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Koltsevaya line (Circle line)
Overview
Locale	Moscow
Stations	12
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Moscow Metro
Operator(s)	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Rolling stock	81-775/776/777
History
Opened	1 January 1950
Technical
Line length	19.4 km (12.1 mi)
Character	Underground
Track gauge	1,520 mm (4 ft 11+27⁄32 in)
Electrification	Third rail
Route map Legend Belorusskaya Krasnaya Presnya yard Krasnopresnenskaya Moskva River Kiyevskaya Moskva River Park Kultury Moskva River Oktyabrskaya Dobryninskaya Paveletskaya Vodootvodny Canal Moskva River Taganskaya Kurskaya Komsomolskaya Prospekt Mira Dostoevskaya Novoslobodskaya This diagram: view talk edit

The Koltsevaya line (Russian: Кольцева́я ли́ния, Ring line, IPA: [kəlʲtsɨˈvajə ˈlʲinʲɪjə]) (Line 5; Brown Line) is a line of the Moscow Metro. The line was built in 1950–1954 as a circle route orbiting central Moscow, and became crucial to the transfer patterns of passengers. The stations of the line were built at the height of Stalinist architecture, and include Komsomolskaya, Novoslobodskaya and Kiyevskaya.

History

In the initial plans of the Metro's development, there was no provision for the Circle line. Instead it was planned for complete cross-city routes ("diameters") to cross the city centre with interchange stations at their intersections. However, after the opening of the second stage in 1938, it was clear from the excessive loads on those junctions, that this plan would be insufficient to deal with the growing number of passengers as the system expanded. An urban legend suggests that Joseph Stalin himself suggested the line when he placed a coffee cup on the original development map (with no ring) and then lifting it and leaving a circular stain around the centre of the city and said "It's your main fault, it should be built". It is thought this is the reason for the line's brown colour on all metro maps.

In principle, the alignment of the ring was also debated, whether to use the Garden Ring avenue that encircles the centre or a wider circumference. In the end, it was decided to partially align the southern path along the Sadovoye Koltso, and let the northern part deviate to connect most of Moscow's rail terminals. This solved a major logistical problem, because, due to the layout of Russia's railroads, it would be impossible to travel from a region on one side of Moscow to another without having to make a manual transfer from one terminal to another.

Construction began shortly after the end of the war. The first stage was opened in 1950 from Park Kultury to Kurskaya. In 1952, a second segment completed the northern deviation up to Belorusskaya and in 1954, the circumference was linked.

The construction of the ring allowed for massive changes in the passenger flow patterns around Moscow and allowed a systematic development platform for many future lines. A total of seven radial lines began at the ring, four of which later linked up in the centre to become diameters.

Timeline

Name changes

Stations

The Koltsevaya line, unlike other lines of Moscow Metro, does not service any stations that belong to that line exclusively; rather, all its stations are transfer stations, linking to other lines, as shown below:

Station Name		Transfers
English	Russian
↑ Loop line towards Park Kultury ↑
Kiyevskaya	Киевская	Kiyevskaya  Kiyevskaya
Krasnopresnenskaya	Краснопресненская	Barrikadnaya
Belorusskaya	Белорусская	Belorusskaya Belorusskaya
Novoslobodskaya	Новослободская	Mendeleyevskaya
Dostoevskaya	Достоевская	Dostoevskaya
Prospekt Mira	Проспект Мира	Prospekt Mira
Komsomolskaya	Комсомольская	Komsomolskaya Kalanchyovskaya
Kurskaya	Курская	Kurskaya  Kurskaya Kurskaya
Taganskaya	Таганская	Taganskaya  Marksistskaya
Paveletskaya	Павелецкая	Paveletskaya
Dobryninskaya	Добрынинская	Serpukhovskaya
Oktyabrskaya	Октябрьская	Oktyabrskaya
Park Kultury	Парк культуры	Park Kultury
↓ Loop line towards Kiyevskaya ↓

Rolling stock

The line is serviced by the Krasnaya Presnya depot (No.4) and was the first one to adopt the 81-717/714 model trains in 1978. But replacement of those models by the 81–740.4/81-741.4, which started operating in revenue service on the line since early 2010, was completed by 1 December 2011. Four 81-717/714 trains from the Krasnaya Presnya depot in 2011—2018 were in service on Filevskaya line. In 2020, brand new trains entered service and by June 2021, they completely replaced the 81-740.4/741.4 on the line.

Subway car types used on the line over the years:

Recent developments and future plans

Today the line is one of busiest, and the ever-rising passenger flows during rush hours are noticeably felt as most of the stations are over half a century old. In 1998, a second entrance was opened at Belorusskaya and there are plans to equip Park Kultury and Komsomolskaya with similar ones.

