Line 1 (Saint Petersburg Metro)

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Line 1 (Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya)
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Saint Petersburg Metro
Termini	Devyatkino Prospekt Veteranov
Stations	19
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Saint Petersburg Metro
History
Opened	1955
Technical
Line length	29.57 km (18.4 mi)
Track gauge	1,524 mm (5 ft)
Route map Legend Depot 4 Severnoye Devyatkino—Lavriki railroad Devyatkino A 118 St. Petersburg Ring Road Grazhdansky Prospekt headshunt Akademicheskaya future line branching Politekhnicheskaya Ploschad Muzhestva eroded tunnels Lesnaya Vyborgskaya headshunts Ploshchad Lenina Neva Chernyshevskaya service siding to line 2 Ploshchad Vosstaniya Vladimirskaya Pushkinskaya to track 1 of line 2 Tekhnologichesky Institut to track 2 of line 1 Baltiyskaya Narvskaya headshunts  ЗСД  Western High- Speed Diameter Kirovsky Zavod Avtovo Dachnoye Depot Avtovo Depot Dachnoye (defunct) Leninsky Prospekt Prospekt Veteranov headshunts This diagram: view talk edit

Line 1 of the Saint Petersburg Metro, also known as Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line (Russian: Ки́ровско-Вы́боргская ли́ния) or Red Line, is the oldest rapid transit line in Saint Petersburg, Russia, opened in 1955, which connects Kirovsky and Vyborgsky districts of the city. 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. In 1995, a flooding occurred in a tunnel between Lesnaya and Ploschad Muzhestva stations and, for nine years, the line was separated into two independent segments (the gap was connected by a shuttle bus route). The line is also one of the two lines in the network to feature shallow stations, the other being the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line.

The line cuts Saint Petersburg centre on a northeast-southwest axis. In the south its alignment follows the shore of the Gulf of Finland. In the north it extends outside the city limits into the Leningrad oblast (it is the only line to stretch beyond the city boundary). The Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya Line is generally coloured red on Metro maps,^[1] and markup of this colour has been added to its stations for ease of passenger orientation; the new generation trains of Yubileyniy [ru] carriages since 2010s also have their outside colour matching the colour of the line.^[2][3]