Kazan Metro

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Symbol of Kazan Metro near Kreml at the entrance of Kreml/Kremlyovskaya station

Map of the Kazan Metro

Bilingual signs on the doors of train

Token and pay card

Kazan Metro of Kazan, Tatarstan, Russian Federation, is a single-line metro, the north-southeast running Central Line. Construction began on the system on August 27, 1997. It opened on 27 August 2005, in time for the 1000th anniversary of the city. It became the first metro opened in the post-Soviet era. The system is operated by the city-owned firm KazElektroTrans.

The metro consists of one line with five stations. The total length is 8.42 km of which 7.01 km are currently in service.

1 Stations
2 Service
3 Rolling Stock
4 Expansion
5 See also
6 External links

[edit] Stations

Kremlyovskaya/Kreml
Ploshchad Tukaya/Tuqay mäydanı
Sukonnaya Sloboda/Sukno Bistäse
Ametyevo/Ämät
Gorki

Four of the stations are underground, while the fifth, Ämät/Ametyevo, is above ground in a rail bridge.

[edit] Service

The metro runs from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. and costs 7 rubles one way. The metro also sells "smart-tokens" valid for one day and "smart cards" (passes) which are valid for several trips or a specified length of time. There are also discounted passes for pensioners, students, etc.

All signs and information are presented in two languages Russian and Tatar.

[edit] Rolling Stock

All cars are series 81-55x "Kazan" models produced by Vagonmash in Saint Petersburg in cooperation with Škoda Dopravní Technika of Plzeň, Czech Republic. Trains consist of four cars with a capacity of 250 persons. They are also the first subway trains in Russia which are fully automated, allowing operation without an engineer.

[edit] Expansion

There are plans to extend the line in both directions, bringing the total number of stations on it to eleven. Five of these planned stations will cross the Kazanka River and extend further north, while one station will complete the line's southeast end.

2007 - Prospekt Pobedy/Ciñü Prospektı (southeast).
2008 - the line crosses the river by tunnels and obtain Kozya Sloboda/Käcä Bistäse station (now and then - north).
2010 - Moskovskaya/Mäskäw station. (name is not convented)
2012 - Tranzitny Vokzal/Tranzit Timer Yul Vokzalı and Zavodskaya stations/Zavodlı. (name is not convented)

The city has very ambitious plans beyond the current "red" line. By 2015, the city expects to be underway on two other lines, the "blue" and the "green". By 2023, the city would like to be well into the "green" line and there are hopes for a "brown" circle line. By 2030, the city would like to have an "orange" line running south and a "purple" line running west.

[edit] See also

List of rapid transit systems

Kremlyovskaya - Kreml station	Ploshchad Tukaya - Tuqay Mäydanı station	Sukonnaya Sloboda - Sukno Bistäse station	Sukonnaya Sloboda - Sukno Bistäse station
Ametyevo - Ämät estacade station, that is constructed on a flyover	Ametyevo - Ämät station outside	Ametyevo - Ämät station inside	Ametyevo station inside. As the result of the strongests frosts in Kazan in last 20 years floor elements had fallen off (now reconstucted)
Gorki station	Main control centre, and offices	"Daurskoye" Depot	Metrotrain model 81-553.3/554.3

[edit] External links

Kazan Subway

Rapid transit in the former USSR
Metro systems: Moscow • Saint Petersburg • Kiev • Tbilisi • Baku • Kharkiv • Tashkent • Yerevan • Minsk • Nizhny Novgorod • Novosibirsk • Samara • Yekaterinburg • Dnipropetrovsk • Kazan Metrotrams: Volgograd • Kryvyi Rih Under construction: Almaty • Omsk • Chelyabinsk • Krasnoyarsk • Donetsk