Novosibirsk Metro

{{Short description|Rapid transit system in Novosibirsk, Russia}}

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|native_name = {{lang|ru|Новосибирский метрополитен}},
{{lang|ru-Latn|Novosibirskiy metropoliten}}

|owner =

|locale = Novosibirsk, Russia

|transit_type = Rapid transit

|lines = 2

|stations = 13

|ridership = 206,000 (daily avg., 2021){{cite web|title=О метрополитене. Факты и цифры|language=ru|website=nsk-metro.ru|url=https://www.nsk-metro.ru/index.php/about|access-date=26 February 2022}}

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|began_operation = 7 January 1986

|vehicles = 26

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Novosibirsk Metro is a rapid transit system that serves Novosibirsk, Russia. The system consists of {{convert|15.9|km|mi}} over track on two lines with 13 stations.{{cite web |url=http://www.nsk-metro.ru/index.php?event=menu&pname=MetroRussia |script-title=ru:МЕТРОПОЛИТЕНЫ РОССИИ за 2012 год |language=ru |trans-title=METROS of Russia in 2012|website=Новосибирский метрополитен |publisher=Novosibirsk metro |year=2012 |access-date=2013-09-03}} It opened in January 1986, becoming the eleventh Metro in the USSR and the ninth in the Russian SFSR. According to 2017 statistics, it is the third-busiest system in Russia behind Moscow and Saint Petersburg.{{cite news |url=https://m.vn.ru/news-dostoprimechatelnosti-novosibirska-metro/ |script-title=ru:Достопримечательности Новосибирска: метро |language=ru |publisher=VN.ru |date=2017-08-28}}

History

Plans for a rapid transit system began to be formed in 1962. Construction project was approved by the Council of Ministers in November 1978, and on 12 May 1979 the first construction works began.{{cite web|title=О метрополитене. История|language=ru|website=nsk-metro.ru|url=https://www.nsk-metro.ru/index.php/history|access-date=26 February 2022}}

With wide experience in metro construction from the other metros of the USSR, it took seven-and-a-half years to complete the work on the five-station launch stage of the system. The commissioning certificate was signed by the state commission on 28 December 1985,{{cite book|title=История города. Новониколаевск-Новосибирск. Исторические очерки.|trans-title=History of the city. Novonikolayevsk-Novosibirsk. Historical essays.|editor-last=Kosenkov|editor-first=Aleksander|language=ru|location=Novosibirsk|publisher=Publishing House "Historical heritage of Siberia"|date=2006|volume=2|page=204|isbn=9785940202349}} and the Metro was opened for passengers on 7 January 1986, becoming the eleventh Metro in the USSR and the ninth in the Russian SFSR. Work quickly expanded to meet the original plans for a four-line 62 km network. However, the financial difficulties of the early 1990s meant that most of the work had to be frozen. Construction of new stations and tunnels resumed in the 2000s. After the opening of the 13th station, a further development was suspended again due to financing gap.

Overview

The system contains 13 stations on two lines. The stations are vividly decorated in late-Soviet style. Of the 13 stations, seven are three-span shallow column stations ({{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Studencheskaya}}, {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Oktyabrskaya}}, {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Krasny Prospekt}}, {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Gagarinskaya}}, {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Ploshchad Garina-Mikhaylovskogo}}, {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Sibirskaya}}, {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Marshala Pokryshkina}}), one is two-span shallow column station ({{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Zolotaya Niva}}), four are single-vault stations ({{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Ploshchad Lenina}}, {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Ploshchad Marksa}}, {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Zayeltsovskaya}}, {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Beryozovaya Roshcha}}). All of these stations have island platform. There is also one station with side platforms ({{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Rechnoy Vokzal}}) that is both above- and below-ground that follows a 2145 m covered bridge span of the Ob, the longest in the world. {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Krasny Prospekt}} and {{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Sibirskaya}} are transfer stations connected to each other by dual pedestrian tunnel.

