Belorusskaya () is a station on the

Moscow Metro The Moscow Metro) is a rapid transit system in the Moscow Oblast of Russia. It serves the capital city of Moscow and the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy, and Kotelniki. Opened in 1935 with one l ...

's Koltsevaya line. It is named after the nearby

Belorussky Rail Terminal Belorussky railway station (, ) also referred to as Moscow–Passenger–Smolenskaya (, ), Informally the whole station can be called as Moscow Belorusskaya (, ), is a railway terminal of the Moscow Railway located at the front of Tverskaya Za ...

. It opened in 1952, serving briefly as the terminus of the line before the circle was completed in 1954. Designed by Ivan Taranov, Z. Abramova, A. Markova, and Ya. Tatarzhinskaya, the station has low, white

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pylons, an elaborately patterned plaster ceiling, light fixtures supported by ornate scroll-shaped brackets, and a variety of decorations based on Belarusian themes. Moscow BelorusskayaKL metro entrance asv2019-06

Moscow BelorusskayaKL metro entrance asv2019-06

Overhead, twelve octagonal mosaics by G. Opryshko, S. Volkov, and I. Morozov depict Belarusian daily life, and underfoot the platform is intricately tiled to resemble a Belarusian

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. A sculptural group by sculptor

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called "Soviet Belorussia" used to stand at the end of the platform before it was removed in 1998 to make room for a second entrance. Another sculptural group, "Belarusian Partisans," by S.M. Orlov, S. M. Rabinovich, and I. A. Slonim, is located in the passage between this station and

Belorusskaya–Radialnaya Belorusskaya () is a Moscow Metro station on the Zamoskvoretskaya line. Designed by architects Ivan Taranov and Nadezhda Bykova, it was opened in 1938 as part of the second stage of the Moscow Metro. Name The station is named after the nearby Be ...

. The station's original vestibule is located at the southwest corner of Belorusskaya Square. A newer entrance opens onto Butirsky Val Street. In 2002, a bomb exploded under one of Belorusskaya's marble benches, injuring seven people.

Transfers

From this station passengers can transfer to Belorusskaya on the

Zamoskvoretskaya line The Zamoskvoretskaya line (, ), formerly Gorkovsko–Zamoskvoretskaya () (Line 2; Green Line), is a line of the Moscow Metro in the Moscow Oblast of Russia. Opened in 1938, chronologically it became the third line in the metro system despite bei ...

, whose metro entrance in closest to

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, direct train to Sheremetevo Airport.

References

{{Reflist Moscow Metro stations Railway stations in Russia opened in 1952 Koltsevaya Line Railway stations located underground in Russia Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Moscow