Belorusskaya (Zamoskvoretskaya line)

Belorusskaya (Russian: Белору́сская, English: Belarusian) is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya line. Designed by architects Ivan Taranov and Nadezhda Bykova, it was opened in 1938 as part of the second stage of the Moscow Metro.

Belorusskaya Белорусская
Moscow Metro station
Location	Tverskoy District Central Administrative Okrug Moscow Russia
Coordinates	55.7767°N 37.5835°E / 55.7767; 37.5835
Owned by	Moskovsky Metropoliten
Line(s)	Zamoskvoretskaya line
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	2
Connections	Bus: 0, 12, 12ts, 27, 82, 84 Trolleybus: 1, 12, 18, 20, 54, 56, 70, 78, 82
Construction
Depth	33.1 metres (109 ft)
Platform levels	1
Parking	No
Other information
Station code	035
History
Opened	11 September 1938 (1938-09-11)
Services
Preceding station   Moscow Metro   Following station Dinamo toward Khovrino Zamoskvoretskaya line Mayakovskaya toward Alma-Atinskaya Krasnopresnenskaya anticlockwise / outer Koltsevaya line Transfer at: Belorusskaya Novoslobodskaya clockwise / inner
Route map Khovrino Belomorskaya Rechnoy Vokzal Vodny Stadion Voykovskaya Sokol yard Sokol Aeroport Dinamo Belorusskaya Mayakovskaya Tverskaya Teatralnaya Moskva River Vodootvodny Canal Novokuznetskaya Paveletskaya Moskva River Avtozavodskaya Tekhnopark Nagatinsky Bridge Moskva River Kolomenskaya Kashirskaya to Zamoskvoretskoye yard Kantemirovskaya Tsaritsyno Orekhovo Domodedovskaya  (shuttle bus for ) Krasnogvardeyskaya Brateyevo yard Alma-Atinskaya
Location
Belorusskaya Location within Central Moscow

Name

The station is named after the nearby Belorussky Rail Terminal, from which westward trains towards Belarus and western Europe depart.[1]

Design

The station is decorated with national Belarusian motives, which include the facing of rectangular pylons faced with pink marble from Birobidzhan on the exterior and with black davalu marble in the passageway to the platforms. Bronze floor-lamps decorate the pylon niches, in the end of the central hall is a bust of Vladimir Lenin.

The station underwent several modernisations which slightly altered its original design. The floor, initially being based on Belarusian national ornaments, was replaced with square tiles of black and grey marble. The walls also initially covered with indigo ceramic tiles were replaced by indigo marble in 2004.

In 1952, a series of staircases was added to the southern side of the central hall, and a transfer to Belorusskaya station on the Koltsevaya line was opened. In 1958 the first cruise control system in the Moscow Metro was tested on Belorusskaya, with a photoelement installed on a train.

Traffic

The station receives 139,700 passengers per day from the Koltsevaya line and 45,950 from its vestibule, built into the Belorussky Rail Terminal.

Gallery

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  Pylon niches
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  Station platform. Note the upper pass is the connection to the Koltsevaya line.
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  Escalators

References

1. Белорусская (in Russian). Moscow Metro. Retrieved 25 December 2012.