the largest artificial structures in the entire Central Ring Road. Already today, drivers moving along Dmitrovka can notice huge concrete foundations in the Iksha area - from here the overpass will begin to “move” over the highway. An arch will be installed for the unhindered passage of ships through the water - it is already being assembled at the plant and will be transported to the installation site in a disassembled state in the coming months. To equalize the height difference between the right and left banks of the canal, builders with a depth of several tens of meters and a volume of 2.2 million cubic meters. meters, which is why the area to the west of the future bridge looks rather unusual. The extracted soil, by the way, was used for the construction of embankments in other areas.

Future bridge over A-104, Savelovskoye direction of the railway and the Moscow Canal

The construction of the 3rd section began in December 2016, and if we evaluate the total amount of work, then at the moment it is completed by about 30%. In many places, the subgrade is being laid, asphalt has also been laid in some places: the total length of the sections with the bottom layer of the base is about 11 km, this year there will be more of them. For this, 4 asphalt concrete plants have already been installed in the immediate vicinity of the highway, they will soon be brought to full capacity.

Construction progress of the 3rd section of the Central Ring Road

Construction progress of the 3rd section of the Central Ring Road

Construction progress of the 3rd section of the Central Ring Road

Construction progress of the 3rd section of the Central Ring Road

The 3rd section includes 69 artificial structures (overpasses, overpasses). The outlines of bridges over the rivers Chernavka, Chernogolovka, Vorya, Zagrebka are already clearly visible. They began to build one of the overpasses through the "Small Concrete", although in September last year there was nothing here. A junction is being built near Krasnoarmeysk: a new temporary road has been built for this, which residents can use. The entire local road network, on which road equipment travels today, will be repaired after completion of the work.

Future decoupling of the Central Ring Road from the M7 "Volga" (the project is currently being finalized)

The builders promise to complete the 3rd section of the Central Ring Road by the end of 2019. The movement along it can be started independently of the other sections. A curious detail: the section is being built in such a way that in the future, when it is needed, it can be painlessly expanded by another 2 lanes - for this, wide supports and a reinforced foundation are already being placed on the bridge structures. The expansion is expected as part of the second stage of the Central Ring Road - a project that can be implemented in 15-20 years. Read more about the second phase below.

Technical characteristics of the 3rd section of the Central Ring Road:

Central Ring Road southeast: 1st and 4th sections, between M7 "Volga" and M3 "Ukraine"

1st section (from M4 "Don" to M3 "Ukraine") builds Crocus Group. The company received this site in 2015 after the state company Avtodor had to change the problem contractor.

The scheme of passage of the 1st section of the Central Ring Road

The section turned out to be quite difficult to build: the new road passes through a very densely populated area. The problem arises with the transfer of all kinds of communications (about 400 objects) - oil pipelines, water pipelines, many power lines. A large main gas pipeline runs, for example, along the Kaluzhskoye Highway - now preparations are underway for its transfer.

In 2010-2011, when the project was being prepared, no one knew that Moscow would grow from the south with huge territories along which the future ring road would pass. All this, of course, seriously complicated all the approval processes, but Avtodor and Crocus Group specialists are jointly solving these problems.

Technical characteristics of the 1st section of the Central Ring Road:

Another difficult task is to build one of the most difficult interchanges at the intersection of the M4 Don, A107 and the future Central Ring Road. Now the first piles are already being driven here, it can be seen from the ground and from the air. Here the first and fourth launch complexes of the Central Ring Road are joined.

Despite all the difficulties, about 34-40% of the total planned scope of work has already been completed. If you fly over the route of the future road, you can see how many kilometers of subgrade are laid in many places. In some areas, there is already a crushed stone-sand mixture (this, in fact, is the foundation for the future road), and asphalt has been laid in some places. This is clearly visible from the ground, because in some places the old "concrete road" passes literally from 10-20 meters from the future Central Ring Road. If no additional difficulties arise, then in 2018 the 1st section of the Central Ring Road should be completed and put into operation. There is a chance that some sections can be opened to traffic even earlier.

