Kazan Metro

The Kazan Metro

The Kazan Metro ( Russian Казанский метрополитен , Tatar Казан метросы , actually Kazan Metro ), consisting of a line with ten stations, was opened on August 27, 2005 in time for the 1000th anniversary of Kazan , the capital of Tatarstan .

history

Entrance to Sukonnaja Sloboda station

background

After some other Soviet cities such as Samara or Nizhny Novgorod built or had built subways after the population exceeded one million , Kazan now also needed a metro. For this purpose, the Kazan city administration drew up a metro plan in 1986, which provided a secant network of three lines typical of Soviet cities at the time . In its final version, the planned network should have a total length of 46 kilometers.

Construction work

However, work did not begin until early 1997, a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union . In order to finish the metro in time for the 1000th anniversary of the city on August 27, 2005, a large part of the Russian metro budget was used for Kazan. As a result, the other metro construction in Russia was delayed , as they received significantly less money from the redistribution.

State-of-the-art western shield driving machines with a diameter of 5.63 meters were used for the most part for the tunnel construction . Some sections of the route were built with conventional Soviet shield tunneling machines. For short sections of the route tunnels and for all five stations, the tunnel construction technique of the open construction method was used.

opening

The only line to date with ten stations was opened on August 27, 2005 with a first run. Participants included President Putin , Interior Minister Nurgalijew and Finance Minister Kudrin of the Russian Federation, the President of the Shaimiyev Autonomous Republic and Kazakhstan's President Nazarbayev . The first phase of construction involved the five-station stretch from Kremlyovskaya to Gorky .

extension

On December 29, 2008, this line was extended by another station from Gorki to Prospekt Pobedy (about: Avenue of Victory). On December 30, 2010, the new Kosja Sloboda station went into operation at the other end of the line . On May 9, 2013, three more stations were opened in this direction to Aviastroitelnaya .

Rusitsch metro car

vehicles

For the Kazan Metro, initially five, until 2006 another five newly built four-car trains of the new type 81-553.3 / -554.3 (a modification of the metro trains of the type 81-717 / 714 ) were delivered by a joint venture of Sankt Petersburg Waggonfabrik Wagonmasch and the Czech Škoda Holding.

Future prospects

In the future, the Kazan subway is to be expanded into a secant network with three lines. For the time being, however, only a further expansion of the current line to the southeast by one station is planned. In addition to the current line, which will be named Zentralnaja , another line called Asinsko-Savinovskaya is to be built by 2018 , and two more in the distant future, Priwolschskaja and Sanoksinskaja. There are plans to convert an existing inner-city railway line into an above-ground metro line in the near future.

Lines and stations

Almost the entire 15.8 km long line and nine stations are underground, with only the Ametjewo station above ground on a bridge. The track width is - according to the Russian standard - 1520 mm , for the power supply busbars are used with a driving voltage of 825 volts.

All labels and information are in two languages ​​(Tatar and Russian).

In the following table, which can be sorted, the stations are initially listed in their real order.

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap

image	Russian name transcribed / cyrillic	Tatar name Latin / Cyrillic	location	Opened	map	Noteworthy nearby
	Aviastroitelnaja Авиастрои́тельная	Aviatözeleş Aviatөзелеш	underground	05/09/2013	location
	Sewerny Woksal Се́верный Вокза́л	Tönyaq vokzalı Төньяк вокзалы	underground	05/09/2013	location	Station Kazan-2 ( "North Station")
	Jaschlek Яшьле́к	Yäşlek Яшьлек	underground	05/09/2013	location
	Kosja Sloboda Ко́зья слобода́	Käcä Bistäse Кәҗә Бистәсе	underground	12/30/2010	location
	Kremlyovskaya Кремлёвская	Kremlin Кремль	underground	08/27/2005	location	Kazan Kremlin with Kul Sharif mosque , cathedral and Sujumbike tower
	Ploshchad Gabdully Tukaja Пло́щадь Габдуллы́ Тука́я	Ğabdulla Tuqay Mäydanı Габдулла Тукай мәйданы	underground	08/27/2005	location	University , Millennium Park , Ğabdulla Tuqay Literature Museum
	Sukonnaja Sloboda Су́конная слобода́	Sukno Bistäse Сукно бистәсе	underground	08/27/2005	location
	Ametjewo Аме́тьево	Ämät Әмәт	above ground (bridge)	08/27/2005	location	Transfer to the suburban trains in the direction of Arsk
	Gorky Го́рки	Gorky Горки	underground	08/27/2005	location
	Prospectus Pobedy Проспе́кт Побе́ды	Ciñü prospektı Җиңү проспекты	underground	12/29/2008	location
	Dubrovnaya Dubravnaya	Imänlek Имәнлек	underground	08/30/2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Russian press reports ( Memento of November 9, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Photo gallery for the opening ( Memento of October 31, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (kazantransport.by.ru)

Web links

Commons : Metro Kazan  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Official operator site
• Metro Soyuza - All ex-Soviet metros
• First pictures of the Kazan Metro
• The Kazan Metro at Urbanrail.net