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This loop is a terminus of the line along the former Nagatinskoye Shosse built in 1938-39. With the inauguration of this line Nagatino dormitory got a reliable link with Moscow. In addition to commuter service this line also featured high levels of freight transportation from sand-pits and river piers. The sand from Nagatino had played a major role during the World War II, when it was used in construction of field fortifications (I hope you remember that the Nazy troops were stopped in 1941 in a few kilometers from the Kremlin, almost in the city), in putting out fires caused by fire-bombs; and were it not for Nagatino line and freight it transported, Moscow could suffer greater war damages. After the war, the share of freight conveyed by trams decreased, the branches to piers and pits were abandoned and lifted; now this former industrial suburb is just another residential zone of Moscow.
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