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

The way of underground movement at great depths was originally designed in Petersburg, so that it was possible to use these structures as bomb shelters in the event of war. As expected, this measure was justified during the Great Patriotic War.

The deepest subway station was not accidentally in St. Petersburg. 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 metro station, located very deep - "Admiralteyskaya." Nowhere in the world have such complicated technologies been used as in its construction.

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

History of the construction of the St. Petersburg metro

The history of the construction of this facility is rather tragic.

The preconditions for the construction of the metro in the 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 feature - all of them were basically 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 about the construction of a subway in St. Petersburg, it 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 spring, metro-construction workers had already built 34 barrels of mines. 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. A lot of time has passed since before the deepest station appeared in the St. Petersburg metro.

The first stations

The very first long-awaited line 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 the Russian railways, the Petersburg Metro has the same track gauge - 1520 mm. In the subway there are 6 interchange nodes, connecting 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, among the largest in the world is the famous metro station 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 Russia is Admiralteyskaya. And in the world the deepest is "Arsenalnaya" (in Kiev). The busiest station in Russia is the Veterans Avenue.

Line Kirov-Vyborg (or "red") - has trains with 8 cars. The remaining 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.

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 depth of an arrangement 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 on the entrance and on the exit.

A total of 60 stations out of 67 are deep in St. Petersburg (22-86 m).

However, there are two stations in the CIS that are even deeper than Admiralteyskaya: the Arsenalnaya and Pecherskaya metro stations of the city of Kiev.