Sokolnicheskaya line

Sokolnicheskaya line
Overview
LocaleMoscow
Termini
Stations27
Service
TypeRapid transit
SystemMoscow Metro
Operator(s)Moskovsky Metropoliten
Rolling stock81-717.5M/714.5M
81-740.1/741.1
81-765/766/767
81-765.4/766.4/767.4
History
Opened15 May 1935
Technical
Line length47 kilometres (29 mi)
CharacterAt-grade, underground, and elevated
Track gauge1,520 mm (4 ft 11+2732 in)
ElectrificationThird rail
Route map

Kholmogorskaya
MGSU
Bulvar Rokossovskogo
Cherkizovo yard
Cherkizovskaya
Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad
Sokolniki
Krasnoselskaya
Severnoye yard
Komsomolskaya
Krasnye Vorota
Chistye Prudy
Lubyanka
Okhotny Ryad
()
Biblioteka Imeni Lenina
Kropotkinskaya
()
Park Kultury
Frunzenskaya
()
Sportivnaya
Vorobyovy Gory
Universitet
Prospekt Vernadskogo
Yugo-Zapadnaya
Troparyovo
Rumyantsevo
Salaryevo
Solntsevo–Butovo–Warsaw Highway
Filatov Lug
Prokshino
Olkhovaya
Novomoskovskaya
Stolbovo yard
Potapovo
Ulitsa Gorchakova
Ostafyevo

The Sokolnicheskaya line (Russian: Соко́льническая ли́ния, IPA: [sɐˈkolʲnʲitɕɪskəjə ˈlʲinʲɪjə], formerly Kirovsko-Frunzenskaya (Ки́ровско-Фру́нзенская) (Line 1; Red Line) is a line of the Moscow Metro in Moscow, Russia. It opened in 1935 and is the oldest line of the Moscow Metro system. There are currently 27 stations open on the line. As of 2024, the line is 47 kilometres (29 mi) long and is the longest line in the Moscow Metro.