Line 1 (Saint Petersburg Metro)
Line 1 or Kirovsko - Vyborgskaya Line (Russian Кировско - Выборгская линия ) is the oldest line of the Metro St Petersburg. It was opened on November 15, 1955 with the commissioning of the first phase of the metro in the then Leningrad -called megacity. Meanwhile, it has 19 stations at almost 30 km long route.
The line is shown in red on all Metro plans and is at station announcements always named only " line 1" (Russian первая линия ), connects the city of St. Petersburg with the north-eastern and south-western outskirts of the city. In addition, it combines four of the five main railway stations Petersburg together. The regular journey time between the two terminal stations of the line is 42 minutes.
History
The line was the first line of the Leningrad subway with the opening of the section of Ploshchad Vosstania in the north to the south Awtowo on 15 November 1955. This first section comprised seven metro stations, said also subsequently at their train station Pushkinskaya was completed on 30 April 1956. Since the project development and the construction of the first section of the Kirovsko - Vyborgskaya line fell in the early post-war period the Soviet Union than just individual, usually consuming projects by renowned architects were consulted in the construction of underground stations and other major transportation objects, the section of Ploshchad applies Vosstania to Awtowo to this day as the architecturally most beautiful part of the St. Petersburg metro. The eight metro stations were similar sumptuously modeled on the Moscow metro, with marble-clad pylons or pillars, as well as a number of decorative elements such as sculptures, chandeliers, bas-reliefs and the like. The red color of the line on Metro cards was based on the also always drawn as red first line of the Moscow Metro - the Sokolnicheskaya line - elected.
On 1 June 1958, the line was extended north to Ploshchad Lenina, which in the history of the St. Petersburg metro construction the Neva was crossed for the first time. Located on the section Chernyshevskaya station was opened on 1 September of the same year. With the opening of the section whose northern terminus reached the Finland Station, now all remote stations Leningrad received direct by metro, where they were to be achieved by the construction of the Ladoga railway station in 2003, all with the line 1.
The next enlargement of the Kirovsko - Vyborgskaya line was done with the commissioning of the southern section of Awtowo after Datschnoje on 1 June 1966. Different than it had been the case in the first eight stations on line, was driven forward in the early 1960s here austerity for the course: As in the range of Datschnoje was a train depot under construction, the new station was at ground level, built without a closed canopy and otherwise in a very simple form.
In 1975, the line was again extended to the north, namely by two stops to Lesnaja on April 22, and three other stations to Akademicheskaya on December 31.
Meanwhile, the technical maintenance and care of the station and railway tracks turned in above-ground subway stations in the case of Datschnoje as too costly under the conditions of the cold maritime climate in Leningrad. It was therefore decided to use the 1966 built aboveground stretch only for operating trips to and from the depot at the upcoming Südverlängerung the line. On 5 October 1977, a new tunnel section south of Awtowo with the intermediate station Leninsky Prospekt and today serves as the terminus station prospectus Weteranów was put into operation. The station Datschnoje was shut down then. The former station building still exists today and houses a guard of the traffic police.
The most recent extension of the line took place on 29 December 1978: From Akademicheskaya it was ( renamed in 1991 in Dewjatkino ) north to two stations to Komsomolskaya extended. Behind the latter was another vehicle depot.
On 2 December 1995, the distance between Lesnaya and Ploshchad Muschestwa had to be shut down until further notice, because in one of the two tunnels, now acute danger of collapse was due to geologically -related water damage that was increasingly no longer keep it under control. Soon after, the tube was purged for security reasons. To make the now separate line back -end accessible, had to be moved a completely new tube north of Lesnaya. Since it came to financial constraints and technical difficulties again and again, it took more than eight years, until the line could be reunited. The newly built tunnel between Lesnaya and Ploshchad Muschestwa was only released on 26 June 2004 in the presence of the then Russian President Putin for regular operation.
Planning
Unlike other four lines of the St. Petersburg Metro Line 1 is considered complete. Further extensions are planned neither north nor south, nor any other intermediate stations are provided. However, some stations are retreaded since the 2000s, inter alia, escalators are completely replaced. For stations that have only one access and no Umsteigetunnel to other stations, this overhaul has several months of complete closure of the station for the duration of the repair work result. In the near future are to be restored in this way the stations Graschdanski prospectus and Narwskaja.
Depot and vehicles
The line has three vehicle depots: In Situated behind the former eponymous station Datschnoje Depot only repairs of wagons will be performed while the nearby Awtowo and - at the northern end of the line - the depot Sewernoje both running for parking and maintenance of the trains be used.
All trains used on the line are 1 octuple sets of Soviet series Е / Ем that were made in the 1970s on the Leningrad Wagon mash - work. Thus the Kirovsko - Vyborgskaya line has the oldest part of the fleet of the St. Petersburg metro.