This line connects Leningradskiy Prospekt with large districts: Tushino, Strogino, Shchukino in the north-west of Moscow. The first tramline here (a single-track line to Pokrovskoe-Streshnevo village in Moscow suburbs - now deep inside Moscow borders) was constructed in 1922.

A two-track terminus at a junction of Alabyana Street with Leningradskiy Prospekt. This terminus was opened on August 10, 1979 as a replacement for another terminus in Marina Raskova Square, closer to the city centre.

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July 2000.

A square at the junction of Leningradskoye Shosse and Volokolamskoye Shosse, with a track branching to the right that leads to the terminus. Note the red placard proclaiming the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; no such 'advertisements' can be found today in the streets of Moscow, of course!

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Photo by Gordon Stewart
1985

Tramstop Institut Ghidroproekt, looking to the west. The tracks here run on a separate alignment along the highway.

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Photo by Gordon Stewart
1985

Volokolamskoye Shosse. The high tower in the centre of this photo marks the place where Leningradskiy Prospekt splits into Leningradskoye Shosse (it does not have a tramline today) and Volokolamskoye Shosse.

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July 2000.

Ulitsa Panfilova stop is the last one on this span of the line. Further tram tracks diverge from the main road and have their own way; one tram branch (to Tushino district) returns to Volokolamskoye Shosse a few stops before crossing the Moskva-Volga canal, while the other line leads to huge Strogino residential zone.

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Photo by Gordon Stewart
1985

The tracks climb up approaching an overpass over the Moscow Ring Railway. This line crosses Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo forest en route to Strogino and Tushino; and the tracks to the left lead to Konstantina Tsareva Street.

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July 2000.

Photos by Gordon Stewart are used with permission.

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