Novosibirsk Metro

Schematic representation of the metro network

The Novosibirsk Metro ( Russian: Новосибирский метрополитен / Transkription Novossibirski metropoliten ) is the metro of the Russian city ​​of Novosibirsk . Until the opening of the Yekaterinburg Metro in 1991, it was the only metro in the Asian part of Russia. It currently consists of two lines with thirteen stations and a length of 15.9 kilometers.

history

The first plans were made in the 1960s when it became clear that the city's growth made it necessary to use another form of public transport in addition to the tram . In a major study, an express tram, a metro network and a mixed operation of the two were weighed up. In 1978 the decision was made to build a large metro network without an additional tram. Construction work on Oktyabrskaya station began on May 12th . All stations are located at a relatively shallow depth and were mostly built using the cut-and-cover method. The tunnels, however, are drilled.

After a construction period of six years, the first train ran on the Leninskaya Line (Ленинская) between the Studentscheskaya and Krasny Prospekt stations . The trains connected five stations and crossed the Ob and its floodplain by means of the 2145 meter long metro bridge (of which almost 900 meters above the river). In the following years, the line was expanded to include two more stations in the north and one in the west. The line represents the backbone of the Novosibirsk metro network as it connects the two city centers on the left and right banks of the Obs.

On December 31, 1987, the second line, Dzerzhinskaya (Дзержинская), opened with the Sibirskaya transfer station . Initially, only one tunnel was operated: a single train shuttled between the Sibirskaya and Ploshchad Garina-Michailowskowo stations at the city's main train station. With the opening of the third station, Marshal Pokryschkina , the second tunnel was also put into operation, now two trains commuted (without changing tracks, each train used one tunnel). On June 25, 2005 the south tunnel to the fourth station of the line, Berjosowaja Roschtscha (Берёзовая Роща) was opened, two years later the north tunnel. Only then was it possible to start conventional operation on the line with three trains on two direction tracks. On October 7, 2010, another station to the east, Zolotaya Niwa , was opened. On October 26, 2010, the station was temporarily closed by a court order due to irregularities in the issuing of the operating license for safety reasons. It was only put back into operation on February 9, 2011 after the approval by the technical supervisory authority.

plans

Two stations on the Dzerzhinskaya line to the east, Dovatora (Доватора) and Volotschajewskaja (Волочаевская) are currently planned . However, since relatively little financial resources are made available for the construction of the subway, the construction work is taking much longer than originally planned and the last specified dates for commissioning in 2012 and 2013 could not be kept. The same applies to the Leninskaya Line, on which the Ploshchad Stanislavskowo (Площадь Станиславского) station is to be built in a westerly direction following the Ploshchad Marksa station and which should open in 2011. Further construction is currently on hold (as of September 2011). The Ploshchad Stanislawskowo station is shown as the next construction target on the notice boards in the metro trains . In the city's press conferences in the summer of 2011, however, the Dowatora station on the Dzerzhinskaya line was favored as the new first priority, as more new passengers can be expected here and thus higher funding from Moscow is possible. In the event of such a financing from 2013, commissioning in 2016 ^{[out of date] has been} promised.

In the longer term, a third line, Kirovskaya (Кировская) on the left Ob bank to the south, is planned, as is the construction of a fourth line from the northeast of the city to the city districts far to the south. A fifth line is to connect the districts in the east of the city far from the center in a semicircle. The first line is to be extended in both directions. According to the original plans, the second line was supposed to cross under the Ob to the west; in the meantime, a further construction to the northeast along the river is being considered, where more passengers would be expected. Although a tunnel was already planned for the future fourth line when the Beryosovaya Roschtscha station was built, all of these plans are not expected to be implemented in the next few decades.

List of stations

In the following table, which can be sorted, the stations are initially sorted alphabetically according to the German transcription of their names. When sorting by line, the stations are sorted according to their sequence from north to south or from west to east on the two lines.

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image	Name transcribed / name original	line	Transition to line	Opened	map	Noteworthy nearby
	Berjosowaja Roschtscha Берёзовая Ро́ща			06/25/2005	map	Beryosovaya Roschtscha Park
	Gagarinskaja Гагаринская			04/02/1992	map	Transition to the breakpoint Gagarinskaja the railway direction Krasnojarsk ( suburban trains )
	Krasny Prospect Кра́сный Проспе́кт		Sibirskaya	07/01/1986	map	Spartak Stadium , Central Market, Circus, Assumption Cathedral
	Marshal Pokryshkina Ма́ршала Покры́шкина			12/28/2000	map
	Oktyabrskaya Октя́брьская			07/01/1986	map	Library of the Academy of Sciences
	Ploshchad Garina-Mikhailovskovo Пло́щадь Га́рина-Михайло́вского			December 31, 1987	map	Central Station
	Ploshchad Marksa Пло́щадь Ма́ркса			07/26/1991	map	“Second city center” on the left bank of the Ob
	Ploshchad Lenina Пло́щадь Ле́нина			07/01/1986	map	City center, Opera and Ballet Theater, Lenin Monument
	Rechnoi Woksal Речно́й вокза́л			07/01/1986	map	River port, central transfer point to suburban trains and buses to the south
	Sajelzovskaya Зае́льцовская			04/02/1992	map
	Sibirskaya Сиби́рская		Krasny Prospect	December 31, 1987	map	Spartak Stadium , Central Market, Circus, Assumption Cathedral
	Solotaja Niwa Золота́я Ни́ва			07/10/2010	map
	Studentscheskaja Студе́нческая			07/01/1986	map	Novosibirsk State Technical University

Remarks:

1. ↑ northern track only opened on June 23, 2007
2. ↑ partly above ground

Web links

Commons : Metro Novosibirsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Russian)
• Metro Novosibirsk at urbanrail.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Website of the Novosibirsk Metro (Russian), accessed on February 17, 2016
2. ↑ Article by RIA Novosti (Russian), February 9, 2011
3. ↑ Report at ngs.ru (Russian) from August 16, 2011, accessed on September 22, 2011