Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line

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The geographical route of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line.

The Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line (Russian: Арба́тско-Покро́вская ли́ния) is one of the twelve lines of the Moscow Metro. It was the second Metro line to open, with its first stations opening in 1938. Ploschad Revolyutsii with its 72 sculptural groups by M.G. Manizer and Elektrozavodskaya, which is lit by 318 incandescent lights, are probably the most well-known stations on the line. Park Pobedy is another notable station. The station lies at 97 metres, making it not only the deepest station throughout the Moscow Metro network, but also the deepest in the world. Park Pobedy station also contains the longest escalators in Europe. Presently the line cuts Moscow on an east-west axis. The Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line serves the densely-populated western section of Moscow. Only the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya and Filyovskaya lines serve the neighbourhood.

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	Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line
								Shchyolkovskaya
								Pervomaiskaya
								Izmailovskaya
								Pervomaiskaya (closed)
								Partizanskaya
								Semyonovskaya
								Elektrozavodskaya
								Baumanskaya
								Kurskaya
								Ploshchad Revolyutsii
								Arbatskaya
								Smolenskaya
								Kievskaya
								Park Pobedy
								Slavyansky Bulvar
								Kuntsevskaya
								Molodyozhnaya
								Krylatskoe
								Troitse Lykovo
								Strogino
								Myakinino
								Volokolamskaya
							Mitino
							Rozhdestveno
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Originally, Alexandrovsky Sad, now a station on the Filyovskaya line, was part of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line. In 1944, six years after the opening of the first stations on the line, five more stations opened. Elektrozavodskaya opened a few months later than the rest of the stations on the segment. At this point, the line spanned 9.4km. Nine years later, three more stations opened: Arbatskaya, Smolenskaya, and Kievskaya. After these three stations were put into use, Alexandrovsky Sad was transferred to the Filyovskaya line. More stations opened over the years. The most recent station is Park Pobedy, which opened in 2003.

* Up till 1953 section to Kievskaya via Alexandrovsky Sad was an integral part of the line.

**Upon the 1961 extension, temporary station Pervomaiskaya was closed, along with its track.

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[edit] Transfers

[edit] Rolling Stock

The line is served by the Izmailovo depot (#3) and it presently has 43 seven carriage trains assigned to it. Traditionally none of the trains that it received were factory-fresh and most of its rolling stock consisted of old trains models that other lines retired upon upgrade to newer ones, and thus all trains that are retired from this line are sent to the scrapyard, this was seen Am and Bm types in 1975 and the D type in 1995 and is currently taking place with the E type. Presentely the trains are a combination of Ezh, Ezh1, Em-508 and Em-509 models.

[edit] Recent Events and Future plans

[edit] The West

The existing tracks (black) and the new ones (red) illustrate the complex redevelopment of the Northwestern Moscow rapid transit

In 1953, after the closure of the shallow stations between Ploshchad Revolyutsii and Kievskaya and replacing them with the present deep ones, more westward extensions were to begin. However, Nikita Khruschev's inspiration after visiting New York Subway prompted all works to be cancelled and the shallow stations to be reopened with a westward surface path creating the Filyovskaya Line. Although the construction of a surface station was fast enough to reach the western districts of Moscow by mid 1960s, the Russian winter climate, took its toll on the operation and management of the Filyovskaya Line.

In addition to that the northwestern districts of Moscow, being Strogino and Mitino housing massifs, which were built in the late 1970s-1980s remain isolated as they are separated by the Moskva River and all of the transit lies on bus routes to Tushinskaya of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line. Which makes the latter line one of the most busiest in the system.

By the mid-1980s it was clear that a complex reconstruction was needed to solve the problem in Western Moscow. Three separate developments were to start. Because the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line had relatively small passenger traffic, it was decided to have it take up the main share of the transit load. For the first part the deep radius would follow the Kutuzovsky Avenue with three stations. Then, the line would annex the western terminal stations of the Filyovskaya Line, and continue to Strogino and Mitino. Work began in the late 1980s, for the opening of the first station (a future cross-platform transfer to the Solntsevsko-Mytishchenskaya chordial line) to open in early 1990s and the remaining part of the bypass by the turn of the decade. However the first station in the bypass was not opened until 2003 (Park Pobedy) and the quantity of the remaining two: Minskaya and Slavyansky Bulvar, were cut to accommodate for only the latter one, which is due to open in 2007.

After a long debate on how to accommodate for the junction at Kuntsevskaya, under pressure from the local people, a cross-platform transfer will be set up in the reconstructed surface station, and the reamining Filovskaya stations, Molodyozhnaya and Krylatskoe will be annexed to the APL.

The second part of the development consists of boring more than

In 1989 the first part of the plan was compleated with the extension to Krylatskoe. Then in 2003 the deepest station in the Metro, Park Pobedy was opened as the first part of the southern bypass. In 2007 the stations Slavyansky Bulvar and a redesigned Kuntsevskaya will open and the Filyovskaya Line's underground stations Molodyozhnaya and Krylatskoe will be annexed by the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, nearly doubling its present length and certainely the passenger load. Simultaneously the two station extension to Strogino will be compleated, which would include a combined automobile and Metro tunnel under an ecological preserve - Serebrenny Bor (Silver Pinewood).

From there the line shall continue to Strogino with one interim station Troitse-Lykovo. The station Strogino and the following segment, actually would eventually end up with the Stroginsky radius of the Kalininskaya Line when the central segment is completed (not expected to take place before late 2010s or early 2020s). So both Strogino and Mitino will be served by the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line until then.

[edit] The East

New escalators on Semyonovskaya

Most of the stations there are very old and some were built during the 1940s, and their age shows clearly in their appearance as well as their operational technology such as escalators. In May 2005 the station Semyonovskaya was closed for a year to replace its escalators and also to completely renovate and upgrade its vestibule. The same renovations will be made to all of the stations of the 1944 stage: Baumanskaya, Elektrozavodskaya and Partizanskaya. In addition, all of the deep level stations on the Pokrovsky radius are to be equipped with second entrances to the surface.

In addition to the renovation works, new stations are planned for the line. In 1938, on the first stage of the line between Kurskaya and Ploshchad Revolyutsii, provisions for two future stations were built. Named Pokrovka and Maroseika, these were planned to be opened at a later date. The latter station in particular is very important as it will facilitate a direct transfer to the Kitay-Gorod station complex with Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines. The opening of the new stations is not presently considered a priority, although when the Strogino extension opens, the rise in passenger traffic on the line will most likely necessitate building of the new stations.

In the very east another extension is planned to Golyanovo. The station Schelkovskaya recently received a very major restoration replacing old ceramic tiles with modern aluminium planes.

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