The direct overpass was opened on September 10 on Varshavskoe Highway. Now motorists will be more comfortable moving along this section: they will not have to stand at the traffic light at the intersection Warsaw highway and Balaklava Avenue.
“A major project is being implemented in the west and south of Moscow - the construction of the Southern Road, which will run from Rublyovka to Kapotnya. The first half of this project has been implemented: Rublevskoye, Aminevskoye Highway, Obrucheva Street, Balaklavsky Avenue have been reconstructed. And so the Southern Rockada came here to Varshavka,” said Sergei Sobyanin.
Construction of the overpass on the Varshavskoye Highway began in September 2015 and was completed exactly two years later, in September 2017. Its length is 845 meters. The section has three-lane traffic in each direction. In the future, there will be exits to Balaklava Avenue and a section of the Southern Road under construction. They will pass through backups and in the space under the overpass.
Connect Varshavskoe and Kashirskoe highways
The overpass became part of the second section of the Southern Road from Balaklavsky to Proletarsky Avenues. It passes through the territory of the industrial zone, crosses the Paveletskaya direction of the Moscow railway, the Chertanovka River and goes out onto Proletarsky Prospekt at the alignment of Kantemirovskaya Street. In addition to the overpass on the Varshavskoye Highway, the following are also being built on this section:
Railway overpass along the Paveletsky direction of the Moscow Railway, 57 meters long;
Road from Balaklava to Proletarsky Prospekt 2.426 kilometers long;
Side passages and exits of the Warsaw Highway 1.923 kilometers long;
Connections between the road and the adjacent street and road network, exit to Kotlyakovskaya Street and 1st Kotlyakovsky Lane, 790 meters long;
A culvert across the Chertanovka River, 111 meters long;
Underground pedestrian crossing in the area of Kantemirovskaya street, house 58;
An elevated pedestrian crossing at the intersection of 1st Kotlyakovsky Lane and Kantemirovskaya Street.
To block out the noise local residents, it is planned to install noise-proof windows at the following addresses: Kantemirovskaya Street, building 53, building 1 and Varshavskoe Highway, building 114, building 1.
Today, the section of the Southern Road from Balaklavsky to Proletarsky Prospekt is 75 percent ready. After construction is completed, motorists will have the opportunity to drive from Varshavskoye to Kashirskoye Shosse or Proletarsky Prospekt and back. This will relieve congestion on the highways, as well as ensure transit traffic without stopping at traffic lights along the Varshavskoe Highway in the area of its intersection with Balaklava Avenue.
Completion of construction under the contract is the third quarter of 2018.
One of three chords
The Southern Road will become one of three new highways in Moscow, along with the North-Western and North-Eastern Expressways. It is being built in the south and southeast of Moscow and, according to Sergei Sobyanin, is the most important road construction project in the capital. The highway will connect diagonally the west, south and southeast of the capital, and motorists will not have to once again pass through the center, enter the Third Ring Road, the Moscow Ring Road and outbound highways.
The length of the Southern Road will be about 40 kilometers. It will run from the Rublevskoye Highway interchange with the Moscow Ring Road to Verkhnie Polya Street in Kapotnya and will connect major city highways - Kutuzovsky Prospekt, Michurinsky Avenue, Vernadsky Avenue, Leninsky Avenue, Profsoyuznaya Street, Varshavskoe Highway, Proletarsky Avenue, Kashirskoe Highway, Lyublinskaya Street.
Also, as part of the construction of the Southern Road, it is planned to reconstruct south-eastern section MKAD, including interchanges with Verkhnie Polya, Kapotnya and Besedinskoe highway streets.
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Southern Rockade - on final stage construction. Now they are still driving around it, but soon it will be possible to drive straight along it, reports a correspondent for the 360 TV channel.
The readiness of the large-scale facility is 90%, the main work on the Varshavskoye Highway has been completed, and all that is missing is an adapter (as road workers call it), which will go towards Moscow.
Very complex and important object. It is quite inconvenient for passenger traffic and transport today. As for public, personal and cargo - very difficult, cramped conditions to maintain capacity
— Petr Aksenov, First Deputy Head of the Moscow Construction Department.
