(rshsdepot) Railway Station Square, Minsk (Belarus)

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Nice twin towers:
http://minsk.byelarus.org/Railway%20station%20square2.jpg

http://minsk.byelarus.org/Railway%20station%20square.jpg

http://alphabetilately.com/TOPS/kd/belarus-6b.jpg

on the line from Poland to Moscow...

There are actually 4 Minsk railway stations with links to pictures in this
message...

Minsk has been the capital of Belarus from 1991; first mentioned 1067,
independent principality by 12th century. Under Lithuanian dominion from
14th century, annexed by Russia as a result of the second partition of
Poland 1793...capital of Belorussian SSR from 1919; occupied by Germany
1941-1944...

Here is the old Minsk railway station circa 1960:
http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald/pix/minsk-stna.jpg

There is a commuter network out of Minsk as well as intercity trains to
cities such as Moscow, Warsaw, St. Petersburg;  Here are pictures when the
president of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko visited the main
building of the Northern Railway Station in Minsk: (this is the new railway
station in Minsk) exterior image:
http://www.president.gov.by/eng/president/foto/2003/vokz1/image3.html
(front)
http://mkmk.com/kozlovsky/city1.jpg  (side)
night shot here:
http://www.solard.com/eng/business_services/gallery/m2.shtml.htm
interior:
http://www.president.gov.by/eng/president/foto/2003/vokz1/image2.html
the President of Belarus pressing the flesh:
http://www.president.gov.by/eng/president/foto/2003/vokz1/
(you can also write the president of Belarus a letter!)

Here is Recreation Park Station on the Children's Railway in Minsk in the
1950's..with steam train... this is quite an amazing picture (postcard):
http://www.data.minsk.by/minsk/fifties/images/20p600.jpg
 Here is a current picture of this surviving station, called "Children's
Railway" in the title:
http://www.mybelarus.info/pictures/minsk/kidsrwy_1.jpg very impressive
building
Here is the modern diesel (?) pulled children's railway train (model
railroad exhibits were inside the station this day):
http://aci.byelarus.com/album/0803rail/pages/P8030022_JPG.htm
Other side of station (entrance):
http://aci.byelarus.com/album/0803rail/pages/P8030025_JPG.htm
close up track side:
http://aci.byelarus.com/album/0803rail/pages/P8030026_JPG.htm

Here is a(n old) railway map of  Minsk area, Minsk is upper right, Mogilev
the city to the right of it, Rogachev is one of the other larger stops south
of Mogilev, the one at bottom of map probably...:(Mahilyou must be current
name for Mogalev, Homel is the other city I didn't know)
http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/data/Traffic_maps/Russia%20rail/MINSK.JPG

Here is the Minsk Station inside:
http://sweb.cz/bredikmetro/minsk-station.jpg  This is the metro station with
these impressive columns

Here is the amazing Minsk Park Metro station, note the chandelier:
http://meta.metro.ru/minsk/minsk-park.jpg

Moskovskaya:
http://meta.metro.ru/minsk/minsk-moskovskaya.jpg
Cultural Institute:
http://meta.metro.ru/minsk/minsk-instytut.jpg
the stations look way more modern than the equipment, the subway cars...
Peramohi:
http://meta.metro.ru/minsk/minsk-peramohi.jpg
http://meta.metro.ru/minsk/minsk-peramohi1.jpg
I love the color scheme in Yakuba!: (Yakub Kolas) station
Yakuba Kolasa Square Metro station:
http://meta.metro.ru/minsk/minsk-yakuba.jpg
http://www.tschernobylhilfe.ffb.org/fotoalbum/_insk20.jpg
http://alphabetilately.com/TOPS/kd/belarus-4b.jpg (I would have guessed
Mexico City I think)
Not sure which station this one is:
http://www.mybelarus.info/images/metro.jpg

The Minsk Metro symbol:
http://www.metro.civ.pl/grafika/linki/minsk.jpg

19 stations on two lines, three minute headways at rush hour, magnetic
passes and tokens used
Here is a Minsk Metro station entrance:
http://www.minskreview.com/img/METRO.jpg

Here is the 2004 Minsk Metro map:
http://home.uchicago.edu/~yopopov/rrt/maps/hr_minsk.html
for conoissoirs, 1998 Minsk Metro:
http://www.belarusguide.com/images/nature/minskmetro.gif
1999: http://sweb.cz/bredikmetro/minskmap.gif
This one is in our alphabet, the names are nice-Pushkinskaya, Vostok,
Nemiga, Ploscchad Yakuba Kolasa, Chelyuskintsev:
http://www.alatantour.com/eng/img/metro.gif
http://www.ambafrance-by.org/pict/metro.gif
thje basic criss-cross system:
http://ochag.narod.ru/Ris/metro_minsk.gif
[at this site: http://ochag.narod.ru/metro.htm you can link to Metro maps
for 16 cities in the former Soviet Union, Moscow is the first]
Here is an actual route map, not a schematic or graphic reduction, with the
rail lines also shown in Minsk::
http://osamuabe.ld.infoseek.co.jp/subway/mappage/minsk.gif
This 1998 Metro map also shows the Belarusian Railroad:
http://meta.metro.ru/minsk/minsk.gif

Now I am lost in this more detailed modern map, there are 4 lines on it, I
think the yellow and red are the rail lines:
http://hella.ru/code/metro/belorus-minsk.jpg

100th anniversary of streetcars in Belarus postcard:
http://alphabetilately.com/TOPS/img028.jpg

Paul






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