Sokolnicheskaya Line

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Sokolnicheskaya Line
Ulitsa Podbelskogo
Cherkizovskaya
Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad
Sokolniki
Krasnoselskaya
Komsomolskaya
Krasniye Vorota
Chistiye Prudy
Lubyanka
Okhotny Ryad
   
Borovitskaya
Biblioteka Imeni Lenina
Kropotkinskaya
Park Kultury
Frunzenskaya
Sportivnaya
Vorobyovy Gory
Universitet
Prospekt Vernadskogo
Yugo-Zapadnaya
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The Sokolnicheskaya Line (Russian: Соко́льническая ли́ния), formerly Kirovsko-Frunzenskaya, was the first line of the Moscow Metro, dating back to 1935. The line was opened to connect the northern Sokolniki park with the three main railway stations, the Kremlin, and the state library before moving on to the future site of the Palace of Soviets and onto the Gorky Park of Culture and Leasure. Since then it has extended into the northeastern districts of Preobrazhenskoye and Bogorodskoye and more significantly the southwestern ones of Khamovniki, Lomonosovsky and Troparyovo. Presentely the line compromises 26 kilometres of track with 19 stations and carries a daily load of 1.7 million passengers.


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[edit] Timeline

Segment Date opened Length
SokolnikiPark Kultury May 15, 1935 8.4 km
Park KulturySportivnaya May 1, 1957 2.5 km
SportivnayaUniversitet January 12, 1959 4.5 km
UniversitetYugo-Zapadnaya December 30, 1963 4.5 km
SokolnikiPreobrazhenskaya Ploschad December 31, 1965 2.5 km
Preobrazhenskaya PloschadUlitsa Podbelskogo August 3, 1990 3.8 km
Vorobyovy Gory – after reconstruction December 14, 2000 N/A
Total 19 Stations 26.2 km

[edit] Name changes

Station Previous name(s) Years
Krasniye Vorota Krasniye Vorota 19351962
Lermontovskaya 19621986
Chistiye Prudy Kirovskaya 19351990
Myasnitskaya 1990
Lubyanka Dzerzhinskaya 19351990
Okhotny Ryad Okhotny Ryad 19351955
Imeni L.M. Kaganovicha 19551957
Okhotny Ryad 19571965
Prospekt Marksa 19651990
Kropotkinskaya Dvorets Sovetov 19351957
Park Kultury Tsentralnyi Park Kultury i Otdykha Imeni Gorkogo 19351980
Vorobyovy Gory Leninskie Gory 19572002

[edit] Transfers

# Transfer to At
2 Zamoskvoretskaya Line Okhotny Ryad
3 Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Biblioteka Imeni Lenina
4 Filyovskaya Line Biblioteka Imeni Lenina
5 Koltsevaya Line Komsomolskaya, Park Kultury
6 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line Chistiye Prudy
7 Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line Lubyanka
9 Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line Biblioteka Imeni Lenina

[edit] Rolling stock

Two depots are assigned to the line, the Severnoye (No.1) and the Cherkizovo (No.13). Starting in 1997 both depots have been upgrading to the new 81-717.5M/714.5M trains (all factory fresh). Cherkizovo currently operates 22 seven-carriage trains of the type. Severonoe's upgrade was slower and presently 33 of its 36 seven-carriage trains are the new models, the rest being the old Ezh, Ezh1 and the Em-508 and Em-509.

[edit] Recent developments and future plans

Many of the older stations on the line have received renovations to keep them in good condition, such as the replacement of ceramic tile with marble in Krasnoselskaya's vestibule, new lighting in Kropotkinskaya and Okhotniy Ryad. A new exit was also added to Kropotkinskaya in 1998. Vorobyovy Gory was reopened in 2002 after 16 years of repair work made it safe for use again.

Extensions are planned at both ends of the line. In the south, one station, Troparyovo, is planned. Further extensions in the north are hampered by the position of Ulitsa Podbelskogo and Cherkizovskaya, which were built so they could become of a projected second ring line which has been in planning since the 1960s. As a result the Cherkizovskaya's tunnels have provisions for a second perpendicular station, that would allow the line to continue eastwards to the destrict of Golyanovo and meet the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line and Shchyolkovskaya. However, this cannot happen and the project looks as distant today as it did 40 years ago.

Lines of the Moscow Metro
1 Sokolnicheskaya 2 Zamoskvoretskaya 3 Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya
4 Filyovskaya 5 Koltsevaya 6 Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya
7 Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya 8 Kalininskaya 9 Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya
10 Lyublinskaya 11 Kakhovskaya L1 Butovskaya
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