Penza is a city (since 1663) located on the Volga Upland in the center of the European part of Russia. It is an administrative, economic and cultural center of the Penza Region (since 1939). It is a city of regional importance, forms the municipality of the city district of Penza. Population - 523,553 people. (2018). The city was founded in 1663 by decree of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
Penza is stretched along the left bank of the Sura,
which has a difficult relief: the northern part of the center is at the
level of the river, and the southern part is on top of a high hill. The
elevation difference reaches 100 meters, so try to build the route so as
not to climb the hill several times.
Three important streets pass
through the center of the city from north to south: Volodarsky -
merchant houses of the 18th-19th centuries have been preserved here
almost unchanged; Moskovskaya - the main pedestrian street with a large
number of attractions, cafes and shops; and Kirov - a transport highway,
in the southern part of which the oldest buildings of the city are
located.
Penza stretches along the left bank of the Sura,
which has a difficult relief: the northern part of the center is at
the level of the river, and the southern part is at the top of a
high hill. The elevation difference reaches 100 meters, so try to
build a route so as not to climb a hill several times.
Three
important streets pass through the center of the city from north to
south: Volodarsky lined by merchant houses of the 18th-19th
centuries are almost unchanged; Moskovskaya - the main pedestrian
street with a large number of attractions, cafes and shops; and
Kirov - a transport highway, in the southern part of which there are
the oldest buildings of the city.
1 Meat passage, st. Moskovskaya, 83. A beautiful eclectic building
is one of the symbols of the city. It now houses a large department
store.
2 House of Karpovs, st. Moskovskaya, 60. One of the most
elegant mansions in the northern part of the center.
3 Cuckoo clock,
Fontannaya Square. One of the symbols of the region: a monumental
working cuckoo clock, made in 1974 in Serdobsk, Penza region - there was
the only mechanical plant in the USSR that produced cuckoo clocks.
4 The Man with a Mug of Beer panel, Fontannaya Square. A six-meter
mosaic of forty thousand beer caps is a copy of Eduard Manet's painting
A Mug of Beer, commissioned by the Kuznetsk brewery Visit.
5 Mosaic
"Kandievsky uprising", st. Moskovskaya, 56. At the end of the house are
depicted peasants who raised a riot in 1861 under a red flag in the
village of Kandievka, Penza province. The panel is made in the
avant-garde style, rather bold for 1973: this is the most famous and
most impressive Penza mosaic.
6 Moskva Cinema, st. Volodarsky, 68.
Graceful stalin on the corner of the street. Pushkin. Pay attention to
the bas-reliefs in the form of theatrical masks.
7 Sura embankment.
A short well-groomed promenade with a pleasant view of Sura. In the
center of the embankment is the “Rostok” monument, nicknamed “splinter”
because of its strange appearance.
8 Mosque, st. Bakunin, 10 (from
the center you have to go through the central market almost to the bank
of the Sura). The building built in 1887 is the only mosque in the city.
The architecture is quite simple, although the window decoration is
interesting. A new minaret made of silicate brick was added to the
historical building of the mosque, painted in light green color.
9 Sovetskaya Square. Pre-revolutionary city center. The square used
to be the Cathedral of the Savior (that's why the square used to be
called the Cathedral), now it is being built again. Also on Sovetskaya
Square is a monument to the fighters of the revolution and a monument to
Lermontov - who visited Penza at a very young age, but is certainly
considered the main Penza writer.
10 Defensive rampart, st. Kirov
(Behind the Soviet Square). Memorial complex dedicated to the founding
of the city: a wooden belfry with a cast-iron cannon. Behind the belfry
is a segment of the same defensive rampart that has been preserved since
the 17th century, and opposite it is a monument to the first settlers,
which is called nothing more than “a man selling a horse”. Near the
monument there is an observation deck overlooking the Sura valley.
11
Cathedral of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God, st. Chkalova,
26. Baroque brick church was built in 1765. At the beginning of the 21st
century, after restoration, it became the cathedral church of the Penza
diocese.
12 Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord, st.
Spaso-Preobrazhenskaya, 6a. (from the monument to the pioneers down the
stairs). The oldest building in the city: the cathedral from the 1740s,
once belonging to a monastery that was destroyed during the Soviet era.
