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A tram line from Krestovskaya Zastava Square (beside Rizhskiy railway terminal) along Yaroslavskoe Shosse to Ostankino village was constructed in 1923. Once a far suburb of Moscow, this district in our days is considered "almost the centre of the city". The line was the first to be built after the Great October Revolution (1917), so the start of tram operation was symbolic - it had to display the effectiveness of the new government. Anyway, the Soviet power is already in the past, while trams continue their routine but very necessary service under any rule.
Currently there remains just a part of the line - from VDNKh to Ostankino. The line from Rizhskiy Terminal to VDNKh along Prospekt Mira (formerly Yaroslavskoye Shosse) was closed in 1995. More changes happened in 2002, when the line from Ostankino to a crossing with 1st Ostankinskaya Street near VDNKh south was closed because of monorail construction works. The closure lasted for nine months, and regular tram service was restored on 15 October of that year.
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