Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line
Encyclopedia
Serpukhovsko–Timiryazevskaya Line , sometimes colloquially referred to as Grey Line , is a line of the Moscow Metro
. Originally opened in 1983, it was extended throughout the 1980s and early 90s and again in the early 2000s. With its current length of 41.5 km, it is the second longest line in the Moscow Metro (all underground making it the world's 2nd longest rapid transit tunnel). It has 25 stations.
, Kakhovskaya station. Afterwards the line crosses back across northern Chertanovo's main intersection (Balaklavsky avenue and Sevastopolsky Bulvar).
Some of the new technical methods employed in the construction of this section, included passing from deep alignment to shallow in water-carrying soils. A new technique of contour freezing was employed, which then used explosives to bore through the unstable region. The stretch between Serpukhovskaya and Tulskaya was further made difficult due gasoline leaks from an above petrol station over the years sufficiently absorbed by the soil such that the high concentration of fumes caused a fire in the unfinished tunnel, this introduced a new practice of adding additional boreholes in areas of difficult ventilation.
In November 1985 the line had its first extension southwards to Prazhskaya. This station was designed by Czechoslovak engineers and specialists from the Prague Metro
. Simultaneously the station Moskevská was built in Prague
by Soviet engineers.
Beginning in the mid-1980s work began on extending the system northwards through the city centre. This very deep section passed the areas of Yakimanka
and Arbat where the first in Moscow 4 station transfer was set up in 1986. In 1987 this was followed by the station Chekhovskaya located near the Pushkin Square
. In 1988 the final extension through the centre first deviated eastwards to include Tsvetnoy Boulevard
and then crossed the ring at Novoslobodskaya
before continuing northwards to Savyolovsky Rail Terminal.
Afterwards construction of the Timiryazevsky radius followed and in 1991 the major 5 station extension brought the line to the northern districts of Timiryazvesky, Butyrsky, Marfino and Otradnoye itself. In addition the line had interchanges with 3 major railway lines. The unique station Timiryazveskaya is the only one in Moscow built to the Deep single-vault (Leningrad)
design. The Timiryazevsky radius had two more extensions, Biberevo in 1992 and Altufyevo in 1994 making it the northernmost in the system.
On the opposite Serpukhovsky end, in the early 2000s three extensions were built: Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya (2000), Annino (2001) and Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo
(2002). The latter carried the line into Northern Butovo and was the first to cross MKAD
beltway. Today the line is the only one in Moscow for which no extension plans or proposals exist.
opened, the Varshavskoe depot became home to the new three-carriage 81-740/741 "Rusich"
trains, 12 of which are currently being used.
, Savyolovskaya
and Timiryazevskaya stations are planned. However, in terms of extensions, the line is considered to be complete. Although there is some need of connection to the south border parts of Moscow, it was decided that Butovskaya Light Metro Line
will fulfil this need.
Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro is a rapid transit system serving Moscow and the neighbouring town of Krasnogorsk. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union. As of 2011, the Moscow Metro has 182 stations and its route length is . The system is...
. Originally opened in 1983, it was extended throughout the 1980s and early 90s and again in the early 2000s. With its current length of 41.5 km, it is the second longest line in the Moscow Metro (all underground making it the world's 2nd longest rapid transit tunnel). It has 25 stations.
History
The project of a north-south diameter was finalised in the 1971 Moscow General Development Plan, and construction began in the mid 1970s. The first stage, the southern Serpukhovsky radius, was opened in 1983 which brought the Metro to the southern districts of Danilovsky, Nagorny, Ziuzino and Chertanovo. Starting at Serpukhovskaya square the radius follows the Varshavskoye avenue, twice contacts the Moscow-Pavelets Line, afterwards it deviates slightly westwards passing Azovskaya street, where it meets the then terminus of the Gorkovsko-Zamoskvoretskaya LineZamoskvoretskaya Line
Zamoskvoretskaya Line , formerly Gorkovsko-Zamoskvoretskaya , is a line of the Moscow Metro. Opened in 1938, chronologically it became the third line. There are twenty stations on the Zamoskvoretskaya line, and it spans , roughly crossing Moscow in a north-south direction. A normal trip along the...
