List of metro systems in the Soviet Union

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

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City	Republic	Name	Year opened	Year of last expansion	Stations	Lines	System length	Ridership (millions)
Moscow	Russian SFSR	Moscow Metro[4]	1935	2023	258[5]	17	460.5 km (286.1 mi)[5]	2378.3 (2016)[R 1]
Leningrad (Now Saint Petersburg)	Russian SFSR	Leningrad Metro	1955	2019	71[6]	5	118.6 km (73.7 mi)[6]	740.4 (2016)[R 1]
Kiev	Ukrainian SSR	Kiev Metro	1960	2013	52[7]	3	67.6 km (42.0 mi)[7]	484.6 (2016)[R 1][R 2]
Tbilisi	Georgian SSR	Tbilisi Metro	1966[8]	2017[9]	23[10]	2	27.1 km (16.8 mi)[10]	105.4 (2016)[R 1]
Baku	Azerbaijan SSR	Baku Metro	1967[11]	2022	27[11]	3	40.3 km (25.0 mi)[11]	217.5 (2016)[R 1]
Kharkiv	Ukrainian SSR	Kharkiv Metro	1975	2016	30[7]	3	38.1 km (23.7 mi)[7]	231.1 (2016)[R 1][R 3]
Tashkent	Uzbek SSR	Tashkent Metro	1977	2023[Nb 1]	43[7]	4	59.5 km (37.0 mi)[7]	53.5 (2016)[R 1]
Yerevan	Armenian SSR	Yerevan Metro	1981[12]	1996[13]	10[12]	1	13.4 km (8.3 mi)[12]	15.4 (2016)[R 1]
Minsk	Byelorussian SSR	Minsk Metro	1984[14]	2020	33[15]	3	40.8 km (25.4 mi)[15]	291.0 (2016)[R 1]
Gorky (Now Nizhny Novgorod)	Russian SFSR	Gorky Metro	1985	2018[16]	16[6]	2	21.6 km (13.4 mi)[6]	30.4 (2016)[R 1]
Novosibirsk	Russian SFSR	Novosibirsk Metro	1986	2010[17]	13[6]	2	15.9 km (9.9 mi)[6]	79.0 (2016)[R 1]
Kuybyshev (Now Samara)	Russian SFSR	Kuybyshev Metro	1987[18]	2015[19]	13[19]	1	12.7 km (7.9 mi)[18][19]	15.6 (2016)[R 1]
Sverdlovsk (Now Yekaterinburg)	Russian SFSR	Sverdlovsk Metro	1991	2012[20]	9[6]	1	12.7 km (7.9 mi)[6]	49.2 (2016)[R 1]

Notes

1. The Yunusobod Line was opened in 2001.

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