How are numbers given to public transport routes? What routes do they eat

For several years, a picture-meme has been circulating on the Internet - the emotional obscene impressions of a provincial from Moscow. Among them is the phrase: "Bus 483rd, not a fig to itself a figure!" The logic of the numbering of urban transport is, indeed, not always obvious. The Village learned how numbers are assigned to buses, trolleybuses and trams.

Press Service of the State Unitary Enterprise "Mosgortrans"

All routes of urban passenger transport in the capital have one-digit, two-digit and three-digit numbers. This numbering has developed historically and does not change. On new directions, the transport is assigned new numbers or numbers of previously canceled routes. All numbering is individual, but there are also coincidences: the routes of different types of transport can be marked in the same way. Thus, tram No. 3, trolleybus No. 3 and bus No. 3 travel around the city, but they all follow different routes.

There is no need to assign four-digit numbers to new routes yet. There are, however, bus routes No. 1001, 1002 and 1004, which previously belonged to commercial carriers. In 2013, they were transferred under the management of Mosgortrans; for the convenience of passengers, the numbers were not changed.

Sometimes, when numbering, the specifics of a particular route are taken into account. For example, in Moscow there are several "social" directions of movement, they cover educational institutions, medicine, social protection. The numbers of such routes begin with the letter C: C1, C2, and so on. There are also night routes of surface urban transport, these are buses No. H1, H2, H3. The letters are also used for shorter flights: they duplicate the busiest sections of the route. To make it easier for passengers to navigate, when entering such a route, the letter "k" (short) is added to the main number. There is, for example, bus route No. 709, which goes from the Orekhovo metro station to the Kashirskaya metro station, and there is No. 709k, which goes from the Orekhovo metro station to the Moskvorechye platform.

Konstantin Trofimenko

Director of the Center for Research on Transport Problems in Megalopolises, HSE

There is no special system for the numbering of transport in Moscow - it is a wild mixture between the route numbers of a century ago, Stalin's, Brezhnev's and numbers of the 1990s. They all layered on top of each other.

There are also routes that use letters in the designation. This may be due to the fact that the transport route was once divided into two parts. It also happens that the route forks: the transport follows the route, and then its variant, to the numbering of which the letter A is added, turns to the right. The variant without such a letter continues to follow straight. All this, of course, causes confusion. City navigation is not user-friendly at all. If a person does not specialize in this topic, he is unlikely to know about any routes other than those that he needs.

In Soviet times, work was regularly carried out to optimize the urban transport system. In the 90s, they stopped doing this, and now attempts are being resumed. Last year, not only the problem of transport numbering was raised, but also the question of the need for certain routes. It happens that they lose their relevance: for example, there was a bus that took people to the plant. The enterprise was closed, and people stopped going there, but the route continues to function. Does the city need it? But, unfortunately, so far these works have not led to a positive result.

Illustration: Nastya Grigorieva

The Moscow Metro is open every day from early morning until late at night. Trains do not run only for a few hours a day due to routine maintenance work at stations and in tunnels. The duration of the intervals for the movement of trains varies depending on the days of the week and the time of day. During peak hours, the frequency of trains running on some lines does not exceed 90 seconds.

The detailed working hours of the stations can be found on the signs at the entrance to the lobbies, as well as on the official website of the Moscow Metro. Here you can also get acquainted with the schedule of the departure of the first and last trains from each station.

The scheme of Moscow metro lines can be viewed in the lobbies and at metro stations, railway and bus stations, in the Moscow Metro application, as well as on the official website of the metro and on the portal.

The Moscow monorail transport system is part of the metro. The monorail route lies from the Timiryazevskaya station to the Sergei Eisenstein Street. You can familiarize yourself with the schedule of the monorail trains on the portal.

2. Scheme, opening hours and schedule of MCC trains

Trains on the Moscow Central Circle (MCC) run from 05:30 to 01:00. At the stations of the MCC, transport hubs are organized that connect the metro, and.

