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Baku to host world metro conference

Baku to host world metro conference

Baku Metro and Metro İstanbul have signed a memorandum of understanding on resolving organizational issues of the first international conference of the world's metropoles, which will be held in Baku in 2025. The document was signed …

Russia to build new Yerevan metro station

Russia to build new Yerevan metro station

The draft 2024 budget earmarks some 1.5 bln drams for the repair of Yerevan metro and another 4 bln drams for the construction of a new station, …

Bolshaya Koltsevaya line  in Moscow

Bolshaya Koltsevaya line in Moscow

Thanks to the new Bolshaya Koltsevaya line, opened on the 1st day of spring, Muscovites and guests of the capital may now use the 2nd circle. Vestnik Kavkaza took photos of the new line. The Bolshaya Koltsevaya line or …

Baku's new metro station opened

Baku's new metro station opened

 The Khojasan station of the Baku Metro and the Khojasan depot have been put into operation yesterday. The total length of Baku Metro lines is 40.7 kilometers. A total of 27 stations operate on the Red, Green and Purple lines of …

Istanbul, Baku metropolitans  scale up cooperation

Istanbul, Baku metropolitans scale up cooperation

Major projects are planned to be implemented between the Baku Metro CJSC and the Istanbul Metro, Director General of the Istanbul Metro Ozgur Soy informed. According to him, cooperation is being carried out with the Baku Metro in …

Metro to Istanbul Airport to open in November

Metro to Istanbul Airport to open in November

The metro line reaching Istanbul Airport will be opened in November, the country’s transportation and infrastructure minister has said. Speaking to private broadcaster CNN Türk, Adil Karaismailoğlu …

Russia continues production of cars for Baku metro

Russia continues production of cars for Baku metro

The Metrovagonmash enterprise, a part of the Russian Transmashholding JSC, continues to produce the modern 81-760.B/761.B/763.B cars for the Baku Metro CJSC, the press service of the Baku Metro CJSC said. In accordance with a three-year …

12 metro stations to be build in New Moscow

12 metro stations to be build in New Moscow

In the coming years, in new Moscow, additional metro stations will be built, the message on the portal of the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, reads. ”It is planned to open 12 metro stations in the coming years," the …

Armenian opposition blocks subway traffic in Yerevan

Armenian opposition blocks subway traffic in Yerevan

Members of the Resistance opposition movement blocked subway traffic at the Molodezhnaya station in Yerevan on early Monday morning demanding the resignation of Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The rally is being broadcast live by …

 Tashkent to solve beggars issue

Tashkent to solve beggars issue

Residents of Tashkent report more frequent cases of begging in the capital's metro, the press service of the city's metro reports. The organization recalled that administrative responsibility is established for begging in …

Russia and Azerbaijan strengthen transport links

Russia and Azerbaijan strengthen transport links

A solemn ceremony to send the first subway railcars for the Baku Metro to Azerbaijan was held in Moscow today. The event was attended by Transmashholding CEO Kirill Lipa, Azerbaijani ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbul …

Man swallowed by escalator in Turkey (VIDEO)

Man swallowed by escalator in Turkey (VIDEO)

A shocking moment was captured in Istanbul when a man steps onto the escalator only to find that it’s collapsing just below his feet. The footage first shows a stream of people walking down the escalator, which was out of …

Ceiling caves in at Tbilisi metro station, causing injures

Ceiling caves in at Tbilisi metro station, causing injures

Seven people have been injured in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi this morning as the ceiling caved in at Varketili metro station. The country's Emergency Management Service said the ceiling dropped on seven …