Novosibirsk Metro
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Novosibirsk Metro is a metro system in Novosibirsk, Russia.
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[edit] History and facts
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. Work quickly expanded to meet the original plans for a 62 kilometre 4 line network. However the financial difficulties of the early 1990s meant that most of the work had to be frozen, and only recently have they resumed.
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The system contains 12 stations on two lines. 80 carriages form 20 four-carriage trains which carry over 250000 passengers daily. The stations are vividly decorated in late-Soviet style. Currently of the 12 stations (11 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 river Ob.
[edit] The Lines of the Metro
| # | Name | Opened | Newest station added | Length | Stations |
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| 1 | Leninskaya (Ленинская) | 1986 | 1992 | 10.5 km | 8 |
| 2 | Dzerzhinskaya (Дзержинская) | 1987 | 2005 | 3.8 km | 4 |
| Total: | 14.3km | 12 |
[edit] External links
| Rapid transit in the former Soviet Union |
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| Metros: Moscow • Saint Petersburg • Kiev • Tbilisi • Baku • Kharkiv • Tashkent • Yerevan • Minsk • Nizhny Novgorod • Novosibirsk • Samara • Yekaterinburg • Dnipropetrovsk • Kazan Metrotrams:Volgograd • Kryvyi Rih Cave railroad: New Athos Under construction: Almaty • Omsk • Chelyabinsk • Krasnoyarsk • Donetsk |
