Published on: 2026-10-02
Source: Government of the Russian Federation –
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On October 2, Russia celebrates Metro Builder’s Day. Today, metro development is underway in several Russian cities, including through the use of infrastructure loans. Thanks to this support tool, more than 14 km of tunnels have been completed in Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod, and Samara, said Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin.
“The metro is one of the most efficient types of public transport, which increases the comfort of daily trips, reduces road congestion, fundamentally changes the life of cities, and also serves as a powerful driver of territorial development. Building a metro is a complex engineering process that requires significant time, material, and professional resources. For this work, infrastructure loan funds were attracted in several cities: as of today, about 14.6 km of tunnels have been completed in Nizhny Novgorod, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, and Samara,” noted the Deputy Prime Minister.
The curator of the infrastructure loan program is the Ministry of Construction, with the operator being the Territorial Development Fund.
“The socio-economic impact of major infrastructure projects such as metro and metrottram lines is difficult to overestimate. They become drivers of city development, improving transport accessibility and comfort for millions of residents. Work on tunnel construction is still ongoing. In Chelyabinsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Nizhny Novgorod, about 21 km of tunnels remain to be completed in total,” said FRT General Director Vasily Kupyzin.
Thus, in Nizhny Novgorod, two new metro stations are planned – “Ploshchad Svobody” and “Sennaya” on the Avtozavodskaya line, as well as the “Sormovskaya” station on the Sormovsko-Meshcherskaya line. A total of 3.6 km of tunnels have been completed since 2024. It remains to build 860 m of the Avtozavodskaya line and 2.3 km of the Sormovsko-Meshcherskaya line.
A metrotram project is being implemented in Chelyabinsk. The first line, “North – South,” with a length of over 9 km, includes the construction of two underground stations – “Revolution Square” and “Shopping Center” – and above-ground stops at “Ovchinnikova Street,” “Kosareva Street,” and “Kaslinskaya Street.” The second line, “East – West,” is currently in the pre-design stage. Since 2025, 1.4 km of tunnels have been completed. A total of 7.8 km remains to be built: 3.1 km from “Ovchinnikova Street” station, 2.1 km from “Kosareva Street,” and 2.6 km from “Kaslinskaya Street.” The project provides for the possibility of further development of the lines both in the above-ground sections and underground. With the help of an infrastructure loan, the region is also acquiring modern, comfortable rolling stock specially designed for the entire city electric transport route network. The new cars are currently undergoing testing for future operation.
In Krasnoyarsk, a high-speed underground and surface light rail line, also known as a metrotram, is being constructed. “Kopylova Street” will be the only deep-level station on the line. Currently, work is being carried out both on the surface and underground. As of 2024, 8.1 km of tunnels have been completed, of which 7.9 km were excavated by tunnel boring machines and 200 meters by mining method—from “Vysotnaya” to “Kopylova Street.” There are 10.3 km of tunnels left to build.
The construction of the “Teatralnaya” station is underway in Samara, which will become the first metro exit to the historic center and will also significantly reduce travel time to the city center for residents of remote areas. The length of the completed running tunnels (measured for two tracks) is 1.6 km. Currently, work is being carried out on the construction of pedestrian exits, the installation of the upper track structure, architectural finishing of passenger areas, and the installation of engineering systems and equipment at the site.
In addition, infrastructure loans were used for the development of the metro in Saint Petersburg. At the end of last year, thanks to this, two new stations opened on the Krasnoselsko-Kalininskaya line – a new underground transport artery of the Northern capital. The section from “Yugo-Zapadnaya” to “Putilovskaya” can accommodate 221 thousand people per day, or at least 40 pairs of trains per hour.
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