I. Metshin: "Kazan metro is one of the main treasures of the city"

(Kazan City KZN.RU, August 27, Albert Murtazin). Mayor Ilsur Metshin congratulated employees of MUE "Metroelektrotrans" with the tenth anniversary of the Kazan subway. The Mayor rode the subway, communicated with passengers and examined the photo exhibition dedicated to the history of the Kazan subway.

The first line of Kazan underground was opened August 27, 2005, on the eve of the millennium of the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. Ilsur Metshin heartily congratulated the staff of the Kazan underground with this small, but very important for the whole Kazan date - the decade of the Kazan subway. "For us this is a very convenient form of transport, which plays an important role in the life of Kazan. Today Kazan metro is one of the main assets of our city. Just some 10 years Kazan metro transported more than 240 million passengers. If we started with 1.5 million, today the underground transports 35 million passengers a year! "- said the Mayor.

"We will certainly continue to build underground, new stations, and to do everything to a favorite mode of transportation developed in Kazan" - said the Mayor.

He added that a close-knit, friendly and professional team operates in Kazan subway, they can cope with the greatest challenges. On behalf of all of Kazan citizens Ilsur Metshin thanked the workers for the underground for their work and wish them health, prosperity, success and all the best.

In honor of the anniversary at three subway stations – “Victory Avenue”, “Kremlin” and “Tukai Square” - a photo exhibition dedicated to the history of the Kazan subway is working. Mayor of Kazan visited the exhibition at the stations "Victory Avenue" and "Kremlin".

Kazan metro is the seventh in Russia, the third in the Volga Federal District and the fifteenth, built on the territory of the former USSR. Today Kazan Metro consists of 10 stations; the length of the line is 17.6 km. Kazan Metro is the first in Russia, where federal projects "Accessible Environment" and "Comprehensive program to ensure public safety in transport" are successfully implemented. In May 2013 at the International Congress in Geneva our subway was in the top five in the world of metro to ensure the safety systems. For the first time in the world at the Kazan Metro system of fare collection by smart tokens was implemented, that allows automatic control of the system of fare.