The first airport-style check point is soon to go up at a central subway station in downtown Moscow.
Several metal detectors and scanning devices have been delivered to the Okhotny Ryad subway station near Red Square but have not yet been set up, a policeman safeguarding the new equipment told RIA Novosti on Thursday.
"The equipment was delivered two days ago, but the engineers have not yet arrived," he said.
Tighter security measures have been put in place in the capital's rapid transit system since two suicide bombings killed 40 people and injured another 160 on March 29, and plans for a comprehensive security system have been put forward.
Moscow and other large Russian cities plan to outfit their subways with security screening equipment that includes devices able to detect explosives and hazardous chemical agents by January 1, 2014.
In the latest security threat, hundreds of nationalist youths angered by the killing of a football fan rampaged through the subway last week, causing massive disturbances.
The murder of Spartak Moscow fan Yegor Sviridov in a brawl with migrants from Russia's mainly Muslim North Caucasus region on December 6 has sparked race-hate riots and ethnic clashes across Russia, including a brawl between over 5,000 football supporters and police outside the Kremlin walls.
MOSCOW, December 23 (RIA Novosti)
