Spartyŭnaja | |||||||||||
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Station Hall | |||||||||||
| Coordinates | 53°54′30″N27°28′45″E / 53.90833°N 27.47917°E Coordinates: 53°54′30″N27°28′45″E / 53.90833°N 27.47917°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 | 2005-11-07 | ||||||||||
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Spartyŭnaja (Belarusian : Спартыўна; Russian : Спортивная) is a Minsk Metro station. Opened on 7 November 2005.
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, nowadays, over two decades after 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 rise of state-specific varieties of this language tends to be strongly denied in Russia, in line with the Russian World ideology.
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.