Drivers treat minor traffic jams with understanding: now you have to wait a little, but then you can drive without traffic jams. On the Southern Road, three lanes in each direction - west, south-east and east of the capital - will connect to bypass the Moscow Ring Road.
Continuation of the Southern Rockade on southern directions MKAD, in particular, at the Besedinskaya interchange, at the interchange with Lipetskaya street, the intersection with Verkhniye Polya street, the section of the Southern Ring Road through Kantemirovskaya - will lead to the highway connecting the west and southeast and east of the city, bypassing the MKAD
— Pyotr Aksenov, first deputy head of the Moscow construction department.
Varshavskoe and Kashirskoe highways will connect, thereby relieving both their traffic flows and Proletarsky Avenue. Movement on southern section The rockades are planned to open in September. But then the work will continue - the second stage is next, which involves replacing the railway track. According to Pyotr Aksenov, construction is planned to continue between 2018 and 2020.
In addition, large-scale reconstruction will affect the area from Kantemirovskaya Street to Kaspiyskaya, Donetskaya Street, Verkhnie Polya, and an overpass will also appear on the Moscow River on Shosseynaya Street. It is planned to reconstruct Baltiyskaya Street, which will lead to Lipetskaya and, thus, an interchange through Verkhnie Polya and Lipetskaya will appear on the Moscow Ring Road.
The cost of the first stage of laying the overpass is 5 billion rubles, the second stage is 1.7 billion rubles. Travel on the Southern Expressway will be free, but travel on the North-East Expressway will have to be paid for.
Road construction in Russian capital doesn't stop for a day. And, despite the fact that sometimes it seems that all the reserves are for improvement transport situation are already close to exhaustion, city authorities, designers and builders manage to find new solutions to make life easier for motorists and passengers public transport. The commissioning of a system of chord roads and roads will further relieve congestion in the city center and main ring roads.
Initially, Moscow found itself hostage to the radial-ring transport system. And at a time when motorization was proceeding at a relatively low pace, this state of affairs suited everyone. However, the capital was not ready for a sharp increase in the city’s population and the number of cars at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. Analysts of the construction company Monarch and B, part of the Monarch Group of Companies, came to this conclusion.
The actions taken by the city authorities at that time did not keep up with the pace of its development - new and reconstructed streets instantly turned into places where traffic accumulated.
It became clear that building more and more new rings is a solution that does not have a serious effect and improves the road situation only for a short period of time. But it was obviously impossible to abandon the existing radial-ring system. Under these conditions, the city authorities, together with the best engineering and design minds, had to figure out how to make sure that the city did not end up in gigantic traffic jams in the near future.
The main idea was the redistribution of flows. In order to get from one residential area to another, located at the opposite end of the city, there were two travel options: through the Moscow Ring Road and through the center. Alternative routes were either inconvenient or too time consuming. New route options were needed. This is how the project for constructing a system of chords and rockades came into being.
NORTHEASTERN CHORD
This highway will host the North-Eastern the 35-kilometer-long chord will run from the new M11 Moscow-St. Petersburg highway to Kosinskaya overpass- junctions at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with the Veshnyaki - Lyubertsy highway. The chord will connect the Moscow Ring Road, Entuziastov Highway, Izmailovskoye, Shchelkovskoye, Otkrytoye, Yaroslavskoye, Altufevskoye and Dmitrovskoye Highways. It will reduce the traffic load on the center, the Third Ring Road, the Moscow Ring Road and outbound highways.
The other day, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin opened traffic on the overpasses at the interchange of the North-Eastern Expressway with Entuziastov Highway and Budyonny Avenue. In August, an overpass was opened at the intersection of the new highway and Shchelkovskoe highway. The main work on the construction of the North-Eastern Expressway is planned to be completed in 2019, said the head of the city’s construction complex, Marat Khusnullin.
In addition to the section from Entuziastov Highway to Izmailovskoye Highway, two more have already been built - from Businovskaya interchange to Festivalnaya Street and from Izmailovskoye to Shchelkovskoye Highway. Currently, work is being carried out in sections from Entuziastov Highway to the Moscow Ring Road and from Festivalnaya Street to Dmitrovskoe highway.
