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Bratcevo terminus at a crossroad of Panfilov Heroes Street and Jan Rainis Boulevard in the far north-western outskirts of Moscow is realtively young compared to many other tram termini. The regular service reached here on February 21, 1969 when the existed line was extended from its previous terminus at Zakharkovo. The inhabitants of a large new Bratcevo district instantly got a convenient link with a central part of the city; today this link would probably be called a pre-metro or light metro but those aliases were not used in USSR back in 1969... But the dwellers of another huge residential zone Mitino that emerged nearby a decade later were not so lucky: tram was again considered an old-fashioned rusty transport, but there were no enough funds to build a heavy Metro line there at once, and as a result there is no rail link with that district until today! Hundreds of thousands people daily move to and from Mitino by hordes of diesel buses and by motorcars producing severe congestion, but the situation is not to be changed in the foreseeable future.
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