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Legend

Rozhdestveno Mitino yard Pyatnitskoye Shosse Mitino Volokolamskaya Mitinsky Bridge over Moskva River Myakinino MKAD Strogino () Troitse-Lykovo Krylatskoye Molodyozhnaya Kuntsevskaya Slavyansky Bulvar Park Pobedy Kiyevskaya Moskva River Smolenskaya () Arbatskaya to Aleksandrovsky Sad Ploshchad Revolyutsii () Kurskaya Baumanskaya Elektrozavodskaya Semyonovskaya Partizanskaya Pervomayskaya (closed) Izmaylovo yard Izmaylovskaya Pervomayskaya Shchyolkovskaya Golyanovo

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The Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line is one of the twelve lines of the Moscow Metro. It was the second Metro line to open, with the oldest stations dating to 1938. The best-known stations on the line are probably Ploschad Revolyutsii with its 72 sculptural groups by M.G. Manizer and Elektrozavodskaya, which is lit by 318 incandescent lights. Another notable station is Park Pobedy, which at 97 metres beneath the surface is Moscow's and one of the world's deepest Metro stations and contains the longest escalators. Presently the line cuts Moscow on a East-West axis.

Timeline

* Up till 1953 section to Kievskaya via Aleksandrovskiy Sad was an intergral part of the line.

**Upon the 1961 extension, temporary station Pervomaiskaya was closed, along with its track.

Name changes

Transfers

Rolling Stock

The line is served by the Izmailovo depot (№ 3) and it presently has 43 seven carriage trains assigned to it. Traditionally none of the trains that it received were factory-fresh and most of its rolling stock consisted of old trains models that other lines retired upon upgrade to newer ones, and thus all trains that are retired from this line are sent to the scrapyard, this was seen Am и Bm types in 1975 and the D type in 1995 and is currently taking place with the E type. Most of the trains are currently Ezh, Ezh1, Em-508 and Em-509 models.

Recent Events and Future plans

The West

After the opening of the deep lines to Kievskaya and the closure of the parallel shallow stations, further extensions westwards were planned. However Nikita Khruschev's "experiment" with the ground level "Filyovskaya line" for almost half a century no building took place in the western direction. However the experiment was not exactly successful as the harsh Russian climate took its toll on the stations. In an attempt to resolve a parallel line is being constructed, slightly to the south, to bypass all of the ground level stations. The first part of the bypass Park Pobedy was opened in 2003, becoming so far the deepest station in Moscow. Two more stations were planned on the route, Slavyanskiy Bulvar and Kuntsevskaya. Before the line will meet the Filyovskaya at Kuntsevskaya, there a cross-platform transfer will be arranged. The Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line will then annex the remaining sub-terranian stations Molodezhnaya and Filyovskaya's termius Krylatskoe, from there it will go north to Strogino, spanning the river on a bridge, and then continue on to Mitino. This new stretch is due to have five stations Troitse-Likovo, Strogino, Myakinino (also called Krokus-City), Volokalamskaya and Mitino, along with a new depot there. The line up to Strogino will open in 2007 whilst the remaining is to open in 2011. However Myakinino possibly could be completed early in 2008-2009. At the completion Troitse-Likovo will not be opened and will be situated under forest-park between districts. The station is planned as emergency exit in the very long tunnel and, as well as Volokolamskaya on Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line, as a service station for the future development expansion.

The East

Most of the stations there are very old and some were built before or during the war. Passenger comfort was not a key issue at the time and hence many lack second exits to the surface. Most of them are currently being renovated, and in may 2005 the station Semyonovskaya was closed for a year to replace its escalators, which was reoppened in 2006. Plans exist to equip Baumanskaya, Electrozavodskaya and Semyonovskaya with second exits. When the very first stretch of the current line was built in 1938 between Kurskaya and Ploshad Revolutsii, two interim stations were started but never finished, these being Pokrovskaya and Myasnitskaya. Although it is unknown when they will open, the latter will allow transfer to the Kitay-Gorod transfer point with Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya and Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya lines. In the very east another extenstion is planned to Golyanovo. The station Schelkovskaya recently received a very major restoration replacing old ceramic tiles with modern aluminium planes.

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