NORTHWESTERN CHORD
The purpose of this city highway is to provide a diagonal connection between the northeastern and southwestern districts of the capital, bypassing the city center, to relieve congestion on the Third Transport Ring, MKAD, Garden Ring, Leningradskoye, Volokolamsk highway and other highways. The new route will run from Skolkovskoye to Yaroslavskoye highway.
The reconstructed Bolshaya Akademicheskaya Street together with the Alabyano-Baltiysky Tunnel formed the main part of the highway, which in the area of Dmitrovskoye Highway adjoined North-East Expressway and through the Businovskaya interchange gained access to new track in the direction of Sheremetyevo airport.
Thanks to the Mikhalkovsky Tunnel, it became possible to remove traffic light objects. Traffic has already been launched along the overpass at the intersection of Skolkovskoye Highway with Vyazemskaya and Vitebskaya streets, along the turnaround overpass with Ryabinova and the bridge over the Setun River.
Finish everything construction work on the North-Western Expressway and the entire highway is planned to be launched in 2018.
SOUTH ROKADA
The road will connect the Moscow Ring Road through Rublevskoye Shosse, Balaklavsky Prospekt, Varshavskoye Shosse, Kantemirovskaya Street, Kashirskoye Shosse and Borisovskie Prudy Street. Rokada will serve as a backup for the Moscow Ring Road and the southern section of the Third Transport Ring. Its task is to redistribute traffic flows and relieve congestion on the Kashirskoye and Varshavskoye highways, as well as Proletarsky Avenue. The new highway will include existing roads, which will be reconstructed and expanded.
According to the plans of the city authorities, the Southern Road will run from Balaklavsky Prospekt through a tunnel under Varshavskoye Shosse, then through an overpass it will cross the railway tracks, cross the Chertanovka River over the bridge and connect with Kantemirovskaya Street in the area of Proletarsky Prospekt. Then, through the tunnel, drivers will be able to get to Borisovskie Prudy Street in the direction of Maryino. Then the road will go along Verkhnie Polya Street, from where the transport will head towards the Moscow Ring Road through Kapotnya.
To date, the section from Rublevskoye Highway to Balaklavsky Prospekt has already been put into operation. Overpasses and pedestrian crossings were built here. The capital's authorities plan to build an interchange at the intersection of Warsaw Highway and Balaklava Avenue. A tunnel, overpass, turning ramps and side passages will appear at this location. In addition, an overpass will be built under the Paveletsky direction, a bridge over the Chertanovka River and an underground pedestrian crossing. And the section from the intersection with Proletarsky Prospekt to the Moscow Ring Road will be formed using existing streets.
Total length chord roads will be about 243 kilometers. Over a hundred transport structures - tunnels, overpasses, bridges and overpasses - will be built on them. The launch of traffic on new high-speed routes will make it possible to create virtually a new ring, but with exits to the Moscow Ring Road, which will relieve congestion on the last and Third Transport Rings. The plans are to connect the North-Western and North-East Expressways in the area of Festivalnaya Street with access to the road to the Businovskaya interchange and further to toll road Moscow – St. Petersburg. The Southern Road will intersect with the North-Western Expressway in the Krylatskoye area.
The last section of the Southern Rockada will begin construction in 2018. The design of the route included in it and three reconstructed interchanges on the ring road are already underway, Marat Khusnullin, Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Urban Policy and Construction, told reporters.
The correspondent of the Moscow 24 portal figured out what the backup of the Third Transport Ring and the Moscow Ring Road will be like.
The final stage of the rockade
Photo: portal Moscow 24/Mikhail Kolobaev
From Kashirskoye Highway The southern road will pass along Borisovskie Prudy Street, reach Kapotnya Street and exit to Verkhnie Polya Street. The renovated Verkhnie Polya street will lead to the Moscow Ring Road in the area of the Sadovod market and the Belaya Dacha shopping center.
The existing clover interchange at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and Verkhniye Polye is unlikely to cope with the flow of traffic that will go along the Southern Road from west to southeast, so the interchange is awaiting a radical reconstruction. It is planned to build a tunnel under Verkhnie Polya Street, and a turning overpass and overpass ramps on the Moscow Ring Road.