13 Trinity Monastery, st. Kirova, 25. In the center of the monastery
there is an ensemble of two churches: the heavy church of the Descent of
the Holy Spirit (1858) and the graceful five-domed Trinity Church in the
pseudo-Russian style (1900). In 2015, the final phase of the restoration
is underway. Unfortunately, the view of the temples from the side of
Kirov Street is blocked by a blank fence, but you can get to the
territory of the monastery from the intersection of Kirov and Karl Marx.
14 Durnovo Estate, st. Red, 69. One of the most elegant wooden houses in
the city with filigree architraves. Now here is the restaurant "Kadril".
15 Alekseev's estate, st. Volodarsky, 3. This small wooden house (1875)
is no less interesting than large estates: carved pediments,
pseudo-Russian architraves and unique hexagonal windows.
16 Mosaic
of the Electromechanics plant (corner of Sverdlov and Gogol). A
wonderful mosaic on the entire wall on the theme of the development of
Soviet science.
17 Monument "Seeing Off" (corner of Kuibyshev and
Tambov). Unusual - not pretentious, but sentimental - a monument to the
participants of the Great Patriotic War: a soldier saying goodbye to his
family. The monument was erected on the site from where during the war
the Penza people went to the front.
Do not miss the building of the
Museum of Folk Art, even if you are not going to visit the museum
itself.
1 Penza Museum of Local Lore. The Penza Museum of Local Lore is the
oldest in the Volga region. Created in 1905 as a natural history museum.
At present, the museum's collection includes more than 100 thousand
exhibits of the main and auxiliary backgrounds, incl. about five
thousand works of art, more than 7,000 archeological items, about 8,000
numismatic items.
2 Penza Museum of Folk Art, Kuibyshev St., 45a.
Open: from 10:00 to 17:00, seven days a week. Opened in 1975. The
exposition of the museum includes art crafts and crafts of the Penza
region: wood carving, basket weaving, ceramics, glass, down knitting and
carpet weaving. Very often the museum hosts personal exhibitions of
masters. The building of the museum deserves special mention - the
estate of the Penza timber merchant S.L. Tyurin, an outstanding monument
of Russian wooden architecture of the 19th century.
3 Museum of V. O.
Klyuchevsky. Opened in 1991. The museum complex includes the house where
V.O.Klyuchevsky spent his childhood, a neighboring house, as well as an
outbuilding on the estate. The exposition of the museum consists of two
sections: "The Penza period of the life of V.O. Klyuchevsky" and
"Scientific, pedagogical and social activities of V.O. Klyuchevsky"
4
Art Gallery. K.A.Savitsky, st. Sovetskaya, 3. ☎ (8412) 56-56-00. Founded
in 1892. The exposition presents paintings by French, Italian and Dutch
artists of the 17th-19th centuries, as well as paintings by Russian
authors of the 18th-20th centuries. The Russian collection is very good
for Russia. The gallery occupies two historic buildings at the beginning
of Sovetskaya Street: the building of the Peasant Land Bank (1912) in
the Art Nouveau style and the governor's house.
Museum of one
painting. G.V. Myasnikova, st. Kirov, 11. ☎ (8412) 66-44-27. The museum
does not have a permanent exhibition. Its specificity is that only one
work of the artist is exhibited here. The screening is accompanied by a
demonstration of a slide film about the life and work of the artist and
a story about the history of the creation of the presented painting.
5 Theatrical Art Center "Meyerhold's House", st. Volodarsky, 59. ☎ +7
(8412) 56-46-20. Theater Museum of Performing Arts, located in the house
where V. E. Meyerhold was born (built in 1881). This is the country's
first memorial to the great reformer of theatrical art, opened in
February 1984. The troupe of the modern "Theater of Dr. Dapertutto"
performs here.
6 Penza Regional Drama Theatre. A.V. Lunacharsky Wikidata item (89 Moskovskaya str.). ☎ (8412) 56-40-89; (8412) 56-30-46. One of the oldest provincial theaters in Russia. The first theater season was opened in 1793. At different times, V. Meyerhold, N. Masalskaya, I. Mozzhukhin, V. Sharlakhov, I. Slonov, M. Tambulatova played in the theater.
By plane
From Moscow Domodedovo Airport (DME) twice a day in the
morning and in the evening. AK AkBarsAvia, ship CRJ-200
By train
From Moscow from the Kazansky railway station on the branded train No.
