Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line

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	Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line
								Devyatkino

								Grazhdansky Prospekt

								Akademicheskaya

								Politekhnicheskaya

								Ploshchad Muzhestva

								Lesnaya

								Vyborgskaya

								Ploshchad Lenina

								Chernyshevskaya

								Ploshchad Vosstaniya



								Vladimirskaya



								Pushkinskaya

								Tekhnologichesky Institut



								Baltiyskaya

								Narvskaya

								Kirovsky Zavod

								Avtovo

								Dachnoye

								Leninsky Prospekt

								Prospekt Veteranov
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Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line (Russian: Кировско-Вы́боргская ли́ния) is the oldest line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, opened in 1955. The original stations are very beautiful and elaborately decorated, especially Avtovo and Narvskaya. The line connects five out of six Saint Petersburg's main railway stations. In 1995, a flooding occured in a tunnel between Lesnaya and Ploshchad Muzhestva stations and, for nine years, the line was separated into two independent segments (the gap was connected by a shuttle bus route). The line is also the only one to feature shallow stations.

The line cuts Saint Petersburg centre on a northeast-southwest axis. In the south its alignment follows the shore of the Gulf of Finland. In the north it extends outside the city limits into the Leningrad oblast (it is the only line to stretch beyond the city boundary). The Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line generally coloured red on Metro maps.

1 Timeline
2 Name changes
3 Transfers
4 Rolling stock
5 Recent developments and future plans

[edit] Timeline

Segment	Date opened	Length
Ploshchad Vosstaniya-Avtovo	November 15, 1955	9.4 km
Pushkinskaya	December 30, 1956	N/A
Ploshchad Vosstaniya-Ploshchad Lenina	June 1, 1958	3.0 km
Avtovo-Dachnoye (temporary)	June 1, 1966	1.5 km
Ploshchad Lenina-Akademicheskaya	April 22, 1975	8.8 km
Politekhnicheskaya	December 29, 1975	N/A
Avtovo-Prospekt Veteranov	September 29, 1977	3.5 - 1.5 km*
Akademicheskaya-Devyatkino	December 29, 1978	4.9 km
Total:	19 Stations	29.6 km

* Upon the 1977 extension, the temporary station Dachnoye (which had been the terminus since 1966) and its track were terminated.

[edit] Name changes

Station	Previous name(s)	Years
Devyatkino	Komsomolskaya	1978–1991

[edit] Transfers

#	Transfer to	At
2	Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line	Tekhnologichesky Institut
3	Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line	Ploshchad Vosstaniya
4	Pravoberezhnaya Line	Vladimirskaya

The transfer on Tekhnologichesky Institut is a cross-platform one. Future transfer to the Kupchinsko-Primorskaya Line is planned via Pushkinskaya.

[edit] Rolling stock

Two depots serve the line, Avtovo (№ 1) and Severnoe (№ 4), although when the lines separated in 1995 the Severnoe served the northern section whilst the Avtovo, along with other depots took over the southern section. As there was a large surplus in the north, conventional railway was used to transfer many of the trains to other depots. Upon the reunification of the two sections, the Severnoe depot's park was restored and the line became the first to start using eight-carriage trains, of which currently 34 and 20 trains are assigned respectively to the metro.

[edit] Recent developments and future plans

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As most of the stations on this line are very old, constant renovations are taking place restoring them. The stations Vladimirskaya and Narvskaya will be closed for reconstruction from autumn 2006 until 2008. The controversial mosaic of Stalin located on Narvskaya station behind the service room is still subject to debate on whether to open it to the public. Plans to expand the line southward are currently being discussed.