Nekrasovskaya line

The Nekrasovskaya line (Russian: Некрасовская линия) is a metro line of the Moscow Metro. The first segment, between Kosino and Nekrasovka, was opened on 3 June 2019.[2] The second segment was opened on 27 March 2020.[3] City officials expect it to relieve passenger traffic on the Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya line once completed.

Nekrasovskaya line
Overview
Type	Rapid transit
System	Moscow Metro
Locale	Moscow
Operation
Opened	3 June 2019 (first section)
Operator(s)	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Character	Underground
Technical
Line length	16.7 kilometres (10.4 mi)[1]
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11 ^27⁄32 in)
Electrification	Third rail
Route map future (from 2022) Elektrozavodskaya Lefortovo Aviamotornaya Nizhegorodskaya future (from 2022) Stakhanovskaya Okskaya Yugo-Vostochnaya Kosino Ulitsa Dmitriyevskogo Lukhmanovskaya Rudnyovo yard Nekrasovka

The line will open together with a separate stretch of the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line from Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa to Aviamotornaya, with through service between them. After the completion of the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line, service will be cut back to Nizhegorodskaya Ulitsa, with a cross-platform interchange to the other line.[4]

Name

During construction, the line was referred to as the Kozhukhovskaya line. One concern about the name, which comes from a small village in the region, is that there is already a Kozhukhovskaya station on the Lyublinsko–Dmitrovskaya line that got its name from a different village with the same name. Therefore there was the possibility of confusion.[5]

The city opened a vote via its Active Citizen portal to rename the line to the Nekrasovskaya line.[6] The respondents voted in favor with 73.4% supporting the name change.[7] As of November 2018, the official Moscow Metro map referred to the line as the Nekrasovskaya line. This marked the second time in two years that Moscow residents voted for a name change for a new transit line. In 2017, a similar vote resulted in a name change for the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line from its working name – Third Interchange Contour.[8]

Stations

Image	Name	Comment
	Lefortovo	Temporarily operates as part of the Nekrasovskaya line. In the future, it will be transferred to the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line.
	Aviamotornaya	Transfer to Kalininskaya line. Temporarily operates as part of the Nekrasovskaya line. In the future, it will be transferred to the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line.
	Nizhegorodskaya	Transfer to Moscow Central Circle.
	Stakhanovskaya
	Okskaya
	Yugo-Vostochnaya
	Kosino	Transfer to Lermontovsky Prospekt on the Tagansko–Krasnopresnenskaya line.
	Ulitsa Dmitriyevskogo
	Lukhmanovskaya
	Nekrasovka

References

1. Новые линии метро соединят "Москва-Сити" с востоком Москвы в 2016 году (in Russian). riarealty.ru. 2013-02-11. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
2. "Собянин открыл четыре станции Некрасовской линии метро". Moskva24 (in Russian). 3 June 2019.
3. "Четыре станции Кожуховской линии метро откроются в этом году – Хуснуллин". Moscow Complex for Construction and Urban Development. 2018-06-30.
4. "Метро в Некрасовку: как пройдет Кожуховская линия метро московской подземки". РИА Недвижимость (in Russian). 2016-11-01. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
5. "Активные граждане предложили название для 15-й линии метро" (in Russian). Москва 24. 2018-06-22.
6. City of Moscow Active Citizen m. "Активный Гражданин – проект для тех, кому важно, что происходит в Москве" (in Russian). ag.mos.ru. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
7. City of Moscow. "Активный Гражданин – проект для тех, кому важно, что происходит в Москве" (in Russian). ag.mos.ru. Retrieved 2018-06-23.
8. "Большая кольцевая линия: «активные граждане» выбрали название для новой ветки метро" (in Russian). City of Moscow. 2017-12-28.