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Sankt-Peterburg was the capital of the Russian empire until the Russian Revolution of 1917 when the power of the new Soviet state moved to Moscow. In 1914, the town changed its name from the German Sankt Petersburg into Russian Petrograd, but after Lenin died in 1924 it was renamed into Leningrad. Just before the end of the Soviet period, in 1991, the city's inhabitants decided to go back to its original name Sankt-Peter(s)burg. Today the city has 4.85 million inhabitants. St. Petersburg's Metro has a total length of 118.5 km and 69 stations (5/2018). Like in Moscow, older stations are elegantly decorated whereas newer stations show a more functional design. Due to the geological difficulties (swamp), most stations were built very deep (30-84 m, with Admiralteyskaya station the deepest); the unstable soil in fact caused the collapse of the tunnel between Pl.Muzhestva and Lesnaya. Some stations on the St. Petersburg Metro boast an interesting feature: to reduce construction costs, the passenger platform is separated from the tracks by steel doors which open simultaneously with the doors of the arriving train, but these doors did not prove so successful, so that later stations were built without them. After the first metro line was built in Moscow, plans for St. Petersburg were made, following the capital's model. But the first line was not opened until 1955.

	Line 1		Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya	Prospekt Veteranov - Devyatkino
This 11 km line between Avtovo and Pl. Vosstaniya linked four of five existing railway stations (the fifth was also linked in 1958). It was further extended on both sides. Today this line is 29.6 km long and has 19 stations. In 1995 a section of the tunnel between Pl. Muzhestva and Lesnaya collapsed and had to be totally rebuilt. Through service could only be established in June 2004. 15/11/1955: Avtovo - Pl. Vosstaniya 01/06/1958: Pl. Vosstaniya - Pl. Lenina (under Neva river) 01/06/1966: Avtovo - Dachnoye (this on-ground station opened south of Avtovo; closed in 1977 when the line was extended). 22/04/1975: Pl. Lenina - Lesnaya 31/12/1975: Lesnaya - Akademicheskaya 29/09/1977: Avtovo - Prospekt Veteranov 29/12/1978: Akademicheskaya - Devyatkino (ex. Komsomol'skaya)(transfer to suburban rail lines) 26/06/2004: Pl. Muzhestva - Lesnaya section reopened
	Line 2		Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya	Parnas - Kupchino
The second line runs north-south and is 30.1 km long (18 stations). At the station Tekhnologicheskiy Institut Line 1 and Line 2 provide convenient cross-platform transfer. In Dec 2006 a surface extension on the tracks that lead to depot was added. 29/04/1961: Tekhnologicheskiy Institut - Park Pobedy 01/07/1963: Tekhnologicheskiy Institut - Petrogradskaya 25/12/1969: Park Pobedy - Moskovskaya 25/12/1972: Moskovskaya - Kupchino (transfer station with suburban trains) 06/11/1982: Petrogradskaya - Udelnaya 19/08/1988: Udelnaya - Prospekt Prosveshcheniya 22/12/2006: Prospekt Prosveshcheniya - Parnas
	Line 3		Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya	Begovaya - Rybatskoe
12 stations and ~27.5 km long. 03/11/1967: Vasileostrovskaya - Pl. Aleksandra Nevskogo 25/12/1970: Pl. Aleksandra Nevskogo - Lomonosovskaya 28/09/1979: Vasileostrovskaya - Primorskaya 10/07/1981: Lomonosovskaya - Obukhovo 28/12/1984: Obukhovo - Rybatskoye 26/05/2018: Primorskaya - Begovaya 08/2020: Novokrestovskaya station renamed Zenit
	Line 4		Pravobereznaya	Spasskaya - Ulitsa Dybenko
Line 4 (8 stations - 11.2 km) comes from the eastern side of the river Neva into the city centre. In various stages it was extended towards the northwestern districts to form a cross-city line, but in March 2009, the northwestern leg was transferred to the new Line 5, so that line 4 now terminates in the city centre in a new station called Spasskaya, located next to Sadovaya/Sennaya Pl. 30/12/1985: Pl. A. Nevskogo - Prospekt Bolshevikov 01/10/1987: Prospekt Bolshevikov - Ulitsa Dybenko 30/12/1991: Pl. A. Nevskogo - Sadovaya 15/09/1997: Sadovaya - Chkalovskaya 14/01/1999: Chkalovskaya - Staraya Derevnya 03/09/1999: Krestovskiy Ostrov added 02/04/2005: Staraya Derevnya - Komendantskiy Prospekt 07/03/2009: Sadovaya - Komendantskiy Prospekt transferred to new Line 5 07/03/2009: Dostoyevskaya - Spasskaya
	Line 5		Frunzensko-Primorskaya	Komendantskiy Prospekt - Shushary
Construction of Line 5 began in the 1990s, but was suspended for some years due to financial problems; the first stations were brought into service eventually in Dec. 2008. In March 2009, the section Sadovaya - Komendantskiy Prospekt, which was formerly part of Line 4, was incorporated into the new line 5. Although Admiralteyskaya station was built in 1997, without exits, though, in provision for a future transfer to line 3, it was not opened until December 2011. 15 stations - 26.2 km 15/09/1997: Sadovaya - Chkalovskaya 14/01/1999: Chkalovskaya - Staraya Derevnya 03/09/1999: Krestovskiy Ostrov station added 02/04/2005: Staraya Derevnya - Komendantskiy Prospekt 20/12/2008: Volkovskaya - Zvenigorodskaya 07/03/2009: Sadovaya - Komendantskiy Prospekt connected to Line 5 30/12/2010: Obvodnyi Kanal station added 28/12/2011: Admiralteyskaya station added 28/12/2012: Volkovskaya - Mezhdunarodnaya 03/10/2019: Mezhdunarodnaya - Shushary (6.1 km)

Other renamed stations: Pl. Mira - Sennaya Pl.; Krasnogvardeyskaya - Novocherkasskaya

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