(Russian Federation )ST-PETERSBURG-L5

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Komendantskij Prospekt stop	Staraja Derevnja stop	Krestovskij Ostrov stop
Chkalovskaja stop Sportivnaja stop Sadovaja stop

St. Petersburg
The first plans for an elevated rapid transport system in St. Petersburg were developed at the end of XIX century, but they were abandoned after the explosion of the October Revolution and the tranfer of the Russian capital to Moscow. The great development of the city brought new concrete plans in 1940, when the construction of an underground metro line started, in order to connect the main railways stations located in the urban area; because of the II Woorld War, the first section (Ploshchad Vosstaniya-Avtovo) of line 1 (currently 29.6 km long) opened only in 1955, followed by various extensions (in 1958 - under Neva River-, 1970 and 1978). Line 2 (currently 30.1 km) started its service in 1960 with Tekhnologichesky Institut-Park Pobedy section; it was extended later towards south (1770, 1972) and north (1963, 1982, 1988, 2006). In years '60s another line was created (line 3, currently 22.5 km), with an initial section from Vasileostrovskaya to Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo; this line, which connects Vasilievsky Island to the city center and to some industrial districts located on the right bank of Neva River, has been extended till years '90s (in 1970, 1979, 1981, 1984, 1991). Line 4 (or Pravoberezhnaya) was originally created to connect the city center to the eastern residential suburbs on the right bank of Neva River, but the delays for the construction of the southern section of a fifth line (line 5) suggested the opportunity to attach temporally the northern section of the future line 5 to line 4, before being detached after line 5 completion. Starting from that time, the new line 4 terminal is located at Spasskaya stop.
Line 5 opened on 20 December 2008 running from Komendantskiy Prospekt to Volkovskaya, mostly along a section previously belonged to line 4 (Sadovaya-Komendantskiy Prospekt); it's planned a southern extension up to Prospekt Slavy (2012).
Other 2 lines are expected in long term plans (2050), doubling the current network extension.
Metro Spb (official site)
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CHRONOLOGY
15-09-1997	Sadovaya-Chkalovskaya
14-01-1999	Chkalovskaya-Staraya Derevnya
03-09-1999	Krestovskiy Ostrov stop
02-04-2005	Staraya Derevnya-Komendantskiy Prospekt
20-12-2008	Volkovskaya-Zvenigorodskaya
02-04-2005	Staraya Derevnya-Komendantskiy Prospekt
20-12-2008	Volkovskaya-Zvenigorodskaya
30-12-2010	Obvodnyi Kanal stop
28-12-2011	Admiralteyskaya stop

Country	Russian Federation
Line	Linea 5 (Frunzensko-Primorskaya)
Inhabitants	City 4.650.000, District 6.000.000
Date opening	2008
Future development:	planned extensions: Zvenigorodskaya-Bukharestskaya-Mezhdunarodnaya; Mezhdunarodnaya-Prospekt Slavy
Length (km)	16.8
Track sections	totally underground
Stops	10, average distange m 1800
Platforms	length --, width --
Platform doors	--
General characteristics	--
n. of vehicles	42
n. of cars per vehicle	6
Type	steel wheels
Vehicle dimensions (m)	(single car) length 19.2; width 2.70
Vehicle capacity (pax)	(single car) 81-714/717: 332 (46 seduti)/308 (40 seduti); 81-540/541: 308/330
Frequency	--
Current/Voltage	825 V DC from third rail
Type of guide/gauge	1524 mm gauge rails
Speed Km/h	Comm -- Max 90
Accel./Decel. (m/sec2)	81-714/717: 1.1/1.2; 81-540/541: 1.2/1.0
System capacity	--
Ridership	--
Total cost	--
Staff	--
System builder	VAGONMASH, METROwAGONMASH
Model	81-714/717, 81-540/541
NOTE	ridership referred to the whole metro network rolling stock in common with line 4