Metro station "Almaty" will open in Moscow at the end of 2012,

Station "Alma" Zamoskvoreckoj line of Moscow metro will be put into operation at the end of this year, said the Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin.

On Monday, he visited a three-kilometer stretch of Zamoskvoreckoj line from the station "Krasnogvardeyskaya " to station "Almaty". The capital city came to start drilling a tunnel under the river still Gorodnya. On the construction of he told Deputy Mayor for urban policy and the construction of Marat Husnullin, head of the Department of construction of Andrey Bochkarev and General Director of JSC "Mosmetrostroj" Evgeniy Kashin.

The Mayor of Moscow said that under the object, including the station "Almaty", will be commissioned for 16 months, instead of the planned 25-year, i.e. by December 2012. He also asked the General Director of JSC "Mosmetrostroj", will be working with such a volume of works in the new period, Kashin responded in the affirmative.

Zammera Husnullin said in turn that the four kilometres from the construction site will be a large depot for the current overhaul of rolling stock.

"In construction until participated two tunnel boring machines, and today has earned the third ", he said.

Meanwhile, the Mayor of Moscow asked him, as is the case with the interface with other public transport in Metro station. Chapter requirements replied that the station "Almaty" terrotory high sedimentation-razvorotnuû platform for transport.

Then capital city went down under the ground and got acquainted with the technology of road heading. "What is its velocity?", asked the Mayor of the General Director of JSC "Mosmetrostroj".

"Ten meters a day, 320 metres per month", said Kashin.

After that, the Mayor, is at pultovuû and launched the hydraulic drive tonnelnogo Road heading.

The name "Alma" was awarded the station of the Moscow metro "Brateyevo " in 2011, at the request of the leadership of Kazakhstan and Almaty City Administration to celebrate friendship between Russia and Kazakhstan and to commemorate the feat of the legendary Panfilovskoj Division. The station will be the second in the area of the station after Brateyevo "Borisovo " Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya, lines open December 2, 2011 year.

North exit station "Alma" is located on the street Brateevskaya and Ferry, southern-the Key streets, close to the Park by the River Gorodnya.

The willingness of the construction site "Krasnogvardeyskaya -" Alma "is currently estimated at 20%. The work employs 1.7 thousand people, the main contractor of works-JSC "Mosmetrostroj".

Topic: JSC "Mosmetrostroj", "Almaty", "Alma"