Expansion timeline of the Moscow Metro

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Below is the history of the expansion of the Moscow Metro in Moscow, Russia.

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The line number only reflects the section it serves today. The original line the station served at the time of opening may be different due to lines being divided, shifted to or merged with other lines afterwards.

Timeline list

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length (km)
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1 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg SokolnikiPark Kultury Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg Smolenskaya 1935-05-151312.01312.0Branch from Okhotny Ryad to Smolenskaya
2 Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg SmolenskayaKiyevskaya 1937-03-2011.41413.4
3 Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg Aleksandrovsky Sad Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg Kurskaya 1938-03-1323.21615.7
4 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg TeatralnayaSokol 1938-09-1168.52224.2Excluding Tverskaya
5 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg TeatralnayaAvtozavodskaya 1943-01-0116.22330.4Excluding Novokuznetskaya and Paveletskaya
6 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg Novokuznetskaya, Paveletskaya 1943-11-20202530.4
7 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg KurskayaPartizanskaya 1944-01-1837.12837.5Excluding Elektrozavodskaya
8 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg Elektrozavodskaya 1944-05-15102937.5
9 Moskwa Metro Line 5.svg Park KulturyKurskaya 1950-01-0166.53544.0
10 Moskwa Metro Line 5.svg KurskayaBelorusskaya 1952-01-3047.03951.0
11 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg Ploshchad RevolyutsiiKiyevskaya 1953-04-0533.93850.9 Ploshchad RevolyutsiiKiyevskaya segment through Aleksandrovsky Sad closed (4 stations, 4.0 km).
12 Moskwa Metro Line 5.svg BelorusskayaPark Kultury 1954-03-1425.94056.8
13 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg PartizanskayaPervomayskaya (closed) 1954-09-2411.54158.3Temporary station opened until 1961.
14 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg Park KulturySportivnaya 1957-05-0122.54360.8
15 Moskwa Metro Line 6.svg Prospekt MiraVDNKh 1958-05-0144.54765.3
16 Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg KiyevskayaKutuzovskaya 1958-11-0722.35370.7 Aleksandrovsky SadKiyevskaya segment reopened (4 stations, 3.1 km).
17 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg SportivnayaUniversitet 1959-01-1224.55575.2
18 Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg KutuzovskayaFili 1959-11-0711.75676.9
19 Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg FiliPionerskaya 1961-10-1333.55980.4
20 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg PartizanskayaPervomayskaya 1961-10-2123.86082.7Segment leading to temporary Pervomayskaya station closed (1,5 km).
21 Moskwa Metro Line 6.svg OktyabrskayaNovye Cheryomushki 1962-10-1358.16590.8Excluding Shabolovskaya
22 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg PervomayskayaShchyolkovskaya 1963-07-2211.66692.4
23 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg UniversitetYugo-Zapadnaya 1963-12-3024.56896.9
24 Moskwa Metro Line 6.svg Novye CheryomushkiKaluzhskaya (closed) 1964-04-1511.56998.4Temporary station opened until 1974.
25 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg SokolRechnoy Vokzal 1964-12-3036.272104.6
26 Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg Pionerskaya Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg Molodyozhnaya 1965-07-0513.873108.4Excluding Kuntsevskaya
27 Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg Kuntsevskaya 1965-08-311074108.4
28 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg SokolnikiPreobrazhenskaya Ploshchad 1965-12-3112.575110.9
29 Moskwa Metro Line 7.svg TaganskayaVykhino 1966-12-31712.982123.8
30 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg Avtozavodskaya Moskwa Metro Line 11A.svg Kakhovskaya 1969-08-1149.586133.3 KashirskayaKakhovskaya segment opened as part of Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg .
