The tram tracks in 3rd Ostankinskaya Street - that part of the street that is located near Ostankino terminus. As there is no car traffic in this street, the tracks were covered with nice green grass - until the planned repair, when the tracks have been paved with standard dull slabs.
A gentle slope at the place where tracks cross a nameless road before turning to Ostankino terminus.
The same slope seen ten months later. The cityscape has radically changed and tram tracks are now surrounded by monorail structures.
The line along Akademika Korolyova Street looked this way from mid-1980s (when it had been relocated from its previous location in 3rd Ostankinskaya Street because of construction of new apartment blocks seen in the distance) to 2002.
Again Akademika Korolyova Street in its pre-monorail shape. There is the Cosmos Hotel and the Monument for Space Explorers in the distance. The tree in the left was broken by a heavy storm in 1998, but it has decided to be born again spreading new branches...
Today the line looks very uncommon; it resembles a sort of a tunnel with those massive monorail supports.
19 October 19 2002.
Ulitsa Tsandera tramstop. If you look attentively you will spot the broken tree behind the driver's cab. Unfortunately, the tree could not survive the monorail construction but it must be noted that constructors handled most trees with care during their work.
The same tramstop one and a half year later. The changes are obvious!
The line accompanied by monorail beams and supports diverts from Akademika Korolyova Street back to 3rd Ostankinskaya Street, where this KTM-19 #2002 has just came from.
This is another part of "dual" 3rd Ostankinskaya Street, now between 6th Ostankinskiy Pereulok and 1st Ostankinskaya Street. No monorail can be seen in this January photo yet.