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Anikeevka, Opalikha

 

In late 2019, just before the COVID-19, Moscow and Moscow oblast launched the new commuter train service called Moscow Central Diameters (MCD) which resembles German S-bahn, Paris RER or dozens similar routes in Japan. Of course, it didn't work as intended and the project is still far from completion (just two routes across Moscow launched, three others pending), but it is still better than nothing. The most common rolling stock on route D2 from Nakhabino to Podolsk are EP2D electric multiple units made in Demikhovo in Moscow oblast. In technical terms, this is a heavily modernized old soviet model which origin can be traced as far as to ER1 trains manufactured in 1957-1962. Of course they have a new fancy look, better but still outdated engines, air conditioning. However, basically they are living engineering fossils.

 

Another common trainsets are much newer and promising "Ivolga" EMU made in Tver. They are built from scratch and not worse than foreign counterparts. Unlike the first production samples which heavily relied on the imported components, most recent trains are mostly homemade.

 

Anikeevka station in Krasnogorsk to the north-west of Moscow. It was slightly renovated after the launch of MCD. It doesn't have turnstiles so you have to apply a transport card to the special terminal when entering or exiting the platform.

 

New unremarkable housing projects near the railway station.

 

There are a lot of projects initiated by a now defunct developer "Urban Group" which invited a notorious Russian-Armenian architect Maxim Atayants. Atayants is one of a few Russian architects who dares to work in the Neoclassical Revival style. One of his projects in Opalikha is called "Opalikha O2". Not the best example of his art, but it gives a general idea of it.

 

Arches, colonnades and not enough parking space.

 

And as for "Opalikha O2" it has ugly accessible slopes and extremely low-quality finishing materials.

 

Another project of Atayants: "Opalikha O3".

 

Surviving interwar barracks near Opalikha station which is next to Anikeevka.

 

A local church built in the mid-1990s. It is dedicated to one of the Grand Duchesses shot by the Bolsheviks in 1918.

 

Unlike Anikeevka, Opalikha station has a spacious concourse with turnstiles, escalators etc. Despite the prohibitions, the huge empty spaces are used as a covered bike parking.

 

Getting in (as of June 2022): Any non-express D2 train. Roads in this area are jammed and should be avoided.

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