Metro in Minsk is a popular and convenient form of transport. Underground highways duplicate the main traffic flows on the surface, unloading the city during peak hours.
In the subway of the Belarusian capital 25 stations. Minsk Metro - these are two operating lines (Moscow and Avtozavodskaya). Soon there will be another one.
In 2014, metro cars decorated the Minsk schemesubway, which first appeared the third line, not yet put into operation. At the same time in the cars began to voice the names of the stations not only in Belarusian, but also in English. All innovations were confined to the World Hockey Championship, held in Minsk.
The scheme of the Minsk Metro will change more than once.The city authorities are planning to build and launch the fourth metro line in the future. The network of underground highways should connect the city center with large neighborhoods. Well, the immediate plans - the launch of the first stations of the third line in 2019.
The stations open at 5:30 am, the first train leaves at 5 hours and 33 minutes. The interval between formulations varies from 1.5 to 9 minutes at different times of the day.
Entrance doors close at one in the morning. Three minutes after that, the last train leaves, carrying passengers who have reached the platforms.
Travel on the subway is paid for with special tokens. The transition from one line of the Minsk metro to another is free.
One token in Minsk metro costs 60Belarusian cents (about $ 0.3 or 18 Russian rubles). They are plastic, with a metal element inside. You can buy them at the box office at each station. There, on the occasion it makes sense to stock up coupons for land transport.
In the Minsk transport system operateselectronic travel cards, and instead of placer tokens, it is proposed to record the required number of trips on a contactless smart card. Those who use the subway often and takes more than 10 trips at a time are waiting for a discount. It is also possible to pay for the trip via SMS.
If you need to withdraw cash, there is a Minsk metro scheme in the halls indicating which stations have ATMs.
What sights of the city of Minsk are located near metro stations, you can learn from the table below.
| Metro stations | What to see |
| "Uruche" | Rock garden |
"East" | National Library of Belarus |
| "Park Chelyuskintsev" | City Park them. Chelyuskintsev, Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, children's railway |
| "Academy of Sciences" | Cinema "October", the house-museum of the poet and writer J. Kolas |
| "Yakub Kolas Square" | Sculptural group dedicated to the works of J. Kolas, National Philharmonic, Central Komarovsky Market |
| "Victory Square" | Round Square and Victory Obelisk, Central Children's Park. M. Gorky, circus |
| "Kupalovskaya" | Zero kilometer, the oldest fountain of Minsk "Boy with a swan" |
| "Lenin Square" | Church of Saints Simon and Helena, ensemble of Independence Square |
| Nemiga | Upper city with a pedestrian zone, Trinity suburb, a memorial dedicated to soldiers-internationalists on the Island of Tears |
Прибывая на железнодорожную станцию "Minsk-Passenger" or the Central Bus Station, you can go down the subway and get to the hotel or, traveling the stations, to see the main attractions of the Belarusian capital.
