Novosibirsk Metro

Novosibirsk Metro Новосибирский метрополитен Novosibirskiy metropoliten
Info
Locale	Novosibirsk
Transit type	Rapid transit
Number of lines	2
Number of stations	13
Daily ridership	256 thousand(average, 2008), 345 thousand (high)
Operation
Began operation	1986
Number of vehicles	22 rolling stock class 81-717 / 81-714
Technical

Novosibirsk Metro is a metro system in Novosibirsk, Russia.

History

Metro Bridge over the Ob

Station Beryozovaya Roscha

Novosibirsk is the third largest city of Russia, with a population of 1.4 million people. It was founded as a junction city between the main transfer arteries in Siberia, the Trans-Siberian railway and the Ob River. Thus, it was not a surprise that the city grew very quickly. Plans for a rapid transit system began to be formed in the late 1960s and on the May 12, 1979 the first construction works began. With wide experience in metro construction from the other metros of the USSR, it took seven and a half years to complete work on the five-station launch stage of the system which was triumphantly opened on January 7, 1986, becoming the eleventh Metro in the USSR and the fourth in Russia.

Novosibirsk Metro Map

Work quickly expanded to meet the original plans for a four-line 62 km network. However, the financial difficulties of the early 1990s meant that most of the work had to be frozen, and they have been resumed only recently.

Facts

The system contains 13 stations on two lines. There are 80 carriages that form 20 four-carriage trains which carry over 250,000 passengers daily. The stations are vividly decorated in late-Soviet style. Currently, of the 13 stations (12 station plus the interchange station counted twice), seven are pillar-trispan, four are single vaults. There is also a surface level station which follows a 2.145 km covered bridge span of the Ob River.

Lines

#	Name	Opened	Newest station added	Length	Stations
1	Leninskaya (Ленинская)	1986	1992	10.5 km	8
2	Dzerzhinskaya (Дзержинская)	1987	2010	5.86 km	5
Total				16.36 km	13

External links

• Official site
• Gelio. Stepanov Slava subway photos
• Andrey Pozdnyakov's website
• Urbanrail.net information