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Troika Transit Card

Revision 2026-08-15-baseline · effective 2026-08-15

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 9 claims and 5 source dossiers.

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Change set

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source dossiers
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publication dates recorded
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archives linked
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Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-41b725af1b6566f0 quantitative
launched on 2 April 2013
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The city's own fare-history page dates the Troika card's introduction to 2 April 2013.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. mos.ru — history of Metro fare options
Claim 2 clm-55d6696b4e39314d descriptive
valid across the metro, buses and trams, bike hire and paid parking
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The city's history page describes Troika as the common payment card across metro, surface transport, bike rental and parking.
Caveat
The scope of uses is described by the operator itself, not independently audited.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. mos.ru — history of Metro fare options
Claim 3 clm-b2067f7f4d568c96 descriptive
A virtual Troika lived in Google Pay and Samsung Pay
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Trade coverage of the virtual Troika rollout names both phone wallets.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. NFCW — Moscow Metro rolls out virtual Troika
Claim 4 clm-a9dba7760b4eb337 descriptive
TASS reported the Virtual Troika in the wallet apps could stop being available
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
TASS's March 2022 item states payments including the 'Virtual Troika' transport card in the Moscow Metro app 'may not be available'.
Caveat
TASS is a Russian state news agency; the statement is the companies' own wording relayed at the start of sanctions.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TASS — Samsung Pay statement, March 2022
Claim 5 clm-a4a67647b3942dbb quantitative
opened a domestic chip-module production line in December 2023
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The reprinted deputy-mayor announcement dates the Moscow chip-module production line to December 2023.
Caveat
The announcement is the city's own; no independent verification of the production line was located.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TAdviser — Troika ticket system of Moscow
Claim 6 clm-a726d5ef5c9688e2 quantitative
2.78 million fully Russian-made Troika cards issued by January 2025
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The deputy mayor's 16 January 2025 announcement, as reprinted, states 2.78 million fully Russian-made Troika cards had been issued.
Caveat
City self-reporting relayed by a trade wiki; wartime conditions leave no independent count.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TAdviser — Troika ticket system of Moscow
Claim 7 clm-3e15336c1bb48cb8 quantitative
36 million Troika cards sold in the card's first eight years
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The mayor's March 2021 blog item states 36 million cards sold in eight years.
Caveat
The mayor's own figure; no independent audit of card sales exists.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. mos.ru — Sobyanin on popular metro services
Claim 8 clm-42f8fb5385e4f861 quantitative
more than 90 percent of metro trips paid using them
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The same mayoral blog item states more than 90 percent of metro trips are made with Troika cards.
Caveat
Operator-reported share; the atlas found no arm's-length evaluation of the ticketing system.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. mos.ru — Sobyanin on popular metro services
Claim 9 clm-7a2e14d6cef1b6c6 descriptive
sanctions cut off both
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
TASS documents the loss of the wallet layer in March 2022; the reprinted city announcement documents replacing imported chip modules with domestic production.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. TASS — Samsung Pay statement, March 2022
  2. TAdviser — Troika ticket system of Moscow

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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Awaiting operator and domain-expert review; publication of this revision implies neither.

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Revision history → Permanent version link → Machine-readable record → Evidence Constitution →
9
of 9 claims mapped
5
source dossiers
0
publication dates recorded
0
archives linked
0
exact locators
0
content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Moscow Metro (Moskovsky Metropoliten) under the Moscow Department of Transport
Actor types
city-government, utility
Funding model
public
Funding description
Moscow city budget
Cost
Not recorded
Ownership
Not recorded
Decision rights
Not recorded
Exit conditions
Not recorded

5 source dossiers

mos.ru — history of Metro fare options mos.ru · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-a59e2ba578f145e1
Publisher
Name not classified · mos.ru
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-15
Dossier created
2026-08-15
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The city's own history page: Troika introduced on 2 April 2013 and its role across metro, surface transport, bike hire and parking.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
mos.ru — Sobyanin on popular metro services mos.ru · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-a4f9237042ec910d
Publisher
Name not classified · mos.ru
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-15
Dossier created
2026-08-15
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Mayor's blog item of 12 March 2021: 36 million cards sold in eight years, more than 90 percent of metro trips paid with Troika.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
NFCW — Moscow Metro rolls out virtual Troika nfcw.com · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-3c055da400721c91
Publisher
Name not classified · nfcw.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-15
Dossier created
2026-08-15
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Trade press on the virtual Troika card in phone wallets (Google Pay/Samsung Pay era).

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
TASS — Samsung Pay statement, March 2022 tass.com · 2 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-098cddcbc1c0e879
Publisher
Name not classified · tass.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-15
Dossier created
2026-08-15
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

March 2022: Samsung Pay continues in Russia, but payments including the 'Virtual Troika' card in the Moscow Metro app 'may not be available' under sanctions.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
TAdviser — Troika ticket system of Moscow tadviser.com · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-3a692da0c48e81fa
Publisher
Name not classified · tadviser.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
Not recorded
Updated
Not recorded
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-08-15
Dossier created
2026-08-15
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
Content hash
No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Trade wiki reprinting the deputy mayor's 16 January 2025 announcement: chip-module line opened December 2023; 2.78 million fully Russian-made cards issued since. Used only for that reprinted official announcement.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Known limits of this passport
  • Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
  • Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
  • A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
  • The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.