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Кастрычніцкая (Kastryčnickaja) | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°54′07″N27°33′41″E / 53.9019°N 27.5614°E Coordinates: 53°54′07″N27°33′41″E / 53.9019°N 27.5614°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Minsk Metro | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | Island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1984-06-26 | |||||||||||||||
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Kastryčnickaja (Belarusian : Кастрычніцкая; Russian : Октябрьская) is a Minsk Metro station. It opened on June 26, 1984.
Belarusian is an official language of Belarus, along with Russian, and is also spoken in Russia, Poland and Ukraine. Before Belarus gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the language was only known in English as Byelorussian or Belorussian, transliterating the Russian name, белорусский язык Belorusskiy yazyk, or alternatively as White Ruthenian or White Russian. Following independence, it has acquired the additional name Belarusian.
Russian is an East Slavic language, which is official in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely used throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It was the de facto language of the Soviet Union until its dissolution on 25 December 1991. Although nearly three decades have passed since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russian is used in official capacity or in public life in all the post-Soviet nation-states, as well as in Israel and Mongolia.
The Minsk Metro is a rapid-transit system that serves Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Opened in 1984, it presently consists of 2 lines and 29 stations, totaling 37.27 kilometres (23.16 mi). In 2013, the system carried 328.3 million passengers, which averages to a daily ridership of approximately 899,450.
The station is one of three on the Minsk Metro to have been built with an entrance in an existing building, the other two being Kupalaŭskaja and Plošča Lienina. [1]
