Moscow Central Circle: Cheapest way to get around Moscow

The Moscow Central Circle is a 54-kilometer-long (34 mi) orbital metropolitan rail line that encircles historical Moscow.

By the end of 2016, the daily ridership on the Central Circle Line was expected to reach 400,000, and by 2025, the ring railway is expected to carry up to 300 million passengers annually.

The operation of the Central Circle is similar to the S-Train systems in Germany and other countries. Ticketing on the Moscow Central Circle is fully integrated with the Moscow Metro; the same payment cards can be used on both systems, and free transfers are possible within 90 minutes since the first entry into the system, in a way similar to the transfers between the Metro proper and the Moscow Monorail.

The line serves the purpose of a connector between the different radial lines of outer Moscow, much as the Koltsevaya Line does in inner Moscow.

130 trains per day circulate the line, with an interval of 5–6 minutes during the rush hours, and 10–15 minutes at other times. The line's hours of operation are the same as the rest of the Metro, from 06:00 until 01:00.

Despite its name, the Moscow Central Circle is not circle-shaped. The line stretches 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) outward in the northwest and draws as close as 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) to the Kremlin in the south. The Metro's Bolshaya Koltsevaya line, which is under construction and will also be a circle line, will reach further to the south.

An estimated 1,500,000 people lived near the line in the early 21st century.

The cost of one trip along the Moscow Central Ring is 55 rubles/$0.9 (if you use the Troika card, the cost of one trip will be 38 rubles/$0.6)


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