Lines
The colours in the table below correspond with the colours of the lines in the map above:
| Index & colour |
Name transliterated into Latin script | Name in Cyrillic script | First opened | Latest extension |
Length | Stations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Sokolnicheskaya | Сокольническая | 1935 | 1990 | 26.1 km | 19 |
| 02 | Zamoskvoretskaya | Замоскворецкая | 1938 | 1985 | 36.9 km | 20 |
| 03 | Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya | Арбатско-Покровская | 1938 | 2009 | 43.5 km | 21 |
| 04 | Filyovskaya | Филёвская | 19581 | 2006 | 14.9 km | 13 |
| 05 | Koltsevaya | Кольцевая ("Circle") | 1950 | 1954 | 19.3 km | 12 |
| 06 | Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya | Калужско-Рижская | 1958 | 1990 | 37.6 km | 24 |
| 07 | Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya | Таганско-Краснопресненская | 1966 | 1975 | 35.9 km | 19 |
| 08 | Kalininskaya | Калининская | 1979 | 2012 | 16.3 km | 8 |
| 09 | Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya | Серпуховско-Тимирязевская | 1983 | 2002 | 41.2 km | 25 |
| 10 | Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya | Люблинско-Дмитровская | 1995 | 2011 | 28.2 km | 17 |
| 11 | Kakhovskaya | Каховская | 19952 | 3.3 km | 3 | |
| 123 | Butovskaya | Бутовская | 2003 | 5.5 km | 5 | |
| Total: | 308.9 km | 186 | ||||
- Notes
1 – Four central stations of the Filyovskaya Line – Alexandrovsky Sad (formerly Imeni Kominterna), Arbatskaya, Smolenskaya and Kiyevskaya – were originally opened in 1935–1937, when they were a branch of the Sokolnicheskaya Line. Between 1938 and 1953, they were part of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. The stations were closed between 1953 and 1958 and then reopened as part of the (new) Filyovskaya Line.
A line branching off the Filyovskaya is in operation (as of July 2009), starting from the Alexsandrovsky Sad Station and continuing on the Filyovskaya Line to Kiyevskaya Station, where it departs to stop at the (new) Vystavochnaya and Mezhdunarodnaya Stations.
2 – All three stations of the Kakhovskaya Line were built in 1969. They were an integral part of the Zamoskovoretskaya Line until 1983, becoming a branch of that line until 1995. In 1995, they were split off from the Zamoskovoretskaya Line to form the Kakhovskaya Line.
3 – The "L" in "L1" does not stand for "Light rail" but (somewhat confusingly) for "Light Metro"—lines which are mainly elevated, with shorter platforms. These lines, as a result, do not need expensive tunnelling and are supposed to be financially "light". However, "light" and "normal" metro lines use the same rolling stock. See Butovskaya Light Metro Line for further explanation.
The Moscow Monorail is a 4.7 km, six-station monorail line between Timiryazevskaya and VDNKh which opened in January 2008. Prior to the official opening, the monorail had operated in "excursion mode" since 2004. Trains departed every 20 minutes between 8:00 and 20:05, and tickets cost four times the normal price (50 rubles, ~$2.10). Since 2008, train intervals have been shortened and the price is equal to the Metro ticket price.
Read more about this topic: Moscow Metro
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