Published on: 2026-08-26
Source: Moscow Government – Правительства Москвы –
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Sergey Sobyanin launched the construction of the “Vatutinki” station on the Troitskaya metro line. It will be located near the intersection of Kaluzhskoye Highway and Slavskoho Avenue.
“We have begun the active phase of construction of the second stage of the Troitsk metro line from ‘Kommunarka’ to ‘Troitsk.’ This is 17 kilometers with six stations. Work is underway everywhere. Here, you see, ‘Vatutinki’ is already in quite an advanced state. All tunnel excavation should be completed by 2028. All major work will be done by 2029, and by 2030 passengers should already be traveling here,” said Sergey Sobyanin.
The Watutinki station will open as part of the southern section of the Troitskaya line and will improve transport accessibility for more than 30,000 residents and workers of TiNAO. The station’s passengers will be served exclusively by modern and technologically advanced rolling stock of Russian manufacture.
“The travel time to the city center will be reduced by one and a half times, and to the BCL — by two times, the journey to it will take 40 minutes,” wrote Sergey Sobyanin on his channel on
Source: Mayor of Moscow’s channel on in the messenger “Max”
It is expected that more than 39,000 passengers will use the station daily at the time of its opening, who will have access to convenient multimodal trips. A developed network of surface public transport routes will provide convenient access for residents and visitors of the capital to the station. Thus, 12 surface urban transport routes will be organized near the future station.
The station got its name from the nearby village of Vatutinki, which was mentioned as far back as the 17th-century census books. There is a theory that the name derives from the name Vatuta — possibly a serviceman or nobleman with that nickname lived here, but there are no written sources to confirm this. At present, the name “Vatutinki” is established in the names of the eponymous settlement, as well as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Vatutinsky streets, and the residential complex “New Vatutinki.”
The station will be laid at a depth of 20.5 meters. The exits will be equipped with six escalators and two elevators for passengers with reduced mobility.
The station is being constructed under complex hydrogeological conditions. This means that there are water-saturated sands and clays, soils that change their properties under load, and uneven distribution of impermeable and aquifer layers. Specialists use the jet grouting method for the soils. They drill boreholes with a tool that has nozzles for supplying cement slurry at its lower part, while the drilling rods are lifted with simultaneous injection of the mixture at high pressure (40–50 megapascals). The soil mixes with the slurry, forming a new material around the borehole — soil concrete, which has high strength, deformation, and anti-filtration characteristics. The result is a waterproof structure that allows safe construction work inside the excavation pit.
Among the advantages of this method are environmental friendliness, safety, low noise level, high speed of work, as well as the ability to carry out work at any time of the year and in any weather conditions.
After completing the soil stabilization using jet grouting, the excavation is enclosed by the “soil-cement wall” method.
Most of the earthworks have already been completed, and the work on the construction of the pilot shaft and retaining structures of the excavation pit is also finished. The builders are now starting to construct the station complex itself.
According to Sergey Kidyaev, CEO of JSC “Ingeocom Association,” protective structures have been fully installed at the “Vatutinki” station, and the excavation pit is 80 percent complete. Today, specialists are beginning to cast the monolithic structure of the station complex itself. At all other stations, work is progressing at the same pace.
At the same time, the excavation of the right running tunnel on the “Vatutinki” — “Kedrovaya” section is underway. This work will be completed in May 2027. Excavation of the left tunnel is planned to begin in February 2027.
The southern section of the Troitskaya line, 16.9 kilometers long, will run along the Kaluzhskoe Highway from Kommunarka to Troitsk.
“Today, 100 thousand passengers use the Troitskaya line daily. After the entire branch is launched, thanks to the development of TiNAO, this figure will increase to 350 thousand people,” Sergei Sobyanin wrote on his channel at
Source: Mayor of Moscow’s channel on in the messenger “Max”
Six new stations will open as part of the southern section. Besides “Vatutinki,” there will be the “Sosenki” station near the village of the same name, at the intersection of Kaluzhskoe Highway and Projected Drive No. 7032. The “Rakitki” station will be located near the intersection of Letovskaya Street and Letovskogo Opolcheniya Street, close to Letova Trail Park and the Letovo school, and “Desna” — near the village of the same name, at the intersection of Central Street and Rakitki Highway. The “Kedrovaya” station will be near the Novye Vatutinki residential complex, at the intersection of Kaluzhskoe Highway and 1st Novovatutinskaya Street, and “Troitsk” — along Oktyabrsky Avenue between Pushkovykh Street and Professor Letokhov Street, partly on the territory of the Troitsk Institute of Innovative and Thermonuclear Research.
The transport hubs “Sosenki,” “Desna,” “Kedrovaya,” “Vatutinki,” and “Troitsk” will become new centers of city life, where modern housing, business districts, and public spaces will be organically combined.
