Line 4 (Saint Petersburg Metro)

The line 4 or line Prawobereschnaja ( линия Russian Четвёртая, Правобережная линия ) Metro St Petersburg currently connects the city center of the Russian metropolis of Saint Petersburg with some eastern districts of the city on the opposite right bank of the Neva. This feature that the line its second name ( Prawobereschnaja - line means something like "Right - Shore Line ").

The line has eight stations over a distance of over 11 km, so far, this is the shortest of all five Petersburg metro lines. By 2009, fell as parts of Prawobereschnaja - line at the newly opened fifth line, it was much longer and led to in north-western outskirts of the city.

History

The oldest part of the present section line 4 was put into operation on 30 December 1985. At that time, forming four stations between Alexander Nevsky Square and brochure Bolschewikow. The western terminus of Alexander Nevsky Square was doing a transition to the same station of Line 3, and between this and Krasnogwardeiskaja (the latter was renamed in 1992 in Novocherkasskaya ) pass the railway line the Neva. Near the station Ladoschskaja was taken in 2003 with the Ladoga Station one of the five main railway stations of the city in operation.

On 1 October 1987 the line was extended by one station to the last stop Ulitsa Dybenko today in the southeast.

The first extension to the west could not be realized until 30 December 1991. Behind Alexander Nevsky Square created the stations Ligowski prospectus, Dostoyevskaya and Sadowaja, bringing the Prawobereschnaja line was now direct interchanges to the other two lines of the St. Petersburg metro.

Between 1997 and 2005 there were further extensions of the line to the west, most recently on April 2, 2005 to Komendantski prospectus. From this time until 2009 the line was nearly 25 miles long and had 13 stations.

With the completion of the first section of the line 5 end of the 2000s was accompanied by a change in the leadership of the line 4. The station Spasskaya was opened on 7 March 2009 at the southern center of St. Petersburg, which was designed as part of the new triple - Umsteigeknotens Sennaja Ploshchad / Sadowaja / Spasskaya. With the opening of both the station opened in 1991 Sadowaja as well as the distance to the northwest of it to Komendantski prospectus in the newly opened line 5 (which received some months earlier finished stations Swenigorodskaja and Wolkowskaja ) was included. From Dostoyevskaya trains of line 4 since instead of Sadowaja the new station Spasskaya, which remains for the time being the last stop.

Planning

Medium-term development plans for the St. Petersburg Metro see extensions of the line 4 front in both directions. Behind Ulitsa Dybenko, a new vehicle depot and the station Kudrovo arise, and the station Spasskaya will in future no longer be terminal - first to the center of St. Petersburg, the station Teatralnaja, later behind three other subway stations, including the terminus Morskoi fair facade on an artificial embankment the Newabucht in the field of Vasilievsky Island. Since these plans have a lower priority than the further expansion of Line 5, none of them is likely to be realized before 2015.

Rolling stock

The line does not have a train depot; they -use trains in the depot Newskoje, which is located in the south of the line 3, off. All trains on the line 4 are six-fold sets of manufactured in Petersburg series 81-717/714.