Pravoberezhnaya Line

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	Pravoberezhnaya Line
								Komendatsky Prospekt
								Staraya Derevnya
								Krestovsky Ostrov
								Chkalovskaya
								Sportivnaya
								Admiralteyskaya
								Sadovaya
								Spasskaya
								Dostoyevskaya
								Ligovsky Prospekt
								Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo
								Novocherkasskaya
								Ladozhskaya
								Prospekt Bolshevikov
								Ulitsa Dybenko
								Narodnaya
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Pravoberezhnaya Line (Russian: Правобере́жная линия), also known as Zanevsko-Lakhtinskaya, is a line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. Opened in 1985, it is the newest and the shortest line in the system with the stations featuring a modern design.

The line originally opened to provide access from the centre for the new residential areas in the eastern part of city, along the right bank of the Neva River. However, delays in the construction of the future Kupchinsko-Primorskaya Line (Line 5), compelled the metro officials to temporarily link the already completed northern part of the Line 5 (starting from Sadovaya) to Pravoberezhnaya Line, as they felt that it was better to have a single connected line rather than two unconnected ones. Since then, the line expanded northward, as per original plans of Line 5 expansion.

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

[edit] Timeline

Segment	Date opened
Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo-Prospekt Bolshevikov	December 30, 1985	5.2 km
Prospekt Bolshevikov-Ulitsa Dybenko	November 1, 1987	1.7 km
Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo-Sadovaya	December 30, 1991	4.2 km
Sadovaya-Chkalovskaya	September 15, 1997	4.4 km
Chkalovskaya-Staraya Derevnya	January 15, 1999	4.1 km
Krestovsky Ostrov	September 3, 1999	N/A
Staraya Derevnya-Komendantsky Prospekt	April 2, 2005	2.3 km
Total:	13 Stations	21.9 km

[edit] Name changes

Station	Previous name(s)	Years
Novocherkasskaya	Krasnogvardeiskaya	1985–1991

[edit] Transfers

#	Transfer to	At
1	Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line	Dostoevskaya
2	Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line	Sadovaya
3	Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line	Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo

Future transfer to Line 2 and 5 will be done via Spasskaya.

[edit] Rolling stock

The line is served by the Vyborgskoe (№ 6) depot, and has 42 six-carriage trains assigned to it.

[edit] Recent developments and future plans

The line that exists today will continue to do so until 2008, albeit the unfinished station Admiralteiskaya is due to be completed in 2007, when it will be broken up between Dostoevskaya and Sadovaya.

All the stations north of that point will be absorbed by the new Kupchinsko-Primorskaya Line which will then extend primarily to the south east. Zvenigorodskaya (transfer to line 1), Obvodnyi Kanal, Volkovskaya, Bukharestskaya, Mezhdunarodnaya and Prospekt Slavy should open by 2013.

For the segment that will remain under line 4 a new station will open in 2008, along with the separation, Spasskaya which will create the first 3 station transfer point in the city (to Sadovaya and Sennaya Ploshchad). From there, there be two more extensions from both ends of the line. Narodnaya in the south in 2011 and Teatralnaya in the North in 2014.

In the more distant future the remaining two paths of the Sportivnaya station will be taken up by the future ring line which will allow a cross-platform transfer.

v • d • e Lines of the Saint Petersburg Metro
1	Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya	2	Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya
3	Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya	4	Pravoberezhnaya