The Moscow International Business Center (MIBC), also known as Moscow-City, is an under-construction commercial development in

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. The project occupies an area of 60 hectares, and is located just east of the Third Ring Road at the western edge of the Presnensky District in the

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. Construction of the MIBC takes place on the Presnenskaya Embankment of the

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. The complex is home to the highest numbers of skyscrapers in Europe. The

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first conceived the project in 1992, as a mixed development of office, residential, retail and entertainment facilities. An estimated 250,000 – 300,000 people will be working in, living in, or visiting the complex at any given time. By 2016, twelve of the twenty-three planned facilities of the MIBC were already built; seven buildings were under construction; and four were in the design stage. __TOC__

General description

History

Before construction began, the area was a stone quarry and industrial zone, where most of the buildings were old factories that had been closed or abandoned. A public company, CITY, was created in 1992, to oversee the initial creation and development of Moscow City as well as its subsequent usage. CITY is also a general contractor and both landlord and lessor. Overall responsibility for the

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ning and design of Moscow City belongs to the architectural studio No. 6, which is a part of the large Moscow practice Mosproject-2 named after Mikhail Vasilyevich Posokhin. This group, headed by Gennady Lvovich Sirota, who is officially the Chief Architect of Moskva-Citi, is in charge of overseeing the design of the complex as a whole and agreeing the details of individual projects. Each building lot has its own investor and architect. By 2014, the volume of investments in Moskva-City was approximately $12 billion.

Management

Established in the spring of 1992, the PJSC City Company manages the creation and development of the MIBC. On 30 December 1994, the

authorized PJSC City to act as the managing company for the MIBC and to negotiate with third parties to help develop the MIBC. As of February 2014, the company was owned by the Solvers Group, led by Oleg Malis.

Buildings

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Evolution Tower The Evolution Tower () is a skyscraper located on plots 2 and 3 of the MIBC in Moscow, Russia. The 55-story office building has a height of and a total area of . Noted in Moscow for its futuristic DNA-like shape, the building was designed by Bri ...

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Imperia Tower Imperia Tower, is a complex located on plot 4 of the MIBC in Moscow, Russia. The mixed-use complex includes a completed 60-story skyscraper with a height of and a 14-story building with a height of that is currently under construction. Const ...

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City of Capitals The City of Capitals () is a mixed-use complex composed of two skyscrapers and an office building located on plot 9 in the Moscow International Business Center in Moscow, Russia with a total area of . The two skyscrapers are named after the tw ...

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Eurasia (building) Eurasia (), also known as Steel Peak (), is a supertall skyscraper located on plot 12 of the MIBC in Moscow, Russia. The mixed-use skyscraper occupies a total area of , and houses offices, apartments, a hotel, and a fitness center. It is th ...

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Federation Tower The Federation Tower () is a complex of two skyscrapers built on the 13th lot of the Moscow International Business Center in Moscow, Russia. The two skyscrapers are named Tower East or Vostok (Russian: Восток; literally means "East") and T ...

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List of building complexes

Roof height, max height, and floors apply to the tallest building of the respective complex. Completion of construction applies to the building in each complex completed last.

Building gallery

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Transport

Pedestrian

The Bagration Bridge is a pedestrian bridge that goes over the

. It connects Tower 2000 and the rest of the MIBC complex.

Road

Major thoroughfares that connect to the MIBC are the Third Ring Road, 3rd Magistralnaya street, and the Presnenskaya Embankment. To correspond with the growing MIBC, new highways and interchanges were built to connect the MIBC with the main transport arteries of the city. These projects include the ten-lane Dorogomilovsky Bridge of the Third Ring Road over the

, the Third Ring Road interchange with

Kutuzovsky Avenue Kutuzovsky Prospekt (street), Prospekt () is a major radial avenue in Moscow, Russia, named after Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, leader of the Russian field army during the French invasion of Russia of 1812. The prospekt continues a westward pat ...

, and the extension of the Presnenskaya Embankment. Existing roads were reconstructed and rearranged.

Rapid transit

The MIBC is served by four metro stations: * Delovoy Tsentr of the

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; * Delovoy Tsentr of the

Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line The Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line (, ) (Line 8; Yellow Line) is a line of the Moscow Metro system in Moscow, Russia, currently consisting of two separate parts. It was opened as the eastwards Kalininskaya line in 1979, with the first stations of ...

; * Delovoy Tsentr of the

Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya line Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya line () or Line 17 of the Moscow Metro is currently under construction. It began in 2021 and will end after 2028, opening in three phases. Phase 1 is scheduled to be completed by 2026–2027 completing the section from Delo ...

(initially opened in 2018 as a part of the

Bolshaya Koltsevaya line The Bolshaya Koltsevaya line () (English: Big Circle Line) (Line 11; Teal Line) is a rapid transit line of the Moscow Metro system in Moscow, Russia. It is the third circle line on the system, running outside of the existing circle Koltsevaya line ...

, it was closed in 2024; the station is planned to be reopened as a part of the

in 2026); * Moskva-City of the

. In addition, the MIBC is served by three urban rail stations: * Moskva-City of the

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; * Moskva-City of the D4; * Testovskaya of the D1 (after the reconstruction it is expected to be renamed to Moskva-City and to be included in the MCC-D4-D1-Filyovskaya line transit hub).

Incidents

* On 2 April 2012, a fire occurred on the 67th floor of Federation Tower East/Vostok while it was under construction. 25 fire-fighting units and 4 helicopters of the Moscow Aviation Center responded and took four hours to extinguish the fire. Nobody was injured. * On 25 January 2013, a fire occurred on the 24th floor of one of the skyscrapers at the

complex while it was under construction. * On 12 January 2014, a fire occurred on the 15th floor of a 17-story building on Testovaya Street while it was under construction. The fire was extinguished and nobody was injured. * On 9 July 2014, a fire occurred on

. The fire was extinguished and nobody was injured. * On 18:45 on 31 August 2015, a fire occurred on the 33rd floor of Federation Tower East/Vostok due to the ignition of construction materials. * On 13 April 2016, a worker fell to his death on the

, presumably from the hundredth floor. * On 18 June 2017, builderer Sergey Delyashov climbed Eurasia/Steel Peak and was later rescued. * On 30 July 2023, a drone explosion damaged the OKO-2 and IQ-quarter buildings and broke multiple windows, injuring 1. Another attack on 1 August 2023. According to Western media, the drones were launched by the Ukrainian military or secret service and, according to experts, are primarily used for

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in the

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References

Notes

External links

Official IBC siteOfficial Federation Tower siteCitytowers ForumMy Moscow City
{{Moscow-City Financial districts in Russia Central business districts in Russia Skyscrapers in Moscow Government of Moscow Economy of Moscow Mixed-use developments in Russia