European Investment Bank to help Azerbaijan expand Baku Metro
The European Investment Bank will provide assistance to Azerbaijan in expanding the capital's metro network. This is envisaged by the memorandum concluded on the sidelines of COP29.
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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 …
Heavy rain floods Istanbul's Yenibosna metro station
Bad weather is raging not only in the Turkish capital, but also in Istanbul
Tbilisi metro to be renovated for 205 million euros
Almost a hundred new cars for the Tbilisi metro will be purchased using funds from the Asian Bank. The total purchase amount is 205 million euros.
Georgia announces reason for refusal to buy Russian metro cars
Tbilisi City Hall explained why they could not yet purchase new metro cars from the Russian Federation. The municipal government noted that the reason for it is current sanctions.
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, …
Ramadan-2023, Novruz and Purim: Vestnik Kavkaza’s best photos made in March
The past month was rich in events
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Metro stations Kaspiyskaya and Kavkazsky Bulvar to appear in Moscow
Moscow residents have chosen names for 15 future metro stations in Moscow . This was announced by the city mayor Sergey Sobyanin. He also spoke in his blog about the design and construction of more than 40 metro …
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 …
Yerevan blackout caused by breakdown in country’s electric energy system
Yerevan’s subway just ceased operating because of faults in electric energy supply. Spokesman of the city municipality Hakob Karapetyan wrote on his Facebook page that trains stopped on some sections of …
Ceremony of sending first updated metro cars for the Baku Metro to Azerbaijan (photo-report)
On June 4, Moscow hosted ceremony of sending first updated metro cars for the Baku Metro to Azerbaijan. Transmashholding's CEO Kirill Lipa, Azerbaijani ambassador to Russia Polad Bulbul oglu, chairman of the Baku Metro Zaur Huseynov and …
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)
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 …
