Minsk Metro

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Logo of the Minsk Metro
At Kastrychnitskaya station

The Minsk Metro ( Belarusian Мінскі метрапалітэн / Minski metrapaliten ; Russian Минский метрополитен / Minski metropoliten ) is the underground railway of the Belarusian capital Minsk . The first section was opened in 1984. Despite a comparatively short route of 37.3 kilometers and two lines, an impressive 800,000 passengers are transported per day. The metro reached its peak in 2013 with around 900,000 passengers a day.

history

Maskouskaya line

Construction progress since 1984

On June 29, 1984, the first line of the Minsk Metro between Instytut Kultury (Інстытут Культуры) and Maskouskaja (Маскоўская) opened. Two years later, another station was added, Uschod (Усход) . In June 2001, construction began on the extension to Urutschtscha (Уручча) , and was completed in 2008. Work on the extension in a south-westerly direction from the Instytut Kultury station (Інстытут Культуры) began in 2008.

This line is called Maskouskaja after the terminus at that time and has the color code blue.

Autasavodskaya Line

On December 31, 1990, the second line between the train stations Traktarni zavod (Трактарны завод) and Frunzenskaya (Фрунзенская) opened. The Maskouskaja line is crossed. The crossing station was not called Kastrychnitskaya (Кастрычніцкая) , but Kupalauskaya (Купалаўская) . In 1991 the Perschamajskaja metro station (Першамайская) was added. In 1995 the line was extended westward to Pushkinskaya station (Пушкінская) . Just two years later there was an extension to the southeast to the Autasavodskaja station (Аўтазаводская) , and in 2001 again south to the Mahiljouskaja station (Магілёўская) . This is the first train station with an elevator in the former USSR . Just in time for the anniversary of the October Revolution , the red line was extended to the west by 3.9 kilometers and three new stations to Kamennaja Horka (Каменная Горка) on November 7, 2005 .

This line is called Autasavodskaya after an earlier terminus and has the color red.

On May 30, 1999, there was a mass panic at Niamiha Station with 54 deaths as several thousand people sought shelter from a storm in the subway.

Explosion in April 2011

On April 11, 2011, there was an explosion at Oktyabrskaya Station (Октябрьская) (Russian; Byelorussian Kastrychnitskaya (Кастрычніцкая) ). 15 people were killed and around 300 injured. Two suspects were subsequently sentenced to death by shooting . The verdict sparked international criticism. In 2012, a memorial for the victims of the attack was set up in the Memorial Church of All Saints .

Planning for expansion

Construction work for the Green Line of the Minsk Metro, here near the Frunzenskaya station, started in July 2020
Line plan with the expansion plans of the green line

Since the Minsk subway system is planned as a secant network with 45 km, i.e. as a three-line network with three crossing stations that form a typical inner-city triangle, according to the current plans there should be another route (north-south), which is to cross the two existing lines at the Ploshcha Lenina (Плошча Леніна) and Frunzenskaya (Фрунзенская) stations .

Occasionally there is also talk of four planned lines.

Construction work on the green line has now started (as of September 2017). This will initially run between Frunzenskaya (Фрунзенская) and the newly emerging Kawalskaya Slabada station (Кавальская Слабада) and later continue to the Sluzki Gaszinez station (Слуцкі Гасцінец) .

Lines

Minsk Metro route map (since 2014)

The Minsk Metro is 37.3 kilometers long and has 29 stations.

Line name colour route first opening Stations
Maskouskaja (Маскоўская) blue Malinauka (Малінаўка) ↔ Urutschtscha (Уручча) 1984 15th
Autasavodskaja (Аўтазаводская) red Kamennaja Gorka (Каменная Горка) ↔ Mahiljouskaja (Магілёўская) 1990 14th

Others

The Minsk tram has an important feeder function, with its ten lines complementing the surface of the metro.

vehicles

Web links

Commons : Metro Minsk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 54 dead in the crowd, Spiegel Online , May 31, 1999
  2. ^ RIA Novosti : Belarusian court sentenced metro attackers to shoot
  3. ↑ Der Standard: Metro Assassin Sentenced to Death , November 30, 2011.
  4. ↑ Radio Bremen: Belarus without mercy  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.radiobremen.de  
  5. ^ Plan of the Minsk metro. belarus.by, official Website of the Republic of Belarus, accessed on September 20, 2017 (by, English).