Line 3 (Saint Petersburg Metro)

Line 3 (Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya)
Overview
Status	Operational
Owner	Saint Petersburg Metro
Termini	Begovaya Rybatskoye
Stations	12
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Saint Petersburg Metro
History
Opened	1967
Technical
Line length	27.7 km (17.2 mi)
Track gauge	1,524 mm (5 ft)
Route map headshunts Begovaya Great Nevka Zenit Neva Bay  ЗСД  Western High- Speed Diameter Primorskaya Vasileostrovskaya Great Neva Gostiny Dvor Mayakovskaya Service siding to line 1 Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I headshunt Service siding to line 4 Yelizarovskaya Lomonosovskaya headshunt abandoned tunnels Proletarskaya Obukhovo A 118 SPb Ring Road Rybatskoye Nevskoye Depot

Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I station

The Line 3 of Saint Petersburg Metro, also known as Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya Line (Template:Lang-ru) or Green Line, connects city centre with the west and south-ost districts. It was opened in 1967. Since 1994, it has been officially designated as Line 3. It stands out among St. Petersburg metro lines for two reasons — its stations are almost exclusively of "Horizontal Lift" type and it has the longest inter-station tunnels in the entire system. Metro officials originally intended to add stations in-between the existing ones, but those plans were later abandoned.

The line cuts Saint Petersburg centre on an east–west axis and then turns southeast following the left bank of the Neva River. It is generally coloured green on Metro maps.

Timeline

Segment	Date opened	Length
Vasileostrovskaya to Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo	November 3, 1967	6.5 km
Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo I to Lomonosovskaya	December 25, 1970	6.3 km
Vasileostrovskaya to Primorskaya	September 29, 1979	2.6 km
Lomonosovskaya to Obukhovo	July 10, 1981	4.0 km
Obukhovo to Rybatskoe	December 28, 1984	3.1 km
Primorskaya to Begovaya	May 26, 2018	5.2 km
Total:	12 Stations	27.7 km

Transfers

Transfer to	At
	Mayakovskaya
	Gostinny Dvor
	Ploshchad Alexandra Nevskogo

Future transfer to Line 5 is planned via Admiralteiskaya

Rolling stock

The Nevskoe depot (№ 5) serves the line. Presently 36 six carriage trains are assigned to it, which are Em, Ema, and Emx built in 1960s and 1970s, 81-717/714 built in the 1970s and 1980s, and 81-540/541 and .7 running since 2002.

Recent developments and future plans

Admiralteyskaya was opened in 2011 between Gostiny Dvor and Vasileostrovskaya and became a transfer to Line 5. Proletarskaya was closed for reconstruction on August 25, 2005. Originally, it was intended to reopen on February 25, 2007, but the reconstruction was finished ahead of schedule, allowing the station to reopen on November 17, 2006.

The extension of the line north to Novokrestovskaya and Begovaya was opened in 2018.