Moscow-Belorusskaya
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Moscow Railway terminal | |||||||||||
View of the station's main entrance
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Location | 7 Tverskaya Zastava Square, Moscow Russia |
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Platforms | 7 | ||||||||||
Tracks | 11 | ||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
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Station code | 198230 | ||||||||||
Fare zone | 0 | ||||||||||
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Opened | 1870 | ||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1907-1912 | ||||||||||
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Belorussky railway terminal (Russian: Белору́сский вокза́л, IPA: [bʲɛlaˈruskʲɪj vɐɡˈzɑl]) also known as Moscow Smolenskaya railway station (Russian: Москва́-Смоле́нская, Moskva-Smolenskaya) is one of nine railway terminals of Moscow. It was opened in 1870 and rebuilt in its current form in 1907-1912.
Belorussky railway station serves long distance trains to regions west and south-west of Moscow, and one train each to the north-east (on the branch to Rybinsk with continuing service to Uglich, Vesegonsk, and Pestovo) and to the south (to Anapa through Tula, Kursk, Voronezh, and Rostov-on-Don). The station also serves local commuter trains to Usovo, Odintsovo, Golitsyno, , Mozhaisk (including express service), Borodino, and Zvenigorod as well as the Aeroexpress service to Sheremetyevo Airport.
The station is not entirely a terminus station. A transit line continues on the . In addition, the station provides through service to Savyolovskaya and Kurskaya stations. Until 18 May 2015 a suburban train service also continued to Gagarin, and until the end of 2012 to Vyazma. Now the farthest station of commuter train service on this line is Mozhaisk. Approximately 1500 passengers per hour use Belorussky station.