St. Petersburg Metro is the second in the Russian Federation in time of construction (1955) and in size. St. Petersburg metro stations in the amount of 67 are located on 5 lines, the total length of which is 113.6 kilometers.
The deepest in the world
The metro of the Northern capital is in first place in terms of the average depth of stations. It is equal to 57 meters, while the deepest station - "Admir alteyskaya" - is at the level of 102 meters.
Absolutely all the stations of the two lines - Pravoberezhnaya and Frunzensko-Primorskaya - are just such. St. Petersburg metro stations in the amount of 60 out of a total of 67 are located at a depth below the average (57 meters). Only three are located at a shallow depth, and all of them are three-span columns. Four ground stations are covered. One of these, called "Dachnoye", is one of those forever closed. She operated from 1966 to 1977, when the trains became six-car. The length of the platform did not allow them to be received.
The longestplatform
There is a closed-type metro station with the longest platform that St. Petersburg has - the Moskovskaya metro station. The platform stretches under the entire Moskovskaya Square and has exits on both sides of it - from the side of the Pulkovo highway and from the side of the city center.
The station is interesting because it does not have a ground lobby. Passengers enter the subway through ticket halls. Moskovskaya has 52 doors, an equal number on each side of the square. On November 11, 2015, the station was closed for an hour in the afternoon due to an orphan women's bag left by someone on a bench.
Equipment of the St. Petersburg metro
St. Petersburg Metro is the closest to the north in our country. Parnas is the northernmost metro station in the entire Russian Federation. This system of high-speed off-street traffic has 73 lobbies, 856 turnstiles, 255 escalators, 5 operational depots and one repair depot. St. Petersburg metro stations are interchangeable. There are 7 such nodes in the St. Petersburg metro - 6 two-station and 1 three-station. Sadovaya station is part of the only three-station interchange hub in the northern capital - Spasskaya - Sennaya Ploshchad - Sadovaya.
Ladoga
One of the deep-laid stations is Ladozhskaya metro station. Saint-Petersburg is also known all over the world for the Road of Life, laid in a blockade on the ice of Lake Ladoga. But the station is named after the planned Ladogastation, as it was assumed that its ground pavilion would become part of this station. But the construction of the latter was delayed, and the vestibule was erected as a separate building. However, the interior design of the station is dedicated to the Road of Life.
Ladozhskaya (Right Bank Line) is located at a depth of 61 meters, so the escalator delivering passengers moves for 2 minutes 20 seconds. People leaving the metro get to the Ladozhsky railway station, as well as Carl Faberge Square, Bolshaya Yablonovka and Zanevsky Prospekt. In the future, it is planned to build the Ladozhskaya-2 station.
Different types of stations
St. Petersburg deep underground stations also differ in their design. They are single-vaulted (there are 15 such in the St. Petersburg metro), pylon (17), columned (18) and closed-type stations (10). The longest run is between two metro stations in St. Petersburg - "Alexander Nevsky Square" and "Elizarovskaya", equal to 4 kilometers. The shortest is between the Technological Institute and Pushkinskaya, it is 800 meters. There are also cross-platform stations in the St. Petersburg metro - "Technological Institute" and "Sportivnaya". They are characterized by the ability to switch to another line on the same platform.
Bypass Canal
In recent years, intensive construction of the subway has been going on in both capitals of the Russian Federation. St. Petersburg metro stations under construction are located in all parts of the city. These include the Bypass Canal, located on Ligovsky Prospekt, at 153.
On the ground floor of this building is the station lobby - the entrance is located on Ligovsky Prospekt, and the exit leads to the Obvodny Canal. It is planned that by 2017 this station will become an interchange to the new Krasnoselsko-Kalininskaya line and that the Obvodnoy Kanal-2 station will be built near the bus station.
Objects for the championship
The new station is Admir alteyskaya, the grand opening of which took place on December 28, 2011 and marked the end of the largest long-term construction in the history of the St. Petersburg metro. The next new St. Petersburg metro station, Spasskaya, was put into operation on November 7, 2013. Bukharestskaya, Mezhdunarodnaya, Prospekt Slava, Dunayskaya, Shushary stations and the entrance hall of Sportivnaya-2 station - these facilities are planned to be commissioned by 2018. Also, according to the plans for the development of the metro of the Northern capital, by 2018 it is planned to open a section of the Pravoberezhnaya line (4th) from Spasskaya to the Mining Institute. Between them will be located "Theatrical".
Implementation of ambitious plans
The 3rd line of the St. Petersburg metro - Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya - from the station "Primorskaya" to "Begovaya" will also be extended. In 2020, it is planned to start construction of the 6th line of the St. Petersburg metro. And by 2025, along with a significant lengthening of existing lines (the “red” line will be extended up to Pulkovo), it is planned to put into operation the circle line, the construction of which has been in limbo since 1980.
Separately, it should be noted that only in the Northern capital there is a tunnel leading to the new station "Shushary" (Frunzensky radius), which will have two tracks. This completely new project for the Russian metro, which cost the city 30 million euros, is tentatively called Nadezhda.