The Novosibirsk Metro transports about 206,000 passengers daily.{{cite web|title=О метрополитене. Факты и цифры|language=ru|website=nsk-metro.ru|url=https://www.nsk-metro.ru/index.php/about|access-date=26 February 2022}}

Lines

class="wikitable"
style="width:2em; text-align:center;" \| # ! style="width:15em; text-align:left;" \| Name ! style="width:5em; text-align:center;" \| Opened ! style="width:10em; text-align:center;" \| Newest station added ! style="width:5em; text-align:center;" \| Length ! style="width:5em; text-align:center;" \| Stations
style="background: #{{rcr\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Leninskaya}}; color: white; text-align: center;" \| 1 \| style="text-align: left;" \| Leninskaya {{lang\|ru\|Ленинская}} Lenin Line \| style="text-align: center;" \| 1986 \| style="text-align: center;" \| 1992 \| style="text-align: right;" \| 10.5 km \| style="text-align: center;" \| 8
style="background: #{{rcr\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Dzerzhinskaya}}; color: white; text-align: center;" \| 2 \| style="text-align: left;"\|Dzerzhinskaya {{lang\|ru\|Дзержинская}} Dzerzhinsky Line \| style="text-align: center;" \| 1987 \| style="text-align: center;" \| 2010 \| style="text-align: right;" \| 5.5 km \| style="text-align: center;" \| 5
style="background:#F2F2F2;" \| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" \| Total \| style="text-align: right;" \| 16 km \| style="text-align: center;" \| 13

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style="width:2em; text-align:center;" | #

! style="width:15em; text-align:left;" | Name

! style="width:5em; text-align:center;" | Opened

! style="width:10em; text-align:center;" | Newest station added

! style="width:5em; text-align:center;" | Length

! style="width:5em; text-align:center;" | Stations

style="background: #{{rcr|Novosibirsk Metro|Leninskaya}}; color: white; text-align: center;" | 1

| style="text-align: left;" | Leninskaya
{{lang|ru|Ленинская}}
Lenin Line

| style="text-align: center;" | 1986

| style="text-align: center;" | 1992

| style="text-align: right;" | 10.5 km

| style="text-align: center;" | 8

style="background: #{{rcr|Novosibirsk Metro|Dzerzhinskaya}}; color: white; text-align: center;" | 2

| style="text-align: left;"|Dzerzhinskaya
{{lang|ru|Дзержинская}}
Dzerzhinsky Line

| style="text-align: center;" | 1987

| style="text-align: center;" | 2010

| style="text-align: right;" | 5.5 km

| style="text-align: center;" | 5

style="background:#F2F2F2;"

| colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | Total

| style="text-align: right;" | 16 km

| style="text-align: center;" | 13

Stations

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Line ! English transcription ! Original Russian name and translation into English ! class="unsortable" \| Transfer ! Opened{{cite web \|last1=Schwandl \|first1=Robert \|title=Novosibirsk \|url=https://www.urbanrail.net/eu/ru/novosib/novosibirsk.htm \|publisher=urbanrail}}
Leninskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Zayeltsovskaya}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Заельцовская}} Station "Beyond the Yeltsovka River" \| \|2 April 1992
Leninskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Gagarinskaya}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Гагаринская}} Gagarin Station \| \|2 April 1992
Leninskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Krasny Prospekt}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Красный Проспект}} Red Avenue Station \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Sibirskaya}} {{lang\|ru\|Сибирская}} Siberian Station \|7 January 1986
Leninskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Ploshchad Lenina}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Площадь Ленина}} Lenin Square Station \| \|7 January 1986
Leninskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Oktyabrskaya}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Октябрьская}} October Station \| \|7 January 1986
Leninskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Rechnoy Vokzal}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Речной Вокзал}} River Passenger Terminal Station \| \|7 January 1986
Leninskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Sportivnaya}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Спортивная}} Sport Station \| \|planned in Late 2025
Leninskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Studencheskaya}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Студенческая}} Student Station \| \|7 January 1986
Leninskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Ploshchad Marksa}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Площадь Маркса}} Karl Marx Square Station \| \|26 July 1991
Dzerzhinskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Ploshchad Garina-Mikhaylovskogo}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Площадь Гарина-Михайловского}} Garin-Mikhailovsky Square Station \| \|31 December 1987
Dzerzhinskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Sibirskaya}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Сибирская}} Siberian Station \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Krasny Prospekt}} {{lang\|ru\|Красный Проспект}} Red Avenue Station \|31 December 1987
Dzerzhinskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Marshala Pokryshkina}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Маршала Покрышкина}} Marshal Pokryshkin Station \| \|28 December 2000
Dzerzhinskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Beryozovaya Roshcha}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Берёзовая Роща}} Birch Grove Station \| \|25 June 2005
Dzerzhinskaya Line \|{{stl\|Novosibirsk Metro\|Zolotaya Niva}} \|{{lang\|ru\|Золотая Нива}} Golden Grainfield Station \| \|7 October 2010

