Ilsur Metshin demands to speed up the construction of the metro station “Dubravnaya”

(KZN.RU, April 18, Ksenia Shvetsova). The volume of the work on the construction of the new metro station “Dubravnaya” has been completed to date. The contractor will perform the commissioning and landscaping of the adjacent territory. Ilsur Metshin, Mayor of Kazan, inspected the construction of a new metro station and demanded to speed up the pace of work.

Andrey Zakharchenko, the head of the department for the construction of underground transportation facilities of the GKU “Glavinveststroy RT”, said that to date, the architectural design of the station has been completed, staircases are ready. In addition, the station was supplied with a voltage for temporary electricity supply, lighting was carried out. There are just small works left in the design. The workers have to put the tactile tile and check the masonry. It is also necessary to complete the construction of the ventilation system.

The contractor of the construction is the PSO “Kazan”.

“Now we have to perform the commissioning work, to link all the systems into a single whole so that they function in a complex”, noted A. Zakharchenko and added that there is also a significant front for the remaining work.

The total area of the territory to be landscaped is 30 thousand square meters. On this territory, it is planned to lay paving stone, asphalt covering, to break a lawn and to plant trees and bushes.

Today, about 150-180 people in average work at the facility.

Irek Faizullin, the minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing of the RT, Azat Nigmatzyanov, the first deputy head of the Executive Committee, responsible for urban policy issues, Asfan Galyavov, the general director of the MUP “Metroelectrotrans”, Marat Rakhimov, the head of the MUP “Kazmetrostroy”m and others took part in the meeting.

The opening of the Kazan Metro was timed to celebrate the Millennium of the city in 2005. For today, the first line has 10 stations with a total length of more than 20 kilometers. Today Kazan, along with Moscow and St. Petersburg, is one of the few cities in Russia where the construction of the metro continues. The republic allocated 5.2 billion rubles for the construction of the section of the line from the station “Prospekt Pobedy” to the station “Dubravnaya”. In 2012, design and preparatory works began. In 2014, they started construction at the crossroads of Zorge and Fucik streets and the design of the first stage of the second metro line. The Dubravnaya station is a transfer line to the second metro line, which will include 12 stations. Now the metro is used on average by 120 thousand people a day. It is assumed that passenger traffic will increase by 20-25% with the introduction of another station.