, Kakhovskaya station. Afterwards the line crosses back across northern Chertanovo's main intersection (Balaklavsky avenue and Sevastopolsky Bulvar).
Some of the new technical methods employed in the construction of this section, included passing from deep alignment to shallow in water-carrying soils. A new technique of contour freezing was employed, which then used explosives to bore through the unstable region. The stretch between Serpukhovskaya and Tulskaya was further made difficult due gasoline leaks from an above petrol station over the years sufficiently absorbed by the soil such that the high concentration of fumes caused a fire in the unfinished tunnel, this introduced a new practice of adding additional boreholes in areas of difficult ventilation.
In November 1985 the line had its first extension southwards to Prazhskaya. This station was designed by Czechoslovak engineers and specialists from the Prague Metro
Prague Metro
The Prague Metro is a subway, underground public transportation network in Prague, Czech Republic. It is the fastest means of transportation around the city and serves about one and a half million passengers a day, which makes it the seventh busiest metro system in Europe and the most-used in the...
. Simultaneously the station Moskevská was built in Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
by Soviet engineers.
Beginning in the mid-1980s work began on extending the system northwards through the city centre. This very deep section passed the areas of Yakimanka
Yakimanka District
Yakimanka District is a district of Central Administrative Okrug of Moscow, Russia. Population: It is named after the former church of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne...
and Arbat where the first in Moscow 4 station transfer was set up in 1986. In 1987 this was followed by the station Chekhovskaya located near the Pushkin Square
Pushkin Square
Pushkinskaya Square or Pushkin Square in Moscow, historically known as Strastnaya Square and renamed for Alexander Pushkin in 1937, is located at the junction of the Boulevard Ring and Tverskaya Street, 2 km northwest of the Kremlin...
. In 1988 the final extension through the centre first deviated eastwards to include Tsvetnoy Boulevard
Tsvetnoy Boulevard
Tsvetnoy Boulevard , called Trubny Boulevard before 1851, is a boulevard in the Meschansky District, central Moscow, Russia. Not a part of the Boulevard Ring, the street runs north/south from Petrovsky Boulevard and Rozhdestvensky Boulevard in the south, to the Garden Ring in the north.The...
and then crossed the ring at Novoslobodskaya
Novoslobodskaya
Novoslobodskaya is a Moscow Metro station in the Tverskoy District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. It is on the Koltsevaya Line, between Belorusskaya and Prospekt Mira stations...
before continuing northwards to Savyolovsky Rail Terminal.
Afterwards construction of the Timiryazevsky radius followed and in 1991 the major 5 station extension brought the line to the northern districts of Timiryazvesky, Butyrsky, Marfino and Otradnoye itself. In addition the line had interchanges with 3 major railway lines. The unique station Timiryazveskaya is the only one in Moscow built to the Deep single-vault (Leningrad)
Single-vault station
The single-vault deep underground station is a type of subway station.The construction of a single-vault station consists of a single wide and high underground hall, in which there is only one vault . The first single-vault stations in the USSR were built in Leningrad in 1975: Politekhnicheskaya...
design. The Timiryazevsky radius had two more extensions, Biberevo in 1992 and Altufyevo in 1994 making it the northernmost in the system.
On the opposite Serpukhovsky end, in the early 2000s three extensions were built: Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya (2000), Annino (2001) and Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo
Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo
Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo is the southern terminus and the newest station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It is the first station of the system built outside of the MKAD beltway encircling most of the city. The station opened on 26 December 2002...
(2002). The latter carried the line into Northern Butovo and was the first to cross MKAD
MKAD
MKAD is a ring road encircling the City of Moscow.The acronym is a transliteration of the Russian МКАД, for Московская Кольцевая Автомобильная Дорога .The growth of traffic in and around Moscow in the 1950s made the city planners realise Russia's largest metropolis...
beltway. Today the line is the only one in Moscow for which no extension plans or proposals exist.
