Sponsor's Corner https://go.sky.pro/proftest_Gershman — Take a free professional test and find out which profession will not burn you out and will allow you to earn above the market in six months! And the results can be discussed with a career consultant at a personal meeting. Test at the link: https://go.sky.pro/proftest_Gershman -------- Videos on the topic How was the Moscow metro ruined? Sobyanin's records, new stations in the fields and the cult of simplification • How was the Moscow metro ruined? Sobyanin's records ... From St. Petersburg to Moscow in two hours? When and where to wait for high-speed trains in Russia: • To Moscow in two hours? When and where to ra... Can a bus replace the metro? They tried it in Tbilisi: • Can a bus replace the metro? In T... Volgograd metro trams and why they abandoned the metro: • Volgograd metro trams: why they refused ... Your city doesn't need a metro! How the tram became better than the metro — the Hannover metrotram: • Your city doesn’t need the metro! How the tra... Transport for the poor? How Moscow turned commuter trains into ground-based metro, the history and future of the MCD: • Transport for the poor? How Moscow pr... -------- “We need to close the inconvenient stations in Moscow. And open them in St. Petersburg. We’ll be glad” — this is one of the most popular comments under my video about the pros and cons of the Moscow metro. It was this comment that gave me the idea to make a separate video about the St. Petersburg metro. More precisely, why, while a bunch of new stations are opening in Moscow, in the city on the Neva they build 1 station about every 5 years — I wanted to bother and still find the answer to this question. However, in the course of preparing the video and communicating with the specialists involved, it became clear that the question is simple, but the answer is complex. We'll have to rewind history to the 19th century, because they were thinking about building a metro in the city back in the tsarist years, then I'll tell you about the supposedly terrible local soils and what prevents stations from being built (spoiler - the swamp is not to blame), here I'll tell you the real reason for the strange doors at the stations in the center - they were not made to protect against floods, and then we'll move from the Soviet years to our time. We'll look at the projects of recent years and why the Shushary metro station is not in Shushary at all, but God knows where. And by this point, I think you'll already have your own answer to this simple question. How the Moscow metro was rebuilt due to quicksand: https://t.me/gre4ark/16594 Georgy Frolov's Telegram channel "Petersburger without Borders": https://t.me/SaintPinDeepTrance -------- For cooperation inquiries: [email protected] Support the project team: ✅ Boost (for Russian cards): https://boosty.to/gershman ✅ Via Telegram (any card): https://t.me/gre4ark/21130 ✅ YouTube sponsorship (for foreign cards): youtube.com/arkadiygershman/join ✅ Patreon (for foreign cards): / gershman -------- Telegram: https://t.me/gre4ark TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZSJEse2Gf/ Twitter: / arkadiygershman VK: http://vk.com/gre4ark FB: / gre4ark Insta: / gre4ark Blog with text posts: http://urbanblog.ru -------- My name is Arkady Gershman, for the last ten years I have been promoting a healthy attitude to the city (google City for people). To put it simply, I am an urbanist with an unhealthy love for transport. I am not an architect, so I will not tell you about the choice of materials or different styles of architecture, but I will tell you about the correct urban development policy, how to lay a tram, what a street should be like and how to make a park without drug addicts and alcoholics. -------- Timecodes: 00:00 Moscow and St. Petersburg — metro of two capitals 01:23 The first metro in the world 03:29 The first projects of the St. Petersburg and Moscow metro 05:22 Useful integration 06:56 How the Leningrad metro was built 09:06 Saving on the metro in the USSR 11:25 Soviet experiments and convenient transfers 14:53 Two-story stations and other oddities 16:21 Metro washout — the swamp strikes back 18:27 Build at any cost? 19:47 Metro today, construction in New Russia 22:04 Why Shushary is not in Shushary 23:10 Leaking metro and unnecessary vestibules 24:06 Metro Mining Institute and Beglov 26:31 Is St. Petersburg just poor? 28:00 How Metrostroy was torn apart. Zenit and the metro 30:32 New plans and a station for the high-speed railway 32:50 Metro like in Moscow and St. Petersburg's mistakes 35:35 Not building a metro? That's even good!