52Y "Sura" Moscow-Penza. Travel time less than 12 hours (overnight).
Also on passenger trains to Penza, Orsk and
Ufa.
Station
"Penza-1". Spacious station with ample seating. There is a cafeteria
"Caramel" with cakes and a round-the-clock cafe "Pirogoff", where, in
addition to the title pastries, hot dishes are also served. There is no
Wi-Fi at the station.
On the ground floor there is an automatic
storage room (180 rubles/day) and a kiosk with mineral water and
cookies. On the second floor there is a waiting room of enhanced comfort
(60 rubles per hour).
By car
From Moscow along the federal
highway M5 "Ural" to Penza, the distance is about 630 kilometers.
By bus
From Moscow from the square near the Kazansky railway
station, travel time is about 10 hours.
In Penza, quite good (by Russian standards) Samko beer is brewed.
1 Shop "Samko", st. Liberson, 35. Company store of the Penza
brewery.
Shopping centers and complexes
2 "TsUM" (Central
department store), st. Kirova, 73. Daily from 9:00 to 21:00. The oldest
operating trading company in Penza. Inside the store there are many
departments of different directions: souvenirs, clothes and shoes,
perfumes, books, cellular communications, electronics, cafes, toys and
more. 0-4 floors.
3 Shopping center "Arbat", st. Moscow, 59. ☎
(8412) 66-00-82. Daily from 9:00 to 21:00. The building of the Arbat
shopping center was originally intended for the Union of Artists and was
built specifically for it, but due to the collapse of the USSR, the
building passed into private hands. Shopping center "Arbat" positions
itself as a center of fashionable clothes and shoes of the European
level. This store sells the following goods: souvenirs, toys, cellular
communications, photo services, clothes and shoes, dishes, jewelry, etc.
1-4 floors.
4 Shopping Center "Vysshaya Liga", st. Moscow / Kuraeva,
37/3. Large shopping and entertainment complex. It sells clothes, shoes,
accessories, food, cosmetics and more. And also there are several cafes,
a cinema, a skating rink. 0-5 floors
Shopping center "Sanimart", st.
Plekhanova d. 19. Daily from 9.00 to 21.00. 54 stores in the shopping
center.
"Vpereplete", st. Moscow, 12. ☎ (8412) 25-64-68. Daily from
10.00 to 20.00. Bookshop specializing in intellectual literature
There are enough places to eat in Penza, but still not enough to eat
anywhere in the city center at any reasonable time. During unreasonable
times, for example, on Sunday mornings, everything can be closed.
Cheap
1 Pizzeria "Yes!", st. Moscow, 90. ☎ (8412) 20-10-43;
pizza delivery: 56-00-88. Student type pizzeria: cheap pizza and sushi.
2 Vkusno and point), st. Moscow, 73. Located in the former building of
the Fish Rows.
3 Cafe "Sail", st. Belinsky, 6a (Soviet Square). hot —
80 rubles. The atmosphere and contingent of a Soviet diner, but in
addition to draft alcohol and sandwiches for a snack, there is also a
full-fledged hot meal: if the atmosphere does not bother you, you can
have a very cheap lunch with acceptable quality.
✦ Dining room
"Plate". 10:00-19:00. A network of popular city canteens. Long lines at
lunchtime.
4 st. Karl Marx, 16.
5 st. Bakunin, 24.
6 Coffee house "Coffee house", st. Moskovskaya, 38 (corner of Kuraev).
cappuccino - 100 rubles. There are few establishments in this format in
Penza, which is probably why the owners did not bother to come up with a
name. Coffee without frills, average quality; The menu also includes
meat and alcohol.
Average cost
7 Royal London, st. Moscow, 95.
Not a bad attempt to create an English pub in the Russian provinces. The
entrance is stylized as a telephone booth, and the menu includes English
ales, fish and chips, barbecue wings and similar British food. Hot -
250-350 rubles, expensive by local standards. Loud music, WiFi.
NK "Hollywood", st. Zlobina, 19.
HELIOPARK Residence, st. Kirova, 49/22.
Hotel "Swallow", Mira
street, 35.
Hotel "Russia", Moskovskaya st., 71.
Hotel
"London-Paris", Kulakov str., 2.
Hotel "Old City", Moskovskaya st.,
8. A small hotel with 15 rooms in the city center. Opened in 2012, on
the basis of a renovated historic building
Hotel "Penza", street of
Glory, 10.
