Line 1 (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Line  1 (Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya)
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| Route length: | 29.65 km |
| Gauge : | 1524 mm ( Russian gauge ) |
| Opening: | November 15, 1955 |
| Number of stations: | 19th |
| Total travel time: | 42 minutes |
The line 1 or Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya line ( Russian Кировско-Выборгская линия ) is the oldest line of Saint Petersburg Metro . It was opened on November 15, 1955 with the commissioning of the first construction phase of the metro in what was then called Leningrad. It now has 19 stations with a length of almost 30 kilometers.
The line, which is shown in red on all metro maps and is always only called "Line 1" (Russian первая линия ) when station announcements are made, connects downtown Saint Petersburg with the north-east and south-west outskirts of the city. It also connects four of St. Petersburg's five main train stations. The regular travel time between the two terminus of the line is 42 minutes.
history
The line was created as the first line of the Leningrad underground with the opening of the section from Ploshchad Vosstaniya in the north to Avtovo in the south on November 15, 1955. This first line comprised seven underground stations, with the Pushkinskaya station also located on it later was completed on April 30, 1956. Since the project development and the construction of the first stretch of the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line took place in the early post-war period of the Soviet Union , when individual, mostly elaborate projects by renowned architects were involved in the construction of subway stations and other important transport objects, the section from Ploshchad applies Vosstaniya to Avtowo to this day as the architecturally most beautiful part of the Petersburg Metro. The eight subway stations were designed in a similarly splendid manner based on the model of the Moscow Metro , with marble-clad pylons or support pillars as well as a number of decorative elements such as sculptures, chandeliers, reliefs and the like. The red color of the line on metro maps was chosen based on the first line of the Moscow metro - the Sokolnitscheskaja line - which is also always drawn in red .
On June 1, 1958, the line was extended north to Ploshchad Lenina , which was the first time in the history of the Petersburg subway construction to cross the Neva . The Chernyshevskaya station on the section was only opened on September 1 of the same year. With the opening of the section, the northern terminus of which reached the Finnish train station , all long-distance train stations in Leningrad now received a direct metro connection, although they could all be reached with Line 1 until the Ladoga train station was built in 2003.
The next expansion of the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya line took place with the commissioning of the southern section from Avtowo to Datschnoye on June 1, 1966. Unlike the first eight stations on the line, this was the one that had been advanced in the early 1960s Austerity policy on the train: Since a train depot was under construction in the area of Datschnoje , the new station was built at ground level, without a closed roof and otherwise in a very simple shape.
In 1975 the line was extended to the north again, namely by two stations to Lesnaya on April 22nd and by three more stations to Akademicheskaya on December 31st.
In the meantime, the technical maintenance and the maintenance of the station and track systems at above-ground underground stations in the case of the Dachnoye proved to be far too expensive under the conditions of the cold maritime climate in Leningrad. It was therefore decided to use the above-ground section of the route built in 1966 only for operational trips to and from the depot when the line was to be extended to the south. On October 5, 1977, a new tunnel section south of Avtowo with the intermediate station Leninsky Prospect and the station Prospekt Weteranow, which is still the terminus today, was put into operation. The Dachnoye station was then shut down. The former station building has been preserved to this day and houses a traffic police station.
The most recent extension of the line took place on 29 December 1978: From Akademicheskaya it was north to two stops to Komsomolskaya (renamed in 1991 Dewjatkino ) extended. Another vehicle depot was built behind the latter.
Since the year of construction around 1974, the section between Lesnaya and Ploschtschad Muschestva could only be held with comprehensive safeguards and in the summer of 1995 the tunnels sagged so much and got so much water that the line was closed on December 2nd, 1995. Due to the acute danger of collapse, the tube was flooded for safety reasons. In order to make the now separate line passable again, a new tube had to be laid north of Lesnaya . As there were always financial bottlenecks and technical difficulties, it took over eight years before the line could be reunited. The newly built tunnel between Lesnaya and Ploshchad Muschestva was released for regular operation on June 26, 2004.
Planning
In contrast to the other four lines of the Petersburg Metro, Line 1 is considered completed. No further extensions are currently planned to the north or south, and no further intermediate stops are planned. However, individual stations have been refurbished since the 2000s, including the replacement of escalators . In the case of stations with access only, but without a transfer tunnel to other stations, this overhaul will result in a complete closure of the station for several months for the duration of the repair work. In the near future, the Graschdanski Prospekt and Narwskaya stations are to be restored in this way .
Depot and vehicles
The line has three vehicle depots : In the depot behind the former Datschnoye station of the same name , only repairs are carried out on wagons, while the nearby Avtowo and - at the northern end of the line - the Severnoye depot both continuously for the parking and maintenance of the trains be used.
All trains used on Line 1 are eight-car sets of the Soviet Е / Ем series, which were manufactured at the Leningrad Wagonmasch plant in the 1970s . This means that the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line has the oldest part of the Petersburg Metro fleet.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information for passengers. Saint Petersburg Metro, accessed December 30, 2017 (in Russian).
See also
Web links
- Description on metro.vpeterburge.ru (Russian)
- Photos of the line (Russian) ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
