Sokolnicheskaya line
| 1 Sokolnicheskaya Line | |
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| Overview | |
| Type | Rapid transit |
| System | Moscow Metro |
| Locale | Moscow |
| Termini |
Salaryevo (southwest) Bulvar Rokossovskogo (northeast) |
| Stations | 22 |
| Operation | |
| Opened | 15 May 1935 |
| Operator(s) | Moskovsky Metropoliten |
| Character | At-grade, underground, and elevated |
| Rolling stock |
81-717.5M/714.5M 81-717/714 |
| Technical | |
| Line length | 32.5 kilometres (20.2 mi) |
| Track gauge | 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27⁄32 in) |
| Electrification | Third rail |
Sokolnicheskaya Line (Russian: Соко́льническая ли́ния, IPA: [səˈkolʲnʲitɕɪskəjə ˈlʲinʲɪjə]) (Line 1; Red Line) is a line of the Moscow Metro. It opened in 1935 and is the oldest in the system. There are currently 22 stations open on the line (Frunzenskaya is closed for reconstruction). As of 2016[update], the line is 32.5 kilometres (20.2 mi) long.
As the line was the first formal one in the system, its history of development coincides with the history of the Moscow Metro's first stage altogether. In short it was to cut Moscow on a northeast-southwest axis beginning at the Sokolniki Park and continuing through the Three railway terminals and then past the city centre's main traffic junctions: Red gate junction, Kirovskaya, the Lubyanka and the Manege Squares. From there, a separate branch carried off into the Arbat Street and later Kiyevsky railway station, before it became in 1938 the distinct Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line and, later, in 1958, the Filyovskaya Line. The remaining part of the Frunzenskaya Branch went along the Kremlin's western wall past the Russian State Library to the future site of the Palace of the Soviets on the bank of the Moskva River and terminated near the Gorky Park.
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