The Moscow metro is one of the most significant in Russia. This is the largest metro in our country - both in the number of stations, and in the length of tracks, and in the number of passengers. Just think, about 9 million people pass here on average daily! Of course, the metro has a lot of records. For example, do you know what is the longest stage in the Moscow metro? What is the deepest station? Which station is the narrowest? These and many other secrets of the subway we will reveal further.
The longest stage in the Moscow metro
What can be said here? Recorded is the length of the Krylatskoye - Strogino stage. It belongs to the Arbat-Pokrovskaya blue line.
“Krylatskoye” - “Strogino” - how many minutes does the train ride on the stage? The composition overcomes it in 7 minutes. Instead of the standard metropolitan period of 2-3 minutes.
What is the distance between the stations "Strogino" and "Krylatskoe"? It is almost 6.5 km! To be precise, then 6 473 meters.
The shortest drive
And now the reverse record. Where is the shortest stage in the Moscow metro? This is the distance between the International and Exhibition stations. The stage between them is only 497 meters on pickets.
Facts about Moscow subway hauls
Let's get acquainted not only with the record holders, but also with other interesting facts about the stretches of the metro:
- The second and third places along the smallest haul lengths are occupied by the following: 515 meters is the Alexander Garden - Arbatskaya, 722 meters are the Red Gate - Chistye Prudy.
- The second and third places along the longest stretches are occupied by the following: 3413 meters is Volgogradsky Prospekt - Tekstilshchiki, 3293 meters are Slavyansky Boulevard - Victory Park.
- The average length of one stage in the metro is 1770 meters.
- Hence the most average following hauls: Tsvetnoy Boulevard - Mendeleevskaya, Belorusskaya - Krasnopresnenskaya, Baumanskaya - Elektrozavodskaya, Salaryevo - Rumyantsevo.
- The shortest hauls are found on the Filevskaya line. Here the average length is 1230 meters.
- The longest spans are famous for the Kalinin line. Here the average length is 2330 meters.
- Compared to the Soviet era, today in the metro of the capital, the hauls between stations are almost twice as long.
The longest station
We already learned what the longest stage in the Moscow metro is. What is the longest station here?
This is the "Sparrow Hills" of the Sokolniki (red) line. The length of this station, along with passage corridors, is 282 meters. It will take you four minutes to go through the entire platform from start to finish.
But this is far from the only station record. It is the first in the world to be built above water. The station is located on the metro bridge across the Moscow River. On one side - the Luzhniki Stadium, on the other the famous high-rise building of Moscow State University, the Vorobyovy Gory Park, an observation deck. By the way, a cableway was recently built near the bridge.
The second record of this unusual station - it is the highest located in the Moscow metro. Located 10 meters above the ground.
It is also one of the two stations used as an exhibition hall (the second is “Exhibition”). Vorobyovy Gory did not work for 19 years due to the reconstruction of the bridge in the period 1983-2002. However, the cessation of operation did not prevent the renaming in 1999 (former name - "Lenin Hills").
The shallowest station
If you constantly ride the subway, you get bored with climbing dozens of escalator steps daily. Or stand on one’s degree, waiting for the mechanism to lower / raise you and other passengers.
But those living near the Pechatniki station (Lublin-Dmitrovskaya, light green branch) will not face such a problem. The station was laid just 5 meters underground. Its roof protrudes several meters above the ground, but during construction it was bombarded with working earth.
The deepest station
We know what is the longest stage in the Moscow metro, which station is located closest to sunlight.
But the antagonist of Pechatnikov is Victory Park (Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya, blue branch). It is the deepest in the capital - it goes 84 meters underground. At the same time, the average depth of the Moscow subway stations is 24 meters.
Narrowest station
There is such a non-standard record. The narrowest station of the Moscow metro is Volgogradsky Prospekt (Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, violet line). The distance between the columns here is only 4 meters.
The most crooked station
We continue to acquaint the reader with the records of the Moscow metro. The next "nomination" is the most crooked station. She is considered the "Alexander Garden" (Filevskaya, blue line). She will be the owner of the most curved bend. The radius of curvature is approximately 750 meters!
This leads to certain features in the operation of the station. So, before sending the train, the attendant every time goes to the middle of the platform and examines the tail area of the train. The driver in the rearview mirror can not see it. The composition moves off only at the command of the duty station.
But this is far from the only Moscow metro station on which trains enter in an arc. Among the "curves" can be identified:
- Zyablikovo.
- "Pyatnitskoe highway".
- "International".
- Kutuzovskaya.
- "Exhibition".