New stations are being built with maximum passenger comfort in mind. They will be equipped with ticket vending machines, turnstiles produced in the capital that allow payment for travel by all available methods, including biometrics. A barrier-free environment accessible to passengers with limited mobility will be created.
The southern section will become a natural extension of the existing Troitskaya line. It currently includes 11 stations—from “ZIL” in the Danilovsky district of Moscow to “Novomoskovskaya” in Kommunarka, used today by 100,000 people. In addition, five transfer hubs have been organized.
From the “ZIL” and “Krymskaya” stations, you can transfer to stations of the same name on the Moscow Central Circle (MCC), from “Akademicheskaya” — to the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line, and from “Novatorskaya” — to the Large Circle Line of the metro. At “Novomoskovskaya,” there is a transfer hub with the Sokolnicheskaya line.
In the future, a transfer to the Biryulyovskaya metro line, the construction of which began in 2025, is planned at the ZIL station.
Passengers of the Troitskaya line are transported by modern and technologically advanced rolling stock of Russian production — trains of the “Moscow-2024” series. Trains of the modern modification are equipped with convenient inter-car transitions, wide doors, powerful climate control systems, and numerous charging ports for mobile devices. Capacity and throughput have been increased: trainsets can carry up to 1,500 passengers.
The construction of the Troitskoye electric depot, which will serve the trains of the Troitskaya metro line, is planned to be completed by 2030. Currently, the rolling stock is serviced by the new Stolbovo electric depot, which will later serve the Sokolnicheskaya line.
As a result, after the completion of the construction of the southern section, the Troitskaya metro line will run from the ZIL MCC station in the Danilovsky District to Troitsk. The line, more than 43 kilometers long with 17 stations, will become one of the longest radii of the Moscow metro and the largest beyond the Moscow Ring Road.
The new line will bring the city closer to two million local residents, who will receive dozens of route options for trips and will be able to significantly save time on their journeys. In particular, residents of Troitsk will reach the MCD and BCL faster by one and a half and two times respectively.
The Troitskaya line will become the backbone of the transport framework of TiNAO. The appearance of the metro, in turn, stimulates the construction of new residential and commercial real estate quarters.
It is forecasted that by 2030 the daily passenger flow of the line will reach 350 thousand people. The new line will significantly — by up to 20 percent — reduce the load on the southern sections of the Sokolnicheskaya and Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya lines, as well as on the Butovskaya metro line, and will help reduce traffic intensity on the adjacent street-road network, which will improve the environmental situation.
Thanks to the Troitskaya line, the transport accessibility of the village of Krasnaya Pakhra and the important urban facilities located there will improve significantly, including the largest electric bus park in Europe and a unique cluster for the production of energy storage systems.
Results of the implementation of the Moscow Metro construction program
Since 2011, Government of Moscow has completed the construction and reconstruction of over 260 kilometers of lines, 127 stations, and 14 electric depots (including the Brateyevo car repair plant) of the Moscow Metro and the MCC. In addition, together with JSC “Russian Railways,” the ground-level metro lines MCD-1, MCD-2, MCD-3, and MCD-4 have been put into operation — 303 kilometers of tracks and 138 stations.
New lines and stations of the Moscow Metro, MCC, and MCD
Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line:
— the section from “Maryino” station to “Zyablikovo” station (three stations);
— the section from Maryina Roshcha station to Fiztekh station (nine stations).
Kalininskaya and Solntsevskaya lines:
— the section from “Novogireevo” station to “Novokosino” station (one station);
— the section from “Delovoy Tsentr” station to “Vnukovo Airport” station (14 stations).
Zamoskvoretskaya Line:
— the section from the “Krasnogvardeyskaya” station to the “Alma-Atinskaya” station (one station);
— “Tekhnopark” station;
— the section from “Rechnoy Vokzal” station to “Khovrino” station (two stations).
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line:
— section from Mitino station to Pyatnitskoye Shosse station (one station).
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line:
— the section from Vykhino station to Kotelniki station (three stations);
— Spartak station.
Butovskaya line:
— section from the “Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya” station to the “Bitsevsky Park” station (two stations).
Sokolnicheskaya line:
— the section from “Yugo-Zapadnaya” station to “Potapovo” station (eight stations).
Nekrasovskaya line
— eight stations.
The Large Circle Line
— 31 stations.
Troitskaya line:
— section from the “ZIL” station to the “Novomoskovskaya” station (11 stations).
There are 31 stations open on the MCC, and 138 on the four Moscow Central Diameters, of which 54 are transfer stations to the metro, MCC, and MCD.
In addition, the electric depots “Mitino,” “Brateevo” (wagon repair plant), “Pechatniki,” “Vykhino,” “Planernoye,” “Nizhegorodskoye,” “Likhobory,” “Solntsevo,” “Vladykino,” “Rudnevo,” “Sokol,” “Aminyevskoye,” “Yuzhnoye” (“Brateevo-2”), and “Stolbovo” are open (including after reconstruction).
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