You can pay for travel to the MCC with any city ticket ("United", "90 minutes", "Troika") at metro tariffs. You can also use all benefits on social cards.

When transferring from the metro to the MCC and back within 90 minutes from the moment of the first pass, the additional trip will not be charged.

3. Routes and timetables of urban land transport

City ground public transport in Moscow operates daily from early morning until late at night. A number of routes. You can get acquainted with the timetable for buses, electric buses, trolleybuses and trams at all stops, as well as on the website. The route schedule of private carriers is also available on the portal. In October 2016, the new Magistral ground transport network was launched in Moscow. New routes of buses, trolleybuses and trams pass through the center of Moscow and the main transport routes. You can find out detailed information about the new Magistral transport network, its routes and timetables at.

You can also familiarize yourself with the scheme of ground transport in the center of Moscow and express routes that provide high-speed transport links between remote areas and the city center.

You can use the interactive service on the portal page to build a travel route to your destination, depending on the public transport schedule and traffic congestion, and you can find out about the current tariffs for travel in ground city public transport on the official website of the State Unitary Enterprise "Mosgortrans".

4. Public transport routes at night

Night routes are formed in such a way as to cover all administrative districts with transport links from the city center.

Night ground transport operates from 01:00 am to 05:30 am, and routes B and M10 operate around the clock. The interval of movement is 30 minutes. All night routes, except for B, start from the Kitay-Gorod metro station: every half hour, starting at 01:00 am, 11 night routes arrive at the same time, wait 5-10 minutes and set off on their own routes.

5. International and intercity bus routes

You can get acquainted with the bus routes of international, intercity (between Moscow and major cities of other regions) communication at bus stations and bus stations from which buses run, as well as on the official website of Rosavtotrans.

There is a network of bus routes and fixed-route taxis between Moscow and the cities of the Moscow Region. They depart from bus stations and bus stations located near metro stations. You can familiarize yourself with the scheme of movement of suburban buses and fixed-route taxis, as well as with a list of routes, at the points of departure and at.

Most of the bus routes connecting Moscow with cities and large settlements of the Moscow Region are served by the Mostransavto State Unitary Enterprise. You can find out more about the list of routes, as well as about a possible transfer scheme in the Moscow Region, on the official website of the carrier.

6. Traffic scheme and timetable of electric and long-distance trains

The timetable for suburban electric trains running between Moscow and the Moscow Region has been drawn up in such a way that the first trains from the region arrive in the capital before the opening of metro stations. The last trains leave for the Moscow region around midnight to provide transportation for citizens working in the evening shift. Suburban electric trains run in 11 directions, starting at all railway stations in Moscow.

You can get acquainted with the route map and the schedule of suburban electric trains at railway stations, stations and stopping points of the capital region, in carriages directly along the route, as well as on the official websites of the Central Suburban Passenger Company, which ensures the movement of electric trains in all directions, except for Leningradskoe and Moskovsko-Tverskaya suburban passenger company operating in the Leningrad direction.

On weekdays, suburban railway transport has a technological break required for the inspection and maintenance of the track and related infrastructure.

There are three categories of single tickets for travel on suburban trains in the Moscow region: full, concessionary and children. When traveling within the city of Moscow, the cost of travel by train is fixed and does not depend on the distance of the trip.

When traveling from Moscow to stations on the territory of the Moscow region and back, the fare is calculated according to You can learn more about the boundaries of tariff zones on the territory of Moscow and the Moscow Region at ticket offices at train stations and stations, as well as on the website, in other directions -.

Also, for the convenience of passengers using commuter trains every day, several types have been developed The list of season tickets valid in all directions, except for Leningradsky, can be found on the website JSC Central Suburban Passenger Company. The list of subscription tickets for electric trains of the Leningrad direction is presented on the website OJSC "Moscow-Tverskaya Suburban Passenger Company".

