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The name of the Moscow district Mikhalkovo (the stress is at A) is known from the XVI century. In the middle of XVIII century, the famous woman Ekaterina Dashkova, the President of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, many times visited this manor. The old park, lakes and mansions survived, and today they make up a nice oasis between the modern dwelling districts with their ugly box-like look and industrial zones... But all this is located at a distance from our destination - Mikhalkovo tramway terminus, across the tracks of the ring railway built in the early XX century.
Let us return to the tramway. Mikhalkovo up to the first decades of the XX century was not in the city limits of Moscow, there was no such industry here that could require a tramline to move workers, and thus the first tram came here six years after the October revolution - in 1923. It must be recalled that that year was the first after the World War I and civil war in Russia that at last new tramway tracks were laid in Moscow. But this terminus remained the final destination of the tramway lines in this community for many decades (in fact, forever - at least, up to today). There were huge plans proposing building an extension of this line into the new dwelling district Khovrino across the ring railway, including new depot for 250 trams. The first attempt to fulfil the plans was in 1946, but nothing was done; the second and last - in 1956, with the same result. Unfortunately, the plans appeared in very undue time, because these years were among the worst in the history of the Moscow tramway - virtually the whole network in the central part of the city was lifted.
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