Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line

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Line 3 "Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya"
Course in the city map
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Opening: March 13, 1938
Length: 45.1 km
Number of stations: 22nd
Total travel time: 65 minutes
Number of passengers on weekday average: 832,300

The Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line ( Russian Арбатско-Покровская линия ), also known as "Line 3" or - according to the usual representation in the metro plans - "Dark Blue Line", is one of the oldest lines on the Moscow Metro .

Stations

Arbatskaya Station
Semyonovskaya Station

Depot and vehicles

The line has its own depot , the above-ground Izmailovo near the Izmailovskaya station ; In addition, since 2008 the Fili depot, which originally only served the Filjowskaya line, has housed part of the line 3 vehicle fleet. The vehicles in the two depots are trains made up of 5 wagons each from the 81-740 / 741 series . They have been used on the line since 2006 and by 2011 replaced the previous fleet consisting of the 7-wagon trains of the "Ем / Еж" models made in the 1970s.

history

Lines

The beginning of today's Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line was heralded on March 13, 1938; at that time the section between the two stations Ploshchad Revolyuzii and Kurskaya went into operation, but at that time it was part of the line that later became line 4 "Filjowskaya". To the west of Ploshchad Revolyuzii , the newly built line connected to the Alexandrowski Sad - Kievskaya line, which had been in operation since 1937 , which was in turn a branch of line 1 and only became independent on March 13, 1938. The decision to change the route again was made in 1941 after a bomb hit the relatively flat tunnel between Arbatskaya and Smolenskaya during the German air raids on Moscow . Since this stretch leading to the west was also assigned a strategic importance (after all, there is some indirect evidence that a government line, the so-called "Metro-2", was built behind Kievskaya at the time to the Stalin residence in the former suburb of Kunzewo ) decided on a parallel route from the city center to the Kiev terminus, which should now be laid deep and thus also be far less "vulnerable". This project was implemented in 1953: West of Ploshchad Revolyuzii , the line then ran on its own, deeply laid route with the new stations Arbatskaya , Smolenskaya and the - also newly created - western terminus at Kievskaya . Since these three stations - as well as the entire new route - are located near the stations of the same name on the "old", flat route, they also got the same names, while the old route became superfluous and therefore temporarily after the commissioning of its "double" has been closed. (The old line was not revived until five years later, after it was extended further to the western parts of the city. It was named " Filjowskaja-Linie "; with the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaja-Linie there are transitions between the stations of Kievskaya of the two lines and Kalininskaya ( now Alexandrowski Sad ) of the Filjowskaya and Arbatskaya of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, while both Smolenskaya stations and Arbatskaya of the Filjowskaya line have no crossings).

