CIS Metro Statistics

(effective January 2018)

 

City

Number of lines

Total number of stations

Number of stations by line

Bi-directional route length (km)

Average distance between stations (km)

Train length by line

(standard 19-meter cars)

(**)

Maximal possible train length

(standard 19-m cars)

Annual ridership in 2016

(million)

‑

Russia

Moscow

13

207

22‑23‑22‑13‑12‑24‑23‑8‑5‑25‑20‑3‑7

349.4

1.79

7‑8‑7‑6‑7‑8‑8‑8‑7‑8‑8‑6‑4

(*) 8, 6, or 4

2378.3

St. Petersburg

5

67

19‑18‑10‑8‑12

113.5

1.83

8‑6‑6‑6‑6

(*) 8 or 6

740.4

Novosibirsk

2

13

8‑5

15.9

1.45

4‑4

5

79.0

Yekaterinburg

1

9

‑9

12.7

1.59

4

5

49.2

Nizhniy Novgorod

2

15

11‑4

18.8

1.45

4‑4

5

30.4

Samara

1

10

‑10

11.6

1.29

4

5

15.6

Kazan

1

10

‑10

15.8

1.76

4

5

27.2

Russia total

25

331

‑

537.8

 

 

 

3320.1

‑

Ukraine

Kyiv

3

52

18‑18‑16

67.6

1.38

5‑5‑5

5

484.6

Kharkiv

3

30

13‑8‑9

38.5

1.43

5‑5‑5

5

206.3

Dnipro

1

6

‑6

7.1

1.42

3

5

7.4

Ukraine total

7

88

‑

113.2

 

 

 

698.4

‑

Belarus

Minsk

2

29

15‑14

37.3

1.38

5‑5

5

291.0

Belarus total

2

29

‑

37.3

 

 

 

291.0

‑

Other countries

Toshkent

3

29

12‑11‑6

36.1

1.39

4‑4‑4

5

53.5

Baku

3

25

21‑2‑2

36.6

1.67

5‑5‑5

(*) 7 or 5

217.5

Tbilisi

2

23

16‑7

27.3

1.30

4‑3

5

105.4

Yerevan

1

10

‑10

12.1

1.35

3

5

15.4

Almaty

1

9

‑9

10.3

1.29

4

5

12.5

Others total

10

96

‑

122.5

 

 

 

404.3

CIS grand total

44

544

‑

810.7

 

 

 

4713.8

(*)  Maximal possible train length in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Baku (in standard 19-meter cars): ‑

                         4 cars – Butovskaya line (Moscow),

                         5 cars – Red and Green lines (Baku),

                         6 cars – Filevskaya line (Moscow) and Moskovsko-Petrogradskaya and Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya lines (St. Petersburg),

                         7 cars – Purple line (Baku),

                         8 cars – all the other lines in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

(**)  Articulated cars are employed on Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya, Filevskaya, Koltsevaya, and Butovskaya lines in Moscow and on Tsentralnaya line in Kazan.  Each articulated car is 1.4 times the length of a standard 19-meter car.  Trains consist of 5 articulated cars on Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya and Koltsevaya lines, 4 articulated cars on Filevskaya line, and 3 articulated cars on Butovskaya and Tsentralnaya lines.  Approximate equivalent lengths in standard cars are indicated in the “Train length by line” column of the table for these five lines.

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Last update: February 14, 2018.

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