Line 5 of Saint Petersburg Metro

Saint Petersburg Metro

The Saint Petersburg Metro is the underground railway system in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast, Russia. It has been open since November 15, 1955.Formerly known as the V.I...

, also known as Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line, connects the city's historical centre to the northwestern and southern neighborhoods. The line is being extended from both ends as of this writing.

The line originally opened in December 2008. It contained only two stations until March 7, 2009, when the Line 4 (Pravoberezhnaya Line) segment between Komendantsky Prospekt

Komendantsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Komendantsky Prospekt is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on April 2, 2005....

 to Sadovaya

Sadovaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Sadovaya is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on December 30, 1991....

 stations became a part of new line.

The line currently has trains of 81-540/541 and the .2 and .5 modifications running since the opening.

History of construction

The line that is currently known as Line 5 first appeared in expansion plans back in the 1980s. The construction began in 1987, but the collapse of the Soviet Union and the resultant financial crash forced the city to freeze the construction of the Frunzenskiy radius (the section south of Sadovaya

Sadovaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Sadovaya is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on December 30, 1991....

). As for the Primorsky radius (the section north of Sadovaya), the city officials decided to continue building and incorporated in what was then known as Pravoberezhnaya Line (the current-day Line 4) until the construction of Frunzensky radius could be resumed. That is why Primorsky radius remained a part of Line 4 for the ten years.

Chronology

Segment	Launch date	Length	Number of stations
Sadovaya Sadovaya (Saint Petersburg Metro) Sadovaya is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on December 30, 1991....   as a part of line 4	30 December 1991	—	1
Sadovaya Sadovaya (Saint Petersburg Metro) Sadovaya is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on December 30, 1991....  - Chkalovskaya Chkalovskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro) Chkalovskaya is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. The station was designed by Alexander Konstantinov, Alexander Bystrov and Andrey Larionov. It opened on September 15, 1997 as a Pravoberezhnaya Line station, but it was transferred to Frunzensko-Primorskaya...  (without Admiralteyskaya Admiralteyskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro) Admiralteyskaya is an unfinished station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It was designed to relieve congestion at the Nevsky Prospekt and Gostiny Dvor stations, as well as to provide a more direct link to the Hermitage and other notable museums... ) as a part of line 4	15 September 1997	4.7 km (2.9 mi)	2
Chkalovskaya Chkalovskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro) Chkalovskaya is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. The station was designed by Alexander Konstantinov, Alexander Bystrov and Andrey Larionov. It opened on September 15, 1997 as a Pravoberezhnaya Line station, but it was transferred to Frunzensko-Primorskaya...  - Staraya Derevnya Staraya Derevnya (Saint Petersburg Metro) Staraya Derevnya is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on January 14, 1999....  (without Krestovsky Ostrov Krestovsky Ostrov (Saint Petersburg Metro) Krestovsky Ostrov is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on September 3, 1999....  station) as a part of line 4	14 January 1999	4.1 km (2.5 mi)	1
Krestovsky Ostrov Krestovsky Ostrov (Saint Petersburg Metro) Krestovsky Ostrov is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on September 3, 1999....   as a part of Line 4	3 September 1999	—	1
Staraya Derevnya Staraya Derevnya (Saint Petersburg Metro) Staraya Derevnya is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on January 14, 1999....  - Komendantsky Prospekt Komendantsky Prospekt (Saint Petersburg Metro) Komendantsky Prospekt is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on April 2, 2005....   as a part of line 4	2 April 2005	2.7 km (1.7 mi)	1
Zvenigorodskaya - Volkovskaya Volkovskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro) Volkovskaya is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. The station opened on December 20, 2008 as the terminus of the newly opened Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line between Zvenigorodskaya and Volkovskaya, which at that time had only two stations...  (without Obvodny Kanal Obvodny Kanal (Saint Petersburg Metro) Obvodny Kanal is the newest station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. The station opened on December 30, 2010 between the already completed Volkovskaya and Zvenigorodskaya stations....  station)	20 December 2008	3.2 km (2 mi)	2
Sadovaya - Zvenigorodskaya, Primortsky and Frunsensky radiuses are joined together.	7 March 2009	1.1 km (0.683510010314787 mi)	-
Obvodny Kanal Obvodny Kanal (Saint Petersburg Metro) Obvodny Kanal is the newest station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. The station opened on December 30, 2010 between the already completed Volkovskaya and Zvenigorodskaya stations....	30 December 2010	—	1
	Total:	15.1 km (9.4 mi)	9

Future projects

In early 2011, Admiralteyskaya

Admiralteyskaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Admiralteyskaya is an unfinished station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of the Saint Petersburg Metro. It was designed to relieve congestion at the Nevsky Prospekt and Gostiny Dvor stations, as well as to provide a more direct link to the Hermitage and other notable museums...

 station will open on Line 5. At this point, the stations are partially completed, and the trains bypass them in most instances (save for the few runs that drop off and pick up construction workers). In 2012 (as it was declared in 2010) two further stations are planned: Bukharestskaya and Mezhdunarodnaya. Prospekt Slavy station will not be completed in 2012 and according to the current designs, it will be a shallow-level station. Afterwords three more stations are planned. Dunayskaya, Balkanskaya and Yuzhnaya may be open in future, followed by a depot. According to the most recent plans, the last three stations will be either be shallow-level or above ground.

On the northern end of the line, two stations are planned: Dolgoozernaya and Kolomyazhskaya. They will be followed by another new depot. Once completed, the line will have 18 stations, and will to be in excess of 25 kilometres (15.5 mi) long.

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