Many restoration works are carried out to improve the old line, recently Novoslobodskaya had major restoration work carried out, including replacement of lighting and retouching on the stained glass masterpieces by Pavel Korin. The vestibule of Taganskaya was closed in 2005 to replace old escalators and upgrade with new turnstiles and also cosmetically renovate it, this was re-opened in 2006, and shortly afterwards Dobryninskaya followed suit for a similar upgrade.

Despite the fact that when opened, there were six stations left for future transfer provisions, this turned out to be too small for the growing system. Metro planned two additional stations on the line Suvorovskaya, which connect to the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line and Rossiyskaya, which would connect to the Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line. Some preliminary work had been performed on Suvorovskaya. In 2017, Metro terminated plans for both stations. A manager for the system indicated that the stations were unlikely to be completed as they were too technically complex, too long, and too costly to compete. Consequently, Vasiliev stated that the station was unlikely to be built. On August 19, 2019, works on Suvorovskaya station construction site resumed.

References

1. "Kol'tsevaya (Circle) Line". Moscow Metro. Archived from the original on 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2010-06-08.
2. "Московский Метрополитен / Пресс-служба / Новости". Archived from the original on 2012-06-08. Retrieved 2011-12-03.
3. "Строительство новых станций в центре Москвы экономически нецелесообразно". Interfax. 2017-03-22.
4. "Строительство станции Суворовская возобновлено". 2019-08-19..

External links

• Photos of the Koltcevaya line on Virtual photogallery Metro (RU)

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Sokolnicheskaya line	Potapovo Novomoskovskaya Olkhovaya Prokshino Filatov Lug Salaryevo Rumyantsevo Troparyovo Yugo-Zapadnaya Prospekt Vernadskogo Universitet Vorobyovy Gory Sportivnaya Frunzenskaya Park Kultury Kropotkinskaya Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Okhotny Ryad Lubyanka Chistye Prudy Krasnye Vorota Komsomolskaya Krasnoselskaya Sokolniki Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad Cherkizovskaya Bulvar Rokossovskogo
Zamoskvoretskaya line	Khovrino Belomorskaya Rechnoy Vokzal Vodny Stadion Voykovskaya Sokol Aeroport Dinamo Belorusskaya Mayakovskaya Tverskaya Teatralnaya Novokuznetskaya Paveletskaya Avtozavodskaya Tekhnopark Kolomenskaya Kashirskaya Kantemirovskaya Tsaritsyno Orekhovo Domodedovskaya Krasnogvardeyskaya Alma-Atinskaya
Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line	Pyatnitskoye Shosse Mitino Volokolamskaya Myakinino Strogino Krylatskoye Molodyozhnaya Kuntsevskaya Slavyansky Bulvar Park Pobedy Kiyevskaya Smolenskaya Arbatskaya Ploshchad Revolyutsii Kurskaya Baumanskaya Elektrozavodskaya Semyonovskaya Partizanskaya Pervomayskaya (closed) Izmaylovskaya Pervomayskaya Shchyolkovskaya
Filyovskaya line	Main Aleksandrovsky Sad Arbatskaya Smolenskaya Kiyevskaya Studencheskaya Kutuzovskaya Fili Bagrationovskaya Filyovsky Park Pionerskaya Kuntsevskaya Branch Delovoy Tsentr Moskva-City
Koltsevaya line	(← Loop towards Krasnopresnenskaya) Belorusskaya Novoslobodskaya Suvorovskaya Prospekt Mira Komsomolskaya Kurskaya Taganskaya Paveletskaya Dobryninskaya Oktyabrskaya Park Kultury Kiyevskaya Krasnopresnenskaya (Loop towards Belorusskaya →)
Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line	Novoyasenevskaya Yasenevo Tyoply Stan Konkovo Belyayevo Kaluzhskaya Kaluzhskaya (closed) Novye Cheryomushki Profsoyuznaya Akademicheskaya Leninsky Prospekt Shabolovskaya Oktyabrskaya Tretyakovskaya Kitay-gorod Turgenevskaya Sukharevskaya Prospekt Mira Rizhskaya Alekseyevskaya VDNKh Botanichesky Sad Sviblovo Babushkinskaya Medvedkovo
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya line	Planernaya Skhodnenskaya Tushinskaya Spartak Shchukinskaya Oktyabrskoye Pole Polezhayevskaya Begovaya Ulitsa 1905 Goda Barrikadnaya Pushkinskaya Kuznetsky Most Kitay-gorod Taganskaya Proletarskaya Volgogradsky Prospekt Tekstilshchiki Kuzminki Ryazansky Prospekt Vykhino Lermontovsky Prospekt Zhulebino Kotelniki
Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya line	Kalininskaya line Novokosino Novogireyevo Perovo Shosse Entuziastov Aviamotornaya Ploshchad Ilyicha Marksistskaya Tretyakovskaya Volkhonka Plyushchikha Dorogomilovskaya  Solntsevskaya line Delovoy Tsentr Park Pobedy Minskaya Lomonosovsky Prospekt Ramenki Michurinsky Prospekt Ozyornaya Govorovo Solntsevo Borovskoye Shosse Novoperedelkino Rasskazovka Pykhtino Aeroport Vnukovo
Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line	Altufyevo Bibirevo Otradnoye Vladykino Petrovsko-Razumovskaya Timiryazevskaya Dmitrovskaya Savyolovskaya Mendeleyevskaya Tsvetnoy Bulvar Chekhovskaya Borovitskaya Polyanka Serpukhovskaya Tulskaya Nagatinskaya Nagornaya Nakhimovsky Prospekt Sevastopolskaya Chertanovskaya Yuzhnaya Prazhskaya Ulitsa Akademika Yangelya Annino Bulvar Dmitriya Donskogo
Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line	Fiztekh Lianozovo Yakhromskaya Seligerskaya Verkhniye Likhobory Okruzhnaya Petrovsko-Razumovskaya Fonvizinskaya Butyrskaya Maryina Roshcha Dostoyevskaya Trubnaya Sretensky Bulvar Chkalovskaya Rimskaya Krestyanskaya Zastava Dubrovka Kozhukhovskaya Yuzhny Port Pechatniki Volzhskaya Lyublino Bratislavskaya Maryino Borisovo Shipilovskaya Zyablikovo
Bolshaya Koltsevaya line	(← Loop towards Maryina Roshcha) Savyolovskaya Petrovsky Park CSKA Khoroshyovskaya Narodnoye Opolcheniye Mnyovniki Terekhovo Kuntsevskaya Davydkovo Aminyevskaya Michurinsky Prospekt Prospekt Vernadskogo Novatorskaya Vorontsovskaya Zyuzino Kakhovskaya Varshavskaya Kashirskaya Klenovy Bulvar Nagatinsky Zaton Pechatniki Tekstilshchiki Nizhegorodskaya Aviamotornaya Lefortovo Elektrozavodskaya Sokolniki Rizhskaya Maryina Roshcha (Loop towards Savyolovskaya →)
Butovskaya line	Bittsevsky Park Lesoparkovaya Ulitsa Starokachalovskaya Ulitsa Skobelevskaya Bulvar Admirala Ushakova Ulitsa Gorchakova Buninskaya Alleya
Moscow Monorail	Timiryazevskaya Ulitsa Milashenkova Teletsentr Ulitsa Akademika Korolyova Vystavochny Tsentr Ulitsa Sergeya Eyzenshteyna
Moscow Central Circle	(← Loop towards Likhobory) Okruzhnaya Vladykino Botanichesky Sad Rostokino Belokamennaya Bulvar Rokossovskogo Lokomotiv Izmaylovo Sokolinaya Gora Shosse Entuziastov Andronovka Nizhegorodskaya Novokhokhlovskaya Ugreshskaya Dubrovka Avtozavodskaya ZIL Verkhniye Kotly Krymskaya Ploshchad Gagarina Luzhniki Kutuzovskaya Delovoy Tsentr Shelepikha Khoroshyovo Zorge Panfilovskaya Streshnevo Baltiyskaya Koptevo Likhobory (Loop towards Okruzhnaya →)
Nekrasovskaya line	Nizhegorodskaya Stakhanovskaya Okskaya Yugo-Vostochnaya Kosino Ulitsa Dmitriyevskogo Lukhmanovskaya Nekrasovka
Troitskaya line	Troitsk Vatutinki Desyonovskoye Desna Rakitki Sosenki Kommunarka Bachurinskaya Kornilovskaya Tyutchevskaya Generala Tyuleneva Universitet Druzhby Narodov Novatorskaya Ulitsa Stroiteley Akademicheskaya Sevastopolsky Prospekt
Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya line	Ilyinskaya Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye Troitse-Lykovo Strogino Zhivopisnaya Bulvar Generala Karbysheva Prospekt Marshala Zhukova Presnya Shelepikha Delovoy Tsentr
Biryulyovskaya line	ZIL Ostrov Mechty Klenovy Bulvar Batyunino Moskvorechye Kavkazsky Bulvar 6th Radialnaya Ulitsa Lipetskaya Zagorye Biryulyovo
Disasters / attacks 1977 Moscow bombings February 2004 Moscow Metro bombing August 2004 Moscow Metro bombing 2010 Moscow Metro bombings 2014 Moscow Metro derailment

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