Line 3 (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya
Overview
Type Rapid transit
System Saint Petersburg Metro
Status Operational
Termini Begovaya
Rybatskoye
Stations 12
Operation
Opened 1967
Owner Saint Petersburg Metro
Technical
Line length 27.7 km (17.2 mi)
Track gauge 1,524 mm (5 ft)
Route map

 Begovaya
Neva Bay
 Novokrestovskaya
Neva Bay
 Primorskaya
Smolenka
 Vasileostrovskaya
Bolshaya Neva
Moyka
Kanal Griboyedov
 Gostiny Dvor Transfer to M2 Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line at Nevsky Prospekt.
Fontanka
 Mayakovskaya Transfer to M1 Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line at Ploshchad Vosstaniya.
 Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo 1 Transfer to M4 Pravoberezhnaya Line at Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo 2.
Monastyrka
Obvodny Kanal
 Yelizarovskaya
 Lomonosovskaya
 Proletarskaya
 Obukhovo
Murzinka
 Rybatskoye
Depot 5 "Nevskoe"
Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I station

The Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line (Russian: Невско-Василеостровская), is a line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, opened in 1967. Since 1994, it has been officially designated as Line 3. It stands out among St. Petersburg metro lines for two reasons — its stations are almost exclusively of "Horizontal Lift" type and it has the longest inter-station tunnels in the entire system. Metro officials originally intended to add stations in-between the existing ones, but those plans were later abandoned.

The line cuts Saint Petersburg centre on an east–west axis and then turns southeast following the left bank of the Neva River. It is generally coloured green on Metro maps.

Timeline

SegmentDate openedLength
Vasileostrovskaya to Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo November 3, 1967 6.5 km
Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I to Lomonosovskaya December 25, 1970 6.3 km
Vasileostrovskaya to Primorskaya September 29, 1979 2.6 km
Lomonosovskaya to Obukhovo July 10, 1981 4.0 km
Obukhovo to Rybatskoe December 28, 1984 3.1 km
Primorskaya to Begovaya May 26, 2018 5.2 km
Total: 12 Stations 27.7 km

Transfers

Transfer toAt
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line Mayakovskaya
Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line Gostinny Dvor
Pravoberezhnaya Line Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo

Future transfer to Line 5 is planned via Admiralteiskaya

Rolling stock

The Nevskoe depot (№ 5) serves the line. Presently 36 six carriage trains are assigned to it, which are Em, Ema, and Emx built in 1960s and 1970s, 81-717/714 built in the 1970s and 1980s, and 81-540/541 and .7 running since 2002.

Recent developments and future plans

Admiralteyskaya was opened in 2011 between Gostiny Dvor and Vasileostrovskaya and became a transfer to Line 5. Proletarskaya was closed for reconstruction on August 25, 2005. Originally, it was intended to reopen on February 25, 2007, but the reconstruction was finished ahead of schedule, allowing the station to reopen on November 17, 2006.

The extension of the line north to Novokrestovskaya and Begovaya will be opened in 2018.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ "Перспективы развития метрополитена" (in Russian). Saint Petersburg Metro. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "В Петербурге назвали сроки открытия пяти новых станций метро" (in Russian). rbc.ru. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
Saint Petersburg Metro Lines
Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line Pravoberezhnaya Line
Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line
Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line
Lines under construction or proposed
Krasnoselsko-Kalininskaya Line Saint Petersburg Koltsevaya Line
Admiralteysko-Oktinskaya Line
List of Saint Petersburg Metro stations
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