Metro stations of St. Petersburg city authorities took up close

St. Petersburg’s Metro is the second inOf the Russian Federation in terms of construction (1955) and in size. 67 metro stations in St. Petersburg are located on 5 lines, the total length of which is 113.6 kilometers.

The deepest in the world

Metro Northern capital is in the first placein terms of the average station depth. It is 57 meters, while the deepest station - “Admiralteyskaya” - is at the level of 102 meters.

Absolutely all the stations of two lines - Right Bankand Frunzensko-Primorskaya - they are exactly like that. Metro stations of St. Petersburg 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 - covered. One of these called "Dachnoe" refers to forever closed. She worked from 1966 to 1977, when the trains became six-wagon. The length of the platform did not allow to take them.

The longest platform

There is a metro station with the mostthe long apron that St. Petersburg has is the Moskovskaya metro station. The platform stretches under the entire Moscow Square and has exits to both its sides - from the side of the Pulkovo Highway and from the side of the city center.

The station is interesting because it has no groundthe lobby. Passengers enter the subway through the ticket halls. Moskovskaya has 52 doors, each with 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 orphaned women's bag, forgotten by someone on the bench.

The equipment of the St. Petersburg metro

St. Petersburg Metro - closest to the northin our country. Parnas is the northernmost metro station in the entire Russian Federation. This system of high-speed off-street transport has 73 lobby, 856 turnstiles, 255 escalators, 5 operational depots and one repair. Metro stations of St. Petersburg are interchange. There are 7 such units in the St. Petersburg metro station - 6 two-station and 1 three-station. The Sadovaya Station is an integral part of the only three-station interchange hub in the Northern Capital - Spasskaya - Sennaya Square - Sadovaya.

"Ladoga"

One of the deep stations ismetro station "Ladozhskaya". St. Petersburg is famous throughout the world for the Expensive Life, which was laid in a blockade on the ice of Lake Ladoga. But the station is named after the planned Ladoga station, since 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 of the station is dedicated to the Road of Life.

Located "Ladoga" (Right Bank Line) onthe depth of 61 meters, so the escalator that takes passengers, moves 2 minutes 20 seconds. People leaving the metro get to Ladoga Station, as well as to Carl Faberge Square, Bolshaya Yablonovka and Zanevsky Avenue. In the future, the construction of the station "Ladozhskaya-2" is planned.

Different types of stations

Metro stations of St. Petersburg deepThe foundations vary in their design. They are single-vaulted (such as in St. Petersburg 15 metro), pylons (17), column (18) and closed-type stations (10). The longest is the stage between the two metro stations of St. Petersburg - "Alexander Nevsky Square" and "Elizarovskaya", equal to 4 kilometers. The shortest - between the "Technological Institute" and "Pushkin", it is equal to 800 meters. There are St. Petersburg metro and cross-platform stations - "Technological Institute" and "Sport". They are characterized by the possibility of switching to another line on the same platform.

"Bypass channel"

In recent years, in both capitals of the Russian Federation goesintensive construction of the metro. St. Petersburg metro stations under construction are located in all parts of the city. These include "Bypass Channel", located on Ligovsky Avenue, in the house 153.

The lobby is located on the first floor of this building.stations - the entrance is located on Ligovsky Avenue, and the exit leads to the Obvodny Canal. It is planned that by 2017 this station will be a transfer station to the new Krasnoselsko-Kalininskaya line and that the Obvodnoy Canal-2 station will be built in the area of ​​the bus station.

Objects for the championship

The new station is "Admiralteyskaya"the grand opening of which took place on December 28, 2011 and marked the end of the most ambitious protracted construction in the history of St. Petersburg metro. The next new metro station in St. Petersburg, Spasskaya, was commissioned on November 7, 2013. The Bucharest, International, Prospect of Glory, Dunayskaya, Shushary stations and the Sportivnaya-2 station lobby are planned to be commissioned by 2018. Also, according to the plans for the development of the metropolitan of the Northern capital, until 2018 it is planned to open a section of the Right Bank Line (4th) from Spasskaya to the Mining Institute. Between them will be located "Theatrical".

Implementation of ambitious plans

The third metro line of St. Petersburg will also be extended.Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya - from the station "Primorskaya" to "Begovoy". In 2020, it is planned to start the construction of the 6th line of St. Petersburg metro. And by 2025, along with a significant lengthening of the operating lines (the “red” branch will be extended up to the “Pulkovo”), it is planned to put into operation the annular line, the construction of which has been suspended since 1980.

Separately, it should be noted that onlyThe northern capital has a tunnel going to the new Shushary station (Frunzensky radius), in which there will be two routes. This completely new project for the Russian metro, which cost the city 30 million euros, is tentatively called Hope.