Additional exits from the Moscow Ring Road will be built to the Sadovod market and shopping center"Belaya Dacha" The total length of the overpasses will be 2.5 kilometers. A total of 14 kilometers of roads will be reconstructed. After modernization, the interchange should increase capacity by 25-30%.
The Southern Road is a new Moscow highway more than 40 kilometers long. It starts in the west at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and Rublevskoye Shosse and ends in the southeast at the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road and Verkhnie Polya Street. Expressway built in several stages.
From Proletarsky Prospekt to Kashirka
Construction of the penultimate section from Proletarsky Prospekt to Kashirskoye Highway will also begin in the new year. The southern road will go along Kantemirovskaya Street and reach the intersection with Kaspiyskaya Street. A road will be laid along a two-kilometer stretch and an overpass will be built.
Shosseynaya Street, located on the opposite bank of the Moscow River, will be connected to Kaspiyskaya Street by a bridge and a new road. Along the existing railway bridge a highway will be built, and the road will be brought to the Kashirskoe highway, connecting with Kaspiyskaya street under the highway.
The length of the new section will be almost three kilometers. In total, at this stage it is planned to build more than eight kilometers of roads, including overpasses on the approach to the 1.97-kilometer long bridge, six overpasses for the exit from Kashirskoe Highway to Kaspiyskaya Street and exits from Donetskaya Street.
According to Marat Khusnullin, the planned sections of the Southern Rokada are planned to be built in 2019-2020.
New road from Varshavka to Proletarsky Prospekt
The second stage of the Southern Road - from Balaklavsky Prospekt at the intersection with Varshavskoye Shosse to Proletarsky Prospekt - is already under construction. Builders are laying a six-lane road along the designed driveways.
The highway will cross the Paveletskaya direction of the Moscow Railway, the Chertanovka River, then 1st Kotlyakovsky Proezd and join Proletarsky Prospekt. Exits will be built from Kotlyakovskaya Street and Bekhterev Streets to the Southern Rokada, and 1st Kotlyakovsky Lane and Proletarsky Avenue at the intersection with the Rokada will be reconstructed.
According to Deputy Mayor of Moscow Marat Khusnullin, the roads in this area are almost completed. On next year the builders will have the most difficult stage– construction of an overpass across the Paveletskaya direction of the Moscow Railway. For the construction of a six-lane highway under by rail It will take them approximately a year. Motorists will be able to move from Kashirka to Varshavka without visiting the Third Ring Road or the Moscow Ring Road in the second half of next year.
The new section will redistribute traffic flows and relieve congestion on Proletarsky Prospekt, Kashirskoye and Varshavskoye highways. In fact, it will become a backup for the MKAD in the south of Moscow.
By the way, the South Road crossed the Varshavskoye Highway already this year. On City Day, traffic was opened along the overpass from Balaklava Avenue through Varshavka. The six-lane overpass, 845 meters long, was built in two years; work began in September 2015.
From west to south along the road
Motorists are already using the first section of the Southern Road from Rublevskoye Shosse at the intersection with the Moscow Ring Road to the intersection of Balaklavsky Prospekt with Varshavskoye Shosse.
It runs along Rublevskoye Highway, Aminevskoye Highway, Lobachevsky Street, Michurinsky Avenue, Vernadsky Avenue, Leninsky Avenue, Obruchev Street, Balaklavsky Avenue and ends at the junction of Balaklavsky Avenue with Varshavsky Highway.
The highway connects Kutuzovsky Avenue with Michurinsky, Vernadsky Avenue with Leninsky, and Profsoyuznaya Street with Sevastopolsky Avenue.
During the reconstruction, 19.7 kilometers of roads were built here, two overpasses - at the intersection of Michurinsky Prospekt with Lobachevsky Street and at the intersection of Rublevskoye Highway with Marshal Timoshenko Street and Osenniy Boulevard.
In two sections of the first stage, the road roads created a dedicated lane for public transport: from Mozhaiskoye Highway to Vernadsky Avenue and from Leninsky Prospekt to Chertanovskaya street. We built 84 drive-in “pockets” for stops. Thanks to "pockets" public transport does not interfere with the general flow of traffic. Pedestrians can cross the highway through seven underground pedestrian crossings and one surface crossing.
