Filevskaya Line
| Line 4 "Filjowskaja" | |
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| Opening: | May 15, 1935 |
| Length: | 14.9 km |
| Number of stations: | 13 |
| Total travel time: | 20 (+5) minutes |
| Number of passengers on weekday average: | 320,600 |
The Filjowskaja-Line ( Russian Филёвская линия ), also called "Line 4", is one of the twelve lines of the Moscow Metro . Due to its branch and the large number of above-ground stations and route sections, this line is a rather unusual part of the underground network of the Russian capital. According to the usual representation in the metro plans, the line is also known colloquially as the "light blue line".
Stations
- Alexandrowski Sad ( ), transfer to Biblioteka imeni Lenina on line 1 and Arbatskaja on line 3 ; These stations also take you to Borovitskaya stationon line 9
- Arbatskaja ( )
- Smolenskaja ( )
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Kievskaya ( ), transfer option to the stations of the same name on line 3 and the ring line , as well as to the local and long-distance trains in Kiev station
- Wystawotschnaja ( ), the transit traffic to the same stations Delowoi Central the line 8A (since 24 February 2018 temporarily out of service) and line 11
- Meschdunarodnaja ( ), transfer to the Delowoi Zentr stop of the Moscow central ring (line 14)
- Studentscheskaja ( )
- Kutusowskaja ( ), transfer to the stop of the same name on the Moscow central ring (line 14)
- Fili ( )
- Bagrationovskaya ( )
- Filjowski Park ( )
- Pionerskaja ( )
- Kunzewskaja ( ), transfer to line 3
Depot and vehicles
Vehicles of two different generations were used on the Filjovskaya line until 2009. On the one hand, these were Soviet trains of the Ем / Еж series, which came from the early 1970s and were thus the oldest still operating wagons on the Moscow Metro. Since 2005, trains of the new generation 81-740 / 741 Russitsch , which were already known from the Butovskaya line , have been in use on the line . This basically developed for the "light metro" model with a small capacity compared to other Metrowagonmash -Zugmodellen can be used easily on the Filyovskaya Line because of their comparatively low ridership and now has all Ем / Еж trains replaced on this line. All trains are run from the Fili depot , which also serves the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.
history
General
The opening date of the line indicated in the info box as May 15, 1935 is only partially correct. The three oldest stations of the Filjovskaya line date from this time, although at that time it was not an independent line. Rather, the section Alexandrowski Sad - Smolenskaya ( extended to Kievskaya in 1937 ) was part of a branch of the Sokolnitscheskaya line , which led from its Okhotny Ryad station and was served alternately. The formation of the actual Filjovskaya line was preceded by a relatively eventful history. Operation as a branch of line 1 ended on March 13, 1938, when the Ploshchad Revoljuzii - Kurskaya line, which today belongs to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line , was opened. This got a connecting tunnel to the Alexandrowski Sad station , so that from now on trains ran from Kurskaya to Kievskaya and vice versa.
However, after the shallow tunnel between Arbatskaya and Smolenskaya was damaged during the air raids in World War II , it was decided to connect the Ploshchad Revoljuzii and Kievskaya stations with a new, now deep enough underground line. This was completed in 1953; the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line was created, while scheduled train services were discontinued on the now superfluous Alexandrowski Sad - Kievskaya flat line .
Only the rigorous austerity policy under Nikita Khrushchev , which by no means spared the previously architecturally splendid Moscow Metro, let the old route wake up from its “deep sleep”. The expensive underground line of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line was not extended, instead it was decided to open up the western outskirts of the Soviet capital with a much cheaper above-ground metro line. On November 7, 1958, the new "Filjowskaja-Linie" opened, which included the revived section Alexandrowski Sad - Kievskaya (flat) as well as its extension in the west to Kutuzovskaya . The construction project was actively continued over the next few years. In 1959 it was extended to Fili , in 1961 to Pionerskaya and in 1965 to Molodjoschnaja . All stations that were newly built during this period (by the way not only on the Filjovskaya Line) are a blatant example because of their cheap construction, which was frowned upon again for a long time, but was preferred in Khrushchev times and which avenges itself on the state of the station buildings to this day for how not to build a subway . In addition, almost the entire section of the line from Kievskaya to Molodjoschnaja runs above ground with only a few tunnels; all stations in between are also above ground, which not only causes increased maintenance costs, especially in winter, but also increasingly attracts vandals .
However, due to its original lines, the line has another special feature. The Alexandrowski Sad station was not planned as a terminus when it was built. To the east of this station, which is in the immediate vicinity of the Kremlin , there are no sweeping tracks (only the connecting ramps to lines 1 and 3, which are now only used for operational trips), and they can also be found under and around the Kremlin due to the complicated system of underground communications not erect. This requires a thin schedule on the line for the conditions of the Moscow Metro - even at peak times, trains only run about every three minutes, as the train pair change takes place directly on the two tracks of the Alexandrowski Sad station . (The same applies to the western terminus Kunzewskaya , where there is only one track for the Filjovskaya line.) This also made it possible to integrate a small branch into this line, the so-called “mini-metro” with a branch line from Kievskaya to Meschdunarodnaja . This construction project was realized in the years 2005–2006 and aims to connect the new Moscow business district " Moscow City " to the metro network. Since the branch opened, trains have been running alternately on the line from Alexandrowski Sad to Krylatskoje and from Alexandrowski Sad to Meschdunarodnaja and vice versa, with the branch only being approached every 10 to 15 minutes, which is not a problem due to its relatively small catchment area is. Incidentally, the Vystavotschnaja station - kept in a previously largely unknown, almost futuristic-looking architectural style characterized by glass and stainless steel constructions - became the most beautiful station of the whole line, completely in contrast to the unsightly and in some cases now almost dilapidated "Khrushchev stations" standing.
On January 7, 2008, the Filjowskaja-Line was shortened at its western end by two stations - Molodjoschnaja and Krylatskoje - which are now served by Line 3. At the same time, the latter was extended beyond Krylatskoje to Strogino . This change in route design means a considerable reduction in travel time between the western outskirts and central Moscow.
chronology
Here are all the milestones in the construction of the Filjovskaya Line in chronological order:
- May 15, 1935: Opening of the 1.7-kilometer section from Alexandrowski Sad (then Uliza Kominterna ) to Smolenskaya as part of the branch of the Sokolnicheskaya line
- March 20, 1937: Extension by 1.4 km to Kievskaya including an underground bridge over the Moskva
- April 5, 1953: Line closes
- November 7, 1958: Reopening of the line as the "Filjowskaja-Linie" with a new, 2.3 km long extension line to Kutuzovskaya
- November 7, 1959: Extension by 1.7 km from Kutuzovskaya to Fili
- October 13, 1961: Extension of 3.5 km to Pionerskaya
- July 5, 1965: Extension by 3.8 kilometers from Pionerskaya to Molodjoschnaja , with the Kunzewskaya intermediate station not opening until almost two months later, on August 31
- December 31, 1989: New extension of 1.9 kilometers from Molodjoschnaja to Krylatskoje
- September 10, 2005: Opening of the branch to Moscow City. The new route is 2.2 km long and leads from Kievskaya initially to Vystavochnaja (until 2009 Delovoi Zentr ); the main route and the new branch are driven alternately, the respective direction of travel is indicated on the platforms by illuminated panels and loudspeaker announcements
- August 30, 2006: Extension of the branch by 0.5 km from Vystavochnaja (until 2009 Delovoi Zentr ) to Meschdunarodnaja ; the new route section will be the shortest route section between two successive stations in the Moscow metro network
- January 7, 2008: The line now ends in Kunzewskaja , where there is a platform-level change to the extended line 3.
Renaming of stations
On the Filjovskaya Line, Alexandrovsky Sad station has been renamed several times in the course of its history:
- from 1935 to 1937 the station was called Imeni Kominterna (Имени Коминтерна),
- from 1937 to 1946 it was called Ulitsa Kominterna (Улица Коминтерна),
- In 1946 it was renamed Kalininskaja (Калининская),
- In 1990, as part of the renaming campaign, there were plans to rename the station after a nearby street in Vosdwischenka (Воздвиженка), which was officially implemented for a short time,
- a few months later, the renaming to Vosdwischenka was discarded, and the station was named Alexandrowski Sad .
On June 1, 2009 there was another station renaming on the line: The Delovoi Zentr station was officially named Vystavotschnaja , the reason given being that the previous name (which literally means "business center") was for a future transfer station for Kalininskaya Line (which finally went into operation on January 31, 2014).
Expansion planning
An extension from Kunzewskaya to the west into the districts of Moshaiski, Trojekurowo and Skolkowo was proposed; However, there are no concrete plans.
