page_title: Moscow Central Circle
section_title: Opening and operation
hierarchical_section_title: Moscow Central Circle / Opening and operation
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Владимир Путин и Сергей Собянии в салоне электропоезда ЭС2Г на открытии МЦК
context_page_description: The Moscow Central Circle or MCC, designated Line 14 and marked in a strawberry red/white color is a 54-kilometre-long orbital urban/metropolitan rail line that encircles historical Moscow. The line is rebuilt from the Little Ring of the Moscow Railway and opened to passengers on 10 September 2016. and is operated by the Moscow Government owned company MKZD through the Moscow Metro, with the state-run Russian Railways selected as the operation subcontractor. The infrastructure, trackage and platforms are owned and managed by Russian Railways, while most station buildings are owned by MKZD.
context_section_description: The line opened on 10 September 2016 in the presence of President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin. The line was free to ride for the first month of operation. By the end of 2016, the daily ridership on the Central Circle Line was expected to reach 400,000 and by 2025, the ring railway is expected to carry up to 300 million passengers annually.
  The operation of the Central Circle is similar to the S-Train systems in Germany and other countries. Ticketing on the Moscow Central Circle is fully integrated with the Moscow Metro; the same payment cards (such as the Troika card) can be used on both systems, and free transfers are possible within 90 minutes since the first entry into the system, in a way similar to the transfers between the Metro proper and the Moscow Monorail. The line serves the purpose of a connector between the different radial lines of outer Moscow, much as the Koltsevaya Line does in inner Moscow. 130 trains per day circulate around the line, with an interval of 5–6 minutes during the rush hours, and 10–15 minutes at other times. The line's hours of operation are the same as the rest of the Metro, from 06:00 until 01:00.
  Despite its name, the Moscow Central Circle is not circle-shaped. The line stretches 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) outward in the northwest and draws as close as 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the Kremlin in the south. The Metro's Bolshaya Koltsevaya line (an extension of Line 11/Kakhovskaya Line), which is under construction and will also be a circle line, will reach further to the south.
  An estimated 1,500,000 people lived near the line in the early 21st century.
caption: Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin and President Vladimir Putin on the opening day of the MCC.
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