Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line

3  Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line
The geographical route of the line
Overview
Type	Rapid transit
System	Moscow Metro
Locale	Moscow
Termini	Pyatnitskoye Shosse (west) Shchyolkovskaya (east)
Stations	22
Daily ridership	954,549
Operation
Opened	13 March 1938
Owner	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Operator(s)	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Character	Mostly underground
Rolling stock	81-740/741
Technical
Line length	45.1 km (28.0 mi)
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in)
Electrification	Third rail
Route map Mitino yard Pyatnitskoye Shosse Mitino Volokolamskaya Mitinsky Bridge  Moskva River Myakinino Strogino Krylatskoye Molodyozhnaya Kuntsevskaya  4  Slavyansky Bulvar Park Pobedy  8A  Kiyevskaya  4   5  Moskva River Smolenskaya Arbatskaya  1   4   9  to Fili yard Ploshchad Revolyutsii  2  ( 1 ) Kurskaya  5   10  Baumanskaya Elektrozavodskaya Semyonovskaya Partizanskaya  14  (OSI) Pervomayskaya (closed) Izmaylovo yard Izmaylovskaya Pervomayskaya Shchyolkovskaya This diagram:

The Arbatsko–Pokrovskaya line (Russian: Арба́тско-Покро́вская ли́ния, IPA: [ɐrˈbatskə pɐˈkrofskəjə ˈlʲinʲɪjə]) (Line 3) is one of the lines of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the second to open, it connects the Mitino District and the town of Krasnogorsk to the northwest of Moscow with the eastern suburbs of the Russian capital passing through the city centre. There are 22 stations on the line, which is 45.1 kilometres (28.0 mi) long, making it the longest line of the system.

The history of this west–east line is one of the more complicated of the Moscow Metro, and is partly due to the politics, namely constant changes of priorities. In 1935, when the first stage opened, a branch of the existing line ran from Okhotny Ryad to the Smolenskaya Square on the Garden Ring. The branch was extended to the Kiyevsky railway station in 1937.

In 1938 the branch was split into a separate line, and a 3.2 kilometres (2.0 mi) stretch connecting Alexander Garden and the Kursky railway station opened. Despite the outbreak of World War II the construction of the metro continued, and in 1944 three stations of the Pokrovsky radius were completed.

The eastern part of the line was extended three times, one extension being to the Pervomayskaya temporary station inside a newly opened depot. It was replaced in 1961 by the Izmaylovsky Park, Izmaylovskaya and the Pervomayskaya stations. These three stations demonstrated a change of design priorities straying away from Stalinist architecture to the new minimalism centipede designs supported under Nikita Khrushchev's leadership. The line reached its present eastern terminus in 1963 with an extension to Shchyolkovskaya.