On the 4th section (from M7 Volga to M4 Don) work on the preparation of the territory is in full swing - communications are transferred, clearings are cut down, soil is removed. The exit of construction equipment to the runway is planned in the near future.

Passage scheme of the 4th section of the Central Ring Road

Recall that in June 2017, the state company Avtodor signed a concession agreement for the construction and maintenance of the 4th section with the consortium South-Eastern Highway, after which it took some time to search for strategic investors. In February 2018, during the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi, financial parameters were fixed. The investors who received shares in the consortium were the Avtoban group of companies, the Russian Direct Investment Fund and the Turkish company Makyol. The latter has serious experience in the construction of roads not only in Turkey, but also in Morocco, Azerbaijan and Iraq.

Technical characteristics of the 4th section of the Central Ring Road:

On the Central Ring Road - without barriers

The main inconvenience for users of toll roads has always been barriers at toll plazas (TPPs), which cause traffic jams, which is especially unpleasant during the “hot” summer season. In some places, you can increase the number of lanes (to the region or to the city, depending on the need), but this option is not available everywhere.

A more advanced technology is the freeflow system, which allows you to pass through the toll booth without stopping: the camera reads the number plate of the moving car, after which the owner's personal account is determined, from where the money for the passage is debited. The driver does not even have to do anything, everything happens automatically.

Freeflow is planned to be used on the Central Ring Road. Test operation of the system will probably begin this year and be completed by the summer of 2019, the First Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Ditrikh recently said. “The system should work for some time in the pilot operation mode so that people look at it, get used to it and understand what it is,” he said. “According to preliminary estimates, the test operation period should end by May-June next year.” The freeflow project will be handled by a single operator, which will be created by the state company Avtodor.

In order for the passage without barriers to work, changes are needed to the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation: it is necessary to introduce fines for drivers who decide to drive through a toll section without making a payment. Corresponding amendments to the legislation have already been made by the Ministry of Transport and are soon planned to be submitted to the State Duma. The estimated amount of the fine is 5 thousand rubles. Experts are now discussing where it should go - to the state budget or the concessionaire.

This is how the collection point plans for the Central Ring Road will look like, providing for the use of Freeflow technology

TsKAD-2: myth or reality?

From the layman's point of view, it seems strange to plan to widen a road that has not yet been built. But in fact, there is a certain logic in this. For example, when the Novorizhskoye highway was designed in the distant 70s, the traffic flows were small, four lanes were quite enough.

But Soviet engineers decided to leave to posterity a backlog in the form of a dividing strip, which could be used to widen the roadway. Which, in the end, the next generation of road builders took advantage of.

In general, this is a standard Western practice - to start preparing corridors for future routes in 20-30 years. The situation is similar with the Central Ring Road. It is already clear that in a few decades there may be a need to expand this highway, especially since it is planned to be used as part of several international transport corridors.

The technical documentation for the sections mentions the “second stage”, which will be designed after the increase in the traffic load of the first stage of the Central Ring Road. As part of the 3rd section, it is already planned to expand from 4 to 6 lanes, build an eastern exit to Dmitrovskoye Highway, a northern exit to Noginsk, interchanges with the Pushkino-Krasnoarmeysk highway and Schelkovskoye Highway. On one of the sections of the 4th section, it is possible that the number of lanes will be expanded from 6 to 8 and an interchange with the MMK-Chechevilovo-MBK highway will be built.

As part of the second stage, most likely, a mysterious 2nd section will also appear - an L-shaped "process" from the main ring, which will begin somewhere between M3 and M2. The history of this section, in fact, is not so mysterious anymore: during the development, the designers were not allowed to pass near the lands of the Taman division (belonging to the Ministry of Defense), so the Central Ring Road was redirected in the other direction - bypassing Naro-Fominsk. Later, it was decided to make the main ring along a different route - along the "concrete", and leave the 2nd section for the future. It is possible that someday, in 10-30 years, it will become the beginning of a new infrastructure project - a backup of the Big Concrete section called TsKAD-2.

