Line 5 (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Line  5 (Frunensko-Primorskaya)
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| Route length: | 26.24 km |
| Gauge : | 1524 mm ( Russian gauge ) |
| Opening: | September 15, 1997 |
| Number of stations: | 15th |
| Total travel time: | 37 minutes |
The line 5 or Frunsensko-Primorskaya line ( Russian Фрунзенско-Приморская линия ) is the most recent of the five lines of Saint Petersburg Metro . Its first section, which originally belonged to line 4 , was opened in 1997; the Frunzensko-Primorskaya line has only existed as an independent line since the end of 2008.
Over a length of 26.24 kilometers, the line today connects districts on the northwestern outskirts of Saint Petersburg (including parts of the Nevadeltas in the area of Kreuzinsel ) with the city center and residential and industrial areas south of the same.
history
Although the fifth line of the Leningrad metro was still planned in its current form during the Soviet era, the financial situation forced the city to shift its priorities in the construction of the metro. At the end of the 1980s, it was decided to build the northern branch of the future line as part of Line 4, which opened in 1985, while plans for a continuation to the south (as well as those for a continuation of line 4 to the west) were postponed. On December 30, 1991, line 4 was initially extended from the previous western terminus Ploschtschad Alexandra Newskogo to Sadowaja station. The latter was intended from the beginning for later use by the fifth line, and the track connection between Dostoyevskaya and Sadowaya should only be an operating line .
After a long break in the St. Petersburg subway construction in the early 1990s, also due to the economic collapse of the country, the line was continued on September 15, 1997, again initially as line 4, from Sadowaya to Chkalovskaya . In addition to two newly opened stations, the 4.7 km long section also included the Admiralteiskaya underground station, which was completed in the shell . This was built between Sadowaja and Sportivnaya in the immediate vicinity of the Palace Square and the Admiralty , but the access, including the escalator and entrance vestibule, could not be finally designed for financial reasons as well as due to monument protection hurdles. As a result, Admiralteiskaya remained a ghost train station for the next few years . The construction work for this subway station did not begin until 2009 after the metro received the necessary building plot after an older house was demolished in this area.
On January 14, 1999 the line from Chkalovskaya was extended further north to Staraya Derewnja , the opening of the Krestovsky Ostrow station on the line took place with a delay of several months on September 3, 1999. The last extension of this line to the north was on April 2, 2005, when the Komendantski Prospect subway station behind Staraya Derewnja - again provisionally the terminus of line 4 - went into operation.
The decisive step towards creating the independent fifth line was the completion of the first section of its future southern branch on December 20, 2008. On that day, the two stations Zvenigorodskaya and Volkovskaya went into operation on a 3.2 km long new section. The Spasskaya station to the north of them , which was supposed to belong to Line 4, was completed at the same time, but due to technical breakdowns it could not go into operation in December 2008 with a new series of escalators installed there on a trial basis. As a result, it was not possible at that time to transfer the route from Sadowaja to Komendantski Prospekt to line 5 and to open it for continuous train traffic. As a result, the trains on line 4 coming from Dostoyevskaya continued to run via Sadowaya to Komendantski Prospect for a few months , while the Spasskaya station remained completely closed and a provisional one between Zvenigorodskaya (where you can change from and to line 1) and Volkovskaya Shuttle service was set up.
On March 7, 2009, the Spasskaya station was finally put into operation. The change in the management of lines 4 and 5 was finally implemented. Since then, the former has ended in the new Spasskaya station coming from Dostoyevskaya , while trains on the fifth line run from Komendantski Prospekt in the north via Sadovaya and the new section to Volkovskaya .
The Obvodny Canal station on the new route was built retrospectively and went into operation on December 30, 2010. The Admiralteiskaya subway station on the section that was completed in 1997 was also only opened later, namely on December 28, 2011. Exactly one year later, the two stations Bukharestskaya and Meschdunarodnaja opened. This increased the total length of the line from 16.8 km to 20.1 km.
With the opening of the Prospekt Slavy, Dunaiskaya and Shushary stations on October 3, 2019, the line finally got its current length of 26.24 km. At the same time as these openings, the TTsch-7 Yuzhnoye depot, located south of the Shushary terminus, began operations.
Planning
New stations are to be built north of Komendantski Prospekt . At least five of them, plus one more train depot, are included in the subway construction plans for the next decade.
vehicles
The line is served by trains from the Vyborgskoje subway depot , which is on Line 2 north of Parnas . They are all six-wagon sets of the 81-717 / 714 series , including their newer modification 81-540 / 541. The wagons for the line are produced by the Wagonmasch plant in Petersburg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Operating lengths of underground lines. Saint Petersburg Metro, accessed August 22, 2020 (in Russian).
See also
Web links
- Line description on metro.vpeterburge.ru (Russian, photos)
- Short story. Archived from the original on August 1, 2014 ; Retrieved October 23, 2017 (Russian).
