Ploshcha Lyenina (Minsk Metro)

Ploshcha Lenina
Minsk Metro Station
File:Minsk Metro in 2010 - Ploshchad Lenina Platform 02.jpg Station Hall
General information
Coordinates	53.8932°N 27.5478°E / 53.8932; 27.5478
Owned by	Minsk Metro
Line(s)	Template:MINSKMETRO-line1
Platforms	Island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
History
Opened	1984-06-26
Services
Preceding station   Minsk Metro   Following station Template:MINSKMETRO stations toward Template:MINSKMETRO stations Template:MINSKMETRO lines Template:MINSKMETRO stations toward Template:MINSKMETRO stations

Ploshcha Lenina (Belarusian: Плошча Леніна; Russian: Площадь Ленина; "Lenin Square") is a Minsk Metro station.

Overview

The station, opened on June 24, 1984, is part of the Moskovskaya Line and serves the main railway station of the city: Minsk Passazhirsky.

From 1992 to 2003 the station was declared as "Ploschad' Nezavisimosti" (lit: Independence Square), but later original name of the station was restored. According to head of technical department of the Minsk subway, the official decision to rename the station "Lenin Square" to "Independence Square" was never taken, but there were verbal instructions of government.

It is one of three on the Minsk Metro to have been built with an entrance in an existing building, the other two being Oktyabrskaya and Kupalovskaya.