However, the radius of curvature there is significantly inferior to the "Alexander Garden".
The most luxurious station
Yes, there is such a nomination. Although, of course, it is very individual. After all, every Muscovite and a guest of the capital will have their own favorite station, which he considers the most beautiful.
But generally recognized as the most luxurious is considered "Komsomolskaya", relating to the Ring, brown branch of the Moscow metro. Built in the days of the Soviet Union. Neither effort, nor finance, nor time was spared on its construction. The fact is that Komsomolskaya goes to the Square of Three stations - Kazan, Yaroslavl and Leningradsky. Therefore, it serves as a "gateway" for visitors.
To immediately charm the guests of the capital, the station was made simply the apotheosis of the Stalinist empire and gigantomania. The diameter of the tunnel here, for example, is two times larger than the standard (11.5 meters).
Here are the highest ceilings among all the metro stations in the capital. Be sure to look up at them to admire the mosaic panels of smalt and semiprecious stones. The ceilings here support 136 columns!
By the way, Komsomolskaya is a leader by name. It is called 8 metro stations and 1 metrotram station. In Moscow, the train called Komsomolskaya was the first among all the stations. It happened 7 months before the official opening of the subway in the city.
The most changeable station
Another unusual metro nomination in Moscow. The Okhotny Ryad of the Sokolnichesky, red branch is considered the most changeable. This is the very station that will lead you to Red, Manege Square, Okhotny Ryad shopping center, Alexander Garden, Manege.
Why is the most changeable? All because of her name:
- In the first 20 years after the opening, the station was called the same as today - "Okhotny Ryad".
- In 1955, the station was named after Lazar Kaganovich - "The Name of Kaganovich." However, after two years, he fell out of favor with the Soviet authorities, lost his military posts. And the stations returned to their former name - Okhotny Ryad.
- In 1961, a boom in renaming streets and city objects began in Moscow. This movement is not spared and the subway. The Okhotny Ryad began to be named after the nearby avenue (Karl Marx Avenue).
- The historical name Okhotny Ryad was returned in 1990.
Station-unfinished
The “Spartak” station of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, violet branch is considered to be the longest building in the capital. The fact is that it was built for 40 years! The construction period lasted from 1975 to 2015.
What is the reason for this? The station was planned to be opened for residents of the microdistrict, which they were going to build on the site of the Tushino airport. However, the city authorities changed their minds, and the need to build a new station was no longer needed. For the time being, as Moscow continued and continues to expand rapidly.
Busiest station
The metropolitan metro is certainly hard to call uninhabited. So it becomes in the rare morning of weekends or holidays. For example, in the morning hours of January 1. The rest of the time at each station there is a continuous flow of people.
However, Vykhino (Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, violet branch) is considered the busiest here. According to the general data of the Moscow metro service, 170 thousand people daily pass through this station. And this is numerically equal to the population of not the smallest regional city!
By the way, the workload is due to the fact that there are electric train platforms near the station that are being taken to the capital of the Moscow Region residents - to work, from work, on the weekend.
Facts about the Moscow subway stations
We talked about the records. However, we have something else to tell interesting about the metro. How many metro stations are in the Moscow metro? Today - 262! Let's talk about some:
- "Rumyantsevo". It was the shortest final in the history of the capital's subway. This status she had only 29 days (January 18-February 15, 2016). But this was only for passengers. Trains followed to the still unfinished Salaryevo, from which they turned back.
- "Troparevo". This is the first station of the Moscow metro, in the name of which was written the letter "E", not "E". The long-suffering letter to "Troparevo" has in its name another 8 stations open to this one. But there she stubbornly replaced the "E".
- Kropotkinskaya. Since 2010, in the framework of the interesting campaign "Night on the Metro", in May night music concerts have been organized here. This station was not chosen by chance, but because of its remarkable acoustics.
- "Lenin's Library". The transition "Library named after Lenin" - "Alexander Garden" - the very first in the history of the metro. This is one of those stations that avoided renaming, despite the fact that the Lenin library itself was renamed in 1992 to the Russian State Library.
- "Red Gate". Hard to believe, but this is the first station that was equipped with automatic turnstiles! Until 1952, controllers manually tear and compost tickets at the passenger's entrance to the station.
- Sokolniki. From here the first train departed with passengers. It happened on May 15, 1935. And P.N. Latyshev, the master of the Red Proletarian enterprise, became the first passenger of the capital's subway.
The Moscow Metro, as you have seen, is a treasury of records and interesting facts. With the brightest of them we introduced the reader in this article. These are interesting facts and records of not only hauls, but also stations. And their collection will only increase over time.