Peter's metro scheme and prospects for its development

The first plans for the construction of the metro in the capital of the Russian Empire existed at the end of the nineteenth century. They were not abstract. Leading Russian engineers worked on the development of the first underground urban railroad in the country. Gradually the future metro scheme of Peter appeared. But the embodiment of it in reality prevented the First World War and everything that followed it.

The Leningrad Underground

In 1918 the city on the Neva lost its capital status. Consequently, the subway in it could appear only after it was built in Moscow. Nevertheless? Its creation began in the late thirties and was interrupted by the Great Patriotic War.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that Peter's current metro scheme actually appeared in 1955. Of course, it was only the very first of its relatively small piece. But it was in the autumn of 1955 that the first passengers drove through the starting section of the Kirov-Vyborg line.

The construction of the Leningrad subway system was very difficult. The area on which the city is located has a very complex geological structure. Builders had to overcome areas with complex terrain and many water obstacles. But it is impossible not to mention the level of engineering solutions - the metro scheme of Peter is quite rational. It managed to avoid some significant mistakes made in the design of the Moscow subway.

Peter Districts with a metro map

The fundamental difference between the Leningrad metro and the Moscow metro was the abandonment of the radial-ring system. This most important decision was made at the design stage. The scheme of Peter's metro is arranged in such a way that all its lines connect densely populated areas of the outskirts with the historical center of the city. Each of them has intersections and interchange stations with the rest. And this provides an opportunity to get from one district of St. Petersburg to any other with a single transplant or without it at all.

The lines of the St. Petersburg metro have a fairly large length and connect through the center areas located on opposite ends of the city. Thus, one way connects the Kirov and Vyborg districts of St. Petersburg, and the other - the historical Moscow and Petrograd sides.

Development prospects

The already developed and continuing system of the St. Petersburg metro reliably provides communication with all areas of the city. It already went beyond its administrative borders in the direction of the Leningrad region. Today in St. Petersburg, 67 metro stations located on five lines. There are 7 interchange nodes.

Existing plans for the development of the metro system foresee for the period until 2025 the appearance in the city of more than thirty new stations. They will be located both on the continuations of already existing lines, and on the new Krasnoselsko-Kalinskaya. But the further construction of the St. Petersburg metro is greatly complicated by circumstances of a financial and economic nature.

From the station to the station

The scheme of Peter's metro station with the stations is interesting first of all to those who follow the railway with a transfer. All five railway stations of the city have a link to the metro. The Moscow railway station is located near the stations "Ploshchad Vosstaniya" and "Mayakovskaya", the Baltic - at the station "Baltiyskaya", Finlyandsky - near the station "Ploshchad Lenina", Vitebsky - near "Pushkinskaya" and "Zvenigorodskaya". And not so long ago built Ladoga station is located at the station "Ladozhskaya".