Electric depot "Avtovo"

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Электродепо «Автово»

TCh-1 Avtovo is a depot on the Kirovsko-Vyborgskaya line of the Petersburg metro. This is the first metro depot in St. Petersburg, opened in 1955.

In the 1970s, Lengiprotrans developed a project to expand the rolling stock base of the St. Petersburg metro depot at Avtovo station. The project provided for the development of complex power electrical equipment, internal electrical lighting, external power supply and electrical parts of other devices, many dozen industrial and other premises of a large metro depot.

Photo: Electric depot "Avtovo" (source: wikimedia.org)