By Victor Mikheev
New Minsk metro station Malinovka opens to passengers
Attending the metro station inauguration ceremony was Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich, who congratulated passengers and workers at the station on its opening. He commented on the work of engineers and those who had worked in difficult conditions to complete the project, saying, “We failed to meet our scheduled dates of construction, because it was so difficult to dig the hole here. In order to accelerate construction of metro stations, Minsk City Executive Committee has taken a decision, supported by the Government, to buy new boring machinery, paid for with a loan from the Development Bank of 11 million Euros. Our contract for delivery from a French company has been signed.”
Besides budgetary means, Br450bn of credit resources are being found for the construction of metro lines. Mr. Myasnikovich notes that the Government of Belarus wishes to see ‘reasonable investment into such infrastructure as the metro, which will be repaid in terms of currency and is export oriented’. The PM adds, “We don’t agree with the approaches preached by the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank: that it is necessary to suppress inflation and hold back on investments. We think that’s a dead-end which can only cause us to fall behind forever.”
During opening of the Malinovka metro station, the Head of Government received a monthly season ticket, which he at once used for a journey from Malinovka station to Petrovshchina station. The new station is able to welcome 20,000 passengers a day. With its opening, five more trains have come into commission, each with five carriages. Meanwhile, the new station is decorated with a nature theme: as at three previous stations: Grushevka, Mikhalovo and Petrovshchina. The prevailing colours at Malinovka are green and light pistachio, with the tunnel walls portraying raspberry bushes pruned to the shape of trees. Six, located in the middle of the platform, are filled with pictures of small birds.
The station is designed to be comfortable and convenient, including for those with less mobility. It is equipped with lifts, and has an examination room equipped with a radiographic scanner — to check luggage (one of seven such across the Minsk metro). Another 24 such zones of examination are to launch this year.
Malinovka metro station is sited at the crossroads of Dzerzhinsky Avenue and Yesenin Street, near the micro-districts of Malinovka and Brilevichi, in the Moscovsky District of Minsk. It is the final stop of the first line of the Minsk metro, on its southwest radius. It is joined to neighbouring station Petrovshchina by about 2km of tunnel and was due to open in October 2014, before the deadline was moved forward.
New Minsk metro station Malinovka opens to passengers
Attending the metro station inauguration ceremony was Belarusian Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich, who congratulated passengers and workers at the station on its opening. He commented on the work of engineers and those who had worked in difficult conditions to complete the project, saying, “We failed to meet our scheduled dates of construction, because it was so difficult to dig the hole here. In order to accelerate construction of metro stations, Minsk City Executive Committee has taken a decision, supported by the Government, to buy new boring machinery, paid for with a loan from the Development Bank of 11 million Euros. Our contract for delivery from a French company has been signed.”Besides budgetary means, Br450bn of credit resources are being found for the construction of metro lines. Mr. Myasnikovich notes that the Government of Belarus wishes to see ‘reasonable investment into such infrastructure as the metro, which will be repaid in terms of currency and is export oriented’. The PM adds, “We don’t agree with the approaches preached by the International Monetary Fund or the World Bank: that it is necessary to suppress inflation and hold back on investments. We think that’s a dead-end which can only cause us to fall behind forever.”
During opening of the Malinovka metro station, the Head of Government received a monthly season ticket, which he at once used for a journey from Malinovka station to Petrovshchina station. The new station is able to welcome 20,000 passengers a day. With its opening, five more trains have come into commission, each with five carriages. Meanwhile, the new station is decorated with a nature theme: as at three previous stations: Grushevka, Mikhalovo and Petrovshchina. The prevailing colours at Malinovka are green and light pistachio, with the tunnel walls portraying raspberry bushes pruned to the shape of trees. Six, located in the middle of the platform, are filled with pictures of small birds.
At opening of Malinovka metro station
The station is designed to be comfortable and convenient, including for those with less mobility. It is equipped with lifts, and has an examination room equipped with a radiographic scanner — to check luggage (one of seven such across the Minsk metro). Another 24 such zones of examination are to launch this year.
Malinovka metro station is sited at the crossroads of Dzerzhinsky Avenue and Yesenin Street, near the micro-districts of Malinovka and Brilevichi, in the Moscovsky District of Minsk. It is the final stop of the first line of the Minsk metro, on its southwest radius. It is joined to neighbouring station Petrovshchina by about 2km of tunnel and was due to open in October 2014, before the deadline was moved forward.