At the intersection of Aminevskoye Highway and General Dorokhov Street, the Southern Road will meet the North-Western Expressway. The transport interchange will be ready soon. Road workers laid asphalt, installed barrier fences, and completed monolithic concrete work.
All work will be completed by the end of the year and will open to traffic. The interchange at the intersection of Aminyevka and General Dorokhov Street will separate traffic flows, relieve congestion on the Aminyevskoye Highway, significantly increase traffic capacity and improve the road situation in the surrounding areas.
It's finished! On October 20, 2015, the Construction Department signed a contract for the construction of a 2-kilometer section of the Southern Road from Balaklavsky to Proletarsky Avenue. The contract amount is 5 billion rubles, the road will be built by OJSC Moscow Engineering and Construction Company. According to the contract, 19.5 months are allotted for this: they plan to launch traffic in August 2017. Now construction sites are being prepared and the territory is being cleared.
Let's talk about the past, present and possible future of this road. A series of 3 articles will be devoted to it: the first will be about Moscow expressways in general and the background of the Southern Road, the second will be devoted to an analysis of the project, and the third will be devoted to the additional measures that need to be implemented to maximize the transport effect of the new road.
What is the Southern Rockade and why is it needed?
The Southern Road, also known as the South-Western Expressway, is a through city highway, which the future will pass from the prestigious Rublyovka to the working Kapotnya, connecting the western, southern and southeastern districts of the capital. 
The 23 km long section from Rublevskoye to Varshavskoye highway has existed for a long time. Now the road will be extended another 2 km to Proletarsky Prospekt. Neither Kantemirovskaya Street east of Proletarsky Prospect, nor Borisovskie Ponds Street will be touched for now.
Why are chords needed?
Someday there will be 4 main chord roads in the capital: North-Western, North-Eastern, South-Western (also known as South Rokada) and South-East. So far, only the first three are being built. 
The transport task of chords is more than important. They will become an alternative to the Third Ring and the Moscow Ring Road when traveling around the periphery of the city, will reduce overmileage, relieve congestion on sections of radial highways, and directly connect all Moscow districts. This will improve transport accessibility“dormitory” areas will create conditions for the transfer of jobs to them and will help attract investment in the development of these territories. As a result, Moscow will get rid of the hyper-concentration of jobs within Sadovoye and from the insane “pendulum” load on transport system. Read more about this in materials and.
By the way, the capital’s authorities are increasing transport accessibility and connectivity of the territory between the Moscow Ring Road and the Third Transport Ring, not only for motorists, but also for public transport passengers. And we’re not just talking about future NOT routes on chords: in the coming years, Moscow will have two intersecting rings of high-speed off-street transport. The Moscow Ring Railway, which extends to the north, is now being converted into an “overground metro”; traffic should open at the end of 2016. And the Third Interchange Circuit of the metro, shifted to the south, will be closed after 2020. 
But let's return to the Southern Rockade.
Why is the section from Warsaw Highway to Proletarsky Prospekt especially needed?
Because between the Moscow Ring Road and Kolomensky Proezd there is not a single crossing over the Paveletskaya railway for 10 km! And if you don’t have a helicopter at hand, you can overcome the unfortunate 2 kilometers by driving either 8 or 21 km - in the first case, the mileage is 4 times, in the second a fantastic 10 times! This topology road network creates a wild load on Varshavskoye and Kashirskoye highways, Lipetskaya street, a section of the Moscow Ring Road and Kolomensky passage.
Why wasn't this road built a long time ago?
It’s not for nothing that the Southern Rockade is considered the most long-awaited in Southern district Moscow. Her story is full of mysteries and misadventures. Take, for example, the fact that the current project is already the third “approach to the projectile.”
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 2 ground crossings across the Paveletskaya railway on the southern outskirts of Moscow: in the area of Starokashirskoe highway and 2nd Varshavsky Proezd. Why were they closed for safety?
The corridor for the construction of the Southern Road was included in all Soviet General Plans, but construction never came to fruition. The first promise to build the Southern Road was made by Yuri Luzhkov. Few people remember, but in 1994 he ran for mayor with the promise to certainly build a road from Balaklavsky to Kantemirovskaya. Alas, having taken office, Yuri Mikhailovich happily forgot about the promise, being carried away by more global construction projects.
