Infrastructure projects launched in Moscow

On City Day, 15 renovated outpatient clinics in Moscow received their first patients.

A new multi-purpose complex of the Children's City Clinical Hospital of St Vladimir was opened which has 20 in-patient departments, including the leading ones: the departments of cranio-maxillofacial, thoracic and vascular surgery, neurosurgery and transfusionology. Additionally, a haemodialysis centre will operate there.

In addition, Vladimir Putin inaugurated traffic on the new section of the Troitskaya metro line. The stations of Vavilovskaya, Akademicheskaya, Krymskaya and ZIL will connect the existing parts of the line with the Big Circle Line and the Moscow Central Ring.

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President of Russia Vladimir Putin: As I greet Moscow on its City Day today, acknowledging medical professionals and transport workers, I would like to stress that all the developments in Moscow are undoubtedly related to the entire country because Moscow is Russia's centre - a political, economic, industrial and logistical centre of Russia.

However, as I greet Moscow residents on this holiday, I would like to revisit the matter we began with here today: the space industry. It is a given that Moscow's contribution to the development of the space industry is closely related to our entire country, as it marks a new stage in the development of the space industry and reaffirms Russia's position as a centre and leader in this crucial area.

Yes, we are well aware, as is the Government - and even more so those present here - that we have many issues to address and tasks that must be set and accomplished. I believe that if we progress at this pace, all these issues will be resolved.

I would like to once again thank the Moscow government for the help they rendered in the construction of this centre. We can take pride in it, and we do; however, it is just one of the stages of our movement forward and in the progress of the space industry in Russia.

My congratulations, and I wish you all the very best.

Thank you.