Timeline
| Segment | Date opened | |
|---|---|---|
| Serpukhovskaya Serpukhovskaya Serpukhovskaya is a station on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro subway system. The station opened on 8 November 1983. Serpukhovskaya is 43 metres underground. Its name originates from the namesake street, which in turn originates from the historic town of... – Yuzhnaya |
November 11, 1983 | 13.0 km |
| Yuzhnaya – Prazhskaya | November 6, 1985 | 1.1 km |
| Serpukhovskaya Serpukhovskaya Serpukhovskaya is a station on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro subway system. The station opened on 8 November 1983. Serpukhovskaya is 43 metres underground. Its name originates from the namesake street, which in turn originates from the historic town of... – Borovitskaya Borovitskaya (Metro) Borovitskaya is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in January 1986. It is geographically located in the very centre of Moscow, although it's mainly used as a transfer station.-Transfers:... |
January 23, 1986 | 2.8 km |
| Borovitskaya Borovitskaya (Metro) Borovitskaya is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in January 1986. It is geographically located in the very centre of Moscow, although it's mainly used as a transfer station.-Transfers:... – Chekhovskaya Chekhovskaya Chekhovskaya is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened on December 31, 1987, and served as the northern terminus of the line for the following year. Its depth is 62 m... |
December 31, 1987 | 1.6 km |
| Chekhovskaya Chekhovskaya Chekhovskaya is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened on December 31, 1987, and served as the northern terminus of the line for the following year. Its depth is 62 m... – Savyolovskaya Savyolovskaya Savyolovskaya , alternatively spelled Savelovskaya, is a station on Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro.It was opened on December 31, 1988 and had been the northern terminus of the line until its extension in 1991. Its depth is 52 m... |
December 31, 1988 | 4.2 km |
| Savyolovskaya Savyolovskaya Savyolovskaya , alternatively spelled Savelovskaya, is a station on Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro.It was opened on December 31, 1988 and had been the northern terminus of the line until its extension in 1991. Its depth is 52 m... – Otradnoye Otradnoye (Metro) Otradnoye is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in 1991, and built to a single-vault technology. The station contains several mosaic artworks.... |
March 3, 1991 | 8.5 km |
| Otradnoye Otradnoye (Metro) Otradnoye is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in 1991, and built to a single-vault technology. The station contains several mosaic artworks.... – Bibirevo Bibirevo (Metro) Bibirevo is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in 1992, and until the extension to Altufyevo was the terminus of the line. The station is a pylon-trivault, but the columns are cylindrical rather than the rectangular shape found on other similar... |
December 31, 1992 | 2.6 km |
| Bibirevo Bibirevo (Metro) Bibirevo is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in 1992, and until the extension to Altufyevo was the terminus of the line. The station is a pylon-trivault, but the columns are cylindrical rather than the rectangular shape found on other similar... – Altufyevo |
July 15, 1994 | 2.0 km |
| Prazhskaya – Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya | August 31, 2000 | 2.0 km |
| Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya – Annino | December 12, 2001 | 1.4 km |
| Annino – Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo is the southern terminus and the newest station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It is the first station of the system built outside of the MKAD beltway encircling most of the city. The station opened on 26 December 2002... |
December 26, 2002 | 2.0 km |
| Total: | 25 stations | 41.5 km |
Transfers
| # | Transfer to | At |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sokolnicheskaya Line Sokolnicheskaya Line The Sokolnicheskaya Line is the first line of the Moscow Metro, dating back to 1935 when the system opened. Presently the line has 19 stations with a total of of track... |
Borovitskaya Borovitskaya (Metro) Borovitskaya is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in January 1986. It is geographically located in the very centre of Moscow, although it's mainly used as a transfer station.-Transfers:... |
| 2 | Zamoskvoretskaya Line Zamoskvoretskaya Line Zamoskvoretskaya Line , formerly Gorkovsko-Zamoskvoretskaya , is a line of the Moscow Metro. Opened in 1938, chronologically it became the third line. There are twenty stations on the Zamoskvoretskaya line, and it spans , roughly crossing Moscow in a north-south direction. A normal trip along the... |
Chekhovskaya Chekhovskaya Chekhovskaya is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened on December 31, 1987, and served as the northern terminus of the line for the following year. Its depth is 62 m... |
| 3 | Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line The Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the second to open, now it connects with the district of Mitino and town of Krasnogorsk to the northwest of Moscow with the east of the Russian capital passing through the city centre... |
