Saint-Petersburg metro ⏏

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.

  Random stations

  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 - Technological Institute-2 and Девяткино^ru - 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 Политехническая^ru - 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 Девяткино^ru and TCh-4 Severnoye are located outside Petersburg - in the Leningrad Region.
  • Station Гражданский проспект^ru as one of two stations in Saint-Petersburg with a ground-based anti-nuclear defense complex.
  • Unfinished branch at the station Политехническая^ru.
  • Widely known in narrow circles, Размыв^ru with a "breakthrough" (quicksand) between stations Лесная^ru and Площадь Мужества^ru.
  • Passage under the Neva in the place of its greatest depths (24 meters, tunnel depths over 70 meters) between stations Площадь Ленина^ru and Чернышевская^ru.
  • Service connecting branches of 1/3 Lines.
  • The shortest stage in Saint-Petersburg (720m) between stations Владимирская^ru and Площадь Восстания^ru.
  • Accident with a dump in the construction of an inclined course of the station Пушкинская^ru, and an underground monument to Pushkin in the same place.
  • Service connecting branches of 1/2 Lines.
  • Panel "1917" at the station Baltiyskaya.
  • Ghost station January 9th Garden (not built).
  • Many legends about a secret service branch to the territory of the Kirov factory and port from the station Narvskaya to the station Kirovsky Zavod.
  • ССВ 1/6 линий (Путиловская/Нарвская, строится)^ru.
  • Glass columns at a very beautiful station Avtovo.
  • Three metro depots at once: TCh-4 Severnoye, 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 Восстания^ru. 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.

  Sokolov's book about the first stage of the Leningrad metro, 1957.