St. Petersburg metro: map, description, photo
The St. Petersburg metro opened on November 15, 1955 and became the second metro in the USSR after the Moscow metro. The metro of St. Petersburg is the deepest in the world in terms of the depth of the tunnels laid - up to 86 meters. During the construction of the metro, many technologies were used for the first time in the world. In particular, stations of a closed type that do not have a platform, and trains stop at stations with a precise calculation so that the doors of the carriages coincide with the doors of the station, and, later, thanks to the synchronization system, they simultaneously open.
Despite the fact that in St. Petersburg until the 20th century there was not even a tram, and in most camps it was the tram that became the predecessor of the metro, the first projects for the construction of the subway in St. Petersburg date back to the end of the 19th century. Incessant disputes at different levels, as well as different opinions of the branches of government wishing to take control of the project, did not allow the project to come true..
The plans for the construction of the metro were returned already in Soviet times. In 1938, he was instructed to draw up a plan for the creation of the St. Petersburg metro and the organizations responsible for the implementation of the project. Construction began in 1941, however, during the Great Patriotic War, all work, for obvious reasons, was frozen.
In 1947, after the war, work was resumed and on November 15, 1955, the grand opening of the Leningrad Metro took place and its first stage was launched..
As of March 2014, it consists of 5 lines and 67 stations. The total length of the network is 113.6 km. The volume of passenger traffic is about 800 million people a year.
Opening hours of the St. Petersburg metro
Since 2013, the St. Petersburg metro has been operating around the clock, thanks to the commissioned «Admiralteyskaya» and «Sports» shuttle train. The interval of train movement at night is 20 minutes.
Payment for travel in the metro of St. Petersburg
To pay for travel in the St. Petersburg metro, contactless cards and tokens are used, which are sold at the metro ticket offices. Free travel for the elderly and preschool children in the St. Petersburg metro.
