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Third Ring Road
Тре́тье тра́нспортное кольцо́
The Third Ring Road (in green) in Moscow[1]
Route information
Maintained by the city of Moscow
Length35 km (22 mi)
HistoryConstruction started in 1960 and finished in December 5, 2003.
Major junctions
Orbital around central Moscow, Russia
Location
CountryRussia
Major citiesMoscow
Highway system

The Third Ring Road, or The Third Ring, (Template:Lang-ru; transliteration: Tretye Transportnoye Koltso, or Tretye Koltso) is a beltway around central Moscow, Russia, located between the Garden Ring in the city centre and the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD).

Route

The Third Ring is 35 kilometers (km) in length, i. e. about 10 km in diameter. As it is one of Moscow's main roads there is a lot of traffic and it suffers from frequent congestion. There is a planned Fourth Ring between the Moscow Ring Road and the Third Ring. The Third Ring can be used to get from areas such as Sokolniki Park to Sparrow Hills, on the other side of the city. The road is used by many Moscovites who live in the suburbs of Moscow to bypass the city centre. The Third Ring Road was completed in 2004 with the Lefortovo Tunnel, the third longest urban tunnel in Europe after the Södra länken tunnel in Stockholm, Sweden and the Dublin Port Tunnel in Dublin, Ireland. The Third Ring Road also serves as the main highway access for the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), a modern high-rise office district located along the western portion of the Third Ring, where it crosses the Moscow River.

History

Soviet Era (1935-1993)

Main Article: Soviet Union/Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR)

In 1935, the Third Ring Road had been planned in the Master Plan of Moscow, designated as the reconstruction of a "new Boulevard Ring using mostly runs Collegiate Chamber of Val" [1]. Around the year 1960, construction of the beltway started on the Treadmill to Riga. Construction of the beltway starts at the northern sections. In 1961, a tunnel under Leningradsky Avenue was completed and put into effect. In the same year, the Avtozavodskii Bridge was constructed. In 1965, the overpass near the Savelovskaya Railroad Station was completed. The beltway goes over a railway and Butyrskaya Street-Novoslobodskaya Street. In 1975, the overpass in Riga was built. In 1984, the overpass over Rusakovskaya Avenue was constructed and put into effect. A tunnel under Mitkovskaya was completed connecting the northern branch and the northeastern branch of the road. Now the Third Ring Road was over one-fourths completed, with the western, eastern, and southern branches needed to be built. However, economic hardships during the time halted the construction of the beltway, and no progress was made for about over a decade.

Russian president Vladimir Putin at the opening of a new section of the Third Ring Road in December 12th, 2001.

Contemporary Era (1993-present)

Main Article: Russian Federation

After the early 1990s when the Soviet Union and the RSFSR dissolved, construction of the beltway continued, starting in the southwestern sections of the beltway. In October 28, 1998, the Berezhkovskii Bridge was constructed and opened. The bridge is located over the Moskva River between the Dorogomilovo District and the Khamovniki District. In May 10, 1999, the overpass over the Luzhnetskaya Thoroughfare from Komsomolsk Avenue to Berezhkovsky Bridge was built and opened. Plans to create a new Riga overpass to replace the old one were approved and construction started. The first phase of the new overpass was finished in August 31st while the second phase finished in December 4th. Seven days later, the section from the Berezhkovskii Bridge to the Kutuzovsky Avenue was completed, with a tunnel interchange going under the avenue. In the fall of the year 2000, the section between Komsomolsk Avenue in the Khamovniki District to Leninsky Avenue in the Donskoy District was completed and opened, with St. Andrew's Bridge which crosses the Moskva River between the two avenues. In December 30th, the section between Kutuzovsky Avenue of the Dorogomilovo District and Shmitovsky Avenue of the Presnensky District was built and opened, which includes the Dorogomilovsky Bridge located between the two districts and over the Moskva River. The area east of the beltway north of Moskva River after crossing the Dorogomilovsky Bridge would become the MIBC. A tunnel interchange on Nizhnyaya Maslovka Street which goes under the beltway was built and opened in August 28, 2001 in the northern parts of the highway in the Savyolosky District. The interchange the beltway crosses Leninsky Avenue is a tunnel interchange under Gagarin Square named Gagarin's tunnel. It was constructed along with a section to Volgograd Avenue of southeastern central Moscow, with a reconstructed Avtozavodskii Bridge, in December 12th. In the same year, the section between Shmitovsky Avenue and the Zvenigorod Highway was completed although the date is not clarified. In November 6, 2002, the section between Zvenigorod Highwayand and Begovaya Street located on the western part of the beltway and the section between Ostapovsky Thoroughfare and Nizhny Novgorod Street on the eastern part of the beltway were built and opened. The Begovaya Street section would lead to the tunnel interchange under Leningradsky Avenue, thus connecting the northern beltway with the western and southern beltway. The area between Spartakovskaya Street and the Krasnokazarmennaya embankment by the Yauza River were finished in the Basmanny District in October 1st in 2003. The section between Nizhny Novgorod Street to the Highway of the Enthusiasts, also known as Entuziastov Highway which borders the Lefortovo District in the north was finished in the same time as well. One month later, the Lefortovo Tunnel finished construction and was opened, connecting the Third Ring Road's sections in the Basmanny District, therefore closing and finishing the beltway. In November 4, 2005, four interchanges were redesigned and reconstructed: the Leningradsky Avenue interchange over the Third Ring Road (due to extensive renovation and conversion of the Avenue into a 12-lane freeway which includes an extra overpass), Sheremetyevo Street-Oktyabrskaya Street over the beltway converted into a diamond interchange, and the Zvenigorod Highway over the beltway converted into a variation of the diamond interchange. Traffic on the ring was continuous, with no traffic lights on the beltway till June 15, 2016, where a traffic light and road markings were placed on an intersection between a ramp to the Third Ring Road and Leningradsky Avenue.

See Also

Beltways in Moscow:

Note

  1. ^ Map not including the new boroughs (2012) of Novomoskovsky and Troitsky

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