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Petersburg will open a new metro station this week, Governor Alexander Beglov announced Thursday, marking the former Tsarist capitals first new city station in five years.The Gorny Institute metro station, located on Vasilievsky Island, will extend the 4th (or orange) line westward.
It will start operations at 9:00 a.m.
on Friday, with its vestibule open for both entry and exit, Beglov said.The opening of Gorny Institute is a turning point, the guv composed on Telegram, noting that the city had actually conquered considerable obstacles throughout the stations construction.Beglov thanked President Vladimir Putin, metro contractors, engineers and homeowners of St.
Petersburg for their persistence and assistance, calling the stations conclusion the very first results of continual efforts to advance the citys city system.The stations opening comes after years of delays.
Set up for conclusion in 2015, its opening was postponed to 2018 and later on to 2022.
Construction efforts were further overshadowed by a deadly scaffolding collapse in June 2020 that eliminated one worker and hurt another.Gorny Institute is the very first station to open considering that 2019, when 3 others Prospect Slavy, Dunayskaya, and Shushary were inaugurated.St.
Petersburgs city is presently comprised of five lines and 72 stations.
It has actually broadened gradually over the years, in plain contrast to Moscows burgeoning metro system, which this year opened 8 brand-new stations.