President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko will take part in the grand opening of a new section of the third line of the Minsk Metro. These are the stations "Aerodromnaya", "Nemorgshansky Sad", "Slutsky Gostinets", according to BELTA.
The Head of State will be informed about the development prospects of the Minsk Metro. Alexander Lukashenko will communicate with the employees of the capital's underground and inspect the new stations.
Construction of the third line section of the Minsk Metro from "Aerodromnaya" station to "Slutsky Gostinets" station, with a length of 4.08 km, began in August 2017. Approximately 90% of the equipment and materials used in the construction are of Belarusian production.
The completion of this section of the third line will provide high-speed transport links to other districts of the city for the Kursovshchina residential area, as well as the "Minsk-Mir" district. At the same time, a transport triangle will be created in the city center with vertices at the transfer hubs of "Oktyabrskaya" - "Kupalovskaya", "Ploshchad Lenina" - "Vokzalnaya", and "Frunzenskaya" - "Yubileynaya Ploshchad" stations, and the passenger load on the existing transfer hub between the second and third lines will decrease.
The third metro line incorporates technological solutions of a new technical level, high automation of management and control processes for engineering equipment, intelligent systems for train traffic management, fare payment, fire safety, and new data transmission and processing facilities for the operation of all metro systems. To ensure passenger safety, platform barrier fences (automatic station doors) have been installed at the stations.
Traditionally, different interior design solutions have been used at the stations. For example, at "Slutsky Gostinets", the interior concept is a set of historical metaphors and quotes presented in an ultra-modern form and color. One of the famous historical heritages associated with Slutsk is rightfully considered to be the Slutsk belts. Some patterns used in fabric products, in a simplified, stylized form, are reflected in the station's interior.
The main artistic idea of the "Nemorshanski Sad" station interior, as the name suggests, is the image of a garden. The image of modern life and culture is influenced by ecologization. Despite the fact that the station space is not connected to the external environment, the task was to achieve the feeling of being in a garden under the tree crowns through figurative solutions, to create an emotional connection with the external space.
In turn, the "Aerodromnaya" station associatively features the theme of flight. The main element of the platform area interior is hovering square luminaires against the background of an aluminum suspended ceiling with a mirror surface, located in the central part of the platform area vault.
The General Plan of Minsk includes a section on the development of transport infrastructure, which includes a scheme for the development of rail public transport. The scheme provides for 4 lines of the Minsk Metro, one of which is radial-circular. The total length of the third line will be 16 km. The line will connect the southern and northern sectors of Minsk with the central part of the city.
It is planned that the fourth metro line will have a length of over 25 km and will intersect with the other three lines. The route of the line will duplicate the second city transport ring road. The construction of the fourth line will finally solve the issue of unloading the transfer hub between the first and second lines, and implement the concept of creating transport hubs between all types of urban and suburban transport.