Kazan Metro

The Metro Kazan (Russian Казанский метрополитен, Tatar Казан метросы, actually Kazan Metro), consisting of a line with ten stations, was opened in time for the 1000th anniversary of Kazan, the capital of Tatarstan on 27 August 2005.

History

Background

Having already built some other Soviet cities like Samara or Nizhniy Novgorod after exceeding the population of one million subways or had built, now also needed Kazan metro. For the Kazan City Council in 1986 drew up a Metro map, which foresaw a typical former Soviet cities secant of three lines. The configured network should be 46 km total length in its final version.

Construction work

However, the work did not start until the beginning of 1997, some years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In order for the 1000th anniversary of the city on 27 August 2005 to build the Metro ready in time, a large part of the Russian underground budgets for Kazan was used. As a result, delayed the other Metrobauten in Russia, as they were much less money by redistribution.

For tunnel for the most part highly modern western tunnel boring machines were used with a diameter of 5.63 meters. Some sections were created with conventional Soviet shield tunneling machine. For short sections of track and tunnel for all five stations, the tunneling technique of open design was used.

Opening

Now the only line with ten stations was a Erstfahrt, which was attended by, among others, President Putin, Minister of Interior and Minister of Finance Kudrin Nurgaliyev of the Russian Federation, the President of the Autonomous Republic of Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev Shaimiev and opened on 27 August 2005. In the first phase it was the five stations comprehensive range of Kremljowskaja to Gorky. On December 29, 2008, this line was extended to a further station of Gorky to Prospekt Pobedy; 30 December 2010 the new station Kozya Sloboda was put into operation at the other end of the line. In this direction, three more stations were opened to Awiastroitelnaja on 9 May 2013.

For the Kazan Metro by a joint venture of Santa were initially five, by 2006 five more newly built four-car trains of the new type 81-553.3/-554.3 delivered ( a modification of the metro trains of the type 81-717/714 ) Petersburg wagon factory Wagon Masch and the Czech Škoda Holding are produced.

Future prospects

In the future, the Kazan metro will be expanded to a secant with three lines. For now, however, only one further extension of the current line is provided to the southeast to a station. By 2018, another line is adjacent to the present line, which will get the name of the central Well, are built with name Asinsko - Sawinowskaja, in the distant Zufkunft two more Priwolschskaja and Sanoksinskaja. There are plans to rebuild in the near future an existing urban rail line to an above-ground metro line.

Lines and stations

Almost the entire 15.8 -kilometer line and nine stations are underground, only the station Ametjewo above ground on a bridge. The track gauge is - according to Russian standards - 1520 mm, for the power supply busbars are used at a driving voltage of 825 volts.

All labels and information are carried out in two languages ​​( Tatar and Russian).

The following sortable table lists the stations are listed first in their actual sequence.