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How much did the extension of Saint Petersburg — Line 3 — Line 3 extension cost?

The extension of Saint Petersburg Metro's Line 3 (Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya) from Primorskaya to Begovaya and Zenit (formerly Novokrestovskaya) is a 5.1-km section with two stations built for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, mostly as a double-track tunnel, with Zenit and Begovaya opening on 26 May 2018. Delovoy Peterburg quoted Metrostroy's chief executive on 23 May 2018 putting its cost at RUB 30.1 billion, with RUB 11.8 billion from the federal budget, and RBC in September 2017 put it at about RUB 30 billion, whereas the earlier snapshot's RUB 37 billion belongs in RBC to the Krasnoselsko-Kalininskaya section.