Efimov: Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line will be extended to Mytishchi

MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti. The Kaluga-Rizhskaya line of the Moscow metro will be extended to Mytishchi until 2035, said Vladimir Efimov, deputy mayor of the capital for urban planning policy.

He clarified that the Kaluga-Rizhskaya line will stretch 3.5 kilometers from the Medvedkovo station to Mytishchi.

“The exact location of the new station will be determined at the stage of preparing the metro line layout project. Thanks to the extension of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line, the capital will become closer to residents of the Mytishchi urban district with a projected population of 540 thousand people, as well as adjacent settlements of the Moscow region,” the press service of the capital city complex quotes Efimov as saying.

He clarified that extending the line to Mytishchi will also help reduce the load on the Yaroslavskoye Highway and the Yaroslavskoye direction of the Moscow Railway.

Earlier, the mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin announced the extension of seven metro lines beyond the Moscow Ring Road. According to him, transport accessibility will improve for 2 million Muscovites and 3.7 million residents of the Moscow region.