Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line

The path began at the

Although the geology of the line was unfavourable, so to cut down costs, the builders adopted a cut-and-cover method for tunnel construction building them out of large concrete boxes. In some cases, like the second stretch of the Volgogrdsky Prospekt-Tekstilshchiki path, in a rare occurrence for Moscow, the track goes on the surface, as with the approach to Vykhino.

In a similar logic that was shown when building the

Construction of the Krasnopresnensky radius was in built in much more difficult conditions, in a similar fashion it was designed to make the new massifs of the northwestern Moscow accessible, however the more dense regions, underground fortifications and communication lines that the builders had to face, the first stage of the Krasnopresnensky radius knows no equals in the number of difficulties that the builders were faced with. Beginning at the ring, where the only deep level station was located, the line follows the

As four of the five stations were sub-surface, an attempt was made to modernise the existing centipede design. The volume of the station space was increased, and to support the larger roof, the size of the pillars was raised, but so was their spacing, from 4 to 6.5 metres (13 ft 1 in to 21 ft 4 in). In the end, instead of the two rows of 40, there was 2 of 26. The new design became very widespread in the rest of the system. The architecture also made a comeback with new stations. For the first time in nearly 20 years, marble was used on station walls.

Building the final part of the line commenced shortly afterwards on the central stretch finally linking up the Zhdanovskaya line, and finishing the Krasnopresnensky radius. The former was built with two deep level

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