The deepest metro station in St. Petersburg, the metro scheme, the history of construction

The way of movement under the ground on largedepths was originally designed in St. Petersburg, so that it was possible to use these buildings as bomb shelters in the event of war. As expected, this measure was justified during the Great Patriotic War.

The deepest metro station was inSt. Petersburg is not accidental. This is the role not only of certain strategic calculations, but also of the complex geological conditions in which the tunneling and construction of the stations themselves took place.

There is in this subway station, located very deep - "Admiralteyskaya." Nowhere in the world have such complex technologies been used as in its construction.

The deepest metro station in St. Petersburg opened in December 2011.

The history of the construction of the St. Petersburg metro

The history of the construction of this object is quite tragic.

Prerequisites for the construction of a subway inthe capital of the Russian Empire, which at that time was St. Petersburg, were back in the late 19th century. At that time, projects were created, but Nicholas second in 1903 they were rejected.

Those projects had a special feature - they are all basicallywere overpassed. And the construction of tunnels was hampered by the lack of financial and technical resources in difficult geological conditions (the level of groundwater is too high).

Later in connection with social cataclysms aboutthe construction of the subway in St. Petersburg was forgotten for several decades. They remembered this in 1938, at a time when the already strong Soviet Union had the strength to implement this serious plan.

In 1941, by the spring of metro construction were already34 shafts were built. However, even here the war that started began to be an obstacle, did not allow the construction to continue. As a result, all the constructed trunks and tunnels were under water (they were flooded with groundwater). It was not until 1946 that all this was restored. Much time has passed since before the deepest station appeared in the St. Petersburg metro.

The first stations

The very first long-awaited turn of the Leningrad famous metro was commissioned after a long construction in November 1955. It at that time consisted of only seven stations:

"Narva";
"Ploshchad Vosstaniya";
"Kirov Plant";
"Avtovo";
"Institute of Technology";
"Baltic";
"Vladimirskaya".

Metro of St. Petersburg: metro scheme, description

Like Russian railways, St. Petersburgthe metro has the same track width - 1520 mm. In the metro there are 6 interchange stations, which connect two stations, and one node that unites three stations. In total 856 turnstiles, escalators - 251 and 72 vestibules.

The composition includes 1534 cars. In a day on all lines of the subway passes 3106 trains. The speed of the train is 50 km / h. The maximum is 90 km / hour. The interval between trains is 2 minutes, and during peak periods - 1 minute.

Today the number one of the largest in the world includes the famous metro of St. Petersburg (the metro scheme is presented below).

Curious about the Petersburg metro

Petersburg is one of the deepest in the world. Most of its stations are located at a depth of more than 30 m.

The Metropolitan until 1982 occupied the first position as the most northerly in the world. Now the northernmost metro is in the city of Helsinki.

The deepest metro station in St. Petersburg and in Russia is Admiralteyskaya. And in the world the deepest is "Arsenalnaya" (in Kiev).

What is the deepest metro station in St. Petersburg?

The busiest station in Russia is the Prospekt Veteranov.

Line Kirov-Vyborg (or "red") - has trains with 8 cars. The rest lines consist of 6 cars.

The metro level is slightly inferior to Moscow and Tokyo and takes 12th place.

The deepest metro station in St. Petersburg: location, description

The station is decorated with beautiful mosaic panels. His subjects are devoted to the formation of the Russian fleet during the reign of Peter I.

Metro St. Petersburg, the deepest station

The entrance hall of the station "Admiralteyskaya" is located in a house located at the crossroads of the alley Kirpichnogo and Malaya Maritime Street in the heart of the city.

And the depth of location is what? The deepest metro station in St. Petersburg is at a depth of 102 meters. Passenger flow of the station is more than 30 thousand people both at the entrance and exit.