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

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Ploshcha Lyenina
Minsk Metro station
Station Hall
General information
Coordinates	53.8932°N 27.5478°E / 53.8932; 27.5478
Owned by	Minsk Metro
Platforms	Island platform
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Underground
Other information
Station code	115
History
Opened	June 26, 1984
Services
Preceding station Minsk Metro Following station Kastrychnitskaya towards Malinawka Maskowskaya line Instytut Kultury towards Uruchcha Plošča Franciška Bahuševiča towards Jubiliejnaja plošča Zelenaluzhskaya line transfer at Vakzaĺnaja Kavaĺskaja Slabada Terminus

Overview

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

From 1992 to 2003 the station has been called "Ploshcha Nyezalyezhnastsi" (lit: Independence Square), but later the 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, there were only verbal instructions of government.

It is a transfer station to the Vakzaĺnaja station on the Zelenaluzhskaya line.

It is one of three on the Minsk Metro to have been built with an entrance in an existing building, the other two being Kastryčnickaja and Kupalaŭskaja.[1]

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