Plans for the construction of the Central Ring Road (TsKAD) have been around for a long time. But only in 2014, work began on laying a new high-speed highway. The road will pass through the territory of New Moscow and the Moscow region, 50 kilometers from the Moscow Ring Road. According to experts, the Central Ring Road will become an impetus for the economic growth of the entire Moscow region. The construction of the road is planned to be completed by 2025.

Central Ring Road - construction of the ring road

The new high-speed highway will form the basis of a whole network of high-speed roads throughout Central Russia. It will stretch for 529.9 kilometers. The Central Ring Road will unload the city's outbound highways (those that continue in the Moscow region) and the Moscow Ring Road from the transit transportation of goods: heavy vehicles at distant entrances to Moscow can be redirected to their destinations.

The opening of the route will reduce the cost of freight transportation and transport costs. At the same time, thanks to the organization of high-speed transit traffic, the negative impact on the environment will be reduced by unloading existing roads and settlements, through which “caravans” of trucks today follow.

Central Ring Road - detailed map, scheme

The construction of the Central Ring Road will help form a number of large international transport corridors (ITC) in the Moscow region: London - Nizhny Novgorod, Helsinki - South-Eastern Europe, North - South and Helsinki - Nizhny Novgorod. In addition, the implementation of the project will improve road safety. The entire length of the road will be equipped with a modern automatic traffic control system, meteorological observation stations, helipads, rest stops for drivers and roadside services.

Construction project of the Central Ring Road

It is planned to build the Central Ring Road in five stages (start-up complexes), according to the principle of public-private partnership (PPP). This means that both the state, allocating subsidies from the federal budget, and the funds of the National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, and private investors participate in the financing of the facility.

Each start-up complex will be built as part of a separate PPP project. The operator who will serve the road after its opening will be determined during a separate tender. This is due to the need to select a single operator for all launch complexes of the Central Ring Road. The development of design documentation for the Central Ring Road was carried out for four years - from 2008 to 2011. More than 100 specialized design institutes and organizations participated in the preparation of the project. Soyuzdorproject Institute for the Design and Survey of Highways became the general design organization.

In April 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an instruction to start construction of the road. In 2014, the results of an open tender were summed up for concluding a long-term investment agreement for the construction, maintenance and overhaul of the first section (start-up complex) of the highway in Moscow and the Moscow Region. LLC "Stroygazconsulting" became the winner. The first section of the Central Ring Road is scheduled to open in 2018. Its length is 49 kilometers, of which 22.4 kilometers will pass through the territory of the "new Moscow" (Troitsky and Novomoskovsky districts).

Start of construction, interchanges on the Central Ring Road

The construction of the Central Ring Road in the annexed territories began at the end of this summer. On August 26, 2014, a commemorative capsule was laid to mark the start of work on the Central Ring Road by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, Governor of the Moscow Region Alexei Vorobyov, Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov, and head of Rosavtodor Sergei Kelbakh.

“Construction of the Central Ring Road is a truly breakthrough project for Moscow, the Moscow region and for the entire Central Economic Region of Russia,” Mayor of the capital S. Sobyanin said at the solemn ceremony. In the "new Moscow" it is planned to build three large transport interchanges on the Central Ring Road: with the Varshavskoye and Kaluga highways, as well as in the area of ​​the 26th picket road mark. According to the capital's urban planners, there is no need to build a large number of interchanges, otherwise the Central Ring Road from a high-speed transit route can turn into a "city street" with traffic jams.

At the same time, about 120,000 vehicles that daily transit along the Moscow Ring Road will be redirected to the Central Ring Road after 2018. Particular attention in the design of the Central Ring Road was paid to the development of adjacent territories. In the next six months, a single project for planning the territory of the “new Moscow” in the area of ​​the Central Ring Road at a distance of one kilometer in each direction from the highway will be developed. This will determine the prospects for the development of land adjacent to the road. They may have logistics centers, engineering infrastructure, roadside services and other facilities where new jobs will be created.
According to experts, no serious technical problems are expected during the construction of the Central Ring Road. The route passes through a free territory, where there is no dense urban development and, accordingly, there will be no problems with the release of sites.