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Ulitsa Podbelskogo Cherkizovskaya Preobrazhenskaya Ploshad Sokolniki Krasnoselskaya Komsomolskaya Krasniye Vorota Chistiye Prudy Lubyanka Ohotnii Ryad Biblioteka Imeni Lenina Kropotkinskaya Park Kultury Frunzenskaya Sportivnaya Vorobyovy Gory Universitet Prospekt Vernadskogo Yugo-Zapadnaya
The First, Sokolnicheskaya, Line

This Line, called Sokonicheskaya (due to the station "Sokolniki"), is the first ever founded Subway Lines in Moscow. The first district of the Line from "Sokolniki" to "Park Kultury" with the branch from "Ohotnii Ryad" to "Smolenskaya" was founded on May 15, 1935.

The length 26,2 km (≈ 16,3 miles)
Number of stations 19
Time to go
from one terminus to another 		40 minutes
Number of coaches in each train 7
Average speed 42 km/h
Station which is used
more than another stations
of the line 		Biblioteka Imeni Lenina
Depots Severnoye1
and Cherkizovo2
1 The oldest Subway depot in Moscow, it was founded on April 26, 1935.
2 This depot was founded on June 24, 1990.

Among these 19 stations eleven are shallow, seven are deep, and one station — "Vorobyovy Gory" — is situated on the lower tier of the Metro Bridge and is the first station in the world situated on the bridge above the river. The Line has six transfer stations. Here are they.

1 Komsomolskaya 5 Komsomolskaya

1 Chistiye Prudy 6 Turgenevskaya 10 Sretenskii Bulvar

1 Lubyanka 7 Kuznetskii Most

1 Ohotnii Ryad 2 Teatralnaya

1 Biblioteka Imeni Lenina 3 Arbatskaya 4 Aleksandrovskii
Sad		 9 Borovitskaya

1 Park Kultury 5 Park Kultury

Ulitsa Podbelskogo × Cherkizovskaya × Preobrazhenskaya Ploshad × Sokolniki × Krasnoselskaya
Komsomolskaya × Krasniye Vorota × Chistiye Prudy × Lubyanka × Ohotnii Ryad
Biblioteka Imeni Lenina × Kropotkinskaya × Park Kultury × Frunzenskaya × Sportivnaya
Vorobyovy Gory × Universitet × Prospekt Vernadskogo × Yugo-Zapadnaya
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