Ploshcha Lyenina (Minsk Metro)

Ploshcha Lyenina (Belarusian: Плошча Леніна; Russian: Площадь Ленина, romanized: Ploshchad Lenina; lit. 'Lenin Square') is a Minsk Metro station.

Ploshcha Lyenina Плошча Леніна
Minsk Metro station
Station Hall
General information
Coordinates	53.8932°N 27.5478°E / 53.8932; 27.5478
Owned by	Minsk Metro
Line(s)	Maskoŭskaja line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Zelenaluzhskaya line (Vakzaĺnaja)
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Station code	115
History
Opened	26 June 1984; 40 years ago (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 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" (Belarusian: Плошча Незалежнасці, lit. 'Independence Square'), 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.^[1]

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References

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