Yerevan metro: map, photo, description
The Yerevan metro is named after Karen Demirchyan and has a total length of 13.4 km. Three of its stations are ground-based, one is a shallow single-vaulted station, the other six are deep. The Yerevan subway carries about 40 thousand passengers per day. Its first stage was opened in 1981. The Yerevan metro has only ten stations that are on the same line. From it there is a branch to the Charbakh depot, starting at the Shengavit station.
The history of the construction of the Yerevan metro began back in 1972, when it was planned to create a metro tram in the capital of the Armenian SSR. It was supposed to be an overground-underground rail transport, a kind of high-speed tram for transporting passengers within the city. During the construction, the project was changed, and it was decided to build a full-fledged metro.
The development of the project revealed many problems associated with the special relief of the area where Yerevan is located. The construction of stations was often accompanied by the emergence of new design solutions and engineering methods for performing some work. The stations opened gradually, and the very first were «friendship» and «Marshal Baghramyan».
Today, the Yerevan Metro has signs and signs made in Armenian and Russian, and all sound announcements on trains and at stations are made only in Armenian. The subway station diagrams inside the carriages are also made in Armenian. The logo of the Yerevan Metro is a letter of the Armenian alphabet that corresponds to «M» in cyrillic.
Yerevan metro opening hours
Most of Yerevan metro stations open for passengers to enter at 6.00. Work ends at all stations at 23.00. The interval of movement of trains - from eight to ten minutes, depending on the time of day.
Yerevan metro tickets
During the existence of the Armenian SSR, the fare in the Yerevan metro was, as elsewhere in the country, 5 kopecks. Today, the cost of one trip, approved on July 1, 2011, is 100 AMD. This is equivalent to approximately US $ 0.24.
The price of a metro ride is equal to the cost of a fixed-route taxi service, which takes the passenger to the desired point and stops on demand. Therefore, there are not so many people who want to use the Yerevan subway today, it is considered unprofitable and the prospects for its existence are assessed as very vague..
