Ploshcha Lyenina (Minsk Metro)

Ploshcha Lyenina (Belarusian: Плошча Леніна; Russian: Площадь Ленина; "Lenin Square") is a Minsk Metro station.

Ploshcha Lyenina

Плошча Леніна
Minsk Metro station
Station Hall
General information
Coordinates53.8932°N 27.5478°E / 53.8932; 27.5478
Owned byMinsk Metro
Line(s) Maskoŭskaja line
Platforms1 island platform
Tracks2
Connections Zelenaluzhskaya line (Vakzaĺnaja)
Construction
Structure typeUnderground
Other information
Station code115
History
Opened26 June 1984 (1984-06-26)
Services
Preceding station Minsk Metro Following station
Kastrychnitskaya
towards Uručča
 Maskoŭskaja line Instytut Kultury
towards Malinawka
Transfer at Vakzaĺnaja
Plošča Franciška Bahuševiča
towards Jubiliejnaja plošča
 Zelenaluzhskaya line
transfer at Vakzaĺnaja
 Kavaĺskaja Slabada
Terminus
Location
Ploshcha Lyenina is located in Belarus
Ploshcha Lyenina
Ploshcha Lyenina
Location within Belarus

Overview

The station, opened on June 24, 1984, is part of the Maskoŭskaja line and serves the main railway station of the city, Minsk-Pasažyrski.

From 1992 to 2003, the station was called "Ploshcha Nyezalyezhnastsi" (lit: Independence Square), but later the original name of the station was restored. According to the head of the technical department of the Minsk subway, the official decision to rename the station "Lenin Square" to "Independence Square" was never taken, and were only verbal instructions from the government.

It is a transfer station to the Vakzaĺnaja station on the Zelenaluzhskaya line.

It is one of three on the Minsk Metro to have been built with an entrance in an existing building, the other two being Kastryčnickaja and Kupalaŭskaja.[1]

References
  1. Schwandl, Robert (2004). "Minsk". UrbanRail.net. Archived from the original on 17 April 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
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