In 2000, at the Moscow Urban Planning Council, in the presence of the mayor, a decision was made to build the road “in the near future.” The object was even included in the plan of priority construction activities until 2005. To the considerable surprise of citizens, by 2005, at the intersection of Warsaw and Balaklavskoe highways, ... the Airbus shopping center was erected, but the road was never built.
We returned to the project only in 2007. But they did it stupidly: instead of first of all designing and building the most required area in the industrial zone between Warsaw Highway and Proletarsky Prospekt, the mayor’s office decided to start with the much less effective connection Kantemirovskaya Street - Borisovskie Ponds, expanding half of Kantemirovskaya Street by 3 times, and opening the road to the side under the second half Borisov Ponds in a deep tunnel under Kashirskoye Highway.
The first version of the Southern Rockada project (2008) is clickable.
This strange decision was justified as follows: “in connection with the completion of the excavation of the Serebryanobor tunnels and in order to create conditions for further effective use unique tunnel boring complex.” Translating into Russian “to stick the Elizaveta tunneling shield somewhere.” Needless to say, such a decision, coupled with the planned mega-interchange with Proletarsky Prospekt, increased construction costs many times over, and the lack of connection with Kashirskoe Highway due to deep excavation would have killed all local streets. These and other mistakes and shortcomings caused serious objections from residents on both sides of the Kashirskoye Highway, who even created a special website for coordinating actions, and in 2008-2009, 2,300 signatures were collected for correcting the project.
However, that project was finally finished off by the 2009 crisis. Expenses for road construction was cut in half, and the remainder was used to complete construction that had already begun. The Southern Rockada project was sent for revision.
The second version of the project started under Sobyanin in 2011. This time the site (from Balaklavsky Avenue to Kantemirovskaya Street) was immediately chosen correctly. But the project, which was already completed and approved in 2012, was never implemented: the already announced construction competition was postponed several times and was eventually canceled altogether.
Sketch of the planning project (2012): Southern road from Balaklava Avenue to Proletarsky Avenue
Old traffic management project (2012): section South Rokada from Balaklavsky Avenue to 1st Kotlyakovsky Lane
The exact reasons for the cancellation of the competition are unknown. but perhaps it’s due to the high cost: due to the three-level interchange between Warsaw and Balaklava (overpass, tunnel and ground section), the project cost more than 10 billion! In addition, that project was strangely divided into sections: the first reached only the narrow 1st Kotlyakovsky Lane, and the second, with a strange roundabout, which received the nickname “Kantemirovsky Egg” from residents, was never designed.
Be that as it may, at the end of 2013 the design began again, and in mid-2015 the project was finally approved. In September 2015, a competition for construction was held, and in October a contract for construction until August 2017 was signed.
How will traffic be organized on the future section of the Southern Road?
The fully approved and handed over to the builders traffic management project (TRAP) looks like this. 
We'll look at it in more detail in the next part.
What will happen to garages and window replacement?
Several hundred garages and other real estate properties will be demolished during construction. The construction estimate provides 340 million rubles for compensation to owners. If you are afraid that your property will be demolished, go here or here. On average, 188 thousand rubles are provided for compensation for each garage.
As usually happens when large construction sites, residents of nearby houses will have their windows replaced by installing double-glazed windows with noise-proof valves for effective sound insulation in ventilation mode. In total, more than 1,880 windows need to be replaced.
Why does the competition say “stage 2” and what about stage 1?
The title of the construction project in the competition is called “The section of the Southern Rokada from Balaklava Avenue to Proletarsky Avenue (stage 2).” It includes everything on the diagram, except... the future overpass for the Paveletskaya railway, under which the road will pass! The fact is that the territory of the railway is federal, not Moscow, land, and the project for it should be approved not by the capital’s Moscow State Expertise, but by the federal Glavgosexpertiza. That is why the project of this overpass was allocated to “Stage 1”. It is currently under examination, and as soon as it is approved, it will be drawn as a separate lot worth approximately 1 billion rubles. It is planned that this will happen in the near future, which will allow both stages to be built simultaneously and the entire road to be completed by the scheduled date, August 2017.
For those interested, below is the spoiler schedule for stage 2.
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Thanks to the Roads.ru forum for the project materials.
