The Moscow metro is fraught with many secrets and mysteries. Talk does not stop that it is brought to all important administrative buildings. And some even debate about entire lines for transporting important people. Every year, more and more adventurers go in search of adventure underground. The average depth of the Moscow metro stations is 24 meters, if you do not take into account ground sections when calculating. With the release of the book of the famous domestic writer D. Glukhovsky, interest in such adventures only grew. Today we condemn the features of Moscow stations and we.
A bit of history
The first metro line was opened in London in 1836. Its construction was carried out by a company called Metropolitan Railways. This phrase can be translated as "Metropolitan Railways." But it is from this word that the name of the new mode of transport was formed in many countries. Initially, the London Underground was steam powered. In 1890 it was electrified. The next to use the subway was New York. In 1868, several ground stations were opened here. The first underground line in this city opened 36 years later. The next was to use a new form of transport in Chicago. The subway opened here in 1892. Russia is somewhat behind in this matter. The metro first appeared here in 1935, in Moscow. And only after 20 years - in St. Petersburg.
To date, the New York subway remains the longest. It includes 26 lines and annually transports 1.6 billion people. But Shanghai Metro is the fastest growing. By 2025, it is planned to build 21 additional lines. The passenger flow per day is 5 million people.
Subway construction
The general trend is immediately evident if you carefully look at the depth of the stations. The closer to the center, the greater the average depth of the Moscow metro stations. This is due to dense buildings, many historical monuments, an intersection with the river. The exception is the sections of the Filevskaya and Sokolnicheskaya lines, which were built in the 30s of the last century in an open way. The peculiarity of the soil in the north of the city led to the need for the depth of the Moscow metro stations to be greater than in other marginal areas. This trend continues up to the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya and VDNH.
The average depth of the Moscow metro stations is related to the terrain features. It crosses rivers 23 times. Most structures pass under water, not over bridges. The Moscow metro channel crosses only once. Newer sites traditionally lie closer to the ground.
The average depth of the Moscow metro stations
With the release of the famous science fiction trilogy of the domestic writer, more and more "stalkers" are looking for adventures underground. The Moscow metro depth chart is a very popular topic for discussion between them on the Internet. All stations can be classified by type of construction. There are two single-span stops: Volzhskaya and Maryino. Their depth is 8 meters. There are also 4 two-, 64 three- and 2 four-span stations. Their depth is 11, 9 and 7 meters. The Moscow metro also has 31 single and 74 three-vault stations. The average depth is 12 and 44 meters. In addition, the Moscow metro includes 16 ground stations, not counting the monorail. Among them are both open and closed.
Depth of the Moscow metro stations
The design largely determines the technical characteristics of underground structures in a particular area. The greatest depth of the Moscow metro stations on the Koltsevaya Line is 41 meters. Most of them are three-vaulted. The greatest depth of the Moscow metro is 84 meters. Such a technical characteristic is “Victory Park”. The highest is the Sparrow Hills. It rises 10 meters above ground level.
Line Specifications
Most metro stations are three-vaulted. All of them are deeper than 25 meters, “Timiryazevskaya” is the only exception. A significant part of the stations is three-span. Their depth is only 9 meters. If we consider not individual stations, but lines, then we can also calculate the features of their design. As mentioned above, it all depends on the area where they pass. The depth of the Moscow metro stations on the Kakhovskaya line is 8 meters. This makes it closest to ground level. If you arrange the lines on the basis of increasing their depth, the list will look like this: Filevskaya, Sokolnicheskaya, Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, Zamoskvoretskaya, Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya, Kaluga-Riga, Lublin, Kalinin, Koltsevaya. The latter goes into the ground at 48 meters.
The deepest in the world
The first place in this parameter is for the Ukrainian Arsenal station. Its depth is 105.5 meters. It was launched on September 6, 1960. Initially, it was decorated with a bas-relief dedicated to workers of the plant of the same name, but after Ukraine gained independence it was dismantled. The second is the Russian “Admiralteyskaya” with a depth of 86 meters. It was put into operation on December 28, 2011. It is interesting that it was almost completed already in 1997, but due to problems with engineering work, construction was continued only after 10 years. Third place behind the Korean station "Puhung." It was built in 1987. Its design uses marble images of the leaders of the DPRK. This is one of the two stations in Pyongyang, where tours for tourists are held. Fourth place behind the Victory Park in Moscow. The station is decorated in the style of World War II. Finally, in fifth place is the deepest station in the United States - Washington Park, the Portland subway. It was put into operation in 1998.
The depth of the Moscow metro is 24 meters. It encircles almost the entire Russian capital. And these are just quite official lines. And there are still mysterious abandoned stations and whole tunnels that attract more and more adventurers every year. And this means that soon there will be new facts that can be shared.