The Muscovite’s card (or Muscovite card) is a personal electronic key to the city’s infrastructure. It has the functions of the city’s public transport card. It can also be used as a compulsory health insurance certificate in the city’s clinics, as a Moskvyonok identifier in the ‘Pass and Meals’ system, and can also be linked to a reader’s profile and used as a library card in more than 400 libraries of the city.

Cards issued before April 2022 can be linked to a bank account to receive allowances, pensions and social benefits.

Categories of residents who can get the Muscovite’s card:

• pensioners and residents nearing retirement age;
• full-time students, graduate students, medical residents and teaching assistants;
• students of Moscow schools and colleges (vocational education institutions);
• pregnant women;
• multi-child families;
• veterans and military personnel;
• other persons eligible for benefits.