31 Moskwa Metro Line 6.svg OktyabrskayaKitay-gorod 1970-12-3023.988137.2
32 Moskwa Metro Line 7.svg TaganskayaKitay-gorod 1970-12-3012.189139.3
33 Moskwa Metro Line 6.svg Kitay-gorodProspekt Mira 1971-12-3123.291142.5
34 Moskwa Metro Line 7.svg BarrikadnayaOktyabrskoye Pole 1972-12-3057.296149.7
35 Moskwa Metro Line 6.svg Novye CheryomushkiBelyayevo 1974-08-1223.697151.8Temporary segment to the old Kaluzhskaya station closed (1.5 km)
36 Moskwa Metro Line 7.svg Kitay-gorodBarrikadnaya 1975-12-1724.199155.9
37 Moskwa Metro Line 7.svg Oktyabrskoye PolePlanernaya 1975-12-3049.6103165.5Excluding Spartak
38 Moskwa Metro Line 6.svg VDNKhMedvedkovo 1978-09-2948.1107173.6
39 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg Tverskaya 1979-07-2010108173.6
40 Moskwa Metro Line 8.svg MarksistskayaNovogireyevo 1979-12-30611.4114185.0
41 Moskwa Metro Line 6.svg Shabolovskaya 1980-11-0510115185.0
42 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg SerpukhovskayaYuzhnaya 1983-11-04813.0122198.0 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg Vorobyovy Gory station closed in 1983.
43 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg KashirskayaOrekhovo 1984-12-3036.4125204.4Segment soon closed due to flooding. Re-opened in 1985.
44 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg OrekhovoKrasnogvardeyskaya 1985-09-0723.4127207.8
45 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg YuzhnayaPrazhskaya 1985-11-0611,1128208.9
46 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg SerpukhovskayaBorovitskaya 1986-01-2322.8130211.7
47 Moskwa Metro Line 8.svg MarksistskayaTretyakovskaya 1986-01-2511.7131213.4
48 Moskwa Metro Line 6.svg BelyayevoTyoply Stan 1987-11-0622.9133216.3
49 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg BorovitskayaChekhovskaya 1987-12-3111.6134217.9
50 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg ChekhovskayaSavyolovskaya 1988-12-3134.2137222.1
51 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg MolodyozhnayaKrylatskoye 1989-12-3111.9138224.0
52 Moskwa Metro Line 6.svg Tyoply StanNovoyasenevskaya 1990-01-1723.6140227.6
53 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg Preobrazhenskaya PloshchadBulvar Rokossovskogo 1990-08-0323.8142231.4
54 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg SavyolovskayaOtradnoye 1991-03-0758.5147239.9
55 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg OtradnoyeBibirevo 1992-12-3112.6148242.5
56 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg BibirevoAltufyevo 1994-07-1512.0149243.6
57 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg Moskwa Metro Line 11A.svg Kashirskaya 1995-11-2000150243.6 KashirskayaKakhovskaya branch of Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg detached as Moskwa Metro Line 11A.svg .
58 Moskwa Metro Line 10.svg ChkalovskayaVolzhskaya 1995-12-28612.1156256.6Excluding Dubrovka
59 Moskwa Metro Line 10.svg VolzhskayaMaryino 1996-12-2535.4159262.0
60 Moskwa Metro Line 10.svg Dubrovka 1999-12-1110160262.0
61 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg PrazhskayaUlitsa Akademika Yangelya 2000-08-3112.0161264.0
62 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg Ulitsa Akademika YangelyaAnnino 2001-12-1211.4162265.4
63 Moskwa Metro Line 9.svg AnninoBulvar Dmitriya Donskogo 2002-12-2612.0164267.4 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg Vorobyovy Gory re-opened in 2002.
64 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg KiyevskayaPark Pobedy 2003-05-0613.2165270.6
65 Moskwa Metro Line 12.svg Ulitsa StarokachalovskayaBuninskaya Alleya 2003-12-2755.5170276.1
66 Moskwa Metro Line 13.svg TimiryazevskayaUlitsa Sergeya Eyzenshteyna 2004-11-2064.7Was not considered a part of Moscow Metro until 2016.
