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Novosibirsk (1903-1925 - Novo-Nikolaevsk) was founded in 1893 as a transfer station on Transsiberian railway and only 70 years later it reach 1 million inhabitants. With approximately 1.5 million inhabitants it is the largest city in Siberia.

Initially a metro network with 4 lines totalling 62 km was planned for Novosibirsk. Construction started in 1979 on the north-south route, the Leninskaya Liniya. The metro had to be built for hard weather conditions, up to -50 degrees Celcius in winter, and to resist earthquakes up to 6 degrees on the Richter scale. Most tunnel sections were built using tunnel boring machines. The first section, which links the districts on the western side of the river Ob to the city centre, opened in 1986. One year later a short shuttle line was taken into service, which provides access to the central railway station at Ploshchad' Garina Mikhailovskogo*. In the early 1990's the first line was extended both towards the north and the south.

In 2000, the second line, the Dzerzhinskaya Liniya began operating to Marshala Pokryshkina. When it was extended to Beryozovaya Roshcha (see photo) in June 2005, this line was operated with two shuttle services, one between Pl. Garina-Mikhailovskogo and Sibirskaya, and another between Sibirskaya and Beryozovaya Roshcha. On 23 June 2007, the second tunnel between Marshala Pokryshkina and Beryozovaya Roshcha was brought into service, and the line now works normally, with three trains in service.

Total length (2005) - 14.3 km with 12 stations.

* This station is named after the Russian writer Nikolay Garin-Mikhaylovskiy, one of the founders of Novo-Nikolaevsk (now Novosibirsk).

Photo © Mikolaevskiy Prospekt

7 Jan 1986: Krasnyiy Prospekt - Studencheskaya (7.3 km) crossing river Ob on a tube bridge.
26 July 1991: Studencheskaya - Pl. Marksa
2 April 1992: Krasnyiy Prospekt - Zayel'tsovskaya

Zayel'tsovskaya - Gagarinskaya - Krasnyiy Prospekt - Pl. Lenina

Oktyabr'skaya - Rechnoy Vokzal - Studencheskaya - Pl. Marksa

Photos courtesy of Dmitry V. Aksenov - Visit Mir Metro for more photos

31 Dec 1987: Sibirskaya - Pl. Garina Mikhailovskogo (Railway Station) (1.5km) (operating as a shuttle on single track)
28 Dec 2000: Marshala Pokryshkina (formerly shown as Frunzenskaya)
25 June 2005: Marshala Pokryshkina - Beryozovaya Roshcha

Photos courtesy of Dmitry V. Aksenov - Visit Mir Metro for more photos

 Projects

Additional surface station, Sportivnaya, planned between Rechnoy Vokzal and Studencheskaya.

Dzerzhinskaya Line further under construction towards the east.

Daytime headways:

5 min on Leninskaya
6 min on Dzerzhinskaya

Fares

1 Trip - 11 roubles

Magnetic cards for 10 or 50 trips available. Plastic tickets for 30 roubles available offering up to 2 roubles discount per trip.

Andrey Pozdnyakov's Novosibirsk Metro Page

Novosibirsk Subway

Metrostroy

Novosibirsk Metro at Wikipedia

Novosibirsk Metro Track Map

Rechnoy Vokzal © Steve Guess

Pl. Lenina © Steve Guess