1st Red Line
- The oldest line of Saint-Petersburg.
- Start of construction: April 1941.
- Resumption of construction: September 3, 1947.
- Opened November 15, 1955.
- Initially: Kirov-Vyborg line.
- The line is 29.7 km long and has 19 stations.
- The average speed of trains is 38 km/h.
- The average time from end to end is 47 minutes.
- The average depth of the stations is 50 meters.
- The length of trains is 8 cars.
On the whole line, landing through the last door of the last carriage is not performed, because when the train stops, it is located outside the platform.
At stations with access to the right side - Технологический Институт-2ru and Девяткиноru - landing is not performed at the first door of the first carriage.
Possible development:
- West of the station Prospect Veteranov - Александрино (проект)ru and Проспект Маршала Жукова (проект)ru.
- North of the station Политехническаяru - Сосновка (проект)ru and Проспект Культуры (проект)ru.
- Continuation of the line to Pulkovo Airport - the project is replaced by a railway express train.
As befits the most deserved lines, there are a lot of interesting things on the First line:
- The station Девяткиноru and ТЧ-4 "Северное"ru are located outside Petersburg - in the Leningrad Region.
- Station Гражданский проспектru as one of two stations in Saint-Petersburg with a ground-based anti-nuclear defense complex.
- Unfinished branch at the station Политехническаяru.
- Widely known in narrow circles, "erosion" with a "breakthrough" (quicksand) between stations Леснаяru and Площадь Мужестваru.
- Passage under the Neva in the place of its greatest depths (24 meters, tunnel depths over 70 meters) between stations Площадь Ленинаru and Чернышевскаяru.
- Service connecting branches of 1/3 Lines.
- The shortest stage in Saint-Petersburg (720m) between stations Владимирскаяru and Площадь Восстанияru.
- Accident with a dump in the construction of an inclined course of the station Пушкинскаяru, and an underground monument to Pushkin in the same place.
- Service connecting branches of 1/2 Lines.
- Panel "1917" at the station Балтийскаяru.
- Ghost station Сад 9-го Января (не построена)ru.
- Many legends about a secret service branch to the territory of the Kirov factory and port from the station Нарвскаяru to the station Кировский Заводru.
- ССВ 1/6 линий (Путиловская, строится)ru.
- Glass columns at a very beautiful station Автовоru.
- Three metro depots at once: ТЧ-4 "Северное"ru, TCh-1 Avtovo & TCh-2 Dachnoye.
- The now defunct ground station Dachnoye (closed) (now this is the traffic police building).
- The busiest metro station in Saint-Petersburg - Prospect Veteranov, about 2.6 million people per month.
IMHO, the most beautiful station on this line - Площадь Восстанияru. She is the second busiest in the Saint-Petersburg metro. Interestingly, in the Moscow metro the busiest station is its partner, Komsomolskaya. Partner, because all the traffic on trains between Moscow and Saint-Petersburg passes through both of these stations, at the Moscow and Leningrad railway stations, respectively.