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2020: Moscow, Kryvyi Rih and St. Petersburg - leaders in a gain of number of metro stations

On April 28, 2020 there was information that the rating of the subways constructed in Soviet period ranged by the number of the stations built after the collapse of the USSR is. In this rating the high-speed transport (the subways and the systems of high-speed trams) constructed in the cities of the former USSR during the Soviet period is considered. On the provided information leadership is held by Moscow. However on the second place the Ukrainian Kryvyi Rih which is not even the regional center unexpectedly got. The last places are taken by Tbilisi and Yerevan.

In rating only those systems which were put into operation till December 26, 1991 when stopped the existence of the USSR are provided. Respectively, the systems of high-speed city transport which during the Soviet period were only projected are not mentioned, and were constructed after falling of a socialist system in the CIS countries; especially those systems which are designed and were brought into operation after the specified date (the subways of Almaty, Dnieper and Kazan).

Even the constructions of the station and the line which are in a stage as only what is already put into operation was considered are not considered projectible or. Also not high-speed sections of tram ways which are built in the systems of the high-speed tram, and the systems of the tram having higher speed, than normal, but not isolated from traffic (for example, in Novopolotsk) and also the systems of city trains like the Moscow diameters are not considered.

At the same time to high-speed transport the Moscow monorail and MTsK relating and nominally, and from the technical point of view are carried to Moscow Metro. The Kiev high-speed tram is considered separately from the subway owing to different owners and different tariffing. Thus, how in the CIS countries one of the main transport heritages of the USSR — the high-speed extra street city electric transport is used understands rating.

On the first place by the number of the metro stations, a monorail and MTsK constructed after the collapse of the USSR there is Moscow. Owing to the considerable passenger traffic comparable with the western megalopolises, the Moscow subway — the only thing profitable in Russia. The program of construction of the subway in Moscow is unprecedented recently. For April, 2020 grants to the Moscow subway are about 30 billion rubles a year, and revenue from tickets — 50 billion. At the same time unreasonable development of the subway to the detriment of other means of transport causes complaints in many analysts. In particular, for the last 10 years the number of depot of the subway increased by 4, the number of tram depots did not change, the number of trolleybus parks decreased by 3, the quantity of bus fleets decreased by 1.

By the number of the stations of high-speed extra street electric transport opened for years of independence Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine, the Dnieper region) is on the second place. There was from the moment of the collapse of the USSR 23 stations of the high-speed tram. Kryvyi Rih on a percentage gain of the stations of high-speed extra street electric city transport opened from the moment of the collapse of the USSR is in the first place in the CIS. For Post-Soviet time 23 stations of the high-speed tram were open there. It especially is evident, considering that in the most regional center, Dnieper, the subway considerably concedes in the development and a scope to Kryvyi Rih. It speaks, most likely, the fact that Kryvyi Rih has a specific design, being the longest city of Europe. Also owing to arrangement in the city of the large industrial facilities bringing considerable receipts in city treasury the city administration after the difficult period of the ninetieth was passed, had means for expansion of network of the high-speed tram.

On a percentage gain Yekaterinburg and Samara are in the top three. Their subways young in comparison with other presented in the list were also open in the last years of life for the USSR. The considerable gain is caused by the fact that after the collapse of the USSR they began with the digits close to zero, and the main period of construction fell already on Post-Soviet time. If to take their absolute digits, then no outstanding achievements will be detected any more. On absolute digits the third place is taken by St. Petersburg, even despite a difficult geological situation. It is connected with the fact that the St. Petersburg subway though not such profitable as Moscow, but nevertheless balances on limit of profitability. As for financing, the city budget of the second capital has sufficient replenishment for implementation of transport projects, besides all know, in the Supreme power of Russia there is a large number of natives of St. Petersburg that affects positive dynamics of large business in the city.

The last places are taken by Tbilisi and Yerevan. In Tbilisi the subway was built without population (at the time of construction of Tbilisi fell short of the million plus city) and a geological situation. After the termination of financing from Moscow the subway in the Georgian capital fell into decay. The collapse of a ceiling on the heads to passengers in 2018 was apogee of it. A number of the planned stations was preserved. What happens in Tbilisi to the subway is a part of decline of the city electric transport: the trolleybus, during the Soviet period widespread in Georgia in many cities, for April, 2020 remained only in Gori, in Tbilisi the main passenger traffic is the share of private minibuses.

It was mentioned, as for Yerevan, it was never given considerable attention: during the Soviet period there, for example, saved on electricity — the subway was semi-lit. In process of growth of number of private minibuses the passenger traffic in the Yerevan subway decreased. The route of the subway is selected unsuccessfully, the subway is unprofitable and to develop it the mayor's office of Yerevan, probably, does not see sense^[1].

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