Ploshcha Lyenina (; ; ) is a
Minsk Metro
The Minsk Metro (; ) is a rapid transit system that serves Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Opened 29 June 1984, it presently consists of 3 lines and 33 stations, totaling . In 2013, the system carried 328.3 million passengers, which averages to a ...
station.
Overview
The station, opened on June 24, 1984, is part of the
Maskoŭskaja line
The Maskoŭskaja line (also referred to as Maskowskaya line or Moskovskaya line) (; ; lit: "Moscow line") is a line of the Minsk Metro. The line was opened along with the Metro in 1984 with the original eight station segment, and crosses the city ...
and serves the main railway station of
the city,
Minsk-Pasažyrski.
From 1992 to 2003, the station was called "Ploshcha Nyezalyezhnastsi" (), but later the station's original name 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 was 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.
Gallery
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References
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Minsk Metro stations
Railway stations in Belarus opened in 1984