Pravoberezhnaya Line , is a line of the 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...

. Opened in 1985, it is the shortest line in the system with the stations featuring a modern design. Since 1994, it has been officially designated "Line 4," but the original name is still often used in informal context.

The line originally opened to provide access from the centre for the new residential areas in the eastern part of city, along the right bank of the Neva River

Neva River

The Neva is a river in northwestern Russia flowing from Lake Ladoga through the western part of Leningrad Oblast to the Neva Bay of the Gulf of Finland. Despite its modest length , it is the third largest river in Europe in terms of average discharge .The Neva is the only river flowing from Lake...

. However, delays in the construction of the future Fruzenskaya-Primorskaya Line (Line 5), compelled the metro officials to temporarily link the already completed northern part of the Line 5 (starting from Sadovaya

Sadovaya (Saint Petersburg Metro)

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

) to Pravoberezhnaya Line, as they felt that it was better to have a single connected line rather than two unconnected ones. From that point on, the line expanded northward, as per original plans of Line 5 expansion.

On March 7, 2009, Spasskaya station was completed, creating the city's first three-way transfer and it officially became the new terminal for Line 4. As per the original plan, all Line 4 stations north of Dostoyevskaya were absorbed into the recently opened Kupchinsko-Primorskaya Line

Kupchinsko-Primorskaya Line

Line 5 of Saint Petersburg Metro, 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....

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Timeline

Segment	Date opened
Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo-Prospekt Bolshevikov	December 30, 1985	5.2 km
Prospekt Bolshevikov-Ulitsa Dybenko	November 1, 1987	1.7 km
Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo-Sadovaya Sadovaya (Saint Petersburg Metro) Sadovaya is a station on the Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line of Saint Petersburg Metro, opened on December 30, 1991....	December 30, 1991	4.2 km
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...	September 15, 1997	4.4 km
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	January 15, 1999	4.1 km
Krestovsky Ostrov	September 3, 1999	N/A
Staraya Derevnya-Komendantsky Prospekt	April 2, 2005	2.3 km
Spasskaya Spasskaya «Spasskaya» , — the current western terminus station of Pravoberejnaya line of Saint Petersburg Metro. It is part of the first three-way transfer station that also includes "Sadovaya" and "Sennaya Ploshchad" stations. The station was originally scheduled to open in December 2008, but it wound up...	March 7, 2009	-10.8 km
Total:	8 Stations	11.1 km

Name changes

Station	Previous name(s)	Years
Novocherkasskaya	Krasnogvardeiskaya	1985–1991

Transfers

#	Transfer to	At
1	Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line is the oldest line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, opened in 1955. The original stations are very beautiful and elaborately decorated, especially Avtovo and Narvskaya. The line connects four out of five Saint Petersburg's main railway stations...	Dostoevskaya
2	Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line The Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya Line , is the second oldest line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, opened in 1961. It featured the first cross-platform transfer in the USSR...	Spasskaya Spasskaya «Spasskaya» , — the current western terminus station of Pravoberejnaya line of Saint Petersburg Metro. It is part of the first three-way transfer station that also includes "Sadovaya" and "Sennaya Ploshchad" stations. The station was originally scheduled to open in December 2008, but it wound up...
3	Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line The Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line , is a line of the Saint Petersburg Metro, opened in 1967. Since 1994, it has been officially designated as Line 3. It stands out among St. Petersburg metro lines for two reasons — its stations are almost exclusively of "Horizontal Lift" type and it has the...	Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo
5	Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line	Spasskaya Spasskaya «Spasskaya» , — the current western terminus station of Pravoberejnaya line of Saint Petersburg Metro. It is part of the first three-way transfer station that also includes "Sadovaya" and "Sennaya Ploshchad" stations. The station was originally scheduled to open in December 2008, but it wound up...

Rolling stock

The line is served by the Vyborgskoe (№ 6) depot, and has 42 six-carriage trains assigned to it. Some of them are 81-717/714 trains from the 1980s, while others are the 81-540.2/541.2, .5, and .8 modifications from the 2000s.

Recent developments and future plans

The first station of the western extension, the Teatralnaya station, is scheduled to open by 2014. The line will also get a new southern terminus as the Narodnaya station will be completed after almost two decades of delays. It is scheduled to open in 2011.