RUSSIA: The Kazan metro opened a three-station northern extension on May 9. This takes the line from its former terminus of Kozya Sloboda to Aviastroitelnaya, with intermediate stations at Yashlek and Severny Vokzal. The only line of the metro now has 10 stations.
Severny Vokzal provides interchange with regional main line services on the RZD network. Yashlek would provide an interchange with the planned second metro line. A short southern extension to Dubravnaya is due to open in late 2015.
RUSSIA. Construction of the second metro line in Kazan took a step forward on April 23, when the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov marked the launch of the first tunnel boring machine from the future Sakharova station site.
RUSSIA: On December 24 Alma-Atinskaya opened to become the 187th station on the Moscow metro. The station serves the Bratyevo district in the southeast of the city and becomes the new southern terminus of Line 2, at the end of a 3·1 km extension from Krasnogvardeyskaya. Three entrances lead into ...
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin became the first passenger to ride the Kazan metro when it opened on August 27. He was joined for the 1·2 km trip from Kremlyovskaya to Ploschad Tukaya by Tatarstan's premier Mintimer Shamiyev and Russian Finance Minister Aleksei Judrina, and the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev ...
