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Saint Petersburg - Metro
Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Saint Petersburg Metro |
|
| Locale |
Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast |
| Transit type |
Rapid transit |
| Began operation |
1955 |
| System length |
105.5 km (65.6 mi) |
| No. of lines |
4 |
| No. of stations |
60 |
| Daily ridership |
3.43 million |
| Track gauge |
1,520 mm (4 117 in) |
| Operator |
Peterburgsky Metropoliten |
Saint Petersburg Metro is an underground rapid
transit system in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Formerly known as Leningrad Metro, the system exhibits
many typical Soviet designs and features exquisite
decorations and artwork making it one of the most
attractive and elegant metros in the world.
Due to the city's unique geology, the Saint
Petersburg Metro is the deepest
subway system in the world.
Serving nearly three million passengers daily, it is
also the 16th busiest subway system in the world.
Lines
| # | Name | Opened |
Newest station added |
Length | Stations |
|---|
| 1 |
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya |
1955 | 1978 | 29.6km | 19 |
| 2 |
Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya |
1961 | 2006 | 30.1km | 18 |
| 3 |
Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya |
1967 | 1984 | 22.5km | 10 |
| 4 |
Pravoberezhnaya |
1985 | 2005 | 23.3km | 13 |
|
Total: |
| | 105.5km |
60 |
Some of the features of the Saint Petersburg Metro make it
stand out amongst others, even those in the ex-USSR.
It is customary to have all stations in the centre of a city
to be built very deep, not only to minimize disruption, but also,
because of the Cold War threat, they were built to double as
bomb shelters (and many old stations do feature provisions
such as blast doors and air filters).
However, in most cities, as the lines reach the outer residential
massifs, the lines become shallow (and in some cases even surface).
However, in Saint Petersburg this is not the case.
The difficult geology means that of the 60 stations 53 are deep level.
The design and architecture went through numerous phases.
The original stations were predominantly pylon
type of which there are 13 stations.
Also popular was the column layout, and
there are 14 such stations in the system.
The first stage is exquisitely decorated in the Stalinist
Architecture, but already from 1958, Nikita Khruschev's
struggle with decorative extras restricted the vivid
decorations to simple aestatic themes.
During this time a new design called "horizontal lift",
which is a variation of a station with Platform screen
doors, that has not been found elsewhere outside Saint
Petersburg became widespread and 10 stations
were built with this layout.
However the design became unpopular with passengers and
other technical reasons, and in 1972 the last
station was built and none since.
From the mid-1970s a new open "single-vault" design was
developed by the local engineers and became very popular,
not only in Saint Petersburg, but some other cities as well,
known technically as Leningradky Odnosvod to this day it
became the most popular of all and there
are 16 such stations in the city.
The remaining stations are located virtually on the edge
of the city, and one, Devyatkino, is territorially in the
Leningrad Oblast, far away from the harsh underground
geology that forms the Neva Delta.
The three shallow column stations that are located in the
southwestern section of the city and are all
on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line.
The first one, Avtovo is considered to be one of the most
beautiful stations in the world and was opened as part
of the first stage in 1955, the other two were built in
late 1970s to a typical Moscow-style pillar trispan design.
In addition there are four stations that are on the surface,
all termini and are all located prior to the
lines' connection with the train depots.
The city's northern climate means that even here all
of the station space is inside an enclosed structure.
Ploshchad Muzhestva station, showcasing
a single vault design.
The "Horizontal lift" design, as
seen here on Mayakovskaya.
Avtovo station.
Kirovsky Zavod station.
The Alexander Pushkin statue at
the Pushkinskaya station.
Ancient Greece-themed Sportivnaya station.
Most stations have large surface
vestibules, such as Narvskaya.
For a more information about
Saint Petersburg see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was retrieved and condensed from
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Petersburg)
see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, January 2008.
All text is available under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License
(see
Copyrights for details).
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