THE mayor of Moscow Mr Sergey Sobyanin and Russia’s special presidential representative for environmental protection Mr Sergey Ivanov attended a ceremony on February 26 to mark the inauguration of the first completed section of the Large Circle Line (Line 11).

RUSSIAN airport rail link operator Aeroexpress introduced its new fleet of Stadler ESh2 Kiss double-deck EMUs on October 27, when Russian transport minister Mr Maksim Sokolov attended a ceremony at Moscow Kiyevskaya to mark the trains’ entry into passenger service.

MOSCOW metro has awarded Metrowagonmash a 27-year lifecycle contract to maintain 50 type 81-760 and 81-761 metro trains.

MOSCOVITES got their first taste of the Russian capital’s next generation tram on March 17, when the city’s mayor Mr Sergey Sobyanin marked the introduction of two prototype Vityaz-M vehicles into passenger service.

MOSCOW metro extended the western leg of the east -west Line 8 on March 16 with the start of passenger services on the 7.3km Park Pobedy - Ramenki stretch of Line 8A.

THE first of 96 new-generation trains being built Metrowagonmash for Moscow Metro arrived at the city’s Vykhino depot at the end of January.

RUSSIAN Railways (RZD) announced on January 10 that Sapsan high-speed trains carried 4.8 million passengers in 2016, 37.4% more than in 2015.

A TOTAL of 6.1 million passengers were carried during the first month of operation on the Moscow central ring railway.

RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin took part in the ceremony to mark the launch of passenger traffic on the Moscow Central Ring railway on September 10.

URAL Locomotives presented the last of 33 ES2G Lastochka EMUs for the Moscow Ring Railway to Central Suburban Passenger Company at Podmoskovnaya depot in Moscow on August 22.