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.

	Before entering the terminus trams climb a little knoll and then descend from it. The top of this knoll is the best point to take a look at the whole loop. © Vadim Ievlev December 3, 2001.
	Here the loop itself begins. It has only two tracks, but each of them is rather long. © Vadim Ievlev December 3, 2001.
	See! New rails were brought here! It looks like some track works are coming. © Vadim Ievlev December 3, 2001.
	The control point is situated in a single ground-floor apartment of a typical 5-storey building. The only difference from a dwelling one is that it has its own entrance. © Vadim Ievlev December 3, 2001.
	Trams are waiting for their drivers. And the drivers are having a short rest between rides at the control point. © Vadim Ievlev December 3, 2001.
	Again the knoll that we took a look at the terminus from. This route 23 tram is going to enter the terminus after its long trip. January 20, 2001.

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