67 Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg KiyevskayaVystavochnaya 2005-09-1012.2171278.3Branch off Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg   Filyovskaya line
68 Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg VystavochnayaMezhdunarodnaya 2006-08-3010.5172278.7
69 Moskwa Metro Line 10.svg ChkalovskayaTrubnaya 2007-08-3013.72173282.42Excluding Sretensky Bulvar
70 Moskwa Metro Line 10.svg Sretensky Bulvar 2007-12-2910174282.42
71 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg Park PobedyStrogino 2008-01-07211.68176292.2Excluding Slavyansky Bulvar. KuntsevskayaKrylatskoye segment detached from Moskwa Metro Line 4.svg for Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg
72 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg Slavyansky Bulvar 2008-09-0710177292.2
73 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg StroginoMitino 2009-12-2636.6180298.8
74 Moskwa Metro Line 10.svg TrubnayaMaryina Roshcha 2010-06-1923.07182301.2
75 Moskwa Metro Line 10.svg MaryinoZyablikovo 2011-12-0234.5185305.7
76 Moskwa Metro Line 8.svg NovogireyevoNovokosino 2012-08-3013.2186308.9
77 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg KrasnogvardeyskayaAlma-Atinskaya 2012-12-2413.09187311.7
78 Moskwa Metro Line 3.svg MitinoPyatnitskoye Shosse 2012-12-2812188313.1
79 Moskwa Metro Line 7.svg VykhinoZhulebino 2013-11-0924.6190317.5
80 Moskwa Metro Line 8A.svg Delovoy TsentrPark Pobedy 2014-01-3123.4192320.9Segment of Kalininsko-Solntsevskaya Line that is not connected to the rest.
81 Moskwa Metro Line 12.svg Ulitsa StarokachalovskayaBittsevsky Park 2014-02-2724.5194325.4
82 Moskwa Metro Line 7.svg Spartak 2014-08-2710195325.4
83 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg Yugo-ZapadnayaTroparyovo 2014-12-0812.1196327.5
84 Moskwa Metro Line 7.svg ZhulebinoKotelniki 2015-09-2111.5197329
85 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg Tekhnopark 2015-12-2810198329
86 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg TroparyovoRumyantsevo 2016-01-1812.5199331.5
87 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg RumyantsevoSalaryevo 2016-02-1511.8200333.3
88 Moskwa Metro Line 14.svg Moscow Central Circle2016-09-102654Excluding Sokolinaya Gora, Dubrovka, Zorge, Panfilovskaya and Koptevo
89 Moskwa Metro Line 10.svg Maryina RoshchaPetrovsko-Razumovskaya 2016-09-1634.4203337.7
90 Moskwa Metro Line 14.svg Sokolinaya Gora, Dubrovka 2016-10-1120
91 Moskwa Metro Line 14.svg Koptevo 2016-11-0110
92 Moskwa Metro Line 14.svg Zorge 2016-11-0410
93 Moskwa Metro Line 14.svg Panfilovskaya 2016-11-0810
94 Moskwa Metro Line 8A.svg RamenkiPark Pobedy 2017-03-1638.5206346.2
95 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg Rechnoy VokzalKhovrino 2017-12-3113.3207349.5Excluding Belomorskaya
96 Moskwa Metro Line 11.svg Delovoy TsentrPetrovsky Park 2018-02-26510.2212359.7
97 Moskwa Metro Line 10.svg Petrovsko-RazumovskayaSeligerskaya 2018-03-2234.9215364.6
98 Moskwa Metro Line 8A.svg RamenkiRasskazovka 2018-08-30714.2222378.8
99 Moskwa Metro Line 2.svg Belomorskaya 2018-12-2010223378.8
100 Moskwa Metro Line 11.svg Petrovsky ParkSavyolovskaya 2018-12-3011.9224380.7
101 Moskwa Metro Line 15.svg KosinoNekrasovka 2019-06-0345.6228386.3
102 Moskwa Metro Line 1.svg SalaryevoKommunarka 2019-06-2049.4232395.7
103 Moskwa Metro Line 11.svg Lefortovo Moskwa Metro Line 15.svg Kosino 2020-03-27615.1238409.1
104 Moskwa Metro Line 11.svg LefortovoElektrozavodskaya 2020-12-3111.0239410.1
105 Moskwa Metro Line 11.svg KhoroshyovskayaMnyovniki 2021-04-0124.6241414.7
106 Moskwa Metro Line 11.svg MnyovnikiKakhovskaya 2021-12-07923.9250438.6
107 Moskwa Metro Line 11.svg KashirskayaSavyolovskaya 2023-03-01810.5258449.1
108 Moskwa Metro Line 8A.svg Rasskazovka - Aeroport Vnukovo 2023-09-0625.5260454.6
109 Moskwa Metro Line 10.svg Seligerskaya - Fiztekh 2023-09-0736263460.6
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