Filyovskaya Line

4  Filyovskaya Line
Overview
Type	Rapid transit
System	Moscow Metro
Locale	Moscow
Termini	Aleksandrovsky Sad (center) Kuntsevskaya (west); Mezhdunarodnaya (center)
Stations	13
Daily ridership	320,600
Operation
Opened	15 May 1935 (as branch of  1 ) 7 November 1958 (as fully separate)
Owner	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Operator(s)	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Character	At-grade, underground
Rolling stock	81-740/741 81-717/714
Technical
Line length	14.9 km (9.3 mi)
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in)
Electrification	Third rail
Route map to  3  Molodyozhnaya 12.2 Kuntsevskaya  3  10.7 Pionerskaya 9.6 Filyovsky Park 8.6 Bagrationovskaya Fili yard 7.2 Fili 5.5 Kutuzovskaya  14  (OSI) 4.5 Studencheskaya 1.0 Mezhdunarodnaya  14  (OSI) 0.5 Vystavochnaya  8A  Moskva River 3.3 Kiyevskaya  3   5  Smolensky Bridge  Moskva River 1.9 Smolenskaya 0.7 Arbatskaya 0.2 Aleksandrovsky Sad  1   3  ( 9 ) to  1  Okhotny Ryad to  3  Ploshchad Revolyutsii This diagram:

Filyovskaya Line (Russian: Филёвская ли́ния, IPA: [fɪˈlʲɵfskəjə ˈlʲinʲɪjə]), or Line 4, is a line of the Moscow Metro. Chronologically the sixth to open, it connects the major western districts of Dorogomilovo and Fili along with the Moscow-City with the city centre. At present it has 13 stations and is 14.7 kilometres long.

The history of the Filyovskaya line is one of the most complicated in Moscow Metro, due to the eastern radius falling victim of changing policies. Originally the earliest stations are the oldest, dating to 1935 and 1937 when they opened as part of the First stage and operated as a branch from what later became the Sokolnicheskaya Line. In 1938 the branch service was liquidated and the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line was formed by trains now terminating at Kurskaya. However, during the Second World War, the station Arbatskaya suffered damage when a German bomb pierced its ceiling, as all of the 1930s stations were built sub surface.

The threat of the Cold War becoming real, meant that these early stations were not suited to double as bomb shelters, and instead a parallel deep section was built. This would have meant the end of the Filyovskaya line, had Nikita Khrushchev as part of his visit to New York City where he was inspired by having elevated and surface lines. Upon his return, and coinciding with his pursuit to save costs on architecture and construction he forced to abandon the planned deep-level extension to Fili and instead build a surface line that would see the old stations re-opened. In 1958 the Arbatsko-Filyovskaya Line was inaugurated becoming the sixth to open (the term Arbatsko- was dropped later). The line continued to extend westwards reaching Fili in 1959, along with its separate depot, the Fili Park in 1961 and ultimately the housing massif of Kuntsevo in 1965. A further extension was built to a newer massif in Krylatskoye in 1989.

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