Omsk Metro

Omsk Metro
Subway entrance
Entrance to the Biblioteka Imeni Pushkina station
Overview
Native nameОмский метрополитен
Omskiy metropoliten
Transit typeRapid transit/Light metro
Number of lines1 (planned)
Number of stations4 (planned)
Operation
Operation will startCancelled (May 2018)
Technical
System length7.5 km (4.7 mi)
Track gauge1,524 mm (5 ft)
Average speed36 km/h (22 mph)
System map

Situation in May 2018
Unbuilt section
Zapadnaya
Solnechnaya
Molodyozhnaya
Prospekt Rokossovskogo
Sobornaya*
Kristall*
Zarechnaya*
Biblioteka Imeni Pushkina
Unbuilt section
Torgovy Tsentr
Marshala Zhukova
Lermontovskaya
Parkovaya
Tupolevskaya*
Rabochaya*
Unbuilt section
Moskovskaya
Sibirsky Prospekt
(*) Under construction

Omsk Metro (Russian: Омский метрополитен, Omskiy metropoliten) is a cancelled rapid transit line that underwent various phases of construction from 1992 to 2018 in Omsk, Russia. It was to become Siberia's second metropolitan underground railway system after the Novosibirsk Metro which opened in the mid-1980s.

Construction of the first line of the Metro suffered from many delays, with the planned opening date being postponed four times: from 2008 to 2010, then 2015, then again to 2016.[1] In May 2018, the regional government of the Omsk Oblast stopped construction after 26 years, leaving behind an unfinished system with only one station that serves as a pedestrian underpass, and a double-decker metro/road bridge over the Irtysh river.[2]

  1. ^ "Omsk is the birthplace of the strangest Russian subway. It was built for a quarter of a century, but never finished". Meduza (in Russian). Riga: Ilya Krasilshchik. 11 May 2018. Archived from the original on 1 July 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  2. ^ BK55 (11 May 2018). "Omsk decided to freeze the construction of the metro: only one station was built in 26 years". Meduza (in Russian). Riga: Ilya Krasilshchik. Archived from the original on 18 June 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)