The rules of travel for commuter trains operating in Moscow and the Moscow region can be found on the official websites of carriers operating at the capital's railway junction:

You can also plan a route manually, armed with a map, pencil and ruler. But if you find yourself on the route planner page, then another, often more convenient option is possible - laying a route online, one of which is offered to you on our site.

There are two types of routing: manual and automatic.

• With manual routing, you plot a series of points on the map that form an arbitrary route.
• With automatic compilation, you need to specify the start and end points, and our service itself will lay the optimal route, calculating the shortest path, taking into account the rules of the road and the traffic situation at the moment.

On the compiled route, you will see all highways and nearby intersections, which will be very useful for motorists and travelers. A map with a route in the city of Moscow will allow you to plan a route and will not let you get lost in an unfamiliar place.

To create a route on a map of Moscow, enter the starting point in the first field of the form below and the end point in the second ole. Then indicate how you will travel to the final destination by clicking on the appropriate button - "By car", "On foot" or by Public transport. After that, click on the "Show route" button.

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Are you sitting with friends, is it a late flight or does the train leave at three o'clock in the morning? We will tell you how to get from one end of the city to the other at night by public transport.

Every night - from 00:00 to 05:30 - there are buses and trams on the streets of 10 routes: nine bus and one tram. There are also round-the-clock routes. Usually the interval is half an hour, only the B bus runs every 15 minutes at night.

All of them intersect with each other in convenient places, run along the main roads and metro lines. Thus, late passengers can get to their homes at the other end of the city, train stations or airports.

How to get there, where to change?

The common interchange hub for night buses H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 and M7 is located on Slavyanskaya Square near the Kitay-Gorod metro station. The rest of the routes intersect with them along the way.

By bus H1, which runs from 00:00 to 05:00, you can get from Ozernaya Street in the south of Moscow to Sheremetyevo Airport. On the way, you can get off at the Yugo-Zapadnaya, Leninsky Prospekt, Lubyanka, Kitay-Gorod, Tverskaya, Mayakovskaya and Belorusskaya metro stations. Further, the route goes along Leningradsky Prospekt parallel to the green metro line.

Route H2 (00: 00-05: 30) connects the center with Kutuzovsky Prospekt and Mozhaisk Highway, and the route of the H3 bus (00: 00-05: 30) runs from Kitay-Gorod station to Ussuriyskaya Street parallel to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya metro line ...

By buses N4 (00: 00-05: 30) you can get from the center to the Novokosino district in the east of the capital.

Buses N5 (23: 35-06: 00) run from the Kitay-Gorod metro station to the intersection of the Moscow Ring Road with Kashirskoye Highway. On the way there are stations "Taganskaya", "Kuzminki" and "Tekstilshchiki", and then the bus turns south - to "Maryino" and "Domodedovskaya".

By buses N6 you can get from the Kitay-Gorod metro station to the northern stations of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya metro line and Ostashkovskaya street. There is also a round-the-clock bus number 15 in Moscow. It runs from the VDNKh metro station through the center to the Novodevichy Convent.

Bus B runs around the clock on the outer and inner sides of the Garden Ring, and the M7 bus runs from Lubyanka through Kitay-Gorod to Vykhino.

Night tram number 3 runs from 01:00 to 05:30. It runs from the metro station "Chistye Prudy" past the Paveletsky railway station, "Tulskaya" and the ZIL platform to Akademika Yangel street in Yuzhny Chertanovo. In the daytime, tram number 3 runs from the Chistye Prudy metro station to Balaklavsky prospect.

Simple and convenient

Travel in the capital's night transport is paid for with ordinary city tickets “Ediny”, “90 minutes”, “TAT”, and a “Troika” card. The cost is from 55 to 65 rubles. On buses, trolleybuses and trams, all established benefits apply.

By the way, since the beginning of summer, the number of passengers on night flights has increased by 20 percent compared to the spring months. Since June, about 250 thousand people have already used night routes.