Yerevan Metro

Yerevan Metro

Basic data
Country	Armenia
city	Yerevan
opening	March 7, 1981
Lines	1
Route length	12.1 km
Stations	10
Tunnel stations	7th
Long-distance train stations	1
use
Shortest cycle	5 minutes
Passengers	14.9 million per year (2012)
Employee	1129 (2005)
vehicles	Metro wagon machine 81-717 / 714
operator	Ministry of Transport and Communication of the Republic of Armenia
Gauge	1524 mm ( Russian broad gauge )
Power system	825 V = power rail

Yerevan Metro train at Sassunzi Dawit station

The Yerevan Metro ( Armenian Կարեն Դեմիրճյանի անվան Երևանի Մետրոպոլիտեն ' Karen Demirtschjan -Metro Yerevan' ) is the subway system of the Armenian capital Yerevan . It was opened in 1981 and subsequently expanded in a southerly direction until 1996. Originally intended as an underground tram , the increase in population forced the operator to expand it into a complete metro. The company is a state-owned, public limited company.

history

Construction of the first line began in 1972. However, when only 3.9 km were completed after five years, in 1977 the Central Committee of the CPSU and the ministerial advisor issued the special decree “Construction of the Yerevan Metro”. With this decree, construction and tunnel experts from other cities such as Moscow , Leningrad , Tbilisi or Minsk were included in the project. Known architects of the underground are A.  Suchanow and A.  Tuchamowitsch .

The Yerevan metro was opened on March 7, 1981 and then gradually expanded to the south over the years. The last station in Tscharbach was put into operation in 1996. The number of passengers rose from 14 million passengers a year (1981) to 31 million in 1987 (at that time this corresponded to 9% of all means of transport). The latest figures are from 2012, according to which there were 14.9 million passengers annually. The total length of the Yerevan Metro is 12.1 km with ten stations. These are located underground with the exception of the three stations Sassunzi Dawit , Gorzaranajin and Tscharbach . After the Schengawit station , the route divides in order to reach the two southern end stations Garegin Nschdehi hraparak and Tscharbach .

business

The stations have a platform length of 105 m, which enables trains with five cars to stop. At the moment, however, only trains with two to three wagons of the type Metrowagonmasch 81-717 / 714 are in use, which is also in operation in Moscow and other cities of the former Soviet Union. The trains run every 5 minutes during rush hour , otherwise every 15 minutes, at a speed of around 35 km / h. Operation stops at around 11 p.m. every day. Construction is currently completed on the northern end to the Hrasdan River . This is crossed by a bridge.

The metro has been in a deep crisis since the end of the Soviet Union . The general decline in mobility due to unemployment and impoverishment and the newly created, branched network of private minibus companies are making the short metro line hard. Funding for the further expansion of the metro, which could make the mode of transport competitive, is not foreseeable.

List of stations

In the following table, the stations are listed in the order in which the only metro line runs from north to south.

image	Armenian name transcribed / original	location	Opened	map
	Barekamutjun Բարեկամություն	underground	03/07/1981	location
	Marshal Baghramjan Մարշալ Բաղրամյան	underground	03/07/1981	location
	Jeritassardakan Երիտասարդական	underground	03/07/1981	location
	Hanrapetutjan hraparak Հանրապետության հրապարակ	underground	December 01, 1981	location
	Sorawar Andranik Զորավար Անդրանիկ	underground	12/02/1989	location
	Sassunzi Dawit Սասունցի Դավիթ	above ground	03/07/1981	location
	Gorzaranajin Գործարանային	above ground	07/11/1983	location
	Shengavit Շենգավիթ	underground	01/26/1986	location
	Garegin Nschdehi hraparak Գարեգին Նժդեհի հրապարակ	underground	01/04/1987	location
	Tscharbach Չարբախ	above ground	December 26, 1996	location

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

Future extensions

A second line from the city center to northeast Jeras is currently planned. The following extensions are also up for discussion:

• Extension of line 1 further to the northwest
• Extension of line 2 further to the northeast and south
• Construction of a line 3 in an east-west direction, with the Jeritassardakan station as a transfer station to line 1

Web links

Commons : Metro Yerevan  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Yerevan Metro website (Armenian, English, Russian)
• Metrosoyuza.net (German)
• Urbanrail.net (english)
• Text of an advertising brochure of the Tourist Office of Yerevan late 80s (English)
• Мир Метро (Russian)