Line 5 (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Line 5 (Frunzensko-Primorskaya)
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Saint Petersburg Metro
Termini	Komendantsky Prospekt Shushary
Stations	15
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Saint Petersburg Metro
History
Opened	1997/2008
Technical
Line length	26.2 km (16.3 mi)[1]
Track gauge	1,524 mm (5 ft)
Route map Legend headshunt Komendantsky Prospekt headshunt Staraya Derevnya Great Nevka Yelagin island Middle Nevka Krestovsky Ostrov Little Nevka Chkalovskaya Sportivnaya Little Neva Admiralteyskaya Service siding to line 2 Sadovaya Service siding to line 4 Zvenigorodskaya Obvodny Kanal Volkovskaya headshunt Bukharestskaya Mezhdunarodnaya headshunt Prospekt Slavy Dunayskaya A 118 St. Petersburg Ring Road Shushary Depot 7 Yuzhnoye This diagram: view talk edit

Line 5 of the Saint Petersburg Metro, also known as Frunzensko-Primorskaya Line (Russian: Фру́нзенско-Примо́рская ли́ния) or Purple Line, is a newest rapid transit line in Saint Petersburg, Russia, opened in 2008, which connects the historical city centre to the northwestern and southern districts. It has 15 stations covering a total length of 26.2 kilometres (16.3 mi). Although it opened on 20 December 2008, parts of the line are considerably older. At its official opening in 2008, it included only two stations that opened concurrently with the line. On 7 March 2009, the Metro incorporated six existing stations of Line 4 (Pravoberezhnaya) into Line 5, expanding it to nine stations.

Admiralteyskaya station, which is the deepest station in Russia and one of the deepest in the world, at 86 metres, opened on this line 2011.^[2][3]

The line is named after the Primorsky district and Russian Bolshevik commander Mikhail Frunze.