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{{Short description|Minsk Metro line}}
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The '''Maskoŭskaja line''' (also referred to as '''Maskowskaya line''' or '''Moskovskaya line''') ({{langx|be|Маскоўская лінія}}; {{langx|ru|Московская линия|Moskovskaya liniya}}; lit: "Moscow line") is a line of the [[Minsk Metro]]. The line was opened along with the Metro in 1984 with the original eight station segment, and crosses the city on a northeast–southwest axis. Currently, it comprises 15 stations and {{convert|19.1|km|mi|abbr=on}} of track.

==Timeline==
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!Segment!!Date opened
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|style="text-align: left;"|[[Instytut Kultury (Minsk Metro)|Instytut Kultury]]–[[Maskowskaya (Minsk Metro)|Maskowskaya]]
|26 June 1984
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Maskoŭskaja (Minsk Metro)|Maskoŭskaja]]–[[Uschod]]
|30 December 1986
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Uschod]]–[[Uručča (Minsk Metro)|Uručča]]
|7 November 2007
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Instytut Kultury (Minsk Metro)|Instytut Kultury]]–[[Pyatrowshchyna (Minsk Metro)|Pyatrowshchyna]]
|7 November 2012
|-
|[[Pyatrowshchyna (Minsk Metro)|Pyatrowshchyna]]–[[Malinawka (Minsk Metro)|Malinawka]]
|3 June 2014
|-
|}

==Transfers==
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|style="background:#{{rcr|Minsk Metro|2}}; padding:.5em;"|{{white|2}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Awtazavodskaya line]]
|[[Kastrychnitskaya (Minsk Metro)|Kastrychnitskaya]]
|-
|style="background:#{{rcr|Minsk Metro|3}}; padding:.5em;"|{{white|3}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Zelenaluzhskaya line]]
|[[Ploshcha Lyenina (Minsk Metro)|Ploshcha Lyenina]]
|}

==Rolling stock==
The line is served by the Moskovskoe depot (№ 1), and currently has 21 five carriage 81-717/714 and the modernised 81-717.5M/714.5M trains assigned to it.

==Recent developments and future plans==
A  5.2&nbsp;km extension has been constructed to the southwest of the city and contains three stations: [[Hrushawka (Minsk Metro)|Hrushawka]], [[Mikhalova (Minsk Metro)|Mikhalova]], and [[Pyatrowshchyna (Minsk Metro)|Pyatrowshchyna]]. It was opened on 7 November 2012.

The last extension was on 3 June 2014, when [[Malinawka (Minsk Metro)|Malinawka]] was opened.

==References==
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== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100805111700/http://minsktrans.by/structure/metro Minsk Metro]

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