Some of us use the metro every day, others very rarely, and still others have never used it at all. But few people thought about which cities have a metro, what it looks like when it was built. There are many interesting facts on this score.
In total, there are seven operating subways in Russia, which are located in the following cities:
Moscow
· St. Petersburg
Kazan
Novosibirsk
· Nizhny Novgorod
Samara
· Yekaterinburg
Also in Volgograd there is a metro (underground high-speed tram system), which is actually considered a subway.
Moscow
The Moscow Metro is considered to be the first in Russia in length. The first metro line opened on May 15, 1935. Today the metro system consists of 12 lines, has 196 stations with a total length of 327.5 km. 44 stations of the Moscow metro are recognized as cultural heritage sites. By 2020, it is planned to open 78 more stations. On average, 8 million people use the Moscow metro per day.
In the passage between the metro stations "Rimskaya" and "Ploschad Ilyicha", a real fountain beats.
76 unique bronze sculptures have been installed at the Ploschad Revolyutsii station.
At some stations of the Moscow metro, which are decorated with marble, you can find many extinct prehistoric animals - corals, nautilus, ammonites, sea urchins, various mollusks.
Most of the fossils are at the stations of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya, Sokolnicheskaya and Zamoskvoretskaya lines.
St. Petersburg
The St. Petersburg Metro (formerly called Leningradsky) was launched on November 15, 1955. Now the St. Petersburg metro consists of 5 lines, which include 67 stations, with a length of more than 113 km. By 2020, it is planned to open 13 more new stations. Many stations of the St. Petersburg metro are also objects of cultural heritage. The average passenger traffic per day is 2, 11 million people.
Petersburg metro is considered the deepest metro in the world, with an average depth of 70-80 m.
In the St. Petersburg metro, you can find two monuments to Pushkin at once - at the stations "Pushkinskaya" and "Black River".
The emblem of the St. Petersburg metro "(/)" consists of the elements "" and "/" - "escalator", the elements "(" and ")" - "the arch of the tunnel".
Novosibirsk
The first metro in Siberia was opened on December 28, 1985. Today the Novosibirsk metro has 2 lines of 13 stations, 15.9 km long. Average passenger traffic is 240 thousand people per day. Prospects for the construction of 3 more metro stations are under consideration.
The Novosibirsk metro bridge is considered the longest in the world; it stretches for 2,145 meters and connects the two banks of the Ob River.
In 2005, the Novosibirsk metro was recognized as the safest in Russia.
Also, the Novosibirsk metro is called the most advertising. In addition to banners and posters, advertisements are broadcast on internal television at metro stations and in train carriages. Most of the cars were sold to advertisers and painted in one or another brand color.
Nizhny Novgorod
The Nizhny Novgorod metro was opened on November 20, 1985. There are 2 metro lines, which include 14 (13 underground and 1 surface) stations 18.9 km long. Average traffic per day - 120 thousand people. By 2018, it is planned to open 2 more stations, and in 2020 it is planned to build several more stations. There are also discussions on the construction of a 3 metro line, which will consist of 15 new stations.
Although the Nizhny Novgorod metro is considered small, the largest station in Europe and the CIS, Moskovskaya, is located here. The station is decorated with marble in the form of the battlements of the Moscow Kremlin.
The station "Moskovskaya" has 4 directions at once and is unique, because there is no other such in Russia.
Yekaterinburg
The Yekaterinburg metro was opened on April 26, 1991. The metro has one metro line, which includes 9 metro stations with a total length of 12.7 km. Passenger traffic - 143.6 thousand people a day. At this time, the construction of the second metro line is under discussion, the number of stations and the length are still unknown.
The Yekaterinburg metro is considered the shortest metro in the world.
Several stations have been under construction for over 22 years. Initially, 32 stations were planned, but construction was stopped due to the bankruptcy of Sverdlovskmetrostroy.
Kazan
Kazan Metro was opened quite recently - on August 27, 2005. Consists of one metro line with 10 stations. The length of the Kazan metro is about 16 km. The passenger traffic is 85, 7 thousand people a day. Further expansion of the Kazan metro is still under discussion.
Kazan metro is considered the most unvisited metro. Basically, it is used only by tourists in order to look at the luxurious decoration of the stations. For this reason, the metro is included in the list of the cleanest subways in the world.
Samara
The Samara metro was opened on December 26, 1987. It has one metro line of 10 stations, 12.7 km long. The Samara metro is used by an average of 44.5 thousand people a day. Until 2018, it is planned to build three more metro stations.
The Samara metro is considered the safest in Russia, for the entire time of its existence not a single emergency has occurred here.
The disaster film Metro was filmed at the Alabinskaya station. The Samara subway played the role of the Moscow metro.
Volgograd
Volgograd Metro Tram is a high-speed tram. The metro tram system includes 22 stations, of which 6 are underground. The length of all stations is 17.3 km (a section 7.1 km long runs underground).
Volgograd high-speed tram took 4th place, according to Forbes magazine, in the list of 12 most interesting tram routes in the world.
Also, in some cities of Russia, subway lines are being built or designed. The Omsk metro has been under construction since 1992. The only metro station has been commissioned so far - the library named after Pushkin. With the support of ex-President Medvedev D. A., the opening is planned for the 300th anniversary of Omsk in 2016.
Krasnoyarsk metro: the metro was built here in 1995-2011, construction was stopped, there are no prospects for renewal.
The Chelyabinsk Metro has been under construction since 1992, the opening is planned after 2017.
Perm Metro: The first official plan of the Perm Metro was published in 1982. At the same time, work began on the preliminary cycle. Construction has been postponed indefinitely.
The Rostov metro was included in the General plan of the city in 2011, the design began.
