Everything about The Sokolnicheskaya Line totally explained
The
Sokolnicheskaya Line, formerly
Kirovsko-Frunzenskaya (Кировско-Фрунзенская), is the first line of the
Moscow Metro, dating back to
1935 when the system opened. Presently the line has 19 stations with a total of of track. It carries a daily load of 1.7 million passengers.
History
As the line was the first formal one in the system, its history of development coincides with the history of the Moscow Metro's first stage altogether. In short it was to cut Moscow on a northweast-southwest axis beginning at the
Sokolniki Park and continuing through the
Three railway terminals and then past the city centre's main traffic junctions:
Red gate junction,
Kirovskaya, the
Lubyanka and the
Manege Squares. From there, a separate branch carried off into the
Arbat and later
Kiyevsky Rail Terminal, before it separated in
1938 into the separate
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line and later into the
Filyovskaya Line (
1958). The remaining part of the Frunzenskaya Branch went along the Kremlin's western wall past the
Russian State Library and into the future site of the
Palace of Soviets on the bank of the
Moskva River and terminated near the infamous
Gorky Park.
Although Moscow Metro prides itself on the best
Stalinist Architecture and the earlier
art deco attempts, the stations of the first stage are very far from those. The stations of the first stage instead have a very classical taste to them, which blends nicely with the atmosphere of the mid-1930s
neo-classical taste. It is also true that the overall construction of these early stations allowed the palaces of 1940s and 1950s to evolve from these. Most of them are now officially listed as architectural heritage.
Further development was seen in the latter half of the 1950s during the construction of the Frunzensky radius. The line extended into the
Khamovniki District in
1957 coming up to
Luzhniki Stadium and then in
1959 reached the
Moscow State University on the
Sparrow Hills. This required crossing the Moskva river on a combined auto and Metro bridge including a station on it. However due to the rushing of construction in
1984, the station was closed until
2002. The Frunzensky radius was completed in
1964 upon the last extension into the new bedroom raions along the Vernadsky avenue of the south-western Moscow.
On the opposite end, there was two extensions, one in
1965 across the
Yauza River (also on an open bridge) and a further one in
1990 into
Bogorodskoye.
Timeline
Name changes
Transfers
Rolling stock
Two depots are assigned to the line, the Severnoye (No.1) and the Cherkizovo (No.13). Starting in
1997 both depots have been upgrading to the new 81-717.5M/714.5M trains (all factory fresh). Cherkizovo currently operates 22 seven-carriage trains of the type. Severonoe's upgrade was slower and presently 33 of its 36 seven-carriage trains are the new models, the rest being the old Ezh, Ezh1 and the Em-508 and Em-509.
Recent developments and future plans
Presently the line has the oldest structures in operation, and thus several renovations have been carried out systematically. Recent changes include a second entrance to Kropotkinskaya in
1998. Major lighting enhancements to Okhotny Ryad and Kropotkinskaya.
Extensions are planned at both ends of the line. In the south, one station, Troparyovo, is planned. Further extensions in the north are hampered by the position of Ulitsa Podbelskogo and Cherkizovskaya, which were built so they could become of a projected second ring line which has been in planning since the
1960s. As a result the Cherkizovskaya's tunnels have provisions for a second perpendicular station, that would allow the line to continue eastwards to the district of Golyanovo and meet the
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line at
Shchyolkovskaya. At present, however, both extensions are quite distant, as Moscow Metro has much more important projects to realise prior to that.
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