chronology

  • March 13, 1938: Opening of the 2.3 km long section with the two stations Ploshchad Revolyuzii and Kurskaya . The trains run between Kurskaya and Kievskaya of the later line 4.
  • January 18, 1944: Extension by 7.1 km in an easterly direction to the Partisanskaya station (at that time Izmailovskaya , not to be confused with today's Izmailovskaya station ).
  • May 15, 1944: The Elektrosavodskaya station is subsequently opened on the section opened four months earlier .
  • April 5, 1953: The route from Ploshchad Revolyuzii to the new Kievskaya (3.9 km) opens . The old lines are canceled.
  • November 5, 1954: The line is extended to the east; Behind Partisanskaya is the above-ground Perwomaiskaya station , which should not be confused with the station that bears this name today. The old Pervomaiskaya will later be shut down.
  • October 21, 1961: New extension (3.8 km) in an easterly direction. Behind Partisanskaya , the Ismailowskaya (above ground) and the new Perwomaiskaya stations are being built . The old, superfluous Pervomaiskaya is being repealed; Since then, its station building has belonged to the Ismailovo depot , which was built nearby a few years earlier.
  • July 22, 1963: The last extension to the east for the time being is 1.6 km long and brings the passengers of the line to the new station Shcholkovskaya .
  • May 6, 2003: Commissioning of the new 3.2 km long western section. The Park Pobedy station is being built behind Kievskaya .
  • January 7, 2008: Comprehensive extension in a westerly direction: the section from Park Pobedy to Kunzewskaya went into operation , the previous line 4 section Kunzewskaya - Krylatskoje was handed over to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line and the Krylatskoje - Strogino extension section opened , partly in the new The north-west tunnel runs and with a good 6.5 km it will be the longest station distance of the Moscow Metro. In total, over 10 km of new routes are being built. In Kunzewskaja there is a platform-level change to line 4, which has ended there since then.
  • September 7, 2008: Opening of the Slavyansky Bulwar station on the existing section between Park Pobedy and Kunzewskaya .
  • December 26, 2009: Extension to the west and opening of the three stations Mjakinino , Wolokolamskaya and Mitino . On the section between Mjakinino and Wolokolamskaya , a new metro bridge over the Moskva was put into operation. The Mjakinino Metro Station is the first station of the Moscow Metro outside the Moscow city limits, in the area of ​​the city of Krasnogorsk .
  • December 28, 2012: Last extension to the west to Pyatnitskoye Schosse .
  • December 24, 2016: Complete commissioning of the Mitino depot at the western end of the line.

Renaming of stations

The following stations on the line were renamed after their completion:

  • the Semyonovskaya station was called Stalinskaya until 1961 ;
  • the station Partizanskaya was called until 1963 Izmailovskaya and 1963-2005 Izmailovsky Park ;
  • today's Izmailovskaya station was called Izmailovsky Park until the Partisanskaya ( Izmailovskaya ) was renamed in 1963 .

Accidents

On the morning of July 15, 2014, three wagons of a train on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line between the Pobedy Park and Slavyansky Bulwar stations derailed, presumably as a result of an emergency braking caused by a technical error . At least one car of the busy train was completely destroyed. About 20 people were killed and over 150 injured, 40 of them seriously. It is the worst metro accident in Moscow with the exception of the terrorist attacks in 2004 and 2010.

Expansion planning

On the eastern section, the extension by one station from Shcholkowskaya to Golyanovo is planned by 2025.

In the long term, a new Troize-Lykowo station could be built between Krylatskoje and Strogino , for which preliminary work has already been carried out on the new route. This also depends on the implementation of the plan for the new Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya line, which will connect Moscow City with Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya to the west of the city and cross the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line in Strogino, and the start of construction has been confirmed in early 2019 Project planning for 2021-2022 is scheduled.

A new station with the possible name Khmelnitskaya could be built between Ploshchad Revolyuzii and Kurskaya , which is supposed to offer connections to the Kitai-Gorod station on lines 6 and 7 , which were previously lacking . Due to the complicated building conditions in the city center, there are currently (as of 2019) no concrete plans for the foreseeable future.

particularities

The escalators at Park Pobedy station

The stations of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, which originated from the early days of the line - also from the late Stalin era - are among the most architecturally sophisticated in the Moscow Metro. Conceived at the time as “palaces for the people”, they represent masterpieces by the renowned architects of the time. The stations in Kievskaya , Arbatskaya and Ploshchad Revolyuzii , with their marble, chandeliers and a multitude of paintings, sculptures and reliefs, are particularly magnificent monuments depicting Soviet architecture and art of the period from the late 1930s to the mid 1950s.

The Park Pobedy (Siegespark) station, built in 2003, is also very elaborate. Its design, on which the Georgian-Russian artist Zurab Tsereteli contributed, among others, is based on the Russian Patriotic Wars ( World War II and the War of 1812 ). At around 83 meters, this station is also the deepest in the Moscow Metro; the 126 meter long escalators are actually the longest in the world.

See also

Web links

Commons : Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Число погибших при аварии в московском метро достигло 20 человек. In: ITAR-TASS. July 15, 2014, accessed July 16, 2014 (Russian).