Moscow Belarusian Railway Station

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Moscow Belarusian Railway Station
The reception building of the Belarusian train station
The reception building of the Belarusian train station
Data
Location in the network Terminus
Design Terminus
Platform tracks 11
opening 1870
Website URL belorussky.dzvr.ru
Architectural data
Architectural style Neoclassicism
architect Ivan Strukov
location
City / municipality Moscow
City with subject status Moscow
Country Russia
Coordinates 55 ° 46 '35 "  N , 37 ° 34' 54"  E Coordinates: 55 ° 46 '35 "  N , 37 ° 34' 54"  E
List of train stations in Russia
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The Belarusian railway station ( Russian Белорусский вокзал  / Belorusski voksal ) is a terminus in the Russian capital Moscow and one of the most important long-distance train stations in the city. It was built in 1870 and renamed several times during its existence; It received its current name in 1936.

location

The Belarusian Railway Station is located a little northwest of the historic Moscow city center on the Leningradski Prospect artery , which emerges from Tverskaya Street and is continued out of town by the M10 highway . The station is generally regarded as a terminus station, although some of the tracks are through tracks that connect it to the Zavyolovo station . Like all other eight major railway stations of Moscow is also the Byelorussian railway station on the Moscow metro network connected: The station Belorusskaya the Samoskworezkaja - and the same station of Koltsevaya Line have inputs and outputs in the immediate vicinity of the reception building.

history

The beginnings of the station go back to the start of construction of the railway line from Moscow to Smolensk , which was to be extended from there to Minsk and Warsaw . The line, which was initially called the Moscow-Smolensk Railway (Russian Московско-Смоленская железная дорога ) was relocated from 1868. A previously largely unused site in the immediate vicinity of the then north-western city limits was chosen as the location for the future main train station, which was to serve this route. As early as April 1869, the construction of the railway station could begin. On September 19, 1870, the ceremonial opening of the originally single-track railway line to Smolensk and the station, which was named "Smolensk Station", took place. As early as November 1871, after the railway line had been extended to Brest-Zentralny station, the station was renamed “Brest station”.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a massive renovation of the station was overdue, as the Moscow-Smolensk Railway had meanwhile been expanded to two tracks and the number of passengers in the old reception halls and on the only platform so far could no longer be adequately managed. In the years 1907–1912, the existing station building was therefore extended by several additions, one of which was specially intended for the royal family . The number of platforms has been increased to four. After this reconstruction, the area of ​​the station was three times as large as it was before.

Another renaming of the station took place by tsar decree on May 4, 1912: On this day the Moscow-Brest railway in memory of the tsar Alexander I and his victory in the war against Napoleon exactly 100 years ago was renamed the "Alexanderbahn" and the station accordingly renamed "Alexander-Bahnhof" ( Александровский вокзал ). In August 1922, the Alexanderbahn and the railway line from Moscow to the Baltic States were combined into the "Moscow-Belarusian-Baltic Railways"; this was the reason to rename the station in "Belarusian-Baltic Railway Station" ( Белорусско-Балтийский вокзал ).

In May 1936, after the last major reorganization of the Soviet railway network, the station finally got its name, which is still valid today.

architecture

The station building of the Belarusian train station in its current design comes from the reconstruction of the years 1907–1912. At that time it was kept in a neoclassical style, whereby elements of the Empire can also be recognized. The project for the two side wings of the building came from the architect Iwan Strukow . The right wing was inaugurated on May 25, 1910, the left on February 26, 1912.

gallery

  • Suburban express Iwolga in the Belarusian train station

  • RŽD series ЭП20 on the platform with a train

  • Moscow 1957-Arrival of German festival participants at the Belarusian train station

  • Aeroexpress to Sheremetyevo Airport

Train traffic

Long-distance passenger train connections currently exist (as of 2019) from Moscow's Belarusian railway station to the following destinations, among others:

Country city operator
Germany Berlin , Frankfurt Russian railways
France Paris ( EN 452/453 ), Nice ( Moscow-Nice-Express )
Czech Republic Prague
Poland Warsaw
Russia Belgorod , Vorkuta , Smolensk , Kaliningrad , Kotlas , Rybinsk
Arkhangelsk , Novosibirsk Belaruskaya chyhunka
Belarus Minsk , Hrodna , Brest , Homel , Polatsk

Beside the subway from here local trains (called Elektritschki ), among others, according to Odintsovo , Mozhaisk , Gagarin and Vyazma . Since August 2009, there has also been a regular direct express train connection to Sheremetyevo International Airport from the Belarusian railway station under the brand name Aeroexpress .

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Belorussian Railway Station , accessed on November 30, 2017
  2. ^ Aulbach - 1957
  3. ↑ Moscow 1957-6. (Photos, documents, comments)
  4. ↑ Timetable of passenger trains from Moscow Belarusian Station - 2019 (Russian)
  5. ^ Moscow Belarusian railway station. Official Website (Russian)
  6. ↑ Aeroexpress Moscow , accessed on November 30, 2017 (English)

literature

  • Walther Tuckermann: Eastern Europe . Ferdinand Hirt, Breslay 1922, p. 130 ( archive.org ).
  • «Intourist» routes for 1956 . Intourist , Moscow 1955, p. 60 ( archive.org ).
  • Zosim Kreinis: Stations of Our Hope ... Autograph, Moscow 2015, ISBN 978-5-906088-13-0 , p. 482 , col. 65 (Russian, original title: Вокзалы надежд наших … ).

Web links

Commons : Byelorussian Railway Station  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files