Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line
| 3 Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line | |
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The geographical route of the line
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| 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 |
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 district of Mitino 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.
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