Borovitskaya Borovitskaya (Metro) Borovitskaya is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened in January 1986. It is geographically located in the very centre of Moscow, although it's mainly used as a transfer station.-Transfers:... |
| 5 | Koltsevaya Line Koltsevaya Line The Koltsevaya Line , , is a railway line of the Moscow Metro. The line was built in 1950-1954 encircling the central Moscow, and became crucial to the transfer patterns of passengers.... |
Serpukhovskaya Serpukhovskaya Serpukhovskaya is a station on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro subway system. The station opened on 8 November 1983. Serpukhovskaya is 43 metres underground. Its name originates from the namesake street, which in turn originates from the historic town of... , Mendeleyevskaya Mendeleyevskaya Mendeleyevskaya is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened on 31 December 1988. Its depth is . The transfer to the Novoslobodskaya station of the Koltsevaya Line is available.... |
| 7 | Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line The Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya is the busiest line of the Moscow Metro... |
Chekhovskaya Chekhovskaya Chekhovskaya is a station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened on December 31, 1987, and served as the northern terminus of the line for the following year. Its depth is 62 m... |
| 10 | Lyublinskaya Line Lyublinskaya Line Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line is the line of the Moscow Metro. First opened in 1995 as a semi-chordial radius it is at present in process of being extended through the centre and northwards... |
Tsvetnoy Bulvar Tsvetnoy Bulvar Tsvetnoy Bulvar is a Moscow Metro station on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line. It was opened in 31 December 1988. The vestibule is located on the Tsvetnoy Boulevard , close to the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard.... |
| 11 | Kakhovskaya Line Kakhovskaya Line Kakhovskaya Line is a line of the Moscow Metro. Although the line was formed in 1995, all of the stations date to 1969 when they opened as part of the Zamoskvoretskaya Line. The Kakhovskaya Line is the only conventional line that lacks a full transfer to the ring... |
Sevastopolskaya |
| L1 | Butovskaya Light Metro Line Butovskaya Light Metro Line Butovskaya Line is a Light Metro line of the Moscow Metro. The line symbolizes an experiment of building rapid-transit in areas where tunnel boring is considered expensive and impractical... |
Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo is the southern terminus and the newest station of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro. It is the first station of the system built outside of the MKAD beltway encircling most of the city. The station opened on 26 December 2002... |
Rolling stock
The line is served by the Varshavskoe (№ 8) and Vladykino (№ 14) depots. In 2005 it began a slow transition to eight carriage trains. As of November 2005, Vladykino completed its transition and presently has 43 eight-carriage trains assigned to them. Varshavskoe began later and completed its transition in March 2006 with 38 eight-carriage trains. The line received new 81-714/717 trains upon its opening in 1983. Due to its recent extensions various trains were added to its ever-growing stock, some surplus from other depots, others factory fresh 81-714.5/717.5 and 81-714.5M/717.5M. When the Butovskaya Light Metro LineButovskaya Light Metro Line
Butovskaya Line is a Light Metro line of the Moscow Metro. The line symbolizes an experiment of building rapid-transit in areas where tunnel boring is considered expensive and impractical...
opened, the Varshavskoe depot became home to the new three-carriage 81-740/741 "Rusich"
Metro wagon 81-740/741 Rusich
81-740/741 , is a type of rolling stock specially designed for running under the harsh winter climate of outdoor Moscow. Rusich also features a corridor connection, allowing passenger access between two contigiuous cars...
trains, 12 of which are currently being used.
Recent events and future plans
Second exits at Petrovsko-RazumovskayaPetrovsko-Razumovskaya
Petrovsko-Razumovsky , Petrovsko-Razumovskaya , or Petrovsko-Razumovskoye may refer to:*Petrovsko-Razumovskaya, a station of the Moscow Metro...
, Savyolovskaya
Savyolovskaya
Savyolovskaya , alternatively spelled Savelovskaya, is a station on Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro.It was opened on December 31, 1988 and had been the northern terminus of the line until its extension in 1991. Its depth is 52 m...
and Timiryazevskaya stations are planned. However, in terms of extensions, the line is considered to be complete. Although there is some need of connection to the south border parts of Moscow, it was decided that Butovskaya Light Metro Line
Butovskaya Light Metro Line
Butovskaya Line is a Light Metro line of the Moscow Metro. The line symbolizes an experiment of building rapid-transit in areas where tunnel boring is considered expensive and impractical...
will fulfil this need.