The city was founded in 1663 as a fortress on the southeastern
outskirts of the Russian kingdom, built by decree of Tsar Alexei
Mikhailovich.
On December 18, 1708, according to the Decree
of Peter I "On the establishment of provinces and on the schedule of
cities for them," the city of Penza became the center of the Penza
district of the Kazan province.
Since 1719, the city has
become the center of the Penza province of the Kazan province.
In 1780, the city became the center of the Penza governorate (in
1796 - the Penza province) and the county of the same name.
In 1786, the Penza Folk School, one of the oldest educational
institutions in Russia, was founded.
In 1792, the first
theatrical performance took place in Penza, and the first theatrical
season of the Drama Theater opened the following year.
In 1796
Penza was declared a provincial city.
In 1797, the Penza
province was abolished and Penza was made a county town of the
Saratov province.
In 1801, the city again became the center
of the Penza province and retained this status until 1928.
In
1837 the first public library was opened, in 1838 the first local
newspaper, Penza Gubernskie Vedomosti, began to appear.
In 1848,
one of the oldest hippodrome in Russia was founded.
In 1850
Sergeyev's stationery factory was opened.
In 1858 there was a
fire that destroyed half of the city. In the same year, the Sokolov
iron foundry began to operate.
In 1873, the first circus in
Russia was opened.
In 1874, the railway traffic along the branch
line Morshansk - Syzran was opened.
In 1907 Ivan Frantsevich
Koshko was appointed governor. He remained in this position until
October 19, 1910.
After October 1917, the transfer of power to
the Bolsheviks in Penza took place without armed struggle, but
dragged on until December 21
On May 29, 1918, the city was
taken during the performance of the Czechoslovak Corps (a bloody
battle lasted almost a day). However, for a number of reasons, the
Czechs did not begin to gain a foothold in Penza and left the city
two days later.
In 1928, after the abolition of provinces and
counties, Penza became the center of the Penza region and at the
same time the Penza district of the Middle Volga region, since 1930
- the regional center of the Middle Volga (Kuibyshev Territory),
since 1937 - the Tambov region.
February 4, 1939 Penza
becomes the regional center of the newly formed Penza region. In the
same year, a teacher's institute was opened, later transformed into
a pedagogical one.
During the Great Patriotic War, many
enterprises from the west of the country were evacuated to the city,
which marked the beginning of industrial growth; in 1943 an
industrial institute was opened (now Penza State University).
After the war, there were a number of problems in Penza: a
shortage of housing, lack of running water and sewerage, a lack of
electricity, and a small number of paved roads. In 1946, Yakub
Useinov became the chief architect. Useinov's staff consisted of
five employees. Under his leadership, the reconstruction of the SAM
plants, the compressor plant, the beer plant, the 2nd armature
plant, Penzmash and Schotmash, the Mayak Revolution factory was
carried out. The construction of the Penzkhimmash and
Penzadieselmash plants began. In 1948, the first trolleybus was
launched for which a trolleybus depot was built on the street.
Suvorov. Also in 1948, the asphalting of the central streets of the
city was started. During 1949-1952, the Sursk water supply and
sewerage system was built.
In 1952, the Council of Ministers
of the USSR approved the plan for the reconstruction and development
of Penza, developed by Useinov's department. During Useinov's tenure
as the architect of Penza, a number of public buildings in the
Stalinist Empire style appeared in the city: The central entrance to
the TsPKiO im. V. G. Belinsky, the House of Knowledge (Lermontov
St.), the Moscow Cinema, the Penza Instrument-Making College and the
city maternity hospital (both - Pushkin St.), the Ministry of
Internal Affairs clinic (Plekhanov St.) and the Moscow-Kuibyshev
Highway Administration (St. Gorky). Among the residential buildings
can be identified: the building on the street. Moscow (opposite the
meat passage), building on the street. Kalinin and the building on
the street. October. Useinov also became the author of the
restructuring of the Polish church into the Teacher's House
(Volodarsky Street).
In 1985 the city was awarded the Order
of the Red Banner of Labor.
By the Decree of the President of
the Russian Federation dated May 20, 2021, the city was awarded the
title "City of Labor Valor".
The name of the city is associated with the name of the Penza River, on the steep bank of which the fortress was built.
Penza is located in the center of the European part of Russia on the
Volga Upland, 629 km (along the M-5 Moscow-Chelyabinsk highway)
southeast of Moscow. The city is located on both banks of the Sura River
in the central part of the Penza region, 26 km east of its geographical
center. The area of the city is 310.4 km².
The average height
above sea level is 174 m. The highest point (280 m above sea level) is
on the hill Boevaya Gora, stretched from SW to NE like a ridge. The
lowest is 134 m.
The length of the city from north to south is
19.3 km, from west to east - 25.3 km.
In addition to the Sura (the main water artery of the city), the
Penza, Penzyatka, Ardym, Staraya Sura, Moika, Barkovka, Prokop and
Bezymyanny streams flow through the city. Some of them within the city
partly flow in sewers.
The main river recreation area in Penza is
Staraya Sura. In the area of Staraya Sura, 3 large sub-districts of the
city are connected - the Mayak factory microdistrict, Angarskaya street
and the GPZ-24 microdistrict. It is located in the southeastern part of
the city and is the largest equipped bathing area in the city, on which
there are 4 beaches (the beach near the Mayak factory and 3 city
beaches: Children's (1st Angarsky Lane), Sredny and Bolshoi (GPZ area
-24, Antonov St.) The river originates outside Penza, in the form of a
stream flowing from the Sursky reservoir and flows like a small river
through the Akhuny; reservoir near the dam near the Mayak factory and
again flows into the Sura.
Penza is located in the MSK (Moscow time) time zone. The offset of the applicable time from UTC is +3:00. In accordance with the applicable time and geographic longitude, the average solar noon in Penza occurs at 12:00. This is due to the fact that the meridian of 45°00′ east longitude passes through Penza.
In accordance with the general plan of Penza approved in 1973, the
total area of the green zone was more than 25% of the total area of the
city and, according to this indicator, was recognized in the 1980s as
the greenest city in the Volga region, but since 1990 there has been an
intensive reduction in urban squares, suburban green areas and parks due
to the development of the territory.
Natural forest plantations
in the urban area are represented on the left bank of the Sura, mainly
by broad-leaved forests (oak forests with linden, maple, aspen and
birch), on the right bank of the Sura - by pine-broad-leaved forests;
the total area is about 9.8 thousand hectares.
On the territory
of Penza there is a botanical garden named after I. I. Sprygin (created
in 1917), divided into three sections: dendrological (about 230 plant
species), systematic (about 200 plant species) and flower-decorative
(more than 100 plant species), where the flora of different regions of
the world is represented.
The climate of Penza is temperate continental. Winter in Penza is moderately cold and long, lasting from the beginning of November to the end of March, the coldest month is February with an average temperature of -9.1 °C. Summer is warm, lasts from late May to early September, the average temperature in July is 20.4 °C. The average annual temperature is 5.5 °C. The climate of Penza is close to Moscow, but the continentality is higher, and there is less precipitation.
At present, Christian and Islamic cultures successfully coexist with
each other in Penza.
The majority of the population professes
Christianity, the second largest religion is Islam, adherents of other
religions are not numerous.
There are more than 30 religious
institutions on the territory of the city: 25 Orthodox churches and
monasteries, a cathedral, a mosque, a synagogue, a Catholic parish and
others.
Industry
As of January 1, 2011, 15,539 business entities were
registered in the city of Penza. More than 90% of registered enterprises
belong to the non-state form of ownership, including 13,519 (87.0%)
private enterprises. The state and municipal sectors of the economy own
701 enterprises (4.5%).
The main types of industrial products
manufactured by the city's enterprises are: steel pipes, industrial
pipeline fittings, air and gas drive compressors, machines for municipal
utilities, medical equipment, automation devices and means, chemical
equipment, computer equipment. JSC "PPO EVT named after V. A. Revunov" -
production of household appliances. NPP "MedInzh" - the production of
heart valves. "Mayak" provides 60% of the domestic Russian base paper
market, used in design work, furniture production, wallpaper, decorative
plastic. NPP "Era" - the production of flight simulators for pilots of
civil aviation, mechanisms for the chemical and petrochemical
industries. Penza confectionery factory - more than 130 confectionery
items and others.
The volume of shipped goods of own production,
performed works and services on its own in manufacturing for 2010 for
44.34 billion rubles, including: production of machinery and equipment -
12.8 billion rubles, production of electrical equipment, electronic and
optical equipment - 5 .1 billion rubles
The railway came to Penza in 1874, it was the line of the
Syzran-Vyazemskaya railway. Now Penza is a major railway junction. From
the south, the Kharkov line of the South-Eastern Railway approaches the
city; the Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazhskaya and Syzran lines of the Kuibyshev
railway depart to the north, west and east. In 1964, the Penza-Syzran
section was electrified with direct current. In 1966, from the side of
the Rtishchevo station (then the Volga Railway), electrification was
carried out on alternating current with a voltage of 25 kV, in 1971 the
Penza - Ruzaevka - Krasny Knot section was completely transferred to
electric traction (direct current with a voltage of 3 kV). In 1986, the
laying of the second track began on the same section. The most loaded
direction is east-south (the so-called South passage of the
Trans-Siberian Railway), with a marshalling yard at the Penza III
station (Zarechny Park). The Penza-Ryazhsk line is of primary importance
for passenger transportation, it is on it that trains with the
Penza-Moscow message follow, however, this line is single-track and
non-electrified.
The Penza Regional Representative Office of the
Kuibyshev Railway (the former Penza branch of the KBSH NOD-1) is located
in Penza. Passenger trains for suburban and long-distance travel depart
from the Penza I station. Within the city, suburban trains also stop at
Penza-II stations in the direction of Kuznetsk; Penza-III, Zarechny
park, o.p. 259 km, Krivozerovka towards Rtishchevo; Penza-IV, o.p. 135
km towards Ruzaevka; Arbekovo towards Pachelma.
Within the city
of Penza passes the federal highway M5 "Ural" (Moscow - Chelyabinsk).
Also, the P209 Penza-Tambov highway departs from the city, and the P158
Saratov-Nizhny Novgorod federal highway passes a few kilometers from
Penza. Through the Penza bus station, Penza communicates with the
district centers of the region, neighboring regional centers, as well as
Moscow and the Black Sea resorts.
On the southern outskirts of
the city (Ternovka district) is the Penza Airport named after V. G.
Belinsky. It operates flights to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Nizhny
Novgorod and Yekaterinburg, and in the summer to Sochi, Simferopol,
Anapa. Year-round flights are operated by S7 Airlines (Moscow, St.
Petersburg and others on Embraer E170) and Rusline (Moscow on Bombardier
CRJ-200). In the summer of 2019, flights to Sochi and Simferopol were
also operated by Rusline (Bombardier CRJ-200), IzhAvia (Yak-42) and
IrAero (Sukhoi Superjet 100, resumed in May 2020).
Public transport of the city is represented by trolleybuses (traffic
was opened in 1948, now there are 6 + 1 (reserve) routes), buses (35
routes) and fixed-route taxis (53 routes). Penza is one of the few large
cities in Russia that do not have trams, although earlier (in 1935-1938)
the city had its prototype - an intra-city passenger non-electrified
narrow-gauge railway (for more details, see the article Penza tram). In
2006, it was planned to launch rail buses as an intracity train (ground
metro) from the Penza I station to Arbekovo (and then to other
microdistricts), but the project was not implemented due to a lack of
funding.
The current location of any bus or trolleybus in Penza
can be tracked on a special website.
Until 2014, when navigating
the Sura, a river tram ran along the route “Rostok Pier – Barkovka
Pier”, which is more used for recreational purposes. Currently, the
passenger city Penza fleet has been liquidated, but a light boat runs to
the village of Zasechnoye.
According to both the old (1972) and
the new (2007) master plan of the city, it is also planned to build a
high-speed tram in Penza in the future. The project has been delayed to
the 2030s due to financial problems.
Penza has a children's
railway, opened in 1985. Previously, it was planned to extend the road
to the village of Akhuny, after which it could become one of the modes
of transport, but this was not implemented. In the 1980s, forest
management banned cutting down the forest; in the 1990s, when the issue
of extending the railway track was raised again, there was no money. As
of the end of 2013, the rolling stock has been renewed, the extension of
3 stations has been postponed due to financial problems. Now the
children's railway is being prepared for reconstruction. By 2021, it is
planned to complete the construction of a passenger building at
Pionerskaya station, a new depot for rolling stock, upgrade the railway
track and signaling devices.