Line 2 (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Line 2 (Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya)
Line 2 (Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya)
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Saint Petersburg Metro
Termini	Parnas; Kupchino;
Stations	18
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Saint Petersburg Metro
History
Opened	1961
Technical
Line length	30.1 km (18.7 mi)
Track gauge	1,524 mm (5 ft)
Route map
Route map
	Legend

Line 2 of the Saint Petersburg Metro, also known as Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line (Russian: Моско́вско-Петрогра́дская ли́ния) or Blue Line, is a second oldest rapid transit line in Saint Petersburg, Russia, opened in 1961, which connects city centre with the northern and southern districts. It featured the first cross-platform transfer in the USSR. It was also the first metro line in Saint Petersburg to feature a unique platform type that soon became dubbed as "Horizontal Lift".^[1] The line cuts Saint Petersburg on a north-south axis and is generally coloured blue on Metro maps. In 2006, as an extension was opened, it became the longest line on the system.

Timeline

Segment	Date opened	Length
Tekhnologichesky Institut to Park Pobedy	29 April 1961	5.5 km
Tekhnologichesky Institut to Petrogradskaya	1 July 1963	6.0 km
Park Pobedy to Moskovskaya	25 December 1969	1.7 km
Moskovskaya to Kupchino	25 December 1972	4.5 km
Petrogradskaya to Udelnaya	6 November 1982	6.1 km
Udelnaya to Prospekt Prosveshcheniya	19 August 1988	4.1 km
Prospekt Prosveshcheniya to Parnas	22 December 2006	2.2 km
Total:	18 Stations	30.1 km

Name changes

Station	Previous name(s)	Years
Sennaya Ploshchad	Ploshchad Mira	1963–1991

Transfers

Transfer to	At
	Tekhnologichesky Institut
	Nevskiy Prospekt
	Sennaya Ploshchad
	Sennaya Ploshchad

The Tekhnologichesky Institut transfer is a cross-platform one.

Rolling stock

The line is served by the Moskovskoe (№ 3) depot, and has 56 six-carriage trains assigned to it. Most of these are of type 81-717/81-714, but some are the .5 standard, built in the 1970s through the 1990s. There are also newer 81-540.1/541.1 and .9 trains running since 2000.

Recent developments and future plans

The line is complete as such, and the recent extension to Parnas means that in the long future no future extensions will be built. However it is very likely that some of the central stations will be receiving much needed repairs internally and externally.