Filyovskaya Line
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Filyovskaya Line, formerly Arbatsko-Filyovskaya, is one of the twelve lines of the Moscow Metro. Although the line itself opened in 1958, some of the stations are actually much older, dating to the 1930s when they were part of the Sokolnicheskaya Line. Later it was transferred to the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line in 1938 and replaced with new, deep-level stations that could double as bomb shelters in 1953, the old stations closed. Five years later they were connected with two new above-ground stations, a short-lived cost-saving experiment supposedly inspired by the elevated lines Nikita Khrushchev saw in New York City, and the Filyovskaya Line was born. In 2005, for the third time in Moscow Metro's history a branch was opened.
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[edit] Timeline
| Segment | Date opened | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandrovsky Sad-Smolenskaya | May 5, 1935 | 1.7 km |
| Smolenskaya-Kievskaya | March 20, 1937 | 1.4 km |
| Alexandrovsky Sad-Ploshchad Revolyutsii | March 13, 1938 | 0.9 km* |
| Kievskaya-Kutuzovskaya | November 7, 1958 | 2.3 - 0.9 km** |
| Kutuzovskaya-Fili | November 7, 1959 | 1.7 km |
| Fili-Pionerskaya | October 13, 1961 | 3.5 km |
| Pionerskaya-Molodyozhnaya | July 5, 1965 | 3.8 km |
| Kuntsevskaya | August 31, 1965 | N/A |
| Molodyozhnaya-Krylatskoe | December 31, 1989 | 1.9 km |
| Kievskaya-Delovoi Tsentr | September 10, 2005 | 2.2 km*** |
| Delovoi Tsentr-Mezhdunarodnaya | August 30, 2006 | 0.5 km*** |
| Total: | 15 stations | 19.0 km |
* Up till 1938 line functioned as a branch of the Sokolnicheskaya Line, 0.9 km of track was used to connect them.
** Up till 1958 line was integral part of Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. Although from April 5, 1953 4 kilometre segment from Ploshchad Revolutsii to Kievskaya via Alexandrovsky Sad was closed. Service branch of 0.9 km was used to connect Alexandrovsky Sad and Ploshchad Revolyutsii.
*** Segment exists as branch on route Alexandrovskiy Sad - Kievskaya - Mezhdunarodnaya.
[edit] Name changes
| Station | Previous name(s) | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Alexandrovsky Sad | Komintern | 1935-1937 |
| Ulitsa Kominterna | 1937-1945 | |
| Kalininskaya | 1945-1990 |
[edit] Transfers
| # | Transfer to | At |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sokolnicheskaya Line | Alexandrovsky Sad |
| 3 | Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line | Kievskaya, Alexandrovsky Sad |
| 5 | Koltsevaya Line | Kievskaya |
[edit] Rolling stock
The line is served by the Fili (№ 9) depot and currently the whole fleet is undergoing replacement. The oldest E type trains in Moscow are being slowly retired. The remaining six carriage fleet of 24 trains (a mix of Ezh, Ezh1, Em-508 and Em-509) will be passed on to other depots and replaced by the new 81-740.1/741.1 "Rusich" (also known as "Skif") which are more suited for the outdoor climate that the line has. Currently 14 four-carriage trains of the type have been delivered. Replacement is expected to be finished by 2007 when the line will be shortened.
[edit] Recent developments and future plans
Although the cost-saving experiment of building a surface-line did succeed in saving resources, after nearly forty years of exploitation, the harsh Russian climate is taking a visible toll on the line. Making it in constant state of repair and thus draining a good portion of maintenance costs. Moreover, until recently it was the only line that served the west of Moscow, a very populated area. To solve this problem the planners reverted to the early 1950s, expanding the Arbatko-Pokrovskaya almost parallel, underground. The lines are to meet at Kuntsevskaya with a (cross-platform transfer) and the remaining underground section including the terminus at Krylatskoe will be passed on to the Arbatsko-Porovskaya line which will then extend up to Strogino and Mitino. The remaining ground-level stations are to undergo intensive reconstruction and there are plans for an extension to Setun areas.
However the most important developments are to take place in the city centre. Not far from the Kievskaya station, for many years a business centre was to be built serving it would be done by the Perovsko-Stroginskaya (currently Kalininskaya) and the Solntsevo-Mytischenskaya lines which will meet there with a cross-platform transfer. However construction of both lines is only planned, and in spite of current financial offsets, the business centre at such rates will not even have a metro in ten years time. To solve this problem an interim solution was found in creating a branch service from the Kievskaya station of the Filyovskaya Line, nicknamed "mini-metro". Three stations were initially planned on the line, however Delovoi Tsentr was opened in 2005, Mezhdunarodnaya in August, 2006, and all works on third station Dorogomilovskaya -- between Kievskaya and Delovoi Tsentr -- have been offset. It has recently emerged that there are plans to extend the branch as far as Savyolovskaya station, of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line.
| 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 |
