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 and Kryvyi Rih Metrotram are two metrotram systems with elements of metro, opened in 1984 and 1986 respectively.

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CityRepublicNameYear openedYear of last expansionStationsLinesSystem lengthRidership (millions)
Moscow  Russian SFSRMoscow Metro[1]19352023258[2]17460.5 km (286.1 mi)[2]2378.3 (2016)[R 1]
Leningrad
(Now Saint Petersburg)
 Russian SFSRLeningrad Metro1955201971[3]5118.6 km (73.7 mi)[3]740.4 (2016)[R 1]
Kyiv  Ukrainian SSRKyiv Metro1960201352[4]367.6 km (42.0 mi)[4]484.6 (2016)[R 1][R 2]
Tbilisi  Georgian SSRTbilisi Metro1966[5]2017[6]23[7]227.1 km (16.8 mi)[7]105.4 (2016)[R 1]
Baku  Azerbaijan SSRBaku Metro1967[8]202227[8]340.3 km (25.0 mi)[8]217.5 (2016)[R 1]
Kharkiv  Ukrainian SSRKharkiv Metro1975201630[4]338.1 km (23.7 mi)[4]231.1 (2016)[R 1][R 3]
Tashkent  Uzbek SSRTashkent Metro19772023[Nb 1]43[4]459.5 km (37.0 mi)[4]53.5 (2016)[R 1]
Yerevan  Armenian SSRYerevan Metro1981[9]1996[10]10[9]113.4 km (8.3 mi)[9]15.4 (2016)[R 1]
Minsk  Byelorussian SSRMinsk Metro1984[11]202033[12]340.8 km (25.4 mi)[12]291.0 (2016)[R 1]
Gorky
(Now Nizhny Novgorod)
 Russian SFSRGorky Metro19852018[13]16[3]221.6 km (13.4 mi)[3]30.4 (2016)[R 1]
Novosibirsk  Russian SFSRNovosibirsk Metro19862010[14]13[3]215.9 km (9.9 mi)[3]79.0 (2016)[R 1]
Kuybyshev
(Now Samara)
 Russian SFSRKuybyshev Metro1987[15]2015[16]13[16]112.7 km (7.9 mi)[15][16]15.6 (2016)[R 1]
Sverdlovsk
(Now Yekaterinburg)
 Russian SFSRSverdlovsk Metro19912012[17]9[3]112.7 km (7.9 mi)[3]49.2 (2016)[R 1]

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