Line 3 (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Line  3 (Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya)
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 Course in the city map
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| Route length: | 22.6 km |
| Gauge : | 1524 mm ( Russian gauge ) |
| Opening: | 3rd November 1967 |
| Number of stations: | 10 |
| Total travel time: | 32 minutes |
The Line 3 of the Metro St. Petersburg , also Newsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line called ( Russian Невско-Василеостровская линия ) was opened on November 3, 1967, joining the historic city of St. Petersburg , where it the complete course of the Nevsky prospectus follows the Residential areas of Vasilyevsky Island in the west or with southern districts along the left bank of the Neva in the southeast.
The line is shown in green on all maps of the St. Petersburg subway and is now usually simply called line 3 and only rarely called the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya line (which its route from Nevsky Prospect to Vasilyevsky Island is borrowed from) designated.
history
The first section of the line, which went into operation on November 3, 1967, connected Alexander Nevsky Square ( Ploschtschad Alexandra Newskowo ) at the eastern end of Nevsky Prospect via the same with Vasilyevsky Island, where initially only the Vasileostrovskaya station was built. A total of four stations were built, with the two intermediate stations of the section also being built as transfer stations to the two existing metro lines.
On December 25, 1970, the line was extended southeast to Lomonosovskaya . Both the first and the second construction phase of the line contained exclusively so-called closed-type stations with an island platform separated from the tracks by automatic platform screen doors.
On September 29, 1979, the Primorskaya station was opened on Vasilyevsky Island , the first station on the line without platform screen doors.
Later there were two extensions of line 3 in a south-easterly direction: On July 10, 1981 from Lomonosovskaya to Obuchowo and on December 28, 1984 one station further to Rybazkoye . Both in Obuchowo and in Rybazkoye there were transfer options to suburban trains.
Planning
In the medium to long term, an extension of the line at the southeast end to the suburb of Metallostroi and possibly later to Kolpino is planned. An extension to the west seemed impossible for a long time due to the line ending a few hundred meters from Newabucht , but there are now plans to connect the artificial discharge under construction in the bay, where residential and office districts are to be built, to a station. Possibly the line will then be continued to the Kreuzinsel , bending to the north .
A new construction project on line 3 is a connection to the Admiralteiskaya station at the western end of Nevsky Prospect, which would make it possible to change to line 5, which was previously lacking. However, the construction of the transfer hub is not expected in the next few years, as the subsequent construction of the Admiralteiskaya on line 3 would require a separation of the line for several months. Also, the station on line 3 would not have its own access for monument protection reasons, but would be accessible via the vestibule shared with line 5.
vehicles
The line is served by six-wagon sets of both the older Ем type and the 81-717 / 714 series . The responsible depot is Nevskoye behind the Rybatskoye metro station . This depot also provides the vehicles for line 4.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information for passengers. Saint Petersburg Metro, accessed December 30, 2017 (in Russian).
See also
Web links
- http://metro.vpeterburge.ru/stations/3/ (Russian, photos)
- Photos of the line (Russian) ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
