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Monday October 30, 2017 14:29 MSK / Yulia Kuzmina

October 27, 2017 Aeroexpress put into operation the first double-stored train produced by the company Stadler. The first train of the new generation began to run along the route "Kiev railway station - Vnukovo airport". At 14:00 the first passengers on the new train went to the airport. And beginning from November 2017, double-stored trains will start transportation of passengers on the route "Paveletsky Railway Station - Domodedovo Airport". The new double-stored structure was made by the Swiss manufacturer specially for the company Aeroexpress.

On the occasion of the launch of the first double-stored train of a new type in operation, a solemn ceremony was held at the Kiev railway station in Moscow - the presentation of a new train. One of the first was the Russian Transport Minister Maxim Yurievich Sokolov, who inspected the train.

Alexei Krivoruchko, the General Director of Aeroexpress, accompanied him, the First Deputy Head of the Department for Transport and Development of Road and Transport Infrastructure of Moscow Gamid Bulatov, the General Director of Vnukovo International Airport Vasily Alexandrov and other representatives of the transport industry.

«For the company, the launch of double-stored trains is the most important event of recent years. Renewal of the rolling stock fleet has already occurred in a number of other city carriers and the launch of the new Aeroexpress train is a logical continuation of this trend. We are confident that our passengers will be able to appreciate all the technological innovations implemented in double-stored trains,» - said Alexey Krivoruchko, the CEO of Aeroexpress.

«Vnukovo Airport serves more than 60 thousand passengers daily, and for each of them we strive to create the most comfortable conditions during the trip. The launch of new double-stored Aeroexpress trains to our airport is an extremely important step on the way to the formation of a quality transport infrastructure,» - said Vasily Alexandrov, the Director General of Vnukovo International Airport.

«In 2015, Moscow concluded 15-year agreements with suburban railway carriers for integrated transport services. This allowed the companies in an accelerated mode to implement a large-scale program of rolling stock renewal and to purchase modern, reliable and comfortable trains. Aeroexpress has an opportunity to attract long-term financing and commission the most modern double-stored trains. Together with the "Lastochka" trains running on the Leningrad railroad track, the "Ivolga" compositions of the Kiev direction, they will change the idea of passengers about the comfort of suburban electric trains. In total, since 2010 the park of rolling stock on suburban railway communication will be renewed by 30% before the end of this year,» - said the First Deputy Head of the Department for Transport and Development of Road Infrastructure of Moscow Hamid Bulatov.

The renewal of the rolling stock is another stage in the company's development ahead of the start of the 2018 World Cup. «Today's event is a remarkable result of the painstaking work of all participants in this complex and unique transaction for the Russian market, the structure of which has effectively solved the issue of long-term foreign exchange risks foreign equipment by Russian companies. The commissioning of these excellent trains will ensure comfort, high level of service and safety for passengers, which is especially important on the eve of such an important event as the 2018 World Cup,» - said Alexey Belous, the Deputy Chairman of the Gazprombank Management Committee.

New trains ESH-2 are able to reach speeds of up to 160 km / h. There are 396 seats in the four-waggon version, and 700 seats in the six-gallon train. Including 84 places in the business class. Each train is equipped with several screens, rosettes, convenient and easily transformable armchairs and a free Wi-Fi network. In total, four such trains are planned to be commissioned by the end of November this year in the direction "Kievskiy Vokzal - Vnukovo Airport". And seven trains will run to Domodedovo airport. In total, Aeroexpress purchased 11 double-stored trains, and all of them will be put into operation before the end of the year.

The Swiss company Stadler has been manufacturing trains for 75 years. The head office of the system provider of structural solutions for rail vehicles is located in the city of Busnang, in the eastern part of Switzerland. The staff of employees working in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Italy, Austria, Holland, Belarus, Algeria, Great Britain and the United States, has more than 7000 people. «We are proud to present our double-stored electric train KISS for Aeroexpress today. Stadler was faced with an ambitious task, to create a unique train in terms of technical dimensions and passenger capacity, which had never before been exploited in Russia. This contract was an important milestone for Stadler and meant a huge breakthrough of our company on the Russian railway market,» - said Peter Stapler, the CEO of Stadler Group.

Stadler develops and produces a wide range of products in the field of heavy and urban transport: high-speed rolling stock, intercity trains, regional trains and suburban trains, trains for the underground, trams-trains and trams. In addition, the company produces trunk and shunting locomotives, passenger wagons, including the most powerful diesel-electric locomotive in Europe. Stadler is the world leader in the production of rolling stock for toothed railways.

The leader of the company's sales is the FLIRT (Fast Light Intercity- and Regional Train) train with over 1,400 units sold in 17 countries. The train KISS (the abbreviation of the first letters of the German version of the Comfortable Innovative Speedy Suburban Train) is also popular: it has 270 units sold in 10 countries. 130 units of the most powerful diesel-electric locomotive EURO4000 in Europe, are operated in 7 countries of the world. In addition, Stadler supports fleets of vehicles with more than 680 vehicles that cover an annual distance of over 120 million kilometres in 16 countries.

Aeroexpress is an operator company engaged in intermodal passenger transportation in accordance with the license of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation and provides a railway connection between the capital and the airports of the Moscow aviation hub: Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo. In 2015 Aeroexpress LLC celebrated its tenth anniversary. Over this time, more than 100 million people have used the company's services. Only in 2016, Aeroexpress services were used by 11.6 million people, and the accuracy of trains Aeroexpress reached 99.9%. In preparation for the main sporting event of the coming year, the company completed the construction of a new platform at Domodedovo Airport and is working on the construction of a second platform, participates in the reconstruction of the platform at Paveletsky Railway Station, and also modernises the Wi-Fi network. All these measures will ensure the maximum level of comfort and safety for guests and participants of the World Cup.