Kalininskaya Line

Kalininskaya Line
Overview
Type	Rapid transit
System	Moscow Metro
Locale	Moscow
Termini	Tretyakovskaya (center) Novogireyevo (east)
Stations	7
Daily ridership	452,000
Operation
Opened	December 30, 1979
Owner	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Operator(s)	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Character	Underground
Rolling stock	81-717/714
Technical
Line length	13.1 kilometres (8.1 mi)
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11 5⁄6 in)
Electrification	Third rail

The Kalininskaya Line (Кали́нинская ли́ния) (Line 8) is a line of the Moscow Metro. It was opened as the eastwards Perovo radius lines in 1979 and presently has 7 stations.

History

The line's pilot stage, which would see it extending from Taganskaya through Lefortovo and into the eastern districts of Perovo, Novogireevo and Veshnyaki was opened for the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The line bears all traits of the late 1970s architecture and engineering. No longer pressed for economy designs and aesthetics, the architects were given full freedom to use advanced materials.

The engineers were able to introduce new designs, particularly for the Column stations of Marksistskaya and Aviamotoronaya which were built without ventral crosspieces allowing a huge economy in time by abandoning the use of tubings. The shallow column station of Novogireevo further demonstrated its parting with previous centipede roots by increasing inter-column width from six to seven and a half metres.

What makes the line unique is its name, as it was originally named after partially passing the Kalinin district, which disappeared in the 1990s. Thus the line is the only in Moscow which carries the name of a figurehead, Mikhail Kalinin rather than the area it serves.

In 1986 the line's first extension opened, with the station Tretyakovskaya, the third cross-platform transfer in Moscow Metro was set up this way. It was planned for the line to continue and link up with the Arbatskaya station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, allowing it to be split and the old route Aleksandrovsky Sad—Ploshchad Revolyutsii route to be reused, whilst the Kalininskaya line, now operating to Kievskaya would extend southwestwards. (See Solntsevskaya Line for more details.)

This was not to be realised, and the western extension plans stalled for more than two decades due to the financial instability of the 1990s and other priorities.

Timeline

Kalininskaya Line
Legend
Novogireyevo yard Novogireyevo Perovo Shosse Entuziastov Aviamotornaya Ploshchad Ilyicha Marksistskaya Tretyakovskaya

Segment	Date opened	Length
Marksistskaya–Novogireevo	December 30, 1979	11.4 km
Marksistskaya–Tretyakovskaya	January 25, 1986	1.7 km
Total:	7 Stations	13.1 km

Transfers

#	Transfer to	At
	Zamoskvoretskaya Line	Tretyakovskaya
	Koltsevaya Line	Marksistskaya
	Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya Line	Tretyakovskaya
	Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line	Marksistskaya
Rail	Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya Line Kurskaya railway line	Ploshchad Ilicha
Rail	Kazansky railway line	Aviamotornaya
Rail	Gorkovsky railway line	Ploshchad Ilicha - closiest Novogireeevo Novokosino-under construction

The Tretyakovskaya transfer is cross-platform one.

Rolling stock

The line is served by the Novogireevo depot (№ 12). 25 81-717/714 eight-carriage trains are assigned to it since the line was opened in 1979.It was also served by one new 81-717.6K/714.6K eight-carriage train in 2007-2011. In 2012 the 81-717/714 trains must be replaced by new 81-760/761 trains.

Recent developments and future plans

The line currently exists as a single radius, but for a long time an extension through the city centre and then on westwards has been planned.

City centre

The current plan is to extend from Tretyakovskaya to Moscow-City business district. According to most recent pronouncement of the city government (June 24, 2008), the stations names are set (east to west) as:

• Kadashovskaya near the eponymous embankment in Yakimanka District
• Volkhonka
• Plyushchikha
• Konyushkovskaya near the White House of Russia
• Tryokhgorka near Moscow Expocenter
• Delovoy Tsentr (new) with a transfer to Mezhdunarodnaya

The decree does not mention previously planned transfers to existing Kropotkinskaya station of the Sokolnicheskaya Line, Smolenskaya station of the Filyovskaya Line, Smolenskaya station of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line or the yet nonexistent station of the Ring called Rossiyskaya. However, the decree concerns only naming of the stations and does not constitute a real construction plan.

Solntsevsky radius

After its pass through the Moscow's centre, the line will continue into the MIBC with the Delovoi Tsentr station as a future transfer with the Filyovskaya Line and the Third Interchange Circuit. The line will continue to the Park Pobedy station and to the Ramenki district with Lomonosovsky Prospekt and Ramenki stations constructed. After that the line is proposed to pass further to the Solntsevo district.

Perovsky radius

As the radius is completed, apart from a few exits to the surface at Aviamotornaya, the only extension that will take place is to Novokosino in 2012.