Women - train driver returned to the Moscow metro

The head of the Moscow Transport Department, Maxim Liksutov, said that on January 3, women -driver trainers began to work in the Moscow metro. Trains under their control will walk along the Filevskaya metro line.

In February 2020, Moscow opened training courses for women-machines of the Moscow metro. 25 women began training, but judging by the report of the Department of Transport, only 12 of them went to work in the subway.

• Womengot the right to work by train drivers on January 1. On this day in Russia, more than four times - from 456 to 100 - reduced a list of professions that are dangerous for women. According to the new rules, women, among other things, can work as a boatswain, skipper or sailor on the ship, the driver of the tractor or trucker.
• Women - train driver worked in the Moscow metro back in Soviet times. In 2000, the Russian government forbade women to work as engineers, but, as the Moscow 24 TV channel reported , the last woman-machine gunner Natalya Kornienko resigned from the metro in 2014.

Editing. Initially, the news was released under the heading "The first women - train driver, appeared in the Moscow metro." In fact, the first female machines began to work in the subway during the years of the USSR. The editors apologize.