{"id":510514,"date":"2026-01-17T13:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T10:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=510514"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T19:38:42","slug":"two-more-stations-removed-from-minsk-metro-construction-plan-nasha-niva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/two-more-stations-removed-from-minsk-metro-construction-plan-nasha-niva","title":{"rendered":"Two More Stations Removed From Minsk Metro Construction Plan \u2014 Nasha Niva"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Two more stations have been removed from the construction plan for the fourth line of the Minsk metro, which is intended to be a circular line: \u201cKiyeuski Skver\u201d and \u201cPolitekhnicheskaya,\u201d <em>Nasha Niva<\/em> reports. Earlier, the authorities had also abandoned plans to build the \u201cProfsoyuznaya\u201d station on the third line.<\/p>\n<p>The future circular line had previously been planned to include 17 stations, six of them transfer hubs. However, a January 13 publication in the newspaper \u201cSB. Belarus Segodnya\u201d now refers to only 15 stations, indicating that the project has been scaled back, the authors note.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cKiyeuski Skver\u201d station was supposed to be built at the intersection of Orlovskaya and Gaya streets, between \u201cMaksima Bahdanovicha\u201d and \u201cStaravilenski Shlyakh,\u201d while \u201cPolitekhnicheskaya\u201d was planned at the intersection of Surganova and Yakuba Kolasa streets, also between \u201cMaksima Bahdanovicha\u201d and \u201cDrukarskaya.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Changes to the plans have been observed since 2025. In May, chief engineer of the municipal enterprise Capital Transport and Communications <b>Andrei Illarionov<\/b> said the line would have 17 stations, but by October, chief engineer of Minskmetroproekt <b>Georgy Protasov<\/b>\u00a0reported a reduction to 16 stations without specifying which one had been removed. The \u201cKiyeuski Skver\u201d station is believed to have been the first casualty.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the fourth line is scheduled to begin next year. The first section will run from \u201cMaksima Bahdanovicha\u201d toward Vesnyanka. After the transfer hub, the planned \u201cKiyeuski Skver\u201d station will be skipped, with \u201cStaravilenski Shlyakh\u201d becoming the next station to be built.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the authorities canceled construction of the \u201cProfsoyuznaya\u201d station on the third line, citing a reassessment of feasibility and the proximity of neighboring stations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more stations have been removed from the construction plan for the fourth line of the Minsk metro, which is intended to be a circular line: \u201cKiyeuski Skver\u201d and \u201cPolitekhnicheskaya,\u201d Nasha Niva reports. Earlier, the authorities had also abandoned plans to build the \u201cProfsoyuznaya\u201d station on the third line. The future circular line had previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":510513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/696be5483f654.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Two More Stations Removed From Minsk Metro Construction Plan \u2014 Nasha Niva"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}