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Line

! English transcription

! Original Russian name
and
translation into English

! class="unsortable" | Transfer

! Opened{{cite web |last1=Schwandl |first1=Robert |title=Novosibirsk |url=https://www.urbanrail.net/eu/ru/novosib/novosibirsk.htm |publisher=urbanrail}}

Leninskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Zayeltsovskaya}}

|{{lang|ru|Заельцовская}}
Station "Beyond the Yeltsovka River"

|2 April 1992

Leninskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Gagarinskaya}}

|{{lang|ru|Гагаринская}}
Gagarin Station

|2 April 1992

Leninskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Krasny Prospekt}}

|{{lang|ru|Красный Проспект}}
Red Avenue Station

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Sibirskaya}}
{{lang|ru|Сибирская}}
Siberian Station

|7 January 1986

Leninskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Ploshchad Lenina}}

|{{lang|ru|Площадь Ленина}}
Lenin Square Station

|7 January 1986

Leninskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Oktyabrskaya}}

|{{lang|ru|Октябрьская}}
October Station

|7 January 1986

Leninskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Rechnoy Vokzal}}

|{{lang|ru|Речной Вокзал}}
River Passenger Terminal Station

|7 January 1986

Leninskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Sportivnaya}}

|{{lang|ru|Спортивная}}
Sport Station

|planned in Late 2025

Leninskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Studencheskaya}}

|{{lang|ru|Студенческая}}
Student Station

|7 January 1986

Leninskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Ploshchad Marksa}}

|{{lang|ru|Площадь Маркса}}
Karl Marx Square Station

|26 July 1991

Dzerzhinskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Ploshchad Garina-Mikhaylovskogo}}

|{{lang|ru|Площадь Гарина-Михайловского}}
Garin-Mikhailovsky Square Station

|31 December 1987

Dzerzhinskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Sibirskaya}}

|{{lang|ru|Сибирская}}
Siberian Station

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Krasny Prospekt}}
{{lang|ru|Красный Проспект}}
Red Avenue Station

|31 December 1987

Dzerzhinskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Marshala Pokryshkina}}

|{{lang|ru|Маршала Покрышкина}}
Marshal Pokryshkin Station

|28 December 2000

Dzerzhinskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Beryozovaya Roshcha}}

|{{lang|ru|Берёзовая Роща}}
Birch Grove Station

|25 June 2005

Dzerzhinskaya Line

|{{stl|Novosibirsk Metro|Zolotaya Niva}}

|{{lang|ru|Золотая Нива}}
Golden Grainfield Station

|7 October 2010

Network Map

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Rolling stock

The Novosibirsk Metro's rolling stock is represented by such models of metro railroad cars as Soviet 81-717/81-714 and Russian 81-540.2/541.2. Novosibirsk Metro uses 4-carriage electric trains.

As for 2022, the total number of trains is 26 (104 cars).{{cite web|title=О метрополитене. Факты и цифры|language=ru|website=nsk-metro.ru|url=https://www.nsk-metro.ru/index.php/about|access-date=26 February 2022}}

Gallery

File:Novosibirsk Metro Bridge 07-2016.jpg|Novosibirsk Metro Bridge over the Ob

File:Novosibirsk Metro PMarksa station 07-2016.jpg|Ploshchad Marksa Station

File:Novosibirsk Metro Oktyabrskaya station 07-2016.jpg|Oktyabrskaya Station

File:Novosibirsk Metro Zaeltsovskaya station 07-2016.jpg|Zayeltsovskaya Station

File:Beryozovaya Roshcha Station (Novosibirsk Metro) 1.jpg|Beryozovaya Roshcha Station

References

External links

[https://mirmetro.net/en/novosibirsk/ Novosibirsk metro in Mir metro/Metroworld website] {{in lang|en|ru}}
[https://www.urbanrail.net/eu/ru/novosib/novosibirsk.htm Urbanrail.net information]

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