Kapotnya is stretched along the Moskva River, and its shape became the key idea in the reconstruction of the embankment area that occupies 53 hectares (131 acres).
A pedestrian embankment, spots for picnics and sports, playgrounds for children – a park with designer landscapes created on the site of the gloomy backwater have become a continuation of the residential areas.
Parking pockets, modern bus stops, new street lighting and pavements emerged on main streets.
A park with sports equipment and areas for dog training areas has been built at the once-ownerless roadside between a planned driveway and the Moscow Ring Road. 138 large trees have been planted to protect residents from noise and dust.
The oil refinery located in Kapotnya is changing along with the district, it has already been 80 percent updated, and its negative impact on the environment has been reduced four-fold.
The symbol of changes is the Beacon art object – a 15-meter tower-sculpture, an artistic image of the safe vicinity of a modern industrial site, natural and urban areas.
Oil refining is impossible without water. But after all the technological processes it doesn’t end up in the sewer.
It is being collected in 4 tanks with the volume of 10,000 cubic meters each, and is being treated in the “Biosphere” complex with pressurized air, microbes, charcoal, and molecular membranes.
The water goes back to the refinery after being purified 99.9 percent.
The Biosphere installation rid the city of polluted drainage and has reduced the refinery’s water consumption threefold – the refinery now has a closed loop of water consumption.
Treated with air first and then with microbes, the water goes through 200 tons of charcoal. In the end, each molecule of water has passed through 1,440 membranes.
An important part of the natural environment of the park with designer landscapes is the former riverbed of the Moskva River. An entire ecosystem emerged here naturally in recent years.
An Eco path hovering over the meadows and swamps of the nature reserve lets one explore local flora and fauna.
Experts from 15 Russian regions developed, manufactured and installed the new equipment.
The 80 percent-updated refinery grew taller, not larger – the Euro+ modules are stacked in 5 rows at the site 340 by 180 meters in size, the height of a column delivered from the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk via the Volga-Baltic waterway is 66 meters.
One Euro+ complex replaced five outdated installations.
It merged the production’s full cycle – from the primary procession of oil to the manufacturing of various oil products.
No less than 15,000 digital sensors monitor the production’s safety.
A bike at a factory is an almost an operational need.
Operators and mechanics drive them to inspect remote sites. Such a vehicle is more mobile than a car – and it doesn’t pollute air.
The oil refinery has a new fleet of bicycles and a network of bicycle parking lots.
“Cycling is comfy and healthy,” these arguments of local residents working in the districts next to Kapotnya triggered the launch of a bike rental.
One can get to the neighboring district of Maryino in 15 minutes using the two-wheel eco vehicle.
The use of new equipment designed with artificial intelligence software helped achieve the compactness of the refinery’s production process.
Two parking lots for 315 and 800 cars are being built for the refinery’s staffers and subcontractors. They will reduce the number of cars parked on the district’s streets and in its courtyards.
All the 65 courtyards next to apartment buildings in the district have been retrofitted. Each has modern playgrounds and sports sites, gazebos, trash bins, benches – there are several kinds of them in Kapotnya.
As requested by senior residents, benches by the entrances to apartment buildings have flatter seats and only slightly reclined backs. All public spaces have new lampposts.
Most of Kapotnya was built in the Soviet era.
By now, the reconstruction of all 4 school buildings, 8 kindergarten buildings and adjacent areas is over.
The roofs, inter-blocks and facades of a half of all apartment buildings have been renovated.
The planned reconstruction of the district’s multi-story buildings is at full throttle.
Apart from the upgrade of facades and roofs, elevators and electric equipment are being replaced wherever necessary, entrances to apartment buildings and basements, heating systems, pipelines and sewage are being fixed.
Once staffers get to the refinery’s entrance, comfortable service buses can get to their workplaces.
Three buses move along the refinery’s internal perimeter (about 7 kilometers), two – along an express route between the administration building and the refinery’s remotest site (about 3 kilometers).
10 bus routes provide transportation between Kapotnya and other Moscow districts.
Modern buses from the updated bus fleet arrive with minimal intervals.
Per residents’ request, more routes have been added: 112E, C9, 655K. The waiting time at a bus stop in no more than 5-7 minutes.
The Smena (Replacement) sports school in Moscow is a center of gravity for football fans.
1,240 kids study here. Alumni include the Berezutsky brothers, Denis Boyatintsev and Igor Simutenkov.
A reconstruction of the school has been recently completed – now, there are new stands, field covers and a roofed horse riding hall.
Outdoor workout equipment, basketball and volleyball fields, ping pong tables. There is a total of 18 new sports sites in the district.
A pump track runs the border between the districts of Kapotnya and Mariyino. They are interesting for both beginner and advanced skateboarders, cyclists and kick scooterists.
The Moscow Oil Refinery’s output is responsible for 40 percent of fuel at the capital’s gas station, and 100 percent of kerosene for the Moscow air hub’s airports.
Gasoline and diesel fuel are of the highest, cleanest Euro-5 standard.
The refinery’s location in the city reduces the import of fuel from other regions, eases the transportation load, provides the fuel autonomy of the megalopolis.
A pipeline delivers fuel to Moscow’s airports and large tank farms, and tank trucks get it to gas stations.
A new terminal with an evaporation prevention system fuels 250 vehicles daily.
A driver puts hoses in place and activates fuel pumping with a pre-programmed card. The tanks of a multi-ton tank truck are filled automatically with various kinds of fuel with the precision right up to 100 grams.
Quietly flowing river waters, clean air, orthopedic long-chairs, well-tended plants.
There used to be illegal garages, heaps of construction garbage and old tires.
Just like the embankment, the entire district evolved – from a depressive “bedroom community” on the outskirts of Moscow to a self-sufficient, comfortable living environment.
A unified call center is the five senses of the refinery’s living organism.
Experts monitor data from thousands of video cameras, meters of air, water and soil quality, meters of temperature, vibration and noise.
Anyone can monitor the refinery’s indexes of environmental security online or on outdoor screens.