Sokolnitcheskaïa line

The Line Sokolnitcheskaïa (in Russian, Сокольническаялиния ), initially Kirovsko-Frounzenskaïa ( Кировско-Фрунзенская ), was the first line of the Muscovite subway, whose construction goes back to 1935. The line currently comprises 26 kilometers of rails for 19 stations and transports a daily load of 1,7 million passengers.

History

The line was open in order to connect the Parc Sokolniki (in North) to the three principal stations of the city, the the Kremlin and the library of state, and went down until the Parc Gorki while passing by the site under consideration from the Palais from the Soviets. It comprised ten stations then. Since, the line was extended to the municipal districts of Preobrajenskoe and Bogorodskoe (administrative district is) and in a more significant way to those of Khamovniki (central district), Lomonosovski (south-western district) and Troparevo-Nikoulino (western district).

It crosses two rivers, the Yaouza and the Moskova, thanks to two bridges built especially for this purpose, of which one ( Vorobevy Gory on Moskova) is on two levels.

Chronology

Changes of name

Correspondences

Rolling stock

Two deposits are assigned to the line, that of Severnoe (No.1) and that of Tcherkizovo (No.13). Starting from 1997, each deposit was updated with the new trains 81-717.5M/714.5M (all expenses left the factory). Tcherkizovo currently has 22 trains with seven coaches of this type. Severnoe spent more time to be updated, and currently 33 of the 36 trains with seven coaches are new model, the remainder being Ej-1, a EM-508 and a EM-509.

Recent and future developments

Among the oldest stations of the line, much were the seat of restorations in order to keep them under good conditions, like the replacement of the ceramics flagstones by marble in the hall of Krasnoselskaïa, of new lightings with Kropotkinskaïa and Okhotny Riyadh. A new exit also was born with Kropotkinskaïa in 1998 and Vorobevy Gory, was reopened in 2002, after 16 years of work aiming to give it to the security standards.

Extensions are planned at each end of the line. In the south, a station of the name of Troparevo is considered. The expansion in north is blocked by the presence of the avenues Podbelskogo and Tcherkizovskaïa, built in order to be used as support with a second peripheral ring, envisaged since the Sixties. Thus, the Tcherkizovskaïa tunnel is enough broad to contain a second perpendicular station, which would make it possible the line to continue towards the east and the municipal district of Golianovo (district is), and to cross the Ligne Arbatsko-Pokrovskaïa with Chtchelkovskaïa. However, the project does not seem to be today more advanced than forty years ago.

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