Chinese railway construction firm to build three metro stations in Moscow

China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) is set to build three metro stations of the Third Interchange Circuit in the Russian capital city by the end of 2019, according to Marat Khusnullin, deputy mayor of Moscow for urban development policy and construction.

People come to look at Soviet-era vintage subway cars parked in the Partizanskaya metro station in Moscow on May 15, 2015. [Photo: AP/Pavel Golovkin]

Khusnullin said the Beijing-based state-owned railway construction firm will start the construction of the three metro stations and main line tunnels between them in the near future. The total length of the project is around 3.6 kilometers.

Some news media reported last year that the Moscow municipal government reached an agreement with CRCC to jointly develop the city's southern metro network in October 2016, and CRCC won the bid with about 23 billion rubles (400 million US dollars). The three metro stations are located at Aminyevskoye Shosse, Michurinskyi Prospekt, and Vernadskyi Prospekt, in the southwest of Moscow.

People walk at Kievskaya metro station in Moscow on June 20, 2017. [Photo: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko]

This is the first time a Russian city has invited a foreign company to join a national subway construction project.