List of metro systems in the Soviet Union explained

This is a list of metro systems which were built under the Soviet Union and kept on working in the post-Soviet states.

There were 13 metro systems in 7 of the 15 Soviet republics just before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. A 14th metro system, the Dnipro Metro, started construction in 1982, but due to financial difficulties was not opened until 1995. Other than in Dnipro, the only metro systems built in the post-Soviet states after 1991 are Kazan Metro in Russia (2005) and Almaty Metro in Kazakhstan (2011). Additionally the Volgograd Metrotram, the Kryvyi Rih Metrotram and the Kyiv Pravoberezhna line[1] are three metrotram systems with elements of metro, opened in 1984, 1986 and 1978 respectively. The latter one –being the oldest– is regarded to be the archetype of the other two systems.[2] [3]

List

CityRepublicNameYear openedYear of last expansionStationsLinesSystem lengthRidership (millions)
MoscowMoscow Metro[4] 19352023258[5] 17460.5km (286.1miles)2378.3 (2016)
Leningrad
(Now Saint Petersburg)		Leningrad Metro19552019715118.6km (73.7miles)740.4 (2016)
KyivKyiv Metro1960201352[6] 367.6km (42miles)484.6 (2016)[7]
TbilisiTbilisi Metro1966[8] 2017[9] 23227.1km (16.8miles)[10] 105.4 (2016)
BakuBaku Metro1967202227340.3km (25miles)[11] 217.5 (2016)
KharkivKharkiv Metro1975201630338.1km (23.7miles)231.1 (2016)[12]
TashkentTashkent Metro19772023[13] 43459.5km (37miles)53.5 (2016)
YerevanYerevan Metro1981[14] 1996[15] 10113.4km (08.3miles)15.4 (2016)[16]
MinskMinsk Metro1984[17] 202033[18] 340.8km (25.4miles)291.0 (2016)
Gorky
(Now Nizhny Novgorod)		Gorky Metro19852018[19] 16221.6km (13.4miles)[20] 30.4 (2016)
NovosibirskNovosibirsk Metro19862010[21] 13215.9km (09.9miles)79.0 (2016)
Kuybyshev
(Now Samara)		Kuybyshev Metro1987201513112.7km (07.9miles)[22] [23] 15.6 (2016)
Sverdlovsk
(Now Yekaterinburg)		Sverdlovsk Metro19912012[24] 9112.7km (07.9miles)49.2 (2016)

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  13. The Yunusobod Line was opened in 2001.
  14. Web site: Yerevan authorities negotiating new metro line projects with banks . ArmeniaNow.com . 27 March 2013 . 2013-08-04.
  15. Charbakh, Web site: Yerevan. Schwandl. Robert. UrbanRail.Net. 2013-01-08.
  16. Web site: Основные технико-эксплуатационные характеристики метрополитенов за 2016 год . Международная Ассоциация "Метро" [International Association of Metros] . Russian . Main technical and operational specifications for Subways in Year 2016 . 2017-09-07.
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