Line 2 (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line
Legend
Depot 6 "Vyborgskoe"

Parnas
 Prospekt Prosvescheniya
 Ozerki
Udelnaya
 Pionerskaya
 Chernaya River
Chornaya Rechka
 Bolshaya Nevka
 Karpovka
 Petrogradskaya
 Gorkovskaya
 Neva River
 Moyka
Nevsky Prospekt
Sennaya Ploshchad
Fontanka River
Tekhnologichesky Institut
Obvodny Kanal
 Frunzenskaya
 Moskovskiye Vorota
 Elektrosila
 Park Pobedy
Moskovskaya(
Shuttle bus to
Pulkovo Airport

)

 Zvyozdnaya

Kupchino
 Depot 3 "Moskovskoye"

The Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line (Russian: Московско-Петроградская), is the second oldest line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, opened in 1961. It featured the first cross-platform transfer in the USSR. It was also the first metro line in Saint Petersburg to feature a unique platform type that soon became dubbed as "Horizontal Lift". The line cuts Saint Petersburg on a north-south axis and is generally coloured blue on Metro maps. In 2006, as an extension was opened, it became the longest line on the system.

Timeline

SegmentDate openedLength
Tekhnologichesky Institut to Park Pobedy April 29, 1961 5.5 km
Tekhnologichesky Institut to Petrogradskaya July 1, 1963 6.0 km
Park Pobedy to -Moskovskaya December 25, 1969 1.7 km
Moskovskaya to Kupchino December 25, 1972 4.5 km
Petrogradskaya to Udelnaya November 6, 1982 6.1 km
Udelnaya to Prospekt Prosveshcheniya August 19, 1988 4.1 km
Prospekt Prosveshcheniya to Parnas December 22, 2006 2.2 km
Total: 18 Stations 30.1 km

Name changes

StationPrevious name(s)Years
Sennaya Ploshchad Ploshchad Mira 1963–1991

Transfers

Transfer toAt
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line Tekhnologichesky Institut
Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line Nevskiy Prospekt
Pravoberezhnaya Line Sennaya Ploshchad
Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line Sennaya Ploshchad

The Tekhnologichesky Institut transfer is a cross-platform one.

Rolling stock

The line is served by the Moskovskoe (№ 3) depot, and has 56 six-carriage trains assigned to it. Most of these are of type 81-714/717, but some are the .5 standard, built in the 1970s through the 1990s. There are also newer 81-540.1/541.1 and .9 trains running since 2000.

Recent developments and future plans

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The line is complete as such, and the recent extension to Parnas means that in the long future no future extensions will be built. However it is very likely that some of the central stations will be receiving much needed repairs internally and externally.