Moscow International Business Center

Moscow International Business Center
Московский Международный Деловой Центр
Alternative names	Moscow City
General information
Location	Presnensky District, Moscow, Russia
Management	PJSC City
Nearest metro station	4  Mezhdunarodnaya  4  Vystavochnaya  8A  Delovoy Tsentr (closed)  11  Delovoy Tsentr  14  Delovoy Tsentr

The Moscow International Business Center (MIBC) (Russian: Московский международный деловой центр, tr. Moskovskiy mezhdunarodniy delovoy tsentr), also known as “Moscow City” (Russian: «Москва-Сити», tr. "Moskva-Citi"),^[1][2] is a commercial district in central Moscow, Russia. Located east of the Third Ring Road in the Presnensky District of the Central Administrative Okrug, the MIBC is currently under development. Construction of the MIBC took place on the Presnenskaya Embankment next to the Moskva River, approximately 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) west of Red Square, and just east of the Third Ring Road. The project occupies an area of 60 hectares,^[3] with the territory chosen being the only area in central Moscow that can accommodate such a project.

The MIBC is expected to become the first zone in Russia to combine business activity, living space and entertainment in one single development.^[3] The Moscow government first conceived the project in 1992.^[4] An estimated 250,000 – 300,000 people will be working in, living in, or visiting the complex at any given time.^[3] MIBC includes 6 skyscrapers with maximum height of 300 meters or more (Shanghai has 5, Hong Kong has 6, Chicago has 6, New York has 8). Europe's second tallest building, the Federation Tower, is in the MIBC. The complex also includes the third-tallest, fourth-tallest, sixth-tallest, seventh-tallest, and eighth-tallest buildings in Europe. By 2016 twelve of twenty-three planned facilities of MIBC were already built, seven buildings are in construction and four are in the design stage.^[5]

History[edit]

Before construction began, the area had been an old stone quarry where most of the buildings were old factories and industrial complexes that had been closed or abandoned. In order to manage the project, a public company, CITY, was created in 1992 in order 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 leaser. Overall responsibility for the architectural planning 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 Moscow City, 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 Moscow City was approximately $12 billion.^[6]

Layout[edit]

Table organized by complex[edit]

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.

Plot number	Image	Name	Started	Completed	Buildings in complex	Roof height	Max height	Floors	Total area, m²	Notes
0		Tower 2000 and Bagration Bridge	1996	2001	1	104	104	34	61 057	[4][7]
1		Expocentre	1977	1978	8	15	15	10	165 000
1		Multifunctional Complex	2018	2022	1	404	404	109	281 608	Will become the tallest building in Moscow[8]
2		Evolution Tower	2011	2014	1	246	246	54	169 000	[9][10][11]
3
4		Empire	2006	2018	2	239	239	59	287 723	Construction of Tower 2. Foundation work.[12][13][14][15]
6		Central Core	2005	2019	1	50	50	6	450 000	Construction of a Cinema-Concert Hall
7
8
9		City of Capitals	2005	2009	3	302[16]	302	76	288 680	[17]
10		Naberezhnaya Tower	2003	2007	3	268[18]	268	59	254 000	[19][20][21][22][23]
11		IQ-quarter	2008	2017	3	169[24]	169	42	228 000	[25][26][27][28]
12		Eurasia Tower	2007	2015	1	309	309	70	207 542	[29][30]
13		Federation Towers	2003	2017	2	374[31]	374	101	439 154	Vostok/East Tower is currently the second tallest building in Russia and Europe.
14		Mercury City Tower	2009	2013	1	339	339	75	158 528	[32][33][33][34][35]
15		Grand Tower[36]	2013	2019	1	283	283	50	315 282	Construction put on hold in 2013. There is only a tower crane on the site.
16		OKO	2011	2015	3	354	354	85	429 600	[37][38][39][40][41][42]
17		Neva Towers	2013	2019	2	338	338	77	357 000	[43][44][45]
18
19		Northern Tower	2005	2007	1	108	132	27	135 000
20
21
22
23
24
25
29
30
31

Table organized by individual buildings[edit]

Management[edit]

Established in the spring of 1992, the PJSC City Company manages the creation and development of the MIBC. On December 30, 1994, the Government of Moscow 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 is owned by the Solvers Group led by Oleg Malis.^[48][49]

Transport[edit]

Pedestrian[edit]

The Bagration Bridge is a pedestrian bridge that goes over the Moskva River. It connects Tower 2000 and the rest of the MIBC complex.

Road[edit]

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 Moskva River, the Third Ring Road interchange with Kutuzovsky Avenue, and the extension of the Presnenskaya Embankment. Existing roads were reconstructed and rearranged.

Major thoroughfares that connect to the MIBC are the Third Ring Road, 3rd Magistralnaya street, and the Presnenskaya Embankment.

Rapid transit[edit]

The MIBC is served by several metro stations, two of which are named Delovoy Tsentr (Russian for business district). Stations Vystavochnaya (formerly known as Delovoy Tsentr) and Mezhdunarodnaya opened on the Filyovskaya Line in 2005 and 2006 respectively, Delovoy Tsentr on the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line in 2014, and a second Delovoy Tsentr on the Bolshaya Koltsevaya line in 2017.

The MIBC in addition is served by Moscow Central Circle with the station also named Delovoy Tsentr which opened in 2016. There are also plans to install a high-speed rail system between the MIBC and Sheremetyevo International Airport.

Gallery[edit]

Accidents[edit]

Fire on the 67th floor of Vostok of the Federation Towers (April 2, 2012).

• On April 2, 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.^[50]
• On January 25, 2013, a fire occurred on the 24th floor of one of the skyscrapers at the OKO complex while it was under construction.^[51]
• On January 12, 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.^[52]
• On July 9, 2014, a fire occurred on Evolution Tower. The fire was extinguished and nobody was injured.^[53]
• On 18:45 on August 31, 2015, a fire occurred on the 33rd floor of Federation Tower East/Vostok due to the ignition of construction materials.^[54]
• On April 13, 2016, a worker fell to his death on the Naberezhnaya Tower, presumably from the hundredth floor.^[55]
• On June 18, 2017, roofer Sergey Delyashov climbed on Eurasia/Steel Peak and was later rescued.^[56]

See also[edit]

Other commercial districts in Russia:

• Lakhta Center
• Yekaterinburg City

Building comparisons:

• List of tallest buildings in Moscow
• List of tallest buildings in Russia
• List of tallest buildings in Europe

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Moscow International Business Center (category)

• Official IBC site
• Official Federation Tower